[autotag]Christopher Bell[/autotag] had one of the best cars during the 2024 Coca-Cola 600. Bell drove through the top 10 spots in Stage 2 to win the playoff point. Then, the Joe Gibbs Racing driver held off Brad Keselowski in Stage 3 until the rain arrived. It seemed that NASCAR would restart the event; however, it was called at 11:30 p.m. ET, giving Bell his first career Coca-Cola 600 victory.
Following the event, Bell spoke about winning the Coca-Cola 600. While it wasn’t in a conventional way, it was still well deserved as the driver of the No. 20 car led the most laps and held off Keselowski.
“I knew there was going to be a chance of it,” Bell said. “Can the boys in the booth hear me right now? I’m literally on the couch like half asleep, and we’re going through this “Radioactive” stuff, and I am already like mentally prepared to go racing.”
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“Then all of a sudden we come on, we see [Mike Joy], [Kevin Harvick], and [Clint Bowyer] in the booth, and I’m like, wait a minute, what’s going on, they start talking, and I’m like, what? Then the phone goes off and say they called it. What a twist of emotions. I have never been through that emotion swing before like that in my life.”
Bell has been through a rough stretch of races, but winning the Coca-Cola 600 is precisely what the No. 20 team needed. Sure, NASCAR may not have run 600 miles, but Bell had one of the best cars. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver needed something to go his way, and winning a Crown Jewel event will surely start the process of more success.
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