Chase Briscoe pulled out a win at Homestead despite losing much of his crew to a suspension for a safety violation on Saturday.
HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Chase Briscoe lost much of his team and still got a win for them.
Briscoe survived two late cautions and a frantic overtime finish to prevail in an Xfinity Series race at Homestead-Miami Speedway — while adding to a nightmarish weekend for Noah Gragson, who saw a huge lead slip away in the final laps for the second consecutive day.
Briscoe was without crew chief Richard Boswell, car chief Nick Hutchins and engineer DJ Vanderley, all of whom began serving four-race suspensions for a safety violation that happened Saturday. So Briscoe — a big Tony Stewart fan growing up — got Stewart-Haas Racing competition director Greg Zipadelli to fill in as his crew chief and prevailed.
« It’s just a testament to our team, » Briscoe said.
Brandon Jones was second, Ross Chastain was third and A. J. Allmendinger was fourth. Gragson placed fifth, losing not only a race that was in his hands for the second straight day but also the $100,000 « Dash For Cash » bonus that wound up going to Allmendinger instead.
« Guess we’ll go to Talladega and do it again, » Allmendinger said.
With 15 laps to go, it was basically down to a two-car race: Gragson was leading, about 2½ seconds ahead of Briscoe.
