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Christopher Bell dominated the NASCAR race at Nashville Superspeedway, winning both Stage 1 and Stage 2. Bell took the lead early from teammate Denny Hamlin and maintained his position through various pit cycles and restarts. Hamlin initially led the race from Lap 1 but was overtaken by Bell on Lap 17, who used lapped traffic to his advantage. Bell's performance secured him his ninth stage win of the season. Despite multiple cautions and an overtime finish, Joey Logano emerged victorious, followed by Zane Smith and Tyler Reddick. The race saw significant position changes, with Bubba Wallace climbing 12 positions to finish seventh. Key drivers like Kyle Larson, Brad Keselowski, and Martin Truex Jr. also featured prominently throughout the race, including a pivotal pit cycle starting at Lap 37 and a caution at Lap 186.
Cup points (7 to go): Larson-3w, Hamlin-3w, Bell-3w, Byron-3w, Elliott-1w, Reddick-1w, Blaney-1w, Keselowski-1w, Logano-1w, Suarez-1w, Cindric-1w, Truex +143, Gibbs +70, Chastain +66, Buescher +56, Bowman +51, Wallace -51, Briscoe -78, Busch -104 https://t.co/Bi6ayxZmx8
Cup points: Bell, Larson, Hamlin, Byron, Reddick, Blaney, Cindric, Elliott, Logano, Keselowski, Suarez have wins. Truex +143 Gibbs +70 Chastain +66 Buescher +56 Bowman +51 -- Wallace -51 Briscoe -78 Busch -104 Berry -131 #NASCAR
Cup race results from Nashville: https://t.co/fotRIT6c4f
Nashville Cup Results 1. Joey Logano 2. Zane Smith 3. Tyler Reddick 4. Ryan Preece 5. Chris Buescher 6. Ryan Blaney 7. Bubba Wallace 8. Kyle Larson 9. Daniel Hemric 10. Noah Gragson #NASCAR
Denny Hamlin is pitting
Overtime No. 3. Hold onto your butts (again)...Hamlin and Larson, then Truex Jr. and Busch behind.
Top four (Hamlin-Larson-Truex-Logano) are probably on fumes. Chase Briscoe P5 pitted four laps later than they did. Briscoe, along with LaJoie P7 and Hocevar P8 (who pitted when Briscoe did), could have a shot if there's another OT or leaders run out. Also Zane Smith P11.
Overtime: Hamlin takes bottom, he'll have LARSON pushing (or making it three-wide bottom probably) Chastain takes top, he'll have BUSCH pushing Oh boy
Hold onto your butts for overtime. Hamlin takes the bottom, Chastain the top, then Larson and Busch behind.
Wallace, Reddick are the cars to pit from the top 10. Hamlin-Chastain-Larson-Busch-Gibbs-Truex could be the first three rows for overtime. Juicy stuff! 👀
Austin Cindric spins with 2 to go Sets up OT Cindric spun under Gragson "Saving fuel here," Gabehart tells Hamlin. "I have enough for one green white checkers here." Denny Hamlin Ross Chastain Kyle Larson Kyle Busch Ty Gibbs Bubba Wallace
CAUTION 11 -- Lap 299: Austin Cindric spins down the backstretch! This race will go to overtime. Hamlin: "(Expletive) son of a(n expletive)." #NASCAR
20 laps to go! @RossChastain leads but @dennyhamlin is tracking him down! https://t.co/eaqh8ks8OX
20 laps to go: Chastain, Hamlin, Busch, Larson and Wallace the top 5. 1.5 seconds is the gap between the top 2. Hamlin is catching him. Everybody *should* be good to make it to the end on fuel. #Ally400
.@KyleLarsonRacin up to 5th and @dennyhamlin up to 2nd with 31 to go. Chastain can likely made it to the end on fuel but @Blaney pits from 2nd. Wasn't gonna make it.
Restart with 52 to go: Chastain takes the lead from Blaney on the outside and Wallace battling for 3rd with Allmendinger. Making moves further back is @dennyhamlin. @KyleBusch finds himself in 6th.
Stayed out: Blaney Allmendinger LaJoie Wallace Nemechek McDowell ... and then two tires or no tires: Chastain Logano Berry Haley Busch ... then four tires: Reddick Bell Buescher Hamlin
100 laps to go: Bell Reddick Hamlin Blaney Keselowski Truex Elliott Gibbs Gragson Byron Hocevar Larson Briscoe Chastain Buescher Heiim Logano Bowman Cindric Gilliland
Restart with 108 laps to go at Nashville: Bell-Hamlin-Reddick-Keselowski-Elliott-Blaney-Truex-Gragson-Gibbs-Chastain-Hocevar-Larson
#NASCAR Stage points today at Nashville 20 - Christopher Bell 17 - Tyler Reddick 16 - Denny Hamlin 15 - Kyle Larson 12 - Brad Keselowski 6 - Martin Truex Jr. 5 - Ty Gibbs, Chris Buescher & Chase Elliott 4 - Willam Byron 3 - Ryan Blaney 1 - Noah Gragson, Bubba Wallace
.@CBellRacing sweeps the stages at @NashvilleSuperS! He now leads the Cup series with nine stage wins this season. P4 - @dennyhamlin P7 - @MartinTruex_Jr P11 - @TyGibbs #TeamToyota https://t.co/rwC837R2md
CAUTION 5 -- Lap 186: Stage 2 end. Bell sweeps the stages at Nashville. Reddick, Larson, Hamlin, Keselowski, Elliott, Truex, Blaney, Buescher & Gragson complete the top 10. Hamlin contacts Larson into Turn 1 after the stage end, perhaps mad that Larson ran him high a lap prior.
