Joey Logano held off a late cost from Chase Briscoe by the ultimate laps at Richmond Raceway on Saturday evening to take the checkered flag.
Briscoe had been essentially the most dominant automotive on the monitor for many of the evening, main for 171 of 400 laps, however a robust long term from Logano within the third stage flipped the lead late within the race. Briscoe closed the hole all the way in which as much as the end, however was unable to cross Logano one remaining time.
“I don’t know what extra I wanted,” Briscoe stated after the race. “I believed that final run I used to be a little bit bit higher than him.”
Briscoe famous that whereas it was disappointing to not get the win, it was nonetheless his finest run at Richmond Raceway in his profession — he had by no means completed within the prime 10 in 9 begins on the monitor.
“It’s bizarre to be mad working second right here,” he stated. “This has been an actual battle for me, this place. I believe that’s my first-ever prime 10 right here. Simply to be that shut and never get it accomplished remains to be irritating.”
Briscoe locked up heading into pit lane behind Logano for the final cease of the evening, and it is attainable the second made the distinction within the race.
“The break deal was attention-grabbing. I had nice brakes for a big majority of the race. I might simply get within the nook so deep in comparison with all people. As I misplaced that I form of misplaced my benefit and simply grew to become, not mediocre, however I simply wasn’t fairly as robust as I wanted to be to keep up there. Irritating from that standpoint, however nonetheless an enormous enchancment from what I’ve been right here.”
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Whereas it wasn’t a win on the monitor, the evening was nonetheless a win for Briscoe within the standings. Given his earlier poor outcomes at Richmond, Briscoe was i jeopardy of being jumped within the factors standings with simply two races to go earlier than the beginning of the Chase. As an alternative, his second-place end let him maintain on to fifth place in the intervening time.
Whereas the hole between him and Tyler Reddick in fourth place is sort of undoubtedly too giant for him to shut, he has loads of work to do defending his personal place over the ultimate two races earlier than the postseason.
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