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Photo: Dominic Aragon\/TRE<\/p>\nCan 30-year-old Christopher Bell capture his first NASCAR Cup Series championship this year?<\/p>\n
Photo: Dominic Aragon\/TRE<\/p>\n
The Joe Gibbs Racing driver earned his fifth consecutive and fifth career playoff appearance this year.<\/p>\n
Bell was the first multi-winner in 2025, collecting victories 2025 is Bell\u2019s fifth consecutive and fifth overall appearance in the NASCAR Playoffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Photo: Jonathan Fjeld\/TRE<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to it,\u201d Bell said during media week. \u201cI\u2019ve been looking forward to the Playoffs for a long time and just ready to put the pressure on and go to the Southern 500. It\u2019s one of my favorite races of the year and I\u2019m excited.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bell qualified for the Championship 4 in 2022 and 2023, narrowly missing the cut last season at Martinsville.<\/p>\n
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Photo: Sophia LaRiche\/TRE<\/p>\n
Entering the playoffs, Bell\u2019s last victory dates back 22 races to the Phoenix victory in March.<\/p>\n
Yet, during media day, Bell said he and the No. 20 team need to be doing anything different in the playoffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Photo: Dominic Aragon\/TRE<\/p>\n
\u201cJust keep plugging away,\u201d Bell said.\u201dI\u2019ve actually asked Adam (Stevens, crew chief) that because I was a little bit concerned about that a couple of weeks ago, and he said we are not doing anything different than we were when we won three races in a row to start the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, we\u2019ve got a great team, a great process and we are going to keep after it, and we are going to great race tracks for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of the 10 playoffs tracks, Bell has won at four of them: Loudon and the Charlotte ROVAL (Round of 12); Martinsville (Round of 8; and Phoenix (Championship venue).<\/p>\n
Bell will start the playoffs as the No. 5 seed, 17 points above the Round of 12 cutline.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Stats through the first 26 races<\/p>\n
1 pole<\/p>\n
3 wins<\/p>\n
9 Top-5 finishes<\/p>\n
14 Top-10 finishes<\/p>\n
225 laps led<\/p>\n
14.8 average finish<\/p>\n
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Dominic Aragon is currently the editor-in-chief for The Racing Experts.<\/p>\n
From Grants, New Mexico, USA, Aragon started watching NASCAR in 2004 and has been covering the sport since 2009. Aragon is a 2012 graduate of Grants High School and a May 2016 graduate of the University of New Mexico with a B.A. in Mass Communications & Journalism. Aragon has worked in local and national media, as a musician, and an educator. He is co-author of the 2024 book “All of It: Daytona 500 Champion Tells the Rest of the Story” with racer Geoff Bodine.<\/p>\n
Aragon, his wife Feliz, and son Christopher currently reside in Grants, New Mexico, USA.<\/p>\n
You can reach Dominic at daragon@theracingexperts.net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Can 30-year-old Christopher Bell capture his first NASCAR Cup Series championship this year? Photo: Dominic Aragon\/TRE The Joe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[425,99],"class_list":["post-119355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}