Crew chief Adam Stevens had no second ideas in regards to the choice to pit Christopher Bell for slick tires late Sunday in Chicago, which took his driver from the result in mid-pack.
Bell pitted for the ultimate time on lap 43, which was two laps earlier than the top of the second stage. The choice was made to place slick (dry) tires on the No. 20 Toyota Camry, pondering they’d prevail over the moist climate tires another groups elected for. It might need been the profitable name for Bell to drive again to the entrance, however Stevens didn’t plan to be hit off Flip 2 by their Joe Gibbs Racing teammate, Martin Truex Jr.
The contact got here on lap 55 when there have been lower than two minutes and 30 seconds left within the occasion. Bell went from battling for the fifth place to a Thirty seventh-place end with a wrecked race automobile.
“We felt just like the observe was drying at a fairly excessive charge and with a recognized warning coming of the stage [break] that after the stage you’d need slicks,” Stevens stated. “So, with a warning coming, we needed to leap it as a result of everybody might come on the stage [break], and also you’d be behind all of them. And we noticed a bunch of them pit with three [laps] to go, and that type of compelled our hand with two to go being the chief.
“We actually felt such as you have been going to should have slicks to win the race. The 2 issues that damage us have been that warning that minimize down inexperienced flag laps for us to run and clearly, if the entire race runs underneath warning, which was a risk, you then’re not going to win. If it runs inexperienced, we’re in all probability going to win. Even when we received by that little skirmish there with out wrecking our suspension, we have been early forward of the 45 (Tyler Reddick) and the 54 (Ty Gibbs). So, we wanted two issues to go unsuitable to not win — and so they each went unsuitable.”
The ultimate warning that ate up the clock occurred with 11 minutes and 26 seconds left within the race. There have been 4 and a half minutes left within the race when it restarted for the ultimate time. Bell was ninth on the restart and had made it to the highest 5 when the race-ending collision occurred.
Truex got here by Flip 2 broad and appeared out of form across the time there might need been contact with Ricky Stenhouse Jr. It moved Truex to the correct, the place he hit the driving force’s aspect door or Bell’s automobile, sending his teammate towards the wall nose-first. Bells’ automobile hit the wall and was additionally struck by an on-coming Carson Hocevar.
“If we keep [out], possibly 12 or 13 vehicles don’t keep … possibly it’s solely 5 vehicles after which we’re toast,” Stevens stated. “Absolute toast. So, you don’t know the way it will have occurred if we stayed [out]. But when it occurred the way in which that it occurred, we in all probability would have gained.
“Until we didn’t get that warning. Then we’d have been within the reverse state of affairs that we have been nearly in. I felt like we performed it one of the best we might, and we simply made contact there.”
Bell led 14 laps. For the second consecutive yr in Chicago, he was able to win the race earlier than a late-race improvement. A yr in the past, Bell was main and shortly after making his closing pit cease, NASCAR introduced the race could be minimize quick due to darkness. The timing of when NASCAR made the decision modified the pit technique, permitting others to remain out longer (having pitted earlier than Bell) and flip the leaderboard.
“This one stings differently as a result of there wasn’t anything we might do,” Stevens stated. “It simply got here all the way down to circumstance. The final one was utterly avoidable, identical to the state of affairs we had tonight. So, this one stings differently, however they sting simply as a lot.”
Bell declined interviews after the race.
Crew chief Adam Stevens had no second ideas in regards to the choice to pit Christopher Bell for slick tires late Sunday in Chicago, which took his driver from the result in mid-pack.
Bell pitted for the ultimate time on lap 43, which was two laps earlier than the top of the second stage. The choice was made to place slick (dry) tires on the No. 20 Toyota Camry, pondering they’d prevail over the moist climate tires another groups elected for. It might need been the profitable name for Bell to drive again to the entrance, however Stevens didn’t plan to be hit off Flip 2 by their Joe Gibbs Racing teammate, Martin Truex Jr.
The contact got here on lap 55 when there have been lower than two minutes and 30 seconds left within the occasion. Bell went from battling for the fifth place to a Thirty seventh-place end with a wrecked race automobile.
“We felt just like the observe was drying at a fairly excessive charge and with a recognized warning coming of the stage [break] that after the stage you’d need slicks,” Stevens stated. “So, with a warning coming, we needed to leap it as a result of everybody might come on the stage [break], and also you’d be behind all of them. And we noticed a bunch of them pit with three [laps] to go, and that type of compelled our hand with two to go being the chief.
