Chase Briscoe's win in Las Vegas keeps his NASCAR Cup Series championship hopes alive
Chase Briscoe held off a furious late-race charge from current points leader Kyle Larson and diced through dense lapped traffic at Las Vegas Motor Speedway to win the South Point 400 and keep his NASCAR Cup Series championship hopes alive. Leading a race-high 175 laps, Briscoe managed the clean-air dynamics flawlessly, executing a sweep of Stage 1 and Stage 2 to collect a maximum 75 total race points.
Briscoe jumped from eighth to sixth in the standings with the win and is 80 points behind Larson. The Cup Series continues its playoff schedule on Sunday on the 1.5-mile oval at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
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