CHRISTOPHER BELL
Birth Date: December 16, 1994 Hometown: Norman, OK
Team: No. 95 Toyota Camry / Leavine Family Racing
Birth Date: January 27, 1991
Christopher Bell’s competitor, Kyle Larson, said you “have to be perfect” to beat
Christopher Bell. “He doesn’t make any mistakes, ever,”High praise from a driver that was a winner of three races. To feel like he had to be perfect to beat an upstart,the immense talent of Bell.
In 2019, Bell returned to full-time xnity competition,he won
in just his second race at Atlanta in impressive fashion.now signed a contract extension to race with JGR through
2020. Just two months after that contract extension,
Leavine Family Racing announced Bell would move up
to the big leagues, racing the No. 95 Toyota in the Cup
Series, and Jason Ratcliff will join him as his crew chief.After winning the 2017 GANDER RV & OUTDOORS
Truck Series Championship at the age of 22,
Christopher Bell continued his mercurial rise through
the NASCAR ranks by winning a Series-best seven
races last season in the xnity Series.
NASCAR.com recently polled fans to rank drivers based
on their raw talent, and Bell came up top ten, ninth to exact. For a driver that has run and won pretty much so far in his career, even ninth may be too low.
It’s an incredible story for one of the sport’s brightest continues to exploit his virtuosity as an open-wheel was excellent at the Chili Bowl after the 2019 xnity a
pair of major dirt races within weeks of each other as and 2018 opened: In the Tulsa Shootout, the country’s event and his second consecutive title in the country’s race, the Chili Bowl Midget Nationals, also in Tulsa, 200 THE OFFICIAL NASCAR 2020 PREVIEW & PRESS GUIDE
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