TOYOTA RACING – Chase Briscoe
NASCAR Cup Series Quotes
HOMESTEAD, Fla. (November 7, 2026) – Joe Gibbs Racing driver Chase Briscoe was made available to the media on Saturday after winning the pole for the NASCAR Cup Series race at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Chase Briscoe has won the pole for the second time this season (Talladega-2) and the ninth time in his career.
This is Toyota’s third 1-2-3 sweep in qualifying this season (Las Vegas-1, Kansas-1); and third time at Homestead in the last four years (2023 and 2024).
CHASE BRISCOE, No. 19 Bass Pro Shops Toyota Camry XSE, Joe Gibbs Racing
Do you feel like you have a car that can win the race tomorrow?
“Yeah, yesterday I thought my car was really, really good. I thought it did everything I needed it to do, outside of just kind of one or two things that I thought that we could definitely get it to do, and then, yeah, qualifying was kind of surprising. I thought last night I had way more grip than what we had there, but we go a little bit faster, obviously there too. It’s just a hard contrast to really know what your car has because you’re going to race in that. So practice, I feel like, was not a waste, but it just is not a direct correlation to what you’re going to race in. So, yeah, I think my car is good, but it’ll be a totally different race car in the middle of the heat tomorrow. So yeah, I feel confident, though, that we’ll be able to contend. I wouldn’t sit here and say that I’m the dominant car, but I definitely felt like I was a top three car. So, yeah did our job there to start up front and get the number one pit stall and everything. So, looking forward to tomorrow.”
Do you feel like this race is yours to win with your mile-and-a-half success in the Chase?
“Yeah, I definitely feel really, really good about it. Here and Darlington are the two tracks that I feel probably the most confident going to out of the whole entire schedule. This is still a mile and a half, but I don’t know, I feel like it doesn’t race anything like the other mile and a half. It does race more like a Darlington. So yeah, I feel really, really confident, even if we hadn’t won the two races earlier in the Chase, I would have still felt really good coming here. So, yeah, I think we’re being the mix tomorrow and if we execute, I definitely think we’ll be up there.”
With the success Toyota has had on track this season, what do you feel like you have to change about execution to win the championship?
“I think for us, there’s a lot of different things from an execution piece, I guess, really, our pit crew has not had any execution flaws since May, maybe. Like, we’ve been really, really good. So that’s not been the problem at all. A lot of it’s been myself, so it’s just trying to have a better understanding of risk versus reward and just a better picture. I say execution, but like Gateway, the 9 (Chase Elliott) blows the rotor underneath you, there’s nothing you can do there. You get caught up in the big one at the Talladega. Nothing you can do there. You know, the big one was really Bristol for us, and that was a mistake on my end, and then Darlington was the other one where we just ran ourselves out of fuel and had to go to the back. We could have won the stage and controlled the race. I feel like we’re close on an execution level. Martinsville, we got caught a little bit on the strategy, but I don’t know. I think that’s all things that we’re looking at or the course off season. I feel like it’s more of a talking point now than it’s ever been at least internally in our group. I feel like we are executing at a pretty high level, truthfully, but the 5 (Kyle Larson) has set the bar so high to go and reach what he’s doing. You just have to be practically flawless. That’s why we strive for is excellence and being perfect. We just haven’t been that over the course of the last 10 weeks.”
Did you have a goal of wins you wanted to achieve this year?
“For me going into it, especially after last year, getting three like that was kind of at least like we need to at least get three, right? We’ve been able to do that, and so now you’re just trying to add on, obviously, if we can get four that would just be icing on the cake. I think getting second in points would be a really big deal. Just how things work at JGR (Joe Gibbs Racing) and the selection process, the higher up in points, the better for us. So yeah, there’s a lot on the line still, second in points. Obviously, there’s more money to be made than being third or fourth too. So, yeah, that’s the goal of trying to win the race and trying to just set the bar as high as we can for ourselves.”
Will there be a discussion with the team with Denny starting next to you? Do you have to tiptoe at all?
“I mean, we haven’t talked about it. I mean, in my mind, we just go race. Yeah, I don’t know. I mean, maybe there’d be a discussion, but I don’t think there is. I think, look, if him and the 5 (Kyle Larson) were within, you know, five or ten points of each other, it’d be a little bit of a different story, but being 70 points out or whatever, I doubt that there’s going to be anything from, you know, Coach (Joe Gibbs, owner, Joe Gibbs Racing) or anybody else that’ll be just go race and whatever happens.”
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