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Christopher Bell Accidentally Reveals Who Will Replace Martin Truex Jr! · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Three wins and as many races. It's really pretty phenomenal
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  thing. It really is.
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  What do you attribute it to and how does that kind of put, you
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  know, what you have to expect out of this week doing that?
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  If you could just talk about that.
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  Yeah, it is a very special, special stat and special
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  opportunity that I have in front of me to try to try and make it
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  4 for four. So I what I attribute it to is
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  just great cars, great teams, great pit crews, great crew
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  chiefs and, and NASCAR racing in general is extremely hard
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  because of how many people have influence on the result.
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  So if one guy makes a mistake out of your entire team, then
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  you're not going to win the race.
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  And three times it's happened where all of us pulled the rope
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  in the same direction and and and nobody made a mistake.
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  So I understand that doing it for 1/4 time is a tall ask, but
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  I'm excited for the challenge. Paul, Chris Fox Sports practice
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  and qualifying gets rained out tomorrow.
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  Are you good? To go without practice here.
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  Yeah, I, I think I I would be probably in favor of that.
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  I know the metric has this lining up 4th and with how the
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  flat tracks and the the short track package has been for our
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  team, I feel like we would be, you know, really competitive
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  right off the bat. So I got a great starting spot,
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  more importantly, a great pit selection if it rains out, But
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  if not, you know, I'll I'll obviously go out there and and
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  try and, you know, qualify for the polls.
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  So either way, I'm completely content with.
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  And are you aware of how they'll do things if it's if they're
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  getting approaching darkness? Do you know about this new
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  procedure? This year where?
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  They're. Going to tell you.
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  There's a time where we'll race to and then once the leader
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  crosses the start finish line at that time, then the next time
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  they come by is the white and the next time they come by is
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  the checkered. To alleviate.
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  The issue they had at Chicago? Where and here.
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  And. You know.
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  Where everybody else? Is.
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  I'm. Sure, you try to pour salt on
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  the wound, Bob. Yeah, well.
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  I kind of feel like. That maybe you're.
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  The prime, yeah. It, it, I'm very, very glad that
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  is that it is black and white now and there is a rule in
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  place. I, I don't know.
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  I mean, it's just ironic, right? But at Chicago and at Loudon,
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  both times, I think those are the only two times in recent
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  times that darkness has hindered the race.
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  And it has, I've been like one of the, you know, the prime
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  culprits of it. So I'm very, very happy that
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  there is a black and white rule now.
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  And it yeah, it, it is nice to not have a guessing game.
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  And now, now it is what it is. It's.
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  Better to. Race to a time rather than to a
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  black. I mean, yes, I think either way
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  is fine as long as you know it ahead of time.
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  You know, like specifically at Chicago, the race strategy was
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  heavily dictated on the race end lap, right?
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  And, and guys in the back half of the field just took a 100%
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  gamble on what they were, what NASCAR was going to do.
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  And it rewarded them because they won on the gamble.
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  And then the guys that were trying to race the race properly
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  to the full distance got bit by it.
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  So now at least if that situation comes up, we will know
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  that, you know, the race is getting white flag that X amount
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  of time or X time on the clock, not amount of time.
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  But yeah, I I think having a black and white rule is, is
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  always good. All right.
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  In the back. Doug Rice, PRN Go ahead.
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  Go ahead. No.
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  Go ahead. Go ahead.
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  Sorry, Terrell Covey with Portsmouth, Harold Christopher,
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  just the, the level of success that you've had at this track,
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  how much confidence does that give you coming in here for this
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  weekend in, in that you can kind of put put another one on the
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  resume? Yeah, I mean it.
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  It definitely has me excited about the opportunity to, you
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  know, continue my Xfinity streak, get another Cup win.
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  But I, I can't stress enough how hard it is to win any NASCAR
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  race just with everything that goes on the event.
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  Everyone has to do their job on the entire team.
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  So while I do have confidence that we're going to show up and
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  have speed and I'm going to be able to, you know, get around
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  the racetrack at a good pace, that that doesn't mean success
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  by any means. So I feel confident that we're
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  going to be in contention and and have a shot at it, but
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  everything has to go right in order to win.
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  Doug. So are you OK if this new
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  darkness rule becomes known as the Christopher Bell rule?
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  I would love that all. Right, you're.
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  Here, patdecollanascar.com. Where exactly do you fall in the
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  leadership dynamic at JGR and do you feel like you'll need to
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  take on a bigger role next year with Martin's?
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  That's a good question. And honestly, I don't really
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  know if there really is any leadership from the driver's
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  standpoint. You know, certainly whenever we
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  get into our competition meetings, the, the, the more
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  guys with experience will, you know, kind of, I guess take the
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  role a little bit in steering the ship as far as what we need
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  in the race cars and stuff like that.
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  And, and I have definitely grown, you know, in confidence,
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  telling the team what we need inside of our cars with
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  experience. But you know, week in and week
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  out, a different guy may lead the lead the discussion, right.
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  And, and every time we go into our Monday meetings, it's it,
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  it, it could be whoever has a good race that week.
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  So plenty of times it's been Ty plenty of times it's been
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  Martin, it's been myself, it's been Denny.
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  So, you know, I, I don't think that there, there really is a,
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  a, a leadership role in that aspect, you know, and, and
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  whenever Chase comes into the car, whenever, whenever, I don't
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  even know what to say. Whenever we have a new driver
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  into the 19 car, whenever we have a new driver into the 19
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  car, whoever that is, their experience level will dictate
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  how much input they have in the team.
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  Well, we look forward to that. Thank you.
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  Back. Up here.
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  To Holly. How to follow that?
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  I'll take it easy on you, though.
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  My question to you actually was in it and you may say you don't
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  sense it at all, but there are a lot of very accomplished drivers
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  that have not necessarily secured their playoff position
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  yet. Is this the time of year where
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  you expect things to start cranking up a little bit and the
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  racing to get a little bit more, you know, intense and things
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  like that or or not quite yet? Yeah.
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  I mean, this is definitely the time of year where people start,
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  you know, thinking about the playoff positions.
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  And if you look outside the cut line, it is very, very, very
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  intense. And there's a lot of very
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  talented cars, talented teams that are on the outside looking
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  in. And it's going to be a battle.
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  It's going to be a battle all the way to the end.
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  And the more guys that win, you know, outside the cut line is
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  just going to make it even tighter and tighter all.
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  Right back here again. So now racing on Saturday and
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  Sunday, is there any real benefit when you come in Sunday
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  now or are the cars too different for that to to make a
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  big difference? And if it if it is too big of a
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  difference, what is the value that you find?
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  It's still coming down and and racing the Xfinity races on
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  these weekends. Yeah, I mean, I think the
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  advantage from Saturday to Sunday is, is is pretty much
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  gone. You know, they're, they're the
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  cars are completely different, the shift patterns different,
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  the way that they react and, and corners is, is it's, it's
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  completely almost irrelevant from Saturday to Sunday.
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  So now it is just about enjoyment and track time.
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  And yeah, it's it's it's very hard to take anything from
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  Saturday to Sunday.