How Chase Briscoe “stalled out” at the worst time to finish second at Iowa

Briscoe has finished second in three of the last four races, losing out to Byron at Iowa Speedway

Chase Briscoe has a series-leading six pole positions in 2025, but the Joe Gibbs Racing driver has yet to convert any of those poles into a race win. At Iowa Speedway, he came fairly close, finishing second to William Byron and Hendrick Motorsports.

Briscoe appeared to be in a great spot to go for the win, closing the gap to Byron as the No. 24 team worried about fuel. But even with the help of slower traffic, Briscoe began to fall off and was unable to mount a serious challenge.

"There at the end, I was running William down," said Briscoe. "I thought I was really in the catbird seat there and I just got there and kind of stalled out. I kind of experienced that when I was leading earlier. I caught the back of the field, and same thing; as soon as I got there, I just kind of died.

"Yeah, unfortunate. You're kind of limited where you can go with the repave and everything, but yeah, overall great finish for our Bass Pro Shops Toyota. For us to end up second was a good recovery. Our day kind of got flipped upside down whenever that caution came out and trapped us and was able to rebound. Congrats to William. He did a really good job, and go on to the next one."

Second again

Erik Jones, LEGACY MOTOR CLUB Toyota, Chase Briscoe, Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota, Joey Logano, Team Penske Ford

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Though Briscoe only has one win this year (Pocono), the No. 19 team has been on it in recent weeks with three runner-up finishes in the last four races, and four consecutive front row starts.

What more did Briscoe need to snag any of these race wins? "Sonoma, we were just -- nobody had anything for SVG, and then Dover, I definitely felt like I could have eventually won that one if I was a little more aggressive, and then today, I felt like I was kind of the second best there at the end," said Briscoe.

"Even if it was another five laps, I was probably going to run four. I just kind of died there at the end of the run. I don't know, we've been in position enough, running second like that, you're going to end up winning some of them. It just hasn't went our way the last three or four of them, so hopefully next week it'll be that way."