Bell's first win of 2023 Cup Series season is a ticket to the NASCAR Playoffs.
Before Sunday night’s Food City Dirt Race at Bristol Motor Speedway, Christopher Bell lamented that a “dirt guy” hadn’t won the NASCAR Cup Series’ only race on the red clay in Thunder Valley.
A dirt-track aficionado who won three straight Chili Bowl Midget Nationals from 2017-2019, Bell collected his first victory of the season and the fifth of his career.“Man, let me tell you, these are some of the longest laps of my entire life,” Bell said of the lates stages of the race. “This place is so much fun, whether it’s dirt or concrete. Whenever the cushion got up there on the top, it was very tough, because you couldn't drive it super hard. Otherwise, you'd get sucked in.
“ 3 and 4, that was the scary corner for me, because if you got into it too far, you lost all your momentum,” the driver of the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota explained. 1 and 2, I think I kept hitting the wall a couple times. “Just hate it for everybody on this Toyota. Just needed to be a little bit closer than I was. I think with two to go, it would have been really bold to try to make that move work. Obviously, on the white flag coming into 3 and 4, I was going to see. We’ll never know if it worked.”
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