Chase Briscoe raced with sprained wrist in NASCAR’s Las Vegas race

Briscoe wasn’t fꦿully fit in Las Vegas fol🍌lowing his massive accident at Phoenix

Chase Briscoe, Joe Gibbs Racing
Chase Briscoe, Joe Gibbs Racing
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Chase Briscoe has revealed thatꩵ he had to race in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup S✃eries race at Las Vegas with a sprained wrist.

The Joe Gibbs Racing driver pꦿicked up the injury in a multi-car wreck at the previous round of the season in Phoenix.

The accident was caused when Briscoe hit the #7 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet of Justin Haley exiting Turn 2 fol🀅lowing the Stage 2 restart, which sent the #19 Toyota up the track.

A number of cars got caug🍌ht up in the melee, with Carson Hocevar, Cole Custer,🎃 Brad Keselowski and Shane van Gisbergen among those involved.

It wasn’tꦅ until last weekend that the news of Briscoe’s sprained wrist became public knowledge.

The 30-year-old wore a sprint atඣ times at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway in orde🗹r to get through the weekend.

The Indiana-born racer qua🅠lified a distant 24th for the fifth round of the championship, but was able to climb up the order in the race to claim 1ไ7th place, five positions behind teammate and top Toyota driver Christopher Bell.

Briscoe had previously take🐬n full responsibility for causing the collision that took out a number of drivers from the Phoenix race.

“That’s about th𒆙e biggest you can crash at Phoenix,” Briscoe sౠaid. “Yeah, it was a big one.

“On that restart, we were three, four-wide and I just climbed ov🦩er the No. 7 [Justin Haley]’s right front.

“Unfortunate. We were able to go from the tail up to 12th or 13th and f🍬elt good about our No. 19 Bass Pro Shops Toyota. Got mysel🎐f in a bad spot.

“Was probably trying to fade a little more le🌃ft with the No. 77 [Carson Hocevar] on my right rear and yeah, just went over the No. 7’s r💞ight front.

“Unfortunate bu𝕴t try to learn from it and not do it again and go onto Vegas.”

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