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Bell earns third straight NASCAR Cup win, beating Hamlin by simply 0.049s
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Bell earns third straight NASCAR Cup win, beating Hamlin by simply 0.049s

Motorsports March 9, 2025
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Christopher Bell was only a few laps away from a reasonably calm victory at Phoenix Racway when the warning flag flew for his teammate Ty Gibbs, who suffered a brake failure. This set-up a two-lap sprint to the checkered flag the place Bell needed to fend off one other Joe Gibbs Racing teammate in Denny Hamlin in a dramatic end.

In ARCA, Brenden ‘Butterbean’ Queen and Brent Crews battled side-by-side into the ultimate nook for the win on Friday night time. Within the Xfinity race on Saturday, Aric Almirola and Alex Bowman did the identical. Properly, Sunday was no completely different as Bell entered the ultimate nook to the within of Hamlin, utilizing up lots of monitor as they grasped on the lead.

Exiting Flip 4, Kyle Larson almost received below each of them and even touched the rear bumper of the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota, however Bell managed to simply barely dangle on. Hamlin was 0.049s again on the line within the second-closest end within the historical past of Cup at Phoenix whereas Larson was solely 0.097s adrift of the win in third.

Christopher Bell, Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota

Picture by: Jonathan Bachman – Getty Pictures

Bell makes historical past in dominant style

“How about that one, race followers?” Bell instructed FOX Sports activities 1. “Oh, my gosh, man. Everytime you’re sitting there dreaming it up, that is about as ugly because it will get. You place the pink tires on, you are like, All proper, what I do not wish to occur is go 20, 30 laps, get a yellow. That occurred. Then we went 10 extra laps, had one other yellow. It was all about who may get clear on the restart. Neither of us may. We had been racing actually, actually onerous there coming to the road … JGR ran 1-2, how about that?”

Bell is the primary driver of the Subsequent Gen period (and first since Larson in 2021) to win three consecutive Cup races. After getting crashed from the entrance row through the Daytona 500, he got here again with a vengeance, taking dramatic victories at Atlanta, COTA and now Phoenix. He now has 12 profession victories, already matching his personal report for many wins in a single season after simply 4 races this 12 months. 

Behind the main trio on the checkered flag, the Fords of Josh Berry and Chris Buescher rounded out the top-five. The remainder of the top-ten was as follows: William Byron, Bowman, Kyle Busch, Zane Smith, and Chase Elliott. The race was slowed by ten cautions, together with an enormous multi-car pileup on Lap 99 which pressured seven vehicles to fall out of the race.

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