With an early season win vaulting him into the points lead, CBellRacing hopes to build on that and avoid more 'must-win' situations like he faced during the 2022 NASCAR playoffs:
won in “must-win” scenarios to advance in the Cup Series playoffs and reach the Championship 4 for the first time in his relatively young career.Toyota team was to hopefully build up a stash of playoff points this year to make his advancement through the playoff rounds a little easier.
Entering this weekend’s race at Martinsville Speedway – where he won last fall – Bell is now the series points leader, holding a 13-point advantage over“Last year through the playoffs, it was a really big eye opener of playoff points, how important they are,” Bell, 28, said. “Frankly, we didn’t have very many of them last year. The only thing that pays playoff points is race wins and stage wins.
“If you have a big old stockpile of bonus points, you get in that spot, maybe it’s not as foreboding as it was. Hopefully, we don’t put ourselves in that spot. To do that, we need to capitalize on our strengths and we need to minimize our weaknesses.”The three-time Chili Bowl champion had his extensive dirt racing experience to rely for the dirt race at Bristol, which aided him well on Sunday.
Now, Bell heads to Martinsville, where he is the track’s most recent Cup Series winner and a prime opportunity to add to his playoff points haul.
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