After leaving Atlanta 21 points below the cutline, Chase Briscoe turned his Round of 12 hopes around with a sixth-place finish at Watkins Glen.
"We need to just hit singles and doubles and don't do anything crazy. As long as we just execute all day long, it should be enough."The odd nature of Sunday's Go Bowling at The Glen has breathed life back into the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs hopes of Chase Briscoe and Stewart-Haas Racing, as the organization enters the final stretch of its NASCAR tenure., the path forward into the Round of 12 for Briscoe wasn't looking great, with the driver of the No. 14 leaving the 1.
Once the race got underway, Briscoe was able to use positive strategy calls by Richard Boswell -- and at one point, one that he made on his own -- to maintain solid track position, netting the team 12 stage points and holding on for a sixth-place finish -- the best among the playoff drivers. "It was huge. It's what we needed to do -- score stage points and run good in the race, and we were able to do that," said Briscoe. "It was a really good, solid day for our HighPoint.com Ford. I felt like I could've gotten a couple more points, but just didn't want to risk it there at the end. I knew I was in a pretty good position compared to a lot of the field, so we did what we needed to do and now we just need to go do that same thing next week.
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