“We actually felt such as you have been going to should have slicks to win the race. The 2 issues that damage us have been that warning that minimize down inexperienced flag laps for us to run and clearly, if the entire race runs underneath warning, which was a risk, you then’re not going to win. If it runs inexperienced, we’re in all probability going to win. Even when we received by that little skirmish there with out wrecking our suspension, we have been early forward of the 45 (Tyler Reddick) and the 54 (Ty Gibbs). So, we wanted two issues to go unsuitable to not win — and so they each went unsuitable.”
The ultimate warning that ate up the clock occurred with 11 minutes and 26 seconds left within the race. There have been 4 and a half minutes left within the race when it restarted for the ultimate time. Bell was ninth on the restart and had made it to the highest 5 when the race-ending collision occurred.
Truex got here by Flip 2 broad and appeared out of form across the time there might need been contact with Ricky Stenhouse Jr. It moved Truex to the correct, the place he hit the driving force’s aspect door or Bell’s automobile, sending his teammate towards the wall nose-first. Bells’ automobile hit the wall and was additionally struck by an on-coming Carson Hocevar.
“If we keep [out], possibly 12 or 13 vehicles don’t keep … possibly it’s solely 5 vehicles after which we’re toast,” Stevens stated. “Absolute toast. So, you don’t know the way it will have occurred if we stayed [out]. But when it occurred the way in which that it occurred, we in all probability would have gained.
“Until we didn’t get that warning. Then we’d have been within the reverse state of affairs that we have been nearly in. I felt like we performed it one of the best we might, and we simply made contact there.”
Bell led 14 laps. For the second consecutive yr in Chicago, he was able to win the race earlier than a late-race improvement. A yr in the past, Bell was main and shortly after making his closing pit cease, NASCAR introduced the race could be minimize quick due to darkness. The timing of when NASCAR made the decision modified the pit technique, permitting others to remain out longer (having pitted earlier than Bell) and flip the leaderboard.
“This one stings differently as a result of there wasn’t anything we might do,” Stevens stated. “It simply got here all the way down to circumstance. The final one was utterly avoidable, identical to the state of affairs we had tonight. So, this one stings differently, however they sting simply as a lot.”
Bell declined interviews after the race.
Crew chief Adam Stevens had no second ideas in regards to the choice to pit Christopher Bell for slick tires late Sunday in Chicago, which took his driver from the result in mid-pack.
Bell pitted for the ultimate time on lap 43, which was two laps earlier than the top of the second stage. The choice was made to place slick (dry) tires on the No. 20 Toyota Camry, pondering they’d prevail over the moist climate tires another groups elected for. It might need been the profitable name for Bell to drive again to the entrance, however Stevens didn’t plan to be hit off Flip 2 by their Joe Gibbs Racing teammate, Martin Truex Jr.
The contact got here on lap 55 when there have been lower than two minutes and 30 seconds left within the occasion. Bell went from battling for the fifth place to a Thirty seventh-place end with a wrecked race automobile.
“We felt just like the observe was drying at a fairly excessive charge and with a recognized warning coming of the stage [break] that after the stage you’d need slicks,” Stevens stated. “So, with a warning coming, we needed to leap it as a result of everybody might come on the stage [break], and also you’d be behind all of them. And we noticed a bunch of them pit with three [laps] to go, and that type of compelled our hand with two to go being the chief.
“We actually felt such as you have been going to should have slicks to win the race. The 2 issues that damage us have been that warning that minimize down inexperienced flag laps for us to run and clearly, if the entire race runs underneath warning, which was a risk, you then’re not going to win. If it runs inexperienced, we’re in all probability going to win. Even when we received by that little skirmish there with out wrecking our suspension, we have been early forward of the 45 (Tyler Reddick) and the 54 (Ty Gibbs). So, we wanted two issues to go unsuitable to not win — and so they each went unsuitable.”
The ultimate warning that ate up the clock occurred with 11 minutes and 26 seconds left within the race. There have been 4 and a half minutes left within the race when it restarted for the ultimate time. Bell was ninth on the restart and had made it to the highest 5 when the race-ending collision occurred.
Truex got here by Flip 2 broad and appeared out of form across the time there might need been contact with Ricky Stenhouse Jr. It moved Truex to the correct, the place he hit the driving force’s aspect door or Bell’s automobile, sending his teammate towards the wall nose-first. Bells’ automobile hit the wall and was additionally struck by an on-coming Carson Hocevar.
