Chase Briscoe Details Emotional Stories in Netflix Docuseries and Scene That Surprisingly Got Axed

When Briscoe tamed the Track Too Tough to Tame last September and won the Southern 500, a crown jewel race, he and his wife, Marissa, were weeks away from welcoming their second and third children to the family — yes, they were expecting twins.

While some might have wanted that very personal life experience to remain personal and set limitations and boundaries for the cameras, the driver said he and his wife viewed it as an opportunity.

“Me and my wife talked about it and we just felt like with everything kind of going on in our life, there was no way that we would be able to film it all and especially do as good of a job as they did,” Briscoe said. “So just let them film it and follow us along with the process and it would be able to live forever that way.”

That’s not to say there weren't times when cameras weren’t allowed to film. There were, but under extenuating circumstances.

“There was times where, truthfully, Netflix was wanting to film stuff here at the house with, for example, her just watching a race, right?” he recalled “But she felt so bad all the time that she just was like, ‘I don't think I can do it today.’

“But other than that, I mean, it was a wide open book. They were literally at the hospital – I don't know, four hours after we had the twins, I would say. And I mean literally came to the house at 4:30 in the morning when we were leaving to go to the hospital. So, they definitely kinda had full access. 

"And, something that we talked about is if we're gonna do it, we have to let them have the full access. Otherwise it's just not gonna be the full story. So, it was very eye-opening and it was neat to have them be a part of that whole thing.”

Allowing that type of unfettered access was a personal choice. Most would think getting that same level of access to Briscoe’s No. 14 team would be considerably more difficult. But it wasn’t. 

That’s because months earlier Stewart-Haas officials had made the painful announcement that the team would be shutting down at the end of the 2024 campaign. While not news anyone wanted to hear, that turned out to be a positive for the Netflix show.

”Yeah, that was one thing that I feel like is so unique about I guess just following the 14 car was from an access standpoint,” the driver recalled. “We literally could open it all up because there was nothing to hide. Like, we were shutting down at the end of the year. So, a lot of that stuff didn't truthfully make it into the show, but there was a ton of stuff that they were a part of that they probably, I would guess weren't a part of at other race shops just because, like I said, for us, it didn't really matter. We didn't have anything to hide.

“So it was definitely I think cool to let them kind of in behind the scenes of being at the victory celebration at the shop and things like that. It was just a such a unique part of the timeline for Stewart-Haas Racing, in general.

“Being there that day was honestly the coolest day I'd ever experienced at Stewart-Haas Racing in my entire seven, eight years. Just the electricity in the air there was unlike any other day I'd ever imagined. So, letting them be there on that day and get to experience that and really let the fans even see kind of behind the scenes of what that process was like was a really unique thing.”

Those are things fans will see in the docuseries.

However, Briscoe admitted there were a couple of moments he was certain would make it into the series but didn’t.

”The two things I thought for sure were gonna make it that didn't make it – one of them was me and my wife having this incredible discussion about minivans and how I wanted to have a minivan and she didn't wanna have a minivan," he said. "I thought for sure that would've made it in because I was pretty headstrong about wanting a minivan and how cool they were.

“And the other one was actually at the hospital. Our room had like a balcony and they were filming Brooks running around all this stuff and he ran out on the balcony. And like just randomly took off running out there and I opened the door to see what he was doing, and he was literally just peeing off the balcony. And I thought for sure that would've made it in there, but I guess it didn’t.” 

The five-part docuseries debuts on Netflix on May 7.