[autotag]Christopher Bell[/autotag] started the race weekend at New Hampshire Motor Speedway looking as red as the lobster he held up in victory lane on Sunday evening. Bell accidentally leaked Chase Briscoe’s move to Joe Gibbs Racing as his face turned red with embarrassment. Ironically, the weekend ended with Bell winning the USA TODAY 301 while Briscoe finished in second place.
Following the event, the Joe Gibbs Racing driver sat with the media and discussed winning the USA TODAY 301. It was a historic event that saw the Cup Series end the race at New Hampshire on the Wet Weather Tires after a two-hour rain delay.
“It was literally the tale of two completely different events,” Bell said. “Obviously, the rain completely shook up what was going on track, and in the dry, we started off really well. I was able to get the lead in the first stage, and then [Martin Truex Jr.] really came on there in Stage 2.”
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“Definitely I think that we had some room to improve on the dry stuff. Like, I’m not sure that I — well, I definitely didn’t have the dominant car. Then whenever the wet came, it was just like — I mean, we might as well have been at somewhere completely different. It was just so fun to get to experience that, run a whatever it was, 80 laps in wet tires and wet, damp conditions. Yeah, just a lot of fun. That was so much fun.”
Bell can officially be crowned the “King of New Hampshire” after sweeping the race weekend in the NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Series. The driver of the No. 20 car has Loudon figured out, which is dangerous for the field. Bell and the No. 20 team are starting to hit their stride, and it doesn’t look like they will be slowing down anytime soon.
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