“If we keep [out], possibly 12 or 13 vehicles don’t keep … possibly it’s solely 5 vehicles after which we’re toast,” Stevens stated. “Absolute toast. So, you don’t know the way it will have occurred if we stayed [out]. But when it occurred the way in which that it occurred, we in all probability would have gained.
“Until we didn’t get that warning. Then we’d have been within the reverse state of affairs that we have been nearly in. I felt like we performed it one of the best we might, and we simply made contact there.”
Bell led 14 laps. For the second consecutive yr in Chicago, he was able to win the race earlier than a late-race improvement. A yr in the past, Bell was main and shortly after making his closing pit cease, NASCAR introduced the race could be minimize quick due to darkness. The timing of when NASCAR made the decision modified the pit technique, permitting others to remain out longer (having pitted earlier than Bell) and flip the leaderboard.
“This one stings differently as a result of there wasn’t anything we might do,” Stevens stated. “It simply got here all the way down to circumstance. The final one was utterly avoidable, identical to the state of affairs we had tonight. So, this one stings differently, however they sting simply as a lot.”
Bell declined interviews after the race.
Crew chief Adam Stevens had no second ideas in regards to the choice to pit Christopher Bell for slick tires late Sunday in Chicago, which took his driver from the result in mid-pack.
Bell pitted for the ultimate time on lap 43, which was two laps earlier than the top of the second stage. The choice was made to place slick (dry) tires on the No. 20 Toyota Camry, pondering they’d prevail over the moist climate tires another groups elected for. It might need been the profitable name for Bell to drive again to the entrance, however Stevens didn’t plan to be hit off Flip 2 by their Joe Gibbs Racing teammate, Martin Truex Jr.
The contact got here on lap 55 when there have been lower than two minutes and 30 seconds left within the occasion. Bell went from battling for the fifth place to a Thirty seventh-place end with a wrecked race automobile.
“We felt just like the observe was drying at a fairly excessive charge and with a recognized warning coming of the stage [break] that after the stage you’d need slicks,” Stevens stated. “So, with a warning coming, we needed to leap it as a result of everybody might come on the stage [break], and also you’d be behind all of them. And we noticed a bunch of them pit with three [laps] to go, and that type of compelled our hand with two to go being the chief.
“We actually felt such as you have been going to should have slicks to win the race. The 2 issues that damage us have been that warning that minimize down inexperienced flag laps for us to run and clearly, if the entire race runs underneath warning, which was a risk, you then’re not going to win. If it runs inexperienced, we’re in all probability going to win. Even when we received by that little skirmish there with out wrecking our suspension, we have been early forward of the 45 (Tyler Reddick) and the 54 (Ty Gibbs). So, we wanted two issues to go unsuitable to not win — and so they each went unsuitable.”
The ultimate warning that ate up the clock occurred with 11 minutes and 26 seconds left within the race. There have been 4 and a half minutes left within the race when it restarted for the ultimate time. Bell was ninth on the restart and had made it to the highest 5 when the race-ending collision occurred.
Truex got here by Flip 2 broad and appeared out of form across the time there might need been contact with Ricky Stenhouse Jr. It moved Truex to the correct, the place he hit the driving force’s aspect door or Bell’s automobile, sending his teammate towards the wall nose-first. Bells’ automobile hit the wall and was additionally struck by an on-coming Carson Hocevar.
“If we keep [out], possibly 12 or 13 vehicles don’t keep … possibly it’s solely 5 vehicles after which we’re toast,” Stevens stated. “Absolute toast. So, you don’t know the way it will have occurred if we stayed [out]. But when it occurred the way in which that it occurred, we in all probability would have gained.
“Until we didn’t get that warning. Then we’d have been within the reverse state of affairs that we have been nearly in. I felt like we performed it one of the best we might, and we simply made contact there.”
Bell led 14 laps. For the second consecutive yr in Chicago, he was able to win the race earlier than a late-race improvement. A yr in the past, Bell was main and shortly after making his closing pit cease, NASCAR introduced the race could be minimize quick due to darkness. The timing of when NASCAR made the decision modified the pit technique, permitting others to remain out longer (having pitted earlier than Bell) and flip the leaderboard.
“This one stings differently as a result of there wasn’t anything we might do,” Stevens stated. “It simply got here all the way down to circumstance. The final one was utterly avoidable, identical to the state of affairs we had tonight. So, this one stings differently, however they sting simply as a lot.”
Bell declined interviews after the race.
