With a three-wide transfer on Lap 496 of Saturday’s Bass Professional Night time Race at Bristol Motor Speedway, Christopher Bell shot to the lead and scored his fourth win of the 2025 NASCAR Cup Sequence season.
Bell acquired round Zane Smith and Carson Hocevar with 5 laps to go on a late restart and held on regardless of last-lap contact from runner-up Brad Keselowski.
The win gave Joe Gibbs Racing a clear sweep of the Spherical of 16 and ensured Bell’s berth within the second spherical of the NASCAR playoffs.
“I used to be nervous on the select,” Bell informed USA Community. “I did not know whether or not I wished to be on the underside or the highest. Needed to decide the underside. I hoped that these guys on previous tires would push up, and so they did.”
Bass Professional Night time Race was unpredictable
Saturday’s race featured loads of tire put on and threw loads of curveballs at groups, however Bell and the No. 20 workforce discovered the best way to hit a type of curveballs on the proper time.
Alex Bowman, Austin Dillon, Shane van Gisbergen and Josh Berry had been all eradicated from the Cup Sequence playoffs, with Berry ending final after his automobile caught on fire in Stage 1.
Regardless of his automobile catching on hearth late within the race, Austin Cindric held on to snag the twelfth and closing switch spot for the Spherical of 12.
The Spherical of 12 will start at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Sept. 21. The Mobil 1 301 will go inexperienced shortly after 2 p.m. ET, with protection on USA Community, PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
