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Christopher Bell walked into Victory Lane a year ago and arrived in front of his car when the Coca-Cola 600 was called due to rain.
So start an up-and-down 12 months that Bell sees return to Charlotte Motor Speedway after his first All-Star race this past weekend and wants to defend his Coke 600 title this weekend.
Only Kyle Larson has won more cup racing than Bell since the 600 years. Larson has seven wins. Bell won five points and the All-Star Triumph.
But Bell and his Joe Gibbs racing team also won in the last 18 races of last year and missed the championships 4 after doing the race in 2022 and 2023. He said last year He feels ‘cheated’ by Chevrolet teams that he said that the finish of the Martinsville play -off match “determined and manipulated”, and that he prevented him from making the Championship 4 a third consecutive year.
He is again in the season to win three of the first 12 points races.
Momentum has grown for North Wilkesboro Speedway to host a cup-points race after Sunday’s All-Star race.
Over the past year, Bell and his no. 20 team.
‘For the past twelve months, I feel like I’ve been doing a good job of aging as a manager and finishing racing, where my Achilles was not even NASCAR in the early part of my career.
‘For the past twelve months, Adam (Stevens) (crew’s head) has really loudly on me to make sure I make the tendency. And I don’t think you will beat it completely, but I could see myself at this stage to just take what comes to us and come to the checkered flag, and it shows the last two months or so. “
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The ripening, Bell said, was not as much of a factor in his late race tune with Joey Logano to win the All-Star race in North Wildeboro, but in other situations this season.
“When I have a pace in my car, I did well to finish racing,” Bell said. “That’s when I’m the one who falls back or the slower car, I would get myself in trouble, I would jump out, I would hit the wall, I would ruin to try myself too much when it wasn’t my day.
“Certainly the last couple in Texas and Kansas and Darlington are the race coming on my head.”
Bell finishes second on Kansas, third on Darlington and Ninth in Texas.
He was strong early in the season and won in Atlanta, Circuit of the Americas and Phoenix in consecutive weekends.
The Joe Gibbs driver achieved his first all-Star race victory.
The key was to take advantage of certain situations in those races.
“Last year we just couldn’t use the second half, maybe the last two -thirds of the season,” Stevens said. ‘There were a tremendous number of races where we had a race speed, and for whatever reason, many of them did not work out.
‘You have to go through the calendar individually to choose everyone apart, and it is frustrating if you are in the middle of it. You want to win, and Bell wants to win tremendously. It is frustrating to myself. It’s frustrating for the team. Our conversion was low. And this year, our conversion rate was extremely high to be competitive.
Building on his success this weekend at Charlotte will also have challenges.
“I was definitely surprised by just a lack of pace on the interim traces, as at the end of last year, we did very well with the intermediate products, and was one of the strongest contenders, and then over the last few weeks, week-in and week, we were not there yet,” Bell said.
“Hopefully we deserve it. I feel as if Kansas was a little better than we had in Texas and Darlington, so if we could take another step as it goes in Charlotte, we might argue to the victory, but we are definitely missing a little at this point. “
