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Chase Briscoe wins Southern 500 at Darlington, upsets NASCAR Playoff picture

JHby:Jonathan Howard•09/01/24•

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Chase Briscoe Darlington
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In an absolutely mindblowing result, Chase Briscoe wins the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway and has completely upset the NASCAR Playoff picture. Kyle Busch tried to beat the Stewart-Haas Racing driver down the stretch but didn’t have enough time.

Chase Briscoe earns his second career win in the NASCAR Cup Series. His first win since Phoenix-1 2022. He wins his first crown jewel, the Southern 500. The 14 car is going playoff racing in the final year of Stewart-Haas Racing’s existence.

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Emotions, pouring out on the cooldown lap, Briscoe couldn’t believe he had won at Darlington. What a night of racing.

There were so many storylines throughout the race. But I’m not sure anyone saw it ending up the way it did tonight. Yes, Chase Briscoe was fast, he was there for the entire race. There is a difference between contending and actually closing out a race.

To do it, not only in the regular season finale, but over a driver like Kyle Busch is nothing short of impressive. This was almost a replay of the 2020 Xfinity Series race at Darlington when Briscoe and Busch fought to the line.

The NASCAR Playoffs will start in a week at Atlanta. No matter how big of a points cushion these drivers have, they could lose all of it in a single week. Good thing it’s always a calm and cool race at Atlanta, right?

Chase Briscoe gets the job done at Darlington

This very well could be the final win for Stewart-Haas Racing in the NASCAR Cup Series. It was massive, too. This puts the 14 team in the playoffs for the second time in three years. The last time Briscoe went playoff racing, he finished 9th overall.

He did it off of a strong showing in the postseason, too. In 2022, he had six top-10 performances overall, including three top-5s.

Tonight at Darlington, it was all about Stewart-Haas and getting this win for those 300+ employees.

“For all 320 employees, everybody, to be able to race for a championship in their final year, man, unbelievable,” Briscoe said after the win. “God is just so good. It’s like déjà vu there at the end with Kyle, with the Xfinity race here in 2020. Obviously I didn’t know if I was going to be able to do it.

“Yeah, just can’t thank HighPoint.com, Mahindra Tractors, Rush Truck Centers, Rinnai, Zep, everybody that makes this deal go around. Go to Atlanta and try to steal another one.”

This SHR organization never wavered from each other.

“This group, the day that we found out that the team wasn’t going to exist any more, we went over to the shop floor, we all looked at each other and said, ‘We’re in this till the end,'” the driver went on. “We’re not going to give this up. We kept saying all week we got one bullet left in the chamber. That bullet hit.”