Christopher Bell wants to win a NASCAR Cup championship and he hopes his victory Sunday at Phoenix can serve as a road map to that goal.
Since joining the Cup series full-time in 2020 – and especially since moving to Joe Gibbs Racing the following season – Bell has been a fairly consistent performer, winning half a dozen races and he has even advanced to the Championship 4 the last two seasons. What Bell and his No. 20 Toyota team have not done is produce the week-in, week-out races of running up front and without mistakes that is needed to become a regular threat to win. His win Sunday may have offered a glimpse of a change.
20 team has. “I feel like the last two years through the Next Gen era, myself and everyone inside of our team have seen glimpses of the potential but haven’t really been able to live it to fruition yet. “I mean, I say this a lot, and the rest is up to us to make it happen, but I feel like this is just the beginning.