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Chase Briscoe takes blame for big Phoenix Raceway pileup crash

FaceProfileby:Thomas Goldkamp•about 12 hours
Chase Briscoe
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In the early portion of Stage 2 at the Shriners Children’s 500 on Sunday at Phoenix, Chase Briscoe was one of several drivers caught up in a major wreck. It ended the day for multiple drivers.

The wreck occurred when Briscoe got sandwiched in between a few drivers and made contact with Justin Haley. That accordioned the cars to the outside wall, where they hit Carson Hocevar and then spun in front of several other drivers.

Hocevar, Briscoe, Haley, Riley Herbst, Cole Custer, Shane van Gisbergen and Brad Keselowski were all caught up in the chop, which took some time to clear from the track. All were done for the day.

After, Briscoe admitted fault. He described the action.

“Yeah that was about the biggest you can crash at Phoenix,” Chase Briscoe said in an interview on FS1. “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.”

Chase Briscoe had been running reasonably well, moving back up the field considerably as he pointed out. It just wasn’t enough after the contact in the corner.

He further owned up to being the one at fault, though in fairness there wasn’t much he could do. Ty Gibbs was coming up from the inside of the track, keeping Haley pinned into the middle.

“I got myself in a bad spot,” Chase Briscoe said. “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.”

On to Vegas indeed. But there’s still a half race left at Phoenix. As of this writing, Joey Logano was running in the lead on his first set of option tires.

It’ll be interesting to see what strategies teams take down the stretch. The red option tires are faster than the yellows, but how long they’ll hold out makes for an interesting calculation for the crew chiefs.

It seems we’re in for a fantastic finish with the drivers left. So tune into FS1 now for the finale.