NASCAR All Star Race outcomes: Christopher Bell outduels Joey Logano

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Joey Logano was compelled to fend off Christopher Bell at a tire drawback but it surely was an excessive amount of to ask and that’s how the NASCAR All-Star Race was determined at North Wilkesboro Speedway on Sunday night time.

Bell took two tires on the Lap 217/250 warning, the promoter’s warning deployed by Michael Waltrip on the flag stand, as Logano, Ryan Blaney, Ross Chastain, Carson Hocevar and Harrison Burton stayed out.

By 9 laps to go, Bell had drawn even and drifted up the observe to finish the go. From there, Logano wasn’t going to make up floor on a lot older tires.

“If I might get again to him, I used to be going to point out him what truthful was,” Logano stated.

Logano additionally stated he gained’t neglect and can race Bell the way in which he was raced.

A few of that was certainly within the second frustration from Logano, who led a race excessive 139 laps after main 199 of 200 laps on this race final yr, and was driving away when Waltrip waved the yellow flag after which dropped it on the frontstretch.

“Yeah, I’m all about no gimmicks with the warning,” Logano stated. “I’m all about that. I’m slightly — me and Marcus Smith aren’t seeing eye to eye proper now, okay? I’ve acquired to have a phrase with him.”

For his half, Bell provides his first All Star Race win to a resume that already contains 12 factors paying wins in 192 begins and a pair of championship race appearances.

That is one among his favorites.

“It’s fairly excessive,” Bell stated. “I’d say this one needs to be up there with these Spherical of 8 wins. These Spherical of 8 wins are so worthwhile that I don’t know the way you prime that apart from that championship occasion which is eluding me to this point.

“However this one, it’s positively prime 3.”

Brad Keselowski led the opening salvo from the lead, with Logano unable to finish the go as a result of he burned up his tires attempting to might hay on the underside. Keselowski misplaced the lead on a lap 63 restart, getting swarmed by Kyle Busch and William Byron, and he in the end crashed out of the race on Lap 175.

Kyle Larson, who certified twenty first in his second Indianapolis 500 earlier within the weekend, took two tires on the Keselowski crash warning, however instantly fell again to 3rd. He drilled the wall simply laps earlier than the promoter’s warning.

He completed twenty first.

Outcomes

Christopher Bell

Joey Logano

Ross Chastain

Alex Bowman

Chase Elliott

William Byron

Tyler Reddick

Kyle Busch

Chase Briscoe

Chris Buescher