Though Kyle Larson dominated the NASCAR Cup race at Kansas, Chase Briscoe made him struggle for the win within the last run of the race.
He handed Larson with 30 laps to go after the ultimate set of pit stops, however Larson by no means really went away. With seven laps to go, Larson snatched the lead again and Briscoe then hit the wall a number of occasions whereas making an attempt to stick with Larson. As an alternative, he fell again to fourth and watched his title hopes slip additional away.
“I assumed I used to be actually good there and was in a position to flip down on him earlier than the inexperienced flag pit cease, and thought I used to be positively higher there,” Briscoe mentioned in a post-race media scrum that included Motorsport.com. “He was simply blocking a lot, I could not actually get by there … We pitted and I ran him again down, and after I handed him as simply as I did, I assumed I used to be gonna simply run away with it. After which, I simply began getting actually, actually, actually free — was simply hanging on for expensive life and simply too many laps there on the finish. I wanted it to be clearly a brief race to form of be capable of maintain on, so yeah, I simply want I had a little bit bit tighter stability on the finish.”
After dropping the lead, Briscoe began ripping the highest and hit the wall a number of occasions as he tried to search out some additional tempo.
“I simply began form of letting free and simply operating as laborious as I might, and received into the wall and clearly went from second to fourth,” recalled Briscoe. “Simply went into desperation mode, in truth. I needed to win to form of keep in rivalry for the championship and got here up brief.”
Watch: Briscoe left annoyed ending fourth at Kansas
Briscoe additionally believes he might have been extra aggressive whereas defending earlier than Larson retook the lead.
“Simply irritating,” he continued. “I really feel like in a whole lot of these late-race conditions, I’ve at all times been in a position to form of maintain on and clutch it out and and simply wasn’t ready to do this, so annoyed with myself. Taking part in it again in my thoughts, (I might have) been a little bit bit extra aggressive simply altering lanes and being unpredictable, form of like what he was doing when he was within the lead. He did an incredible job.
“I used to be superior to him and I simply could not move him, and I most likely ought to have been far more aggressive with that, however my stability — I used to be so free, I assumed, truthfully, I might spin out if I wasn’t on the wall. Simply want I used to be tighter finally.”
Briscoe once more mentioned that he was ‘annoyed’ with how this Chase has gone, as he misplaced one other 36 factors to the championship chief [Larson] regardless of a top-five end at Kansas. He’s 123 factors out of the lead with six races left within the 2026 season.
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