TALLADEGA — Chase Briscoe finally broke through on a superspeedway race, winning the YellaWood 500 at Talladega Superspeedway.
It’s Briscoe’s third NASCAR Cup Series race win of the season but the first time that Briscoe has brought home a win on a superspeedway. He needed overtime to do so and got a big boost from Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Ty Gibbs beating out Todd Gilliland and Bubba Wallace to the line.
The carnage started early with eight cars being collected in an incident on lap 52. Chase Elliott, AJ Allmendinger and Ricky Stenhouse were collected in the crash. The rest of the race was pretty quite, with Shane Van Gisbergen spinning entering in pit road during stage two.
Chase Briscoe gets superspeedway win
Briscoe punched his ticket to the Championship Four by winning the first superspeedway race of his career. That’s not just at the Cup level but ARCA, Trucks and Xfinity where he had racked up wins.
Another quiet Talladega sees less carnage
Outside of the crash that collected eight cars, knocking five out of the race. By the midpoint of Stage 3, 28 cars were still on the lead lap. Only one more car left the race, Josh Berry, and that was for mechanical issues. It continues a recent trend of Talladega races that have seen a lot of 2-by-2 racing until the end of the race, or stages. The race went to overtime but that was due to a single car spin out.
Early incident takes out past winners
Chase Elliott and defending race champion Ricky Stenhouse Jr got knocked out of the race early. The crash came from the front of the pack and ended up taking out eight cars, with five of them leaving the race due to the crash. Stenhouse got out on the track with Elliott getting out after his car went behind the wall. Elliott, a two-time race winner at Talladega, came into the race looking for a win to advance to the Championship Four.
Maxwell Donaldson covers high school sports, Jax State athletics, the outdoors in Alabama and more for the Gadsden Times. Find him on Twitter/X @_Max_Donaldson and contact him at MDonaldson@gannett.com.
