Chase Briscoe’s redemption tour continues as he wins back-to-back following his heartbreaking loss to Kyle Larson in Kansas last month.
Chase Briscoe goes back-to-back, winning last weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and Sunday at Charlotte Motor Speedway in the 2026 season’s closest finish.
With his win, Briscoe knocks off another 19 points from Kyle Larson’s lead but stays in sixth, now just 4 points shy of Ryan Blaney.
Hurricane Isaias canceled all on-track activity at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Saturday, forcing NASCAR to use its performance-based metric formula to set the field. This week, it favored Briscoe with his recent success and placed him on the front row next to championship leader Larson.
Larson dominated the race early, winning the first stage, but struggled late, dropping to sixth behind four playoff drivers and Josh Berry.
The opening stage was ended early when Alex Bowman got loose, overcorrected, and took out two playoff contenders, his Hendrick Motorsports teammate William Byron and 23XI Racing’s Bubba Wallace
In the second stage, Christopher Bell looked like the Joe Gibbs Racing driver to beat, winning the stage and taking the lead, which he lost on a pit cycle when he went three-wide on the restart, passing Blaney and Larson.
The field had its longest run on tires in the third stage, heading into the end of the race, with attrition matched among the competitors. Bell closed in on Briscoe in the closing two laps and, in the final corners, made a move for the win that ended with the two cars touching and carrying on. Briscoe won by 0.029 seconds over Bell.
Briscoe’s right front was falling off in the final six laps as he came up on his final pack of lapped traffic.
“I just felt like I was going to knock the wall down at any point,” Briscoe said post-race. “It just quit turning. So yeah, I don’t know what it is about these finishes. I got to quit making it so exciting at the end. Yeah, just an amazing car.”
Blaney, Berry, and Denny Hamlin completed the top five. Bell, Blaney, and Hamlin all made up minimal ground on Larson, who finished sixth.
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