Christopher Bell advances to Round of 8 with ROVAL victory
Christopher Bell’s walk-off victory in the Bank of America ROVAL 400 at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Road Course earned the Joe Gibbs Racing driver a berth to the Round of 8 in the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs Sunday, overtaking the lead from Kevin Harvick after the final restart in NASCAR Overtime.
The victory was Bell’s second of 2022 — marking his first multi-victory season in NASCAR’s elite series — and the third of his career.
“Really proud of everyone on this DeWalt team,” Bell said. “They deserve it, man. We’ve been trying so hard to get DeWalt in Victory Lane. We finally got this Camry here.”
Bell is now ranked fourth in points entering the first Round of 8 race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway Sunday, three points ahead of the cutline.
Additionally, Bell is now in an 11-way tie for 100th on the NASCAR Cup Series all-time wins list. That tie includes the active drivers of Aric Almirola, Erik Jones, and Tyler Reddick.
The other drivers on that list with three wins are Bill Blair, Robby Gordon, Dick Linder, Frank Mundy, Elliott Sadler, Gwyn Staley and Brian Vickers.
Ahead of Bell on the wins list include William Byron, Austin Dillon, Pete Hamilton, Joe Nemechek, Nelson Stacy and Michael Waltrip — all with four NASCAR Cup Series victories.
The next race for the Cup Series is scheduled for next Sunday, Oct. 16, at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
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Dominic Aragon is currently the editor-in-chief for The Racing Experts.
From Grants, New Mexico, USA, Aragon started watching NASCAR in 2004 and has been covering the sport since 2009. Aragon is a 2012 graduate of Grants High School and a May 2016 graduate of the University of New Mexico with a B.A. in Mass Communications & Journalism. Aragon has worked in local and national media, as a musician, and an educator. He is co-author of the 2024 book "All of It: Daytona 500 Champion Tells the Rest of the Story" with racer Geoff Bodine.
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