Last week at Phoenix, Erik Jones was less than happy with Chase Briscoe. Meanwhile, the Stewart-Haas Racing driver didn’t seem to care. NASCAR beefs can be one-sided at times and that appears to be the case here.
While Erik Jones said he would call his competitor, he has yet to do it. Although he does plan to ring him up this Friday afternoon ahead of the Food City 500 at Bristol. Sometimes waiting it out can be the best thing.
Talking to the media during an availability on Friday, Jones opened up about the issue. He plans to call Chase and hopes that he sees things differently than he did at the track last Sunday.
“No I haven’t today, I hope to call him this afternoon and talk. I don’t really like to talk early in the week, I think everybody’s still made including myself and probably Chase as well,” Jones explained, via Bob Pockrass of FOX Sports. “Yeah, I hope we can come to an understanding, the frustration is there, it’s still there, right?
“We still got wrecked. I don’t think it was all on him but I think it was probably more on him than what he realized at the time. Maybe has a different opinion now, I don’t know hope to talk to him this afternoon and go into this weekend with an understanding. I don’t really like to carry things on, I don’t like to be in car fights on the race track and I just hope we can have an understanding of how we want to race going forward.”
Chase Briscoe didn’t seem to understand why Erik Jones was upset when asked last week. I’m not sure if he is going to see it differently now, but Jones is hoping that is the case.
Erik Jones tired of how Chase Briscoe races him
This all started at Phoenix. Erik Jones was racing hard to get back into the top-10 after having some pit road issues. He had a very fast Toyota Camry XSE and early on in the race was one of the top four cars.
One bad pit stop and he was battling four wide in a dangerous situation. At least, from Jones’ perspective, that is the situation that Briscoe put him into.
“The 14 [Chase Briscoe] was dragging us down over and over, restart after restart and he put us four wide because he was slowing us down so much. I got wrecked, so that sucks, but he seems to have an issue with me every week. So, I’ll call him this week, he probably won’t call me back and I’d love to talk to him.”
Now, I’m not a driver, so I don’t know how these things work exactly. It does seem like waiting until Friday to call a guy about the race before is a little late. Teams are getting ready to head out to Bristol for the weekend and now Chase Briscoe has to take a call about what he did to Erik Jones at Phoenix?
If I had to put my money on it, I would say these two still aren’t seeing eye-to-eye even after this phone call. Will we see the 42 and the 14 get into it again today?
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