Three of the four SHR drivers led in Sunday’s 400-lap race at Martinsville.
Briscoe led twice for 109 laps. After finishing fifth, he joked that maybe he should break another finger since. He broke his finger in a dirt Late Model race the Thursday night before Bristol.
“I felt like a Stewart-Haas car probably should have won the race and we just couldn’t catch the breaks we needed there at the end,” said Briscoe, who was scheduled to receive a rod and screws in his middle finger Monday. “Track position was obviously super important. It was really hard to pass. Even if you were better than a guy, they could just kind of hang on. It seemed like tires, it took them 50-60 laps for them to fall off even if you had older tires.”
Briscoe said he thought the race was five to 10 percent better than last year, but “there’s still a really long way to go.”“I did think in the driver’s seat you made a little bit more of a difference,” Briscoe said. “The problem is when you can downshift and things like that, these cars have so much forward drive and, obviously, not a lot of power coming off the corner, so everybody is kind of the same speed. It’s unfortunate.
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