NASCAR: POST-NCS QUALIFYING

February 12, 2025

Chase Briscoe

Pit Lane Interview

Q. Chase Briscoe makes the move to Joe Gibbs Racing this season. In your first start in this 19 car, you're also going to give Toyota their first pole in the Daytona 500. How good does that feel?

CHASE BRISCOE: A great way to start our season. Unbelievable way to start off the year. Unbelievable way to start off with Toyota. To be able to be the guy to deliver them the first anything when they've already accomplished so much is pretty cool.

Man, to think I'm going to start on the front row or on the pole of the great American race with ultimately the great American brand of Bass Pro Shops is unbelievable.

Can't thank Coach Gibbs enough, the entire Joe Gibbs Racing organization. The whole off-season everybody kept telling me the focus was trying to qualify better at superspeedways. That's something I really struggled at last year. For our 19 group to come here and sit on the pole at the biggest race of the year is pretty special.

Can't believe it. Super appreciative of this opportunity with Bass Pro, Toyota, Joe Gibbs. Unbelievable way to start our season. Hopefully we can carry it on now.

Q. You have to worry about the duels tomorrow. What are you going to be looking for out of it tomorrow night?

CHASE BRISCOE: I don't know if this changes our approach, if we try to just lay back down or what. Truthfully I would like to race and at least feel my car out.

It's hard to ever know what you have in practice. I felt like in practice, my car was really, really good. To go out there in qualifying and do the lap we did, man, I guess I was right.

Curious to see how it's going to race. I feel like our car definitely has speed, it's just a matter if it's going to race good.

Talk to James and the guys to see what the approach is tomorrow night. Good to start up front and determine our own destiny.