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Avondale, Ariz. – A look at the winners and losers of Sunday’s Nascar Cup race at Phoenix Raceway.
Winners
Christopher Bell – He became the first manager since Kyle Larson in 2021 to win three consecutive cup races. The last driver who won four consecutively? Jimmie Johnson in 2007. Primary Band, Option Band, it didn’t matter to Phoenix for Bell. His average running position in the race was 2.6. He led a 105 rounds with a race and scored 17 stage points and won a stage. Larson of Bell said: “It is very difficult to win two consecutive in the next Genera, and for them to win three in a row is really impressive.”
After the victory of Phoenix, Christopher Bell goes for his fourth consecutive cup victory on Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
William Byron – Although he finished sixth, he remains the scoreline with 13 over Christopher Bell, who won three of the first four races of the season. How did Byron do this? Stage points. He had an 18 hikes at Phoenix. This is the second time in the last three races he has had at least 15 stage points.
Denny Hamlin – His runner-up has been his first top five result since Martinsville last fall.
Kyle Larson – He finished third for the second time this season. He finished in the top four in four of the last five Phoenix races.
He becomes the first cup manager to win three consecutive in the next Genera.
Josh Berry – He came back from a loose air nut that dropped him to 32nd on the round 94 to finish fourth and give the Wood Brothers their first top five final at Phoenix. The team’s previous best endpoint at Phoenix was in October 1995 in October 1995 by Morgan Shepherd.
Kyle Busch – His end point of his eighth place gives him three consecutive top 10s. Busch told NBC Sports after the race: ‘I would say that the step we took from last year to this year was a very good step. Another important step like that, we can be a contender for victory. “
Zane Smith – His ninth place is his first top 10 of the season.
Ryan Preece – He was the first to switch to the option ties in the first phase and scored eight stage points. It comes a week after winning a stage at Cota via strategy. In the last two races he has 44 points and 18 of them (40.1%) came via stage points.
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Losers
William Byron – He was on Pit Road when the warning came out and forced him to relinquish, and put him in the race late in the field and ended his hopes to win. Byron said: ‘It was just an unfortunate situation there. It was an aggressive call, and I thought it was going to set us up for a shot. It was just there crazy at the end. We started the 21st again and got up fairly quickly in the top 10. I feel like we’ve probably used a lot of band on the (option tires) to get the last few places, so it was hard to get a lot more. ‘
Brad Keselowski – He was picked up in an accident of seven cars and could not continue, and finished 33rd. He finished outside the top 25 in three of the first four races and is 33rd in the points.
You gibbs – He finished 25th after an accident. He finished 25th or worse in eight of the last nine races, dating back to the past season. He is 34th in the points.
Ty Dillon – He finished 16th, but deserves a place here to ride on the lap 265 on Pit Road when he had a set of option ties across the field. Dillon was in position before the quick punishment of the Pit Road to have a much better result.
