It will be the third time Chase brisko The NASCAR Cup series has run in the playoffs but this time is different.
He is expected to compete and struggle for a championship.
His first two playoff performances came up with the embossed remains Stewart-hus racing In 2022 and 2024. It was not an organization that dominated over a decade Tony Stewart And Kevin Harvick But the version that was uprooted and eventually turned.
The brisko had done something to celebrate even the playoffs, especially last year, the news of once closed once due to so many employees was made public, but the standards are very different. Joe Gibbs Racing,
“I was telling my wife that two weeks ago that is actually the first time I ever thought that I could win a cup championship,” Brisco said during the NASCAR Playoff Media Day at Uptown Charlotte on Wednesday. “In the past, you make the playoffs and it is exciting, but deep below you know that you win the chances of winning are very thin, right?
“Whereas now, not to say that I am a favorite in any way, but I feel that I have a legitimate opportunity to do it, where in Shr, you never felt that you had a valid shot to do so. Certainly this time it seems different to know that you have a shot and I would say that this playoff is different because it seems different because it seems different.”
The Bisco stood the regular season eighth in the standing, with its win in Poconi, closed it in the playoffs, starting the 10-race surgam as number 9 seeds and four points from the cutline. The first 26 races in Sonoma, Dover and Iowa had 10 total -5 and three runners -ups.
“We are in second place, but there was one (Sher van gisbergenSonoma) And that one, I don’t think I could win until something was mad with him, “Bisco said.” The Dover race, I definitely think I could win potentially, but it was a great risk of ruining itself and I do not remember that the second where we complete the other (Iowa), but I am sure that there is a chance that even a potentially.
“Yes, don’t know. If you keep putting yourself in those positions, you are going to win more race. And the good thing is, we are in a situation. It is just a matter of keeping it together in the end.
But again, it is also a reflection of the changing environment, the brisko finds itself inside, as something happens to celebrate in a runner-up stewart-throne, but it is no longer quite good in the big picture.
By his own entry, Bisco said he needs to win in gibs or find something else on Sunday, and he had won from this point of at least the campaign. Now, maybe a championship is not fully expected, but he still wants to be active in the hunt, falls into a paintimet race in Martinsville.
“Yes, I mean we need to go and perform in the playoffs,” Bisco said. “Now the difference is that (AT) SHR, do you want to knock out of 16 rounds? No, but if you didn’t like it, no one was so, ‘man, it was a disappointing weather.” He was still excited that he made the playoffs.
“Where here (which gibs racing), it’s almost like if you don’t make an 8 round, then it is a failure on the year and in fact the last four, right, it’s just a different mindset. For me, think that we are fully capable of making it in the final four. From a speed point of view, I am one of the better cars simultaneously.”
Brisco said he has capacity Denny Hamlin And Christopher bell But it is just a matter of executing the way their teams.
Brisco said, “They are doing a better work right now, which we do what we do, and a lot that I was going back to ourselves that I was just saying with the risk versus reward,” BRisco said. “I think it would be better for me as I get better in understanding and gaining more experience. But yes, I am happy that we were able to win a race and create a playoffs, but now that we are here, we need to do something about it.”
If Briscoe is to be made the final four, it is more than a win, he blesses. He is now four points above the cutline, but if he moves on the points in the 12 period, he will start that round under the cutline and then face a big difference, he should proceed to the digits in the 8 period.
Come a certain point, the brisko has to win.
“I will like more playoff points,” Bisko said. “I am confident that we can reach that era of 8, but once you reach 8 times, on the lack of our points, there is a chance that you are going to win almost the race. Someone is going to be able to indicate his way in the final four, but for us really, it is probably not an option.
“We are already starting 20-30 points back, so this is the biggest thing that I think we should be able to execute these first two rounds and hopefully win one or two races. If we can do this and shorten that gap playoff digit number, I think it keeps us in a better place.”
Fortunately, for him, this year the playoff started with the Crown Jewel Race that he won last year when it ended a regular season in Southern 500 in Darlington Raceway. And in fact, the more things they change, the more they remain the same because the brisons feel that it needs to win the race, as much as he needed last year.
“I think we need to win it to lock it in the next round,” Bisco said. “This is different (because) your back was against the wall when it is the last race of a regular season and you are not running for a championship if you don’t win, but being in the playoffs this year, this is the same feeling – that you have to perform. …
“It’s not a win and if I am running the sixth, I do not need to try to win the race and try to get debris. But if you can win the race, we need to do it for the upcoming playoff points with it.
“Hopefully, I can go there and what we were able to do last year can go back, but it is going to separate. Everything changes throughout the year. The setups are different, the tires are different, the tracks will be age, and there will be a challenge to ensure that.”
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