Chase Briscoe never received phone call from Erik Jones: ‘Mindblowing how sensitive some guys are’

Even after a lot of talk and conjecture, Erik Jones never called Chase Briscoe to talk about what went down at Phoenix last week. Briscoe confirmed he didn’t get a call, missed or otherwise, from his NASCAR competitor.

Erik Jones blamed Chase Briscoe for putting them in a four-wide situation which ended with Jones wrecking. Well, Briscoe didn’t see an issue with it. In fact, he was surprised that Jones felt the way he did.

So, after claiming that he would call him and talk to him, Jones has not. The Legacy Motor Club driver even doubled down on Friday saying he would ring up Briscoe. He did not.

At Bristol, Chase Briscoe spoke with Bob Pockrass of FOX Sports about the issue.

“Never got a phone call, never had a missed call. Would have gladly taken the phone call for sure,” Briscoe explained. “I don’t know if he just watched the replay and kind of saw what happened but never got a phone call. So, I don’t know, it is frustrating how guys are, not him, but just half of the field is sensitive on racing hard and that’s what we’re here to do is race hard.

“It should be hard for you to pass me like it should be really hard for me to pass you. I don’t know why guys get so mad about racing hard because that’s literally what we’re paid to do is race. It’s definitely mindblowing how sensitive some guys are to it.”

Briscoe then explained what happened at Phoenix having seen the replay now.