NASCAR Cup Series driver Chase Briscoe started Sunday’s race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway from the pole, thanks to his No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota Camry.

Indiana native Chase Briscoe details his visits to Indianapolis Motor Speedway as a kid and what it would mean to win the Brickyard 400.

This weekend is the big one for Chase Briscoe. A native Hoosier, and the son of affable Sprint Car racer Kevin Briscoe, the Mitchell, Indiana export has wanted to win the Brickyard 400 above every other race on the schedule.

Tensions are high today in Indianapolis. The pole-sitter, Chase Briscoe, is doing his best to stay in contention for the win. However, on a pit stop in Stage 2, crew chief James Small had to get onto his driver for missing his mark.

Over the next decade, Briscoe returned annually—first to watch, then to dream. By ten, he was attending both the Indy 500 and Brickyard 400, sneaking around for autographs and pit passes. By his late teens, things got even bolder.

Denny Hamlin partnered up with Chase Briscoe at JGR for the 2025 season onwards. Briscoe had some difficult shoes to fill as he replaced the outgoing Martin Truex Jr.

Chase Briscoe became the first driver to win poles at NASCAR’s first three crown jewel races in one season after posting a fast lap of 183.165 mph to win at his home state Brickyard 400

Indiana native Chase Briscoe won the pole in what was a top-five lockout of the front row by Toyota. Ty Gibbs and Ty Dillon will be battling for the NASCAR In-Season Challenge crown in which the winner takes home $1 million. The stages today are 50-50-60.