‘Your Identity Is Not in Your Results’: NASCAR Star Reflects on Chicagoland Win

Published: July 9, 2026

By Mallory Mattingly

NASCAR driver Chase Briscoe understands what it’s like to drive fast and free, but winning races isn’t the most important part of his life.

“Yeah, it’s super nice, but you know, even if I would have run second or ran dead last, I think just having that perspective of it’s still not really that important. Like, that probably sounds terrible to say to a lot of people, but yeah, I mean, do I want to win? Absolutely, but if I wouldn’t have won tonight, like I’m gonna go home, and my kids are still gonna be just as excited to see me,” Briscoe said, per CBN Sports, after a race at the Chicagoland Speedway last weekend.

The driver doesn’t put his identity in racing cars but in the Lord, something that was talked about in the pre-race chapel service.

“I think, you know, just being able to keep that in perspective, and something that we kind of talked about at the chapel service this morning is just how your identity is not in your results,” Briscoe, who is currently in eighth place in the NASCAR Cup Series, continued. “Like, as a competitor, I want to win, absolutely, but it’s not my identity either. So yeah, it’s great to win, but it’s not really about that.”

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Briscoe, a dad of three, won this weekend in Chicago on one of his favorite weekends to race.

“Doesn’t get much more American than winning a NASCAR race in the Bass Pro Shops red, white and blue scheme on the 250th birthday weekend of the United States of America! Still fired up about it! 🇺🇸” he shared on Instagram.

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Earlier this year, Chase, like many others, lost a close friend in the NASCAR community when Kyle Busch unexpectedly passed away.

He recalled the time he first raced against Busch, which was a “pinch me” moment for Briscoe.

“Getting to race against Kyle was a true pinch me moment; I’ll never forget the first time just sharing the track with someone I had so much respect for,” Briscoe wrote on Instagram on May 21. “Two of my favorite wins of my entire career came going head to head against KB, and what made them so special was the fact that I was racing against KB, someone who I considered one of the all-time best.”

“Getting to know Kyle throughout my NASCAR career has been a highlight for me,” he continued. “Whether I was racing door to door with him or talking to him about Samantha, Brexton and Lennix and what all they had going on, I always had to tell myself how cool it was that I was getting to be around one of my heroes.”

“I’m gonna miss everything about ‘KFB,’ and I can assure you no race I run from now on will ever feel the same because the impact Kyle Busch left is unlike any other driver could ever have,” he added. “Thoughts and prayers go out to the entire Busch family and all of Rowdy Nation. Godspeed, KB.”