Chase Briscoe won’t let spins at Bristol, Charlotte deter his quest for wins

MADISON, Ill. — Twice in six weeks, Chase Briscoe saw a chance at victory slip away when he spun attempting to pass for the lead.

While his last-lap attempt in the Bristol dirt race was more a desperate move, what happened in last weekend’s Coca-Cola 600 lingers as Briscoe prepares to lead to the field to green in today’s inaugural Cup race at World Wide Technology Raceway (3:30 p.m. ET on FS1).

Briscoe says he watched the fateful moment two laps from the scheduled end of last week’s race “literally 15 or 20 times … trying to figure out really what I did, because I didn’t feel like I did anything different than I had done the whole time.”

Briscoe, who went on to finish fourth last weekend, said he examined data but was left with questions about why he spun while racing Kyle Larson for the lead.

“I was trying to go in there and run underneath him and try to be at his left rear by the exit (of Turn 2) but spun out as soon as I got to the middle” of the corner, Briscoe said. “I was trying to understand (what happened). That way if I’m in that situation again, what can I do different? That one definitely stung a lot more than races in the past.”

Briscoe admits a moment four laps from the scheduled end of that race also stands out. He was underneath Larson’s car and had cleared him but didn’t move up into Larson’s lane. Larson got back next to Briscoe.

“Looking back on it, when I slid in with four to go I was clear for literally a quarter of a second,” Briscoe said. “I didn’t take it. I wanted to try to leave him a lane.

“I wish now I would have taken it. I just felt like if I did that, I was probably going to put him in the fence at the time, so I didn’t take it. Then I spin out two laps later. Now I wish I would have taken