Chase Briscoe celebrates with his Cunningham Motorsports team after winning Thursday night’s ARCA Racing Series race at Chicagoland Speedway. Photo: ARCA Media
With his most significant challenger gone from the mix, Chase Briscoe checked out on the competition, handily winning the SCOTT 150 Thursday night at Chicagoland Speedway.
In the end, Briscoe, in the No. 77 Big Tine Ford, drove under the checkered flag a full seven seconds in front of second-place finisher John Wes Townley to earn his fifth career ARCA Racing Series victory in his 20th series start.
“I’m so proud of these guys on this Cunningham Motorsports team,” Briscoe said. “It’s unbelievable where I was last year at this time, and now, to be here is beyond incredible. Just thanks to Briggs Cunningham and Kerry Scherer for this amazing opportunity. Chad (Bryant/crew chief) brings great race cars…it just makes it that much easier.”
After Austin Cindric put four fresh General Tires on and drove around Briscoe late in the race (to get back on the lead lap), Briscoe learned that he too needed new tires to ensure the victory. Briscoe got the caution flag he was looking for when his biggest rival, Shane Lee, hit the wall after he cut a right-front tire on lap 72.
“It was huge to get those General Tires at the end. Once Cindric did it, he left us…that was the key.”
Briscoe also made it more difficult on himself when he overshot his pit box, costing him four positions for the late restart.
“That was just a rookie mistake. I can’t be doing that if I get the chance to move up. Glad I was able to get it back though.”
Back under green, Briscoe “got it back” in a hurry when he hooked up on the high-line and sailed around Christopher Bell and Townley, checking out from there with nary a challenge. Townley, from Watkinsville, Georgia, continued to fall back, but still managed to bring his Chevrolet home in the runner-up position.
“We were tight the whole race,” Townley said. “We made some adjustments that helped but the 77 was in another league tonight; but he’s been that way all year. I’d like to thank all the guys on the team for a great job. Unfortunately, we just didn’t have enough. We gotta figure out something for the 77.”
Bell was also a contender in the end, but, like Townley, had nothing for Briscoe, as he finished third after leading two laps.
“To finish third today was a win for our team,” Bell said. “We struggled all day with speed, but every pit stop my guys made huge swings and got it better. The goal was to get laps and get confident, and we accomplished that.”
Kyle Weatherman finished fourth.
“We just don’t give up till the end,” Weatherman said. “It was fun racing with Chris (Bell) at the end. We had a few things wrong with our car but we’ll get ’em at Kentucky.”
Dalton Sargeant finished fifth.
Briscoe led the first 26 laps from his second starting position. However, Lee, who earned his career-first Menards Pole earlier in the day, erased his four-second lead and drove around Briscoe in traffic to lead the 27th lap. Then the leaders pitted under caution on lap 30 for fresh tires and gas. However, Lee lost several spots on pit road and restarted seventh. By lap 40, Lee had raced his way up to second and, again, slowly began reeling Briscoe in before his wall-banger late in the going.
Briscoe dominated the leader board with 84 laps-led during the 100-lap/150-mile race. Briscoe also wrapped up the 2016 Bill France 4 Crown championship, a title within a title consisting of four different tracks. This year’s Bill France 4 Crown included the New Jersey road course, the Lucas Oil Raceway short track, the DuQuoin mile dirt and Chicagoland.
Cindric, who led four laps, finished sixth ahead of Travis Braden in seventh. Ty Majeski, who led six laps, finished eighth. Brent Sherman came home in ninth with Tom Hessert in 10th.
The next event for the ARCA Racing Series is the Crosley 150 at Kentucky Speedway on Friday night, September 23. For more information, visit ARCARacing.com.
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SCOTT 150 – Sept. 15, 2016
1. Chase Briscoe
2. John Wes Townley
3. Christopher Bell
4. Kyle Weatherman
5. Dalton Sargeant
6. Austin Cindric
7. Travis Braden
8. Ty Majeski
9. Brent Sherman
10. Tom Hessert
11. Sarah Cornett-Ching
12. A.J. Fike
13. Tom Berte
14. Nick Higdon
15. Thomas Praytor
16. Bobby Gerhart
17. Morgen Baird
18. Mike Basham
19. Dustin Knowles
20. Matt Kurzejewski
21. Shane Lee
22. Brandon Jones
23. Chad Finley
24. Dylan Martin
25. Myatt Snider
26. Josh Williams
27. Richard Hauck
28. Con Nicolopoulos
29. Rick Tackman
30. Brad Smith
31. Ed Pompa
32. Chris Bailey
33. Dale Shearer
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