{"id":50149,"date":"2025-07-31T13:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/50149\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T13:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:44:10","slug":"the-summer-from-hell-for-christopher-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/50149\/","title":{"rendered":"The Summer From Hell For Christopher Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/frontstretch.com\/tag\/Christopher-Bell\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christopher Bell<\/a> won three consecutive races in the first two months of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Since his winning streak, the results have not quite been there for the No. 20 team, and Bell has made uncharacteristic mistakes like the <a href=\"https:\/\/frontstretch.com\/tag\/Zane-Smith\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zane Smith<\/a> incident at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s going on with Bell? Can he return to form before the playoffs begin?<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Nix answers this week\u2019s question for NASCAR Mailbox on Frontstretch\u2019s YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/frontstretch.com\/donate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/frontstretch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/frontstretch-donate.avif\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" alt=\"Donate to Frontstretch\" class=\"wp-image-1366571\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"m-a-box-avatar-url\" href=\"https:\/\/frontstretch.com\/author\/kevinn\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Kevin-Nix-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-150x150 size-150x150\" alt=\"Kevin Nix\" itemprop=\"image\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kevin Nix has been with Frontstretch since February 2023. Hailing from Gilbert, Arizona, his dream is to be in the NASCAR media sphere full-time. He is a video assistant, working on the back end to streamline video and audio quality of all at-track interviews. Nix also writes about news every Monday for the site.<\/p>\n<p>Nix graduated with a Master&#8217;s Degree in Sports Journalism from ASU&#8217;s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Phoenix, Arizona. He also has bachelor&#8217;s degrees in Communications and Political Science. In his downtime, he likes to read, play video games and take walks in the Arizona weather &#8211; when it&#8217;s not too hot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christopher Bell won three consecutive races in the first two months of the season. Since his winning streak,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[425,99],"class_list":["post-50149","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\/50149","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=50149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}