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December 11, 2024

Chase Briscoe 2024 season in review


Editor’s note: This continues the series in which we review each 2024 NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs driver in reverse order of championship finish.

Season in review: Chase Briscoe, No. 14 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford
Crew chief: Richard Boswell
Final 2024 ranking: 14th
Key stats: One win, three top fives, nine top 10s, four pole positions, 43 laps led

How 2024 ended: After scoring a “walk-off”-style victory in the regular-season finale at Darlington Raceway to earn a NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs position, Briscoe and team rallied after a disappointing opening race of the postseason at Atlanta, where a crash left him 38th in the order. The No. 14 group answered that result with a pair of top 10s (at Watkins Glen International and Bristol Motor Speedway) to propel Briscoe into the Round of 12. It was there that three finishes outside the top 20 — 24th at Kansas, 30th at Talladega and 36th at the Charlotte Roval — halted his postseason run.

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Best race: Statistically — and emotionally — Briscoe’s 29 laps led in his Southern 500 win at Darlington Raceway stood out as his best outing. The 29-year-old had to work hard for that sentimentally important and crucial victory – ultimately the last for the championship-winning, four-car team known as Stewart-Haas Racing. Briscoe held off an equally motivated Kyle Busch for that Darlington win – by a mere 0.361 seconds – in a thrilling final stretch that featured intense competition among Briscoe, Busch and Ross Chastain – all winless at the time fighting for a playoff berth.

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Other season highlights: Briscoe started the season with a solid 10th-place showing in the Daytona 500 – only his second top-10 result in the sport’s biggest race –and he added top 10s at Phoenix (ninth), Martinsville (10th) and Texas (sixth) – giving him top-10 showings in four of the opening nine races. He scored a fifth-place finish at Darlington in the spring, giving him top fives in both races at the notoriously tough Darlington track, and he finished runner-up at New Hampshire – his last top-10 finish until his win in the regular-season finale. Although he’d have preferred advancing farther in the playoffs, Briscoe provided SHR team owner and fellow Hoosier Tony Stewart a reason to be proud of the famed No. 14 in the final year of the three-time Cup champion’s team ownership in the sport.

Stat to know: Briscoe’s nine top-10 finishes were second only to a career-best mark of 10 he had in 2022. His average starting position (15.7) and finishing position (18.8) were also second to his marks from 2022.

Quotable: “SHR meant everything for me. For one, it was an opportunity to go and really fulfill a dream. How many guys in the Cup Series can say they got to drive the car they physically cheered for as a kid? … That was literally the car I cheered for. So, for me, it fulfilled a dream for me and the family aspect; it was an incredible place the last seven years to call home.” — Chase Briscoe on his four-season run in the No. 14, and his seven-year tenure with SHR

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Looking ahead: Briscoe moves into the highly coveted No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota seat for next year, following former series champion Martin Truex Jr., who retired from full-time competition at the end of the season. To be selected for the high-profile seat is a major nod of confidence, and Briscoe has proven to be both grateful for the chance and highly motivated to prove what he can do with another championship team. Expectations are high, and Briscoe — who has two career wins and two playoff appearances in four NASCAR Cup Series seasons — has embraced that.

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