{"id":36621,"date":"2025-09-20T15:09:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T19:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/bell-leads-joe-gibbs-sweep-in-nascar-bristol-playoffs\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T15:09:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T19:09:39","slug":"bell-leads-joe-gibbs-sweep-in-nascar-bristol-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nascar\/bell-leads-joe-gibbs-sweep-in-nascar-bristol-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Bell leads Joe Gibbs sweep in NASCAR Bristol playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Christopher Bell Conquers Bristol and Leads Joe Gibbs Racing in the NASCAR Playoffs<\/h2>\n\nIn a dominant performance, Christopher Bell, driver for Joe Gibbs Racing, took the victory on Saturday at Bristol Motor Speedway, completing a perfect sweep for his team in the first round of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs.\n\nBell, starting from fourth position, staged a spectacular comeback in the final restart, leading the last four laps of the 0.533-mile oval. This victory breaks a streak of 24 races without winning and represents his fourth win of the season.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It wasn&#8217;t easy in the end, but we did it.<\/p><cite>Christopher Bell<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nBell joins his JGR teammates, Denny Hamlin and Chase Briscoe, as playoff winners in the first round at Bristol.\n\nThe competition was intense, with Alex Bowman, Austin Dillon, Shane van Gisbergen, and Josh Berry being eliminated from the championship race.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I&#8217;m very excited about the start of the playoffs.<\/p><cite>Joe Gibbs, team owner<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nBrad Keselowski, who was looking to end a 51-race winless streak, finished in second place, 0.343 seconds behind Bell.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It&#8217;s the story of our season.<\/p><cite>Brad Keselowski<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nZane Smith, Ryan Blaney, and Joey Logano rounded out the top five.\n\nThe race was marked by a record 14 yellow flags and 137 caution laps, as teams struggled to adapt to a new tire on the right side with excessive wear.\n\nThe playoff drama reached its peak when a fire broke out on Austin Cindric&#8217;s Ford number 2 with 40 laps to go. Although his team managed to extinguish the flames, Cindric lost several laps in the pits and reappeared outside the top 30.\n\nHis thirtieth position was enough to secure the last qualifying spot for the second round.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Moving forward.<\/p><cite>Austin Cindric<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nAlex Bowman, after recovering from a spin, got up to second place. He finished eighth and was 10 points away from advancing.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I don&#8217;t think we can point to anything that cost us.<\/p><cite>Alex Bowman<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nTy Gibbs, seeking his first Cup victory, led 201 of the 500 laps, but a mistake on his final pit stop significantly set him back.\n\nJosh Berry, with an incident involving smoke and flames, was the first driver eliminated. Berry, who had an unfortunate start to the playoffs, with a crash on the first lap of the Southern 500, finished last in the three races of the first round.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Simply disappointing.<\/p><cite>Josh Berry<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nBell, known for his calmness, expressed his frustration after the previous race, where he finished seventh.\n\nThe second round of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs will begin on Sunday, September 21st at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Bell Conquers Bristol and Leads Joe Gibbs Racing in the NASCAR Playoffs In a dominant performance, Christopher Bell, driver for Joe Gibbs Racing, took the victory on Saturday at Bristol Motor Speedway, completing a perfect sweep for his team in the first round of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs. Bell, starting from fourth position, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[184,8696,182,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-36621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nascar","7":"tag-bristol","8":"tag-christopher-bell","9":"tag-nascar","10":"tag-playoffs"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}