Chase Briscoe had enough gas to end and remember the teammate of Joe Gibbs Racing, Denny Hamlin, in Pocono Raceway on Sunday, winning the Nascar Cup ‘the Great American Getaway 400 in Long Pond, in Pennsylvania.
Driving in his first season for JGR, the 30 -year -old Briscoe, who led 72 laps, held the most of the last stage but seemed to be short of fuel after leaving his pit box early in the first round.
However, the native of Mitchell, in Ind., Held a coherent half-second advance on the n ° 11 of Hamlin, the fighter of 0.682 seconds for his third career victory in 161 departures and winning a place in the playoffs.
According to Hamlin in the sept-duration race, Ryan Blaney, Chris Buescher and Chase Elliott.
Returning to his Toyota n ° 11 After having missed Mexico City because of the birth of his child, Poleter Hamlin had to wait for bad weather and took the green flag at 4:30 am for the 160 -round competition, the 17th race on the CUP series calendar.
With a week of rest behind him, Hamlin was immediately hard on the 2.5-mile delicate tri-oval. The starter of the row 1 Buescher remained at a striking distance at the beginning of his Ford n ​​° 17, but Hamlin exceeded buescher easily to lead the 30 laps of step 1.
With some pilots, indicating a few laps before the end, Buescher kept second place for precious stage points. Tyler Reddick finished third, followed by Briscoe and Erik Jones.
In turn 83, the quadruple winner of Pocono, Kyle Busch, was tight in the tunnel tournament and turned to trigger the fifth caution just after the turning area. The winner last week, Shane Van Gisbergen, Ty Dillon and Christopher Bell, all turned, but have not received any notable damage.
However, Reddick without victory took his Toyota n ° 45 to the garage with braking problems, which also failed his teammate Bubba Wallace earlier.
The Toyota n ° 19 from Briscoe came to life in the second stage and won the 65 -round segment, his first victory on stage since 2022. Josh Berry, Elliott, William Byron and Buescher obtained the bonus points among the first five.
With 36 laps to travel, the seventh caution for Van Gisbergen Turnning Off Turn 1 was a bad break for leader Brad Keselowski, who had been penalized before for entering a closed pit and had not yet been peer in the late stop.
– field level media