The 2025 season has been one filled with firsts for Chase Briscoe, and he added two more at NASCAR's wild-card playoff race on Sunday.

The Joe Gibbs Racing driver roared to victory in overtime in the Cup Series' Round of 8 middle race, the YellaWood 500, at Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Ala.

The No. 19 driver moved below leader Bubba Wallace on the backstretch and beat Todd Gilliland by 0.145 seconds for his third win of the season.

That secured the 30-year-old Briscoe's first career appearance in the Championship 4 race weekend in Phoenix in two weeks, where he will be joined by teammate Denny Hamlin and two other title-chasers to be determined in the round's Oct. 26 finale at the short track in Martinsville.

"Ty Gibbs. Just an incredible teammate there," said Briscoe, who led

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