Chase Briscoe makes injury admission after hard | Sports News

Chase Briscoe will race in Sunday’s Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway with a sprained wrist following the key wreck at Phoenix final week. Briscoe took duty for the crash on Lap 99 of the NASCAR Shriners Children’s 500 at Phoenix Raceway, which put seven drivers out of the race.

The Joe Gibbs Racing driver has been sporting a splint this week and should tape up his wrist for Sunday’s Cup Series race in Las Vegas if nonetheless in ache forward of the Pennzoil 400. Briscoe was one of the seven drivers who crashed out at Phoenix final week, during a main wreck on Stage 2.

Briscoe made contact with Justin Haley and the impression unfold to vehicles racing on the surface wall. Carson Hocevar was the subsequent driver to be caught up, earlier than a number of vehicles spun out on the observe.

Cole Custer, Riley Herbst, Brad Keselowski, Shane van Gisbergen, Hocevar, Haley, and Briscoe had been all out of the race following the impression, and although Noah Gragson was additionally concerned, he managed to proceed. “Yeah that was about the biggest you can crash at Phoenix,” Briscoe mentioned after the race.

“Yeah, it was a big one. Just on that restart we’re all kind of three-, four-wide and I just climbed over the 7’s right front, so yeah unfortunate. We were able to go to the tail and drove back up to like 13th. Felt good about our Bass Pro Shops Toyota.”

Briscoe then claimed duty for the wreck, including: “I got myself in a bad spot. I was probably trying to fade a little more left just knowing that the 77 was on my right rear, and climbed over the 7’s right front. Unfortunate, but try to learn from it and not do that again. On to Vegas.”

DON’T MISS

It’s been a chaotic begin to the season for Briscoe, who joined JGR after his former workforce, Stewart-Haas Racing, folded on the finish of the 2024 marketing campaign. Briscoe secured pole for the season opener within the Daytona 500 earlier than settling for a top-five end, although his workforce was later hit with a main penalty.

JGR lodged an appeal with NASCAR after the workforce was fined $100,000 for receiving an L2-level penalty. NASCAR decided that Briscoe’s spoiler base had bigger holes than anticipated, with the unique gap measurement smaller when manufactured.

In addition to the workforce tremendous, NASCAR issued Briscoe a 100-point penalty, however JGR was profitable when interesting the ruling and all punishments had been overturned. “Yeah it’s crazy. The amount of relief I felt, honestly just, I felt like a new man the rest of the week,” Briscoe mentioned after profitable the appeal.

“So yeah it’s been nice. Not that our season was over but it kind of felt that way to a certain extent. I mean, we could have still won a race, right, and made the playoffs but you’re going to be at such a deficit the whole season.

“So, yeah, I positively felt like I obtained a new life in a sense simply because it stings when it is the primary race, proper, and also you’re variety of buried the entire season. But now I really feel like I’m back on a stage taking part in area.”

Briscoe is presently twentieth within the NASCAR Cup Series standings with one top-five and one top-ten end within the opening 4 races. The DNF harm Briscoe final week, and the JGR driver shall be wanting to bounce back regardless of coping with a wrist injury in Las Vegas.