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NASCAR: Christopher Bell wins with last-lap cross at Atlanta
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NASCAR: Christopher Bell wins with last-lap cross at Atlanta

By Miles Cooper February 24, 2025
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Christopher Bell gained Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Sequence race at Atlanta with a last-lap cross earlier than a crash on the backstretch.

Bell handed Kyle Larson on the final lap and completed forward of Larson and Carson Hocevar as Josh Berry acquired crashed on the ultimate lap when he was squeezed in the midst of a three-wide situation. The warning got here out earlier than the end line a day after NASCAR race management didn’t throw a warning for a big crash on the ultimate lap within the Xfinity Sequence occasion.

Within the drivers’ assembly forward of Sunday’s race, NASCAR admitted it erred in not throwing the warning on Saturday due to the dimensions of the crash. additionally ended below inexperienced after a crash on the backstretch on the ultimate lap.

The win is the tenth of Bell’s Cup Sequence profession and his first at a drafting monitor.

NASCAR: Christopher Bell wins with last-lap cross at Atlanta

The ultimate lap was his solely lap led as effectively. As Ford drivers acquired 9 of the highest 10 beginning positions in qualifying, Toyota drivers certified far behind and clearly had vehicles arrange for maneuverability. Bell used that to his benefit as he labored his method as much as the entrance within the remaining stage to set himself up for the win.

Bell handed Larson on a green-white-checker end that was arrange by a crash on the entrance of the sphere. Larson tried to maneuver up forward of Austin Cindric whereas making a cross for the lead however wasn’t clear. That compelled Cindric into the wall, and Larson’s teammate and then slid up into Cindric. That despatched each Byron and Cindric crashing into the within wall.

Hocevar ended up getting a career-best end of second after he drew the ire of a number of drivers all through the race. Ryan Blaney went spinning off his bumper within the remaining stage and was certainly one of a number of drivers to speak to Hocevar on pit street after the race.

Blaney got here again to complete fourth due to the contemporary tires his group placed on his automobile after that spin.

Sunday’s race was a much better show of drafting-style racing than Daytona was every week in the past. Drivers needed to handle the dealing with of their vehicles on worn tires and the place wrecks reigned supreme.

The race was additionally one other instance of how far Fox’s protection requirements have fallen because the community began broadcasting NASCAR races 25 years in the past. The manufacturing of Sunday’s race was haphazard at finest, and the sales space struggled to observe the related storylines unfolding all through the race.

There was even an especially awkward second within the remaining stage of the race. The published was within the midst of a Toyota-sponsored section when Toyota driver Chase Briscoe hit the wall to set off a multi-car crash on the frontstretch. Because the crash unfolded reside, the sponsored section went on. Followers have been compelled to see replays of the crash after the section ended after play-by-play announcer Mike Pleasure knowledgeable the viewing viewers {that a} wreck had occurred.

The community’s protection is getting lapped by even the CW’s entry into NASCAR. The CW has the rights to the Xfinity Sequence and the manufacturing for its races is essentially being completed by NASCAR. However the CW sales space of Adam Alexander — the previous Xfinity Sequence voice for Fox — and former drivers Parker Kligerman and Jamie McMurray already supplies far more perception and a coherent dialog than Pleasure, Clint Bowyer and Kevin Harvick.

Harvick is a good analyst in his personal proper. However he and NASCAR followers are being completed a disservice with the present high quality of Fox’s protection. And on condition that Fox simply re-upped with NASCAR to proceed broadcasting races, it’s exhausting to see when the community’s protection will enhance.

1. Christopher Bell

2. Carson Hocevar

3. Kyle Larson

4. Ryan Blaney

5. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

6. Denny Hamlin

7. Kyle Busch

8. Ross Chastain

9. Bubba Wallace

10. John Hunter Nemechek

11. Joey Logano

12. Zane Smith

13. Michael McDowell

14. AJ Allmendinger

15. Todd Gilliland

16. Austin Dillon

17. Riley Herbst

18. Chase Elliott

19. Ryan Preece

20. Tyler Reddick

21. Chase Briscoe

22. BJ McLeod

23. Shane van Gisbergen

24. Justin Haley

25. Josh Berry

26. Alex Bowman

27. William Byron

28. Austin Cindric

29. Ty Dillon

30. Chris Buescher

31. Erik Jones

32. Ty Gibbs

33. Daniel Suarez

34. Noah Gragson

35. Cody Ware

36. Cole Custer

37. JJ Yeley

38. Corey LaJoie

39. Brad Keselowski

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