Christopher Bell sweeps Stages 1 and 2. S2 results: 1. Bell, 10 points (1 playoff pt) 2. Reddick, 9 3. Larson, 8 4. Hamlin, 7 5. Keselowski, 6 6. Elliott, 5 7. Truex, 4 8. Blaney, 3 9. Buescher, 2 10. Gibbs, 1 #NASCAR
Chalk up yet another stage win for @CBellRacing. He's swept the opening frames today in the #Ally400. Ninth stage win of the season for the @JoeGibbsRacing driver in 2024. Reddick, Larson, Hamlin, Keselowski, Elliott, MTJ, Blaney, Buescher and Gragson the top 10.
That's the end of Stage 2. CBell sweeps the opening stages. 2. Reddick 3. Larson 4. Hamlin 5. Keselowski 6. Elliott 7. Truex 8. Blaney 9. Buescher 10. Gragson (over Gibbs)
.@CBellRacing wins Stage 2 #NASCAR
150 laps down, 150 to go: Bell Reddick Larson Keselowski Elliott Hamlin Truex Buescher Blaney Gragson Heim Gibbs Hocevar Byron McDowell Briscoe Chastain Gilliland Jones Suarez
Top 10 at the time of the red flag: Christopher Bell, Tyler Reddick, Kyle Larson, Brad Keselowski, Chase Elliott, Denny Hamlin, Chris Buescher, William Byron, Martin Truex Jr., and Carson Hocevar.
Denny Hamlin, Tyler Reddick, and Kyle Larson were the three who took four tires on pit road. They come off deep in the top 10. Bell, Keselowski, Buscher, Logano and Chastain the top five.
Lap 115 of 300 ... 70 laps left in second stage: Hamlin Bell Reddick Gibbs Larson Keselowski Truex Byron Elliott Buescher Blaney Wallace Chastain Logano Dillon Berry Lajoie Cindric Gragson Heim
RESTART 1 -- Lap 98: Hamlin and Bell lead to Turn 1. #NASCAR
Earning points in Stage 1 1. Christopher Bell 10 2. Denny Hamlin 9 3. Tyler Reddick 8 4. Kyle Larson 7 5. Brad Keselowski 6 6. Ty Gibbs 5 7. William Byron 4 8. Chris Buescher 3 9. Martin Truex Jr. 2 10. Bubba Wallace 1
Denny Hamlin the first off pit road. #NASCAR
11 is first off pit road #NASCAR
Stage 1 goes to @CBellRacing. He stays hotter than hot these days 🔥 @Justin_Haley_ gets one of his laps back and @RyanPreece_ is the free pass. Hard racing with the leaders from those 2 drivers. Hamlin, Reddick, Larson, Keselowski, Gibbs, Byron, Buescher, MTJ and Wallace 2-10.
Stage 1 goes to @CBellRacing! It’s his eighth stage win of the season - tied for best in the series. P2 - @dennyhamlin P6 - @TyGibbs P9 - @MartinTruex_Jr #TeamToyota https://t.co/J2jqyD6ect
Bell wins the opening stage at Nashville ... Bell Hamlin Reddick Larson Reddick Keselowski Gibbs Byron Buescher Truex Wallace ... then Elliott Berry Bowman Blaney Chastain Cindric Gragson Dillon Hocevar LaJoie Logano Heim Burton and Suarez on lead lap.
Top five has yet to pit: McDowell, Logano, Stenhouse, Hemric, Gilliland. Behind them, Bell, Hamlin, Keselowski, Larson and Gibbs complete the top 10 and all have pitted. #NASCAR
Lap 37: Bowman kicks off the pit cycle with Dillon, Busch, Cindric, Chastain and Herbst Lap 38: Keselowski Lap 39: Leaders Bell and Hamlin plus Berry, Buescher, Elliott, Byron, Larson, Blaney Bell retains the lead Lap 40: Suarez, Preece
25 laps down , 65 to go in Stage 1 at Nashville. Bell leads Hamlin. Bubba Wallace up +12 positions to P12 since the start. Berry -6, McDowell -6.
Childers: "Doing a nice job here. Eighteen laps on your tires." D'Hondt relays to Berry that Kyle Larson has began to move higher in the corners. Up front: Christopher Bell is the new leader after Denny Hamlin was slowed while attempting to lap Justin Haley. #NASCAR
The hottest driver in #NASCAR has taken the lead: @CBellRacing used lapped traffic to get by his teammate @dennyhamlin on the outside in Turns 1 and 2. No. 20 is pulling away a bit now already, by about half a second over Keselowski. 20 laps in of 90 in the first stage.
New leader: Christopher Bell takes the lead at Nashville SS from Denny Hamlin after his teammate paced the first 16 laps.
Christopher Bell gets around Hamlin for the race lead, Keselowski sitting third, Larson 4th, and Reddick is 5th at Lap 17. #NASCAR
10 laps complete at Nashville SS: 1. Hamlin (--) 2. Bell (+1) 3. Larson (+1) 4. Keselowski (+1) 5. Reddick (+1) 6. Byron (+1) 7. Gibbs (+1) 8. Berry (-6) 9. Buescher (--) 10. Cindric (--)
Denny Hamlin out front by half a second over Christopher Bell after five laps. Larson, Keselowski and Reddick the top five early. Front-row starter Josh Berry back to P8 early. #NASCAR
Early @NashvilleSuperS: 1. @dennyhamlin 2. @CBellRacing 3. @KyleLarsonRacin 4. @keselowski 5. @TylerReddick #nascar
Denny Hamlin leads Lap 1. #NASCAR