Crew chief Adam Stevens had no second ideas in regards to the choice to pit Christopher Bell for slick tires late Sunday in Chicago, which took his driver from the result in mid-pack.
Bell pitted for the ultimate time on lap 43, which was two laps earlier than the top of the second stage. The choice was made to place slick (dry) tires on the No. 20 Toyota Camry, pondering they’d prevail over the moist climate tires another groups elected for. It might need been the profitable name for Bell to drive again to the entrance, however Stevens didn’t plan to be hit off Flip 2 by their Joe Gibbs Racing teammate, Martin Truex Jr.
The contact got here on lap 55 when there have been lower than two minutes and 30 seconds left within the occasion. Bell went from battling for the fifth place to a Thirty seventh-place end with a wrecked race automobile.
“We felt just like the observe was drying at a fairly excessive charge and with a recognized warning coming of the stage [break] that after the stage you’d need slicks,” Stevens stated. “So, with a warning coming, we needed to leap it as a result of everybody might come on the stage [break], and also you’d be behind all of them. And we noticed a bunch of them pit with three [laps] to go, and that type of compelled our hand with two to go being the chief.
“We actually felt such as you have been going to should have slicks to win the race. The 2 issues that damage us have been that warning that minimize down inexperienced flag laps for us to run and clearly, if the entire race runs underneath warning, which was a risk, you then’re not going to win. If it runs inexperienced, we’re in all probability going to win. Even when we received by that little skirmish there with out wrecking our suspension, we have been early forward of the 45 (Tyler Reddick) and the 54 (Ty Gibbs). So, we wanted two issues to go unsuitable to not win — and so they each went unsuitable.”
The ultimate warning that ate up the clock occurred with 11 minutes and 26 seconds left within the race. There have been 4 and a half minutes left within the race when it restarted for the ultimate time. Bell was ninth on the restart and had made it to the highest 5 when the race-ending collision occurred.
Truex got here by Flip 2 broad and appeared out of form across the time there might need been contact with Ricky Stenhouse Jr. It moved Truex to the correct, the place he hit the driving force’s aspect door or Bell’s automobile, sending his teammate towards the wall nose-first. Bells’ automobile hit the wall and was additionally struck by an on-coming Carson Hocevar.
“If we keep [out], possibly 12 or 13 vehicles don’t keep … possibly it’s solely 5 vehicles after which we’re toast,” Stevens stated. “Absolute toast. So, you don’t know the way it will have occurred if we stayed [out]. But when it occurred the way in which that it occurred, we in all probability would have gained.
“Until we didn’t get that warning. Then we’d have been within the reverse state of affairs that we have been nearly in. I felt like we performed it one of the best we might, and we simply made contact there.”
Bell led 14 laps. For the second consecutive yr in Chicago, he was able to win the race earlier than a late-race improvement. A yr in the past, Bell was main and shortly after making his closing pit cease, NASCAR introduced the race could be minimize quick due to darkness. The timing of when NASCAR made the decision modified the pit technique, permitting others to remain out longer (having pitted earlier than Bell) and flip the leaderboard.
“This one stings differently as a result of there wasn’t anything we might do,” Stevens stated. “It simply got here all the way down to circumstance. The final one was utterly avoidable, identical to the state of affairs we had tonight. So, this one stings differently, however they sting simply as a lot.”
Bell declined interviews after the race.
Crew chief Adam Stevens had no second ideas in regards to the choice to pit Christopher Bell for slick tires late Sunday in Chicago, which took his driver from the result in mid-pack.
Bell pitted for the ultimate time on lap 43, which was two laps earlier than the top of the second stage. The choice was made to place slick (dry) tires on the No. 20 Toyota Camry, pondering they’d prevail over the moist climate tires another groups elected for. It might need been the profitable name for Bell to drive again to the entrance, however Stevens didn’t plan to be hit off Flip 2 by their Joe Gibbs Racing teammate, Martin Truex Jr.
The contact got here on lap 55 when there have been lower than two minutes and 30 seconds left within the occasion. Bell went from battling for the fifth place to a Thirty seventh-place end with a wrecked race automobile.
“We felt just like the observe was drying at a fairly excessive charge and with a recognized warning coming of the stage [break] that after the stage you’d need slicks,” Stevens stated. “So, with a warning coming, we needed to leap it as a result of everybody might come on the stage [break], and also you’d be behind all of them. And we noticed a bunch of them pit with three [laps] to go, and that type of compelled our hand with two to go being the chief.
