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The rest of the season he bounced between FORD MUSTANG
CREW CHIEF:
Roush Fenway Racing’s No. 60 Mustang 98
and the No. 98 at Stewart-Haas with Biagi- TO BE DETERMINED FEATURED DRIVERS
DenBeste. In addition to the victory at OWNER:
Charlotte, he had four top-10s. STEWART-HAAS RACING

He also had six finishes outside
the top 20, including three Briscoe shared the driving with Ty Majeski and Austin
crashes and a mechanical failure. Cindric at Roush Fenway. That organization dropped its
The dominating run at Charlotte Xfinity program for 2019, so the offer from Stewart-Haas
seemed to ease some of the couldn’t have come at a better time.
frustration – and open new doors to
the future. “I’ve been paying attention to Chase since he raced sprint
cars, and I saw how well he transitioned to stock cars,”
“I feel like my career was getting Stewart said.
really bad this year, and I needed to get
my stock back up,” Briscoe said. “We’ve Briscoe also won the ARCA Racing Series championship
wrecked a lot of race cars and I think my best in 2016, with six wins and 18-top-10 finishes in 20 starts.
finish was ninth, so I was really down on myself,
personally. It was just an honor and privilege to
drive a race car and to do it for my hero Tony Stewart
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five races I ran with the team [last] year. Winning at Charlotte
was one of the greatest moments of my career. I’ve been
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