Christopher Bell held off Chandler Smith and received Friday’s NASCAR Craftsman Truck Sequence Tennessee Military Nationwide Guard 250 after taking the lead on a late restart and holding on over the race’s ultimate run.
Similarly to how he received the 2025 Cup Sequence fall race at Bristol, Bell used a superb restart to take the highest spot and by no means relinquished it. The victory is his eighth in Truck Sequence competitors and his first since 2017.
Bell, a full-time Cup Sequence driver with Joe Gibbs Racing, will now look to win Sunday’s Meals Metropolis 500.
“That was simply so superior to have the ability to win a Truck race,” Bell informed Fox Sports activities. “It has been what, since 2017, that I’ve received considered one of this stuff? Simply so particular for me to have the ability to race with these guys. These wins imply rather a lot to this group and this group.”
Bell received driving the No. 62 Toyota Tundra for Halmar-Friesen Racing. It is the group’s first win since co-owner and driver Stewart Friesen suffered an damage throughout a mud race in 2025. Friesen returned to full-time Truck Sequence competitors in 2026.
Whereas it was Bell who received the race, the most important story of the night concerned a number of drivers who did not even end the race.
Corey Heim nudged Christian Eckes out of the way in which for the race lead on Lap 180, however Eckes, desperate to take the lead again, tried to present Heim a retaliatory bump. Nonetheless, Heim spun off the entrance bumper of Eckes into flip 1, making arduous contact with the surface wall. Polesitter Kaden Honeycutt and Layne Riggs have been additionally concerned within the crash, with the previous being knocked out of the race. Heim informed the Fox telecast that he believed Eckes merely “misjudged” his nook entry forward of the crash.
Notable outcomes
Smith, Gio Ruggiero, Ross Chastain and Eckes rounded out the highest 5, with Jake Garcia, Dawson Sutton, Kyle Busch, Carson Hocevar and Brenden Queen finishing the highest 10.
Different notable finishers embrace Ben Rhodes in eleventh, Chase Briscoe in 14th, Riggs in twenty second, Heim in thirtieth and Honeycutt in thirty first.
