Chase Briscoe battling nausea, asks for medication during NASCAR Round of 12 finale at Charlotte ROVAL

Chase Briscoe is having a rough time inside his race car during Sunday’s Round of 12 finale at the Charlotte ROVAL. According to Chris Knight of Catchfence, Briscoe is battling nausea.

Briscoe asked his team for medication at the end of Stage 1. NBC Sports announcer Leigh Diffey said on the broadcast that Briscoe’s team gave him an ice pack to help.

It has to be an uncomfortable feeling for Briscoe, who is very much racing to keep his NASCAR Cup Series championship hopes alive. Briscoe came into Sunday’s race 21 points above the playoff cutline. He ended Stage 1 with a 19-point advantage. Briscoe has some work to do as he currently runs 17th at the time of publication.

Chase Briscoe racing to keep championship hopes alive

Briscoe has been one of the most consistent drivers in the series this season, and that has continued into the postseason. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver won the playoff opener at Darlington Raceway and has finished inside the top 10 in every race since.

Replacing a future Hall of Famer in Martin Truex Jr. can’t be easy. But all Briscoe has done is elevate his performance, helping the No. 19 team get back on track after a tough 2024 campaign. Briscoe would love to end the season with a championship trophy. He has to first get through Sunday and go from there.

“We’re really just racing the [No.] 22 [Joey Logano] and the [No.] 1 [Ross Chastain],” Briscoe said earlier this week, via Kelly Crandall of RACER. “If we can go and outrun them in both stages and the race, then we can move on no matter what. But it’s obviously not that easy, either. So, it’s tough knowing that we’ve been as good as we have, and there is the potential to be knocked out.

“But it all comes back down to the regular season and not performing in the first half of the season to get all the stage points and playoff points to put ourselves in a better position.”