Chase Briscoe Wins at Talladega, Clinches His Spot into the Championship 4
Chase Briscoe earned his fifth NASCAR Cup Series victory of his career during the YellaWood 500 at Talladega SuperSpeedway. Briscoe received a push during overtime from teammate Ty Gibbs to propel him to victory, securing his place to fight for the championship in two weeks.
This will be the Joe Gibbs Racing driver’s first time in the final round of the NASCAR Playoffs.
“The race was extremely stressful.” Briscoe said, “I think I told MRN I don’t have very much hair in the first place, but what I hadn’t left was going to be gray. It’s a miserable feeling.
“Obviously, I kind of shot ourselves in the foot there at the beginning, got the speeding penalty, but it just so happened to work out where we didn’t really lose a lot of points to other guys.”
Todd Gilliland finished second, followed by Gibbs in third. Bubba Wallace and Cole Custer rounded out the top five.
Carson Hocevar finished sixth, Tyler Reddick seventh, while Christopher Bell, Zane Smith and Brad Keseelowski finished eighth through 10th place, respectively.
The event was sent into overtime after the then-leader Chris Buescher was spun by William Byron, after Buescher tried to block to maintain his position. Buescher went spinning to bring out the final caution of the afternoon.
A lap 52 crash triggered a nine-car pile-up that collected Hendrick Motorsports’ driver Chase Elliott and also AJ Allmendinger. The crash occurred after leaders Erik Jones and Noah Gragson made contact. Allmendinger got out of his No. 16 Chevrolet and lay down on the ground, before walking to the ambulance. He was released from the infield care center.
On Lap 112 during green flag pit stops, Shane Van Gisbergen spun while he was entering pit road. The No. 88 Chevrolet drove through some water that ultimately forced the driver into the grass, where he got stuck.
Van Gisbergen recovered from this mishap to finish in the 11th position.
The NASCAR Cup Series heads to Martinsville Speedway, where four drivers will be eliminated from championship contention, and the Championship 4 will be set.
Byron (-15), Joey Logano (-23), Elliott (-24), and Ryan Blaney (-31) are the bottom four drivers going into Martinsville.
Coverage for the Xfinity 500 at Martinsville begins on October 26th at 2 p.m. ET on your local NBC affiliate.
Reviewed by Courtney Horn
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Sunday, October 19, 2025
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