NASCAR: 4 possible landing spots for Chase Briscoe in 2021
By Asher Fair
Chase Briscoe 2021 landing spots – Stewart-Haas Racing (Xfinity Series)
While Chase Briscoe has shown throughout the 2020 NASCAR Xfinity Series season thus far that he would likely be just fine adapting to a promotion to the Cup Series, the possibility exists that he will be back behind the wheel of the #98 Ford at NASCAR’s second highest level of competition next year.
While Stewart-Haas Racing promoted Cole Custer, who is more than three years younger than Briscoe, to the Cup Series from their Xfinity Series team ahead of the 2020 season, that came after he spent three seasons with the team in the Xfinity Series and earned two Championship 4 appearances.
Briscoe is only in his second season and has yet to qualify for the Championship 4, although it does appear to be a foregone conclusion that he will at least be one of the four drivers battling for the title at Phoenix Raceway this November.
With nobody having truly challenged him as the series’ top driver this season outside of Austin Cindric during his recent surge of five wins in six races, will it take actually converting on that success and winning the title for him to make his case?
Perhaps he has shown the team that he is more than ready for a Cup Series ride regardless of the winner-take-all outcome at the Avondale, Arizona oval.
After all, at 25 years old, he is already older than quite a few of the drivers who compete for the top-tier Cup Series teams, including Custer, and his breakout season has come in his sophomore season. Custer’s didn’t come until year three.
In that case, his 2021 landing spot is simple.