NASCAR CUP SERIES: AUTOTRADER 400

February 22, 2026

Chase Briscoe

Pit Lane Interview

Q. Bring me back through that final lap, and did you have anything else you could have done to get around the 45?

CHASE BRISCOE: I don't know. Honestly, I felt like I was doing everything that I could. Even all the situations that happened, like, everything kind of worked out in my favor. I just couldn't ever get a big enough run down the straightaway to do anything with our Bass Pro Shops TRACKER Toyota.

Yeah, I was able to obviously push the 45 to the win. Wish I would have been able to have a bigger run to take it three wide and take the lead, but I just couldn't do it, for whatever reason.

That was I would say the one thing that our car lacked all day, was the straightaway speed. It drove good, and I could make moves, but it felt like I was slow down the straightaway.

Not sure really what else I could have done, truthfully, but still a great result. Yeah, I'm going to COTA next week, and see if we can be one spot better.

Q. You battled all day until you got yourselves to the front, but what are days like this for your team? How much confidence does that give when you don't have the starting position, you don't have the car you want, but you still get a good result?

CHASE BRISCOE: I think it says a lot about our team. We're fast enough to where we can drive through the field, right, and even with all the adversity that kind of happens on pit road when you start that far back, you don't get a very good pit stall selection. It just buries you all day long. You get track position, you have a bad pit stop because you're trapped in.

So probably did everything right. Like I said, our Bass Pro Shops TRACKER Toyota just drove really, really good, and it allowed me to make moves up through the field.

Yeah, happy with the result. We're back in the chase. We were 37th in points going into today. Yeah, see if we can do a little bit better next week.