“We actually felt such as you have been going to should have slicks to win the race. The 2 issues that damage us have been that warning that minimize down inexperienced flag laps for us to run and clearly, if the entire race runs underneath warning, which was a risk, you then’re not going to win. If it runs inexperienced, we’re in all probability going to win. Even when we received by that little skirmish there with out wrecking our suspension, we have been early forward of the 45 (Tyler Reddick) and the 54 (Ty Gibbs). So, we wanted two issues to go unsuitable to not win — and so they each went unsuitable.”
The ultimate warning that ate up the clock occurred with 11 minutes and 26 seconds left within the race. There have been 4 and a half minutes left within the race when it restarted for the ultimate time. Bell was ninth on the restart and had made it to the highest 5 when the race-ending collision occurred.
Truex got here by Flip 2 broad and appeared out of form across the time there might need been contact with Ricky Stenhouse Jr. It moved Truex to the correct, the place he hit the driving force’s aspect door or Bell’s automobile, sending his teammate towards the wall nose-first. Bells’ automobile hit the wall and was additionally struck by an on-coming Carson Hocevar.
“If we keep [out], possibly 12 or 13 vehicles don’t keep … possibly it’s solely 5 vehicles after which we’re toast,” Stevens stated. “Absolute toast. So, you don’t know the way it will have occurred if we stayed [out]. But when it occurred the way in which that it occurred, we in all probability would have gained.
“Until we didn’t get that warning. Then we’d have been within the reverse state of affairs that we have been nearly in. I felt like we performed it one of the best we might, and we simply made contact there.”
Bell led 14 laps. For the second consecutive yr in Chicago, he was able to win the race earlier than a late-race improvement. A yr in the past, Bell was main and shortly after making his closing pit cease, NASCAR introduced the race could be minimize quick due to darkness. The timing of when NASCAR made the decision modified the pit technique, permitting others to remain out longer (having pitted earlier than Bell) and flip the leaderboard.
“This one stings differently as a result of there wasn’t anything we might do,” Stevens stated. “It simply got here all the way down to circumstance. The final one was utterly avoidable, identical to the state of affairs we had tonight. So, this one stings differently, however they sting simply as a lot.”
Bell declined interviews after the race.
Crew chief Adam Stevens had no second ideas in regards to the choice to pit Christopher Bell for slick tires late Sunday in Chicago, which took his driver from the result in mid-pack.
Bell pitted for the ultimate time on lap 43, which was two laps earlier than the top of the second stage. The choice was made to place slick (dry) tires on the No. 20 Toyota Camry, pondering they’d prevail over the moist climate tires another groups elected for. It might need been the profitable name for Bell to drive again to the entrance, however Stevens didn’t plan to be hit off Flip 2 by their Joe Gibbs Racing teammate, Martin Truex Jr.
The contact got here on lap 55 when there have been lower than two minutes and 30 seconds left within the occasion. Bell went from battling for the fifth place to a Thirty seventh-place end with a wrecked race automobile.
“We felt just like the observe was drying at a fairly excessive charge and with a recognized warning coming of the stage [break] that after the stage you’d need slicks,” Stevens stated. “So, with a warning coming, we needed to leap it as a result of everybody might come on the stage [break], and also you’d be behind all of them. And we noticed a bunch of them pit with three [laps] to go, and that type of compelled our hand with two to go being the chief.
“We actually felt such as you have been going to should have slicks to win the race. The 2 issues that damage us have been that warning that minimize down inexperienced flag laps for us to run and clearly, if the entire race runs underneath warning, which was a risk, you then’re not going to win. If it runs inexperienced, we’re in all probability going to win. Even when we received by that little skirmish there with out wrecking our suspension, we have been early forward of the 45 (Tyler Reddick) and the 54 (Ty Gibbs). So, we wanted two issues to go unsuitable to not win — and so they each went unsuitable.”
The ultimate warning that ate up the clock occurred with 11 minutes and 26 seconds left within the race. There have been 4 and a half minutes left within the race when it restarted for the ultimate time. Bell was ninth on the restart and had made it to the highest 5 when the race-ending collision occurred.
Truex got here by Flip 2 broad and appeared out of form across the time there might need been contact with Ricky Stenhouse Jr. It moved Truex to the correct, the place he hit the driving force’s aspect door or Bell’s automobile, sending his teammate towards the wall nose-first. Bells’ automobile hit the wall and was additionally struck by an on-coming Carson Hocevar.
