Joe Gibbs Racing officially announces Chase Briscoe as Martin Truex Jr’s replacement.

It’s official: Chase Briscoe is heading to Joe Gibbs Racing in 2025.

Days after Christopher Bell accidentally mentioned Briscoe as his new teammate, the team confirmed that the 30-year-old will replace the retiring Martin Truex Jr. in the No. 19 car next season. Briscoe’s current team, Stewart-Haas Racing, is closing at the end of the season.

Briscoe’s announcement comes less than two weeks after Truex announced he was ending his full-time racing career after the 2024 season. Truex made the decision to retire after considering retiring at during each of the two previous seasons.

Briscoe will take over one of the top rides for one of the Cup Series’ top three teams in 2025. Coincidentally, Tuesday’s announcement comes two days after Briscoe finished second to Bell in New Hampshire.

Briscoe is currently 16th in the points standings with six top-10 finishes in the first half of the season. He is the top SHR ​​driver in points standings and the only one of the team’s four drivers to win a Cup Series race.

That victory came in March 2022 when Briscoe won in Phoenix. The win qualified him for the playoffs and he finished ninth in the standings with six top-fives and 10 top-10s. His 17th place average that season is one place lower than his 2024 average.

Last season was a tough slog for Briscoe and all of Stewart-Haas outside of Kevin Harvick. He finished 30th in the standings thanks to a huge points penalty for car modifications early in the season and finished just three top 10s in the final 16 races of the year.

JGR also announced that current Truex crew chief James Small will remain Briscoe crew chief in 2025. Small has served as Truex crew chief since the start of the 2020 season following the departure of Cole Pearn from NASCAR. After Truex and Pearn were the best driver/crew chief combination in NASCAR at Furniture Row Racing and Joe Gibbs Racing in the late 2010s, Truex had eight wins in 163 races with Small as crew chief and finished second in the points standings in 2021.