When he fired the engine on his race car before last year’s NASCAR finale, Chase Briscoe sat inside the cockpit and cried like a baby. As an Indiana native aspiring to make it to the top levels of motorsports,

When Joe Gibbs Racing made the bold decision to hand Chase Briscoe the steering wheel of the team’s No. 19 Toyota Camry XSE for the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season, it raised a lot of eyebrows.

“If you can’t win in a JGR car, why would anybody hire you for another team?”