During the offseason, Joe Gibbs Racing driver Chase Briscoe took to social media and AI to present himself with a freshly shaved head, a la Joey Logano.
In Briscoe’s case, the bald head wasn’t real, though it created quite a stir on the internet.
To be fair, and as Briscoe freely admits, he doesn’t have a lot of hair to start with.
“I have social media in an uproar normally every single week, because TV shows me during the National Anthem, and people roast me for how bad my hair is—and lack of hair,” Briscoe said.
Accordingly, he decided to take the next step—virtually.
“I felt like I was giving the fans what they wanted,” said Briscoe, who will start from the outside of the front row in Sunday’s DAYTONA 500 (2:30 p.m. ET on FOX, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). I was kind of dipping my toe into the bald community. It’s going to happen at some point. It’s inevitable. I’ve been going bald forever, it’s going to happen. I just was trying to dip my toe in and see what the reaction would be.
“I might do it over the offseason. I might randomly show up one week this summer with it all cut off. But it’s going to happen at some point, I can assure you.”
Briscoe acknowledges that the real thing won’t match the AI-generated image.
“The problem is, with the AI thing it looks good, but my head is not that shape,” Briscoe said. “So, it’s going to look totally different when I actually do it. And it’s going to be like the brightest white thing—you’re going to need sunglasses when I take my hat off.”
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