“If we keep [out], possibly 12 or 13 vehicles don’t keep … possibly it’s solely 5 vehicles after which we’re toast,” Stevens stated. “Absolute toast. So, you don’t know the way it will have occurred if we stayed [out]. But when it occurred the way in which that it occurred, we in all probability would have gained.
“Until we didn’t get that warning. Then we’d have been within the reverse state of affairs that we have been nearly in. I felt like we performed it one of the best we might, and we simply made contact there.”
Bell led 14 laps. For the second consecutive yr in Chicago, he was able to win the race earlier than a late-race improvement. A yr in the past, Bell was main and shortly after making his closing pit cease, NASCAR introduced the race could be minimize quick due to darkness. The timing of when NASCAR made the decision modified the pit technique, permitting others to remain out longer (having pitted earlier than Bell) and flip the leaderboard.
“This one stings differently as a result of there wasn’t anything we might do,” Stevens stated. “It simply got here all the way down to circumstance. The final one was utterly avoidable, identical to the state of affairs we had tonight. So, this one stings differently, however they sting simply as a lot.”
Bell declined interviews after the race.
Crew chief Adam Stevens had no second ideas in regards to the choice to pit Christopher Bell for slick tires late Sunday in Chicago, which took his driver from the result in mid-pack.
Bell pitted for the ultimate time on lap 43, which was two laps earlier than the top of the second stage. The choice was made to place slick (dry) tires on the No. 20 Toyota Camry, pondering they’d prevail over the moist climate tires another groups elected for. It might need been the profitable name for Bell to drive again to the entrance, however Stevens didn’t plan to be hit off Flip 2 by their Joe Gibbs Racing teammate, Martin Truex Jr.
The contact got here on lap 55 when there have been lower than two minutes and 30 seconds left within the occasion. Bell went from battling for the fifth place to a Thirty seventh-place end with a wrecked race automobile.
“We felt just like the observe was drying at a fairly excessive charge and with a recognized warning coming of the stage [break] that after the stage you’d need slicks,” Stevens stated. “So, with a warning coming, we needed to leap it as a result of everybody might come on the stage [break], and also you’d be behind all of them. And we noticed a bunch of them pit with three [laps] to go, and that type of compelled our hand with two to go being the chief.
“We actually felt such as you have been going to should have slicks to win the race. The 2 issues that damage us have been that warning that minimize down inexperienced flag laps for us to run and clearly, if the entire race runs underneath warning, which was a risk, you then’re not going to win. If it runs inexperienced, we’re in all probability going to win. Even when we received by that little skirmish there with out wrecking our suspension, we have been early forward of the 45 (Tyler Reddick) and the 54 (Ty Gibbs). So, we wanted two issues to go unsuitable to not win — and so they each went unsuitable.”
The ultimate warning that ate up the clock occurred with 11 minutes and 26 seconds left within the race. There have been 4 and a half minutes left within the race when it restarted for the ultimate time. Bell was ninth on the restart and had made it to the highest 5 when the race-ending collision occurred.
Truex got here by Flip 2 broad and appeared out of form across the time there might need been contact with Ricky Stenhouse Jr. It moved Truex to the correct, the place he hit the driving force’s aspect door or Bell’s automobile, sending his teammate towards the wall nose-first. Bells’ automobile hit the wall and was additionally struck by an on-coming Carson Hocevar.
“If we keep [out], possibly 12 or 13 vehicles don’t keep … possibly it’s solely 5 vehicles after which we’re toast,” Stevens stated. “Absolute toast. So, you don’t know the way it will have occurred if we stayed [out]. But when it occurred the way in which that it occurred, we in all probability would have gained.
“Until we didn’t get that warning. Then we’d have been within the reverse state of affairs that we have been nearly in. I felt like we performed it one of the best we might, and we simply made contact there.”
Bell led 14 laps. For the second consecutive yr in Chicago, he was able to win the race earlier than a late-race improvement. A yr in the past, Bell was main and shortly after making his closing pit cease, NASCAR introduced the race could be minimize quick due to darkness. The timing of when NASCAR made the decision modified the pit technique, permitting others to remain out longer (having pitted earlier than Bell) and flip the leaderboard.
“This one stings differently as a result of there wasn’t anything we might do,” Stevens stated. “It simply got here all the way down to circumstance. The final one was utterly avoidable, identical to the state of affairs we had tonight. So, this one stings differently, however they sting simply as a lot.”
Bell declined interviews after the race.