{"id":25554,"date":"2019-07-20T20:45:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T00:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/?p=25554"},"modified":"2019-07-20T20:29:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T00:29:29","slug":"bell-extends-his-winning-streak-at-new-hampshire-motor-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/2019\/07\/bell-extends-his-winning-streak-at-new-hampshire-motor-speedway\/","title":{"rendered":"Bell Extends His Winning Streak at New Hampshire Motor Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Christopher Bell captured the win in Saturday&#8217;s NASCAR Xfinity Series ROXOR 200 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway after leading the majority of the race.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/JVXGhXK5VgqCCfr4NvaGTZqu3Qe1aT_vrYoS_iNQ0un5Yi6nljM3qMD-6VZEMv_MiQJf_FMV_CyZH-fb9Xl6t5ITaw268icrhqpm3OH7hMFtVgiIleuDB4007O7VyQojUodg3ijqX5_PDxg8kMpcJ9tCQjS_3xMmFFIK2FPlxdASNVY-5FsldsJEinDgBZ05GebIpfYEvsLSEUPe8HK-BHxR8snxfu89dGNBvDjV0TjYiCgv1Dpo1LSFZPinOp9cnJvsfNzdMLQIIvPNxHhshNsuvfsvRzNz5fHCKmHjNHz__cK3VAbxP_LGpHsSZXYf9fVw7PsIVTWjsQx60rNpEhTDowxhQ72tviKgOkoAn8DV48gmcoo0uluKApyF15f3MDgR7wOk2u7q4FyZkZVukYXbpPXN1C7T5SHtyR2d74Q1nYLcjoKZ68Z9euHULbx5_EF1uORs0wbuSaIk2FuPydFIYTrYpTLHTgdqOWDa7KG87WTd6gVxfn22KR8VzqLZFgdaW2Ac_ErPK-NFG9aPKXKYm4cdkZj76_zJnDrAOMMRn-88scBeLnl-CCNf7YyMbDDUIrrgZvs_K1tiwB-FVoHoClH_1pG7_S0SEfTz7XEw40PnqmDoeqekDb3pRD7HSIQ8JchypLc2sUDz7ciIGKInsEct2mKsno5F7rtL3rkjjMzWpg4aUomMZ9leyMS1gbeMmQDvTDMwEP8PfZqXWprN=w620-h430-no?pageId=117885742654144314464\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LOUDON, N.H. \u2013&nbsp;He\u2019s raced on \u201cThe Magic Mile\u201d with the NASCAR Xfinity Series twice, and he\u2019s landed in victory lane both times. Christopher Bell, driver of the No. 20 Rheem-Watts Toyota, led all but 14 laps in the ROXOR 200 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, marking his fifth 2019 win with the NASCAR Xfinity Series. Bell credits his team with the success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA race car driver is only as fast as the race car he sits in, so I\u2019m very fortunate to be able to drive for this group of guys,\u201d said 24-year-old Bell about his Joe Gibbs Racing team. \u201cI got to ride from Thunder Road here to Loudon with one of my crew guys, and we were just talking about how thankful I am to be racing for them. It\u2019s a dream come true to be racing with this group of people because they make me look good.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brandon Jones, driver of the No. 19 First Foundation Toyota won stage one, but Bell took the lead in lap 48 and never looked back, winning both the second and third stages of the race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today\u2019s trip to victory lane marks Bell\u2019s third win out of four career starts at Loudon \u2013 once with the NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series in 2017 and twice with the NASCAR Xfinity Series in 2018 and 2019. All three wins came after he started the race in the second position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not only did Bell thank his team, but he addressed the fans who braved the steamy New England temperatures to cheer him on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThank you, guys, for coming out,\u201d said Bell to the fans in the grandstands. \u201cI know it was hot, it was hot inside the car, but thank you, guys. You guys are the reason we race.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Bell captured the win in Saturday&#8217;s NASCAR Xfinity Series ROXOR 200 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway after leading the majority of the race. LOUDON, N.H. \u2013&nbsp;He\u2019s raced on \u201cThe Magic Mile\u201d with the NASCAR Xfinity Series twice, and he\u2019s landed in victory lane both times. Christopher Bell, driver of the No. 20 Rheem-Watts Toyota, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,33,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nascar","category-new-hampshire","category-nhms","category-touring-series-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25555,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25554\/revisions\/25555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}