“Probably the Worst I’ve Been”: SHR Star Unravels His Excitement Moments After Securing the First Chili Bowl Feature

This week at Tulsa Expo Raceway in Oklahoma has been nothing short of a rollercoaster ride for Chase Briscoe. Kicking things off in high gear, the driver of the #14 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford Mustang in the Cup Series showcased his tenacity by sweeping through the field from twelfth to finish fourth during Monday’s preliminary night event. And as the week unfolded, the chances of Chase Briscoe returning to the Chili Bowl National championship A-Main only kept growing.

Not soon after, Briscoe capitalized on his appearance in the B-Main race and put up a valiant effort to qualify for the 55-lap Championship feature. Unfortunately, as the Stewart-Haas Racing driver reflected on his performance that let him make the feature, Chase Briscoe might just have predicted a disappointing end to the big weekend!

Chase Briscoe did not have high hopes of winning the Chili Bowl

Entering his 9th appearance at the Chili Bowl, Briscoe was ecstatic to have made it so far into the week by going against all odds to make it to the B Main races on Saturday. Ultimately, these races would be key to his chances of appearing in the 55-lap showdown. However, the momentum that the #5 driver had found earlier in the week failed to carry through into the B Main races, causing him to fear qualification.

Looking back on how he managed to make it through to the 55-lap showdown, Briscoe shared with Matt Weaver, “I wasn’t in trouble, I was just trying not to do anything stupid, truthfully I knew that, to pass me on the top you would have to be running really really hard so it seemed like both grooves had it level out there.” Knowing this, Briscoe cautiously tried his best to stick to the bottom groove throughout, making his competitors risk the outside instead.

Although the 29-year-old was confident in the car the Mahindra Tractors garage had put together, a calculated last-ditch effort saw Briscoe make it through to the Driller feature. He added, “I kind of started picking it up in those last four or five laps and was able to run down those guys in front of me, I just didn’t want to get to them and be jammed up so I was trying to kind of time it out where, if a car did come to my outside, I can try to pick up the pace a little bit.”

While he did make it through after finishing 5th in the B feature, Briscoe did not get time to relax even for a second. Just when things were looking great, The Chili Bowl weekend threw another curve ball at the SHR driver to make his life miserable. Unlike the previous results, the 29-year-old suddenly felt out of touch. He addressed his setbacks and concluded, “I truthfully wasn’t good, I was probably the worst I’ve been all week and this was way slicker than I thought it was going to be, I had the wrong gear in, just a lot of different things.”

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As we had mentioned earlier, the Stewart-Haas Racing driver eerily predicted how his Saturday night would unfold as Logan Seavey outclassed the field to win the Golden Driller.

“I didn’t really do a good job either” – Briscoe’s Chili Bowl weekend comes crashing down

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Early on in the race, last year’s race winner, Seavey, slotted into the lead and put up a dominant performance throughout. But for Chase Briscoe, the story was far from similar. After falling a lap down, the 29-year-old would finish in 21st, a result he certainly wasn’t hoping for after a six-year-long hiatus from the Saturday Night feature.

Sharing his disappointment with FrontStretch, Briscoe dissected his drawbacks much like he did with the B feature. He shared, “Yeah I just wasn’t that great in the feature, the track was just kind of different than anything we had really ran on all week, at least for us. So yeah just kind of missed it, I didn’t really do a good job either. I felt like at the beginning of the race, was going hard, I just I could’ve done a way better job.”

Ultimately, his efforts throughout the week had failed to deliver right when it mattered the most, showcasing just how unforgiving the Chilli Bowl can be. Chase Briscoe concluded, “So yeah, frustrating but at the same time glad that we were able to make it. So yeah, unfortunate how our Saturday night ended.”

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With that said, do you think Chase Briscoe is being too harsh on himself or is there room for improvement?