Christopher Bell Confesses He Was “Incredibly Fortunate” to Survive Wild Michigan Wreck with No Major Injury

The NASCAR Cup Series race last Sunday at Michigan witnessed one of the wildest incidents in the last decade. HMS veteran Chase Elliott spun-out Christopher Bell, resulting in the No:20 Toyota Camry slamming hard into the wall. It caused the cars’ frame to break, as well as the outside wall. Post-race investigation revealed that it was a 63Gs hit, the hardest in the Next-Gen era history.

Fortunately for Bell, he walked away with just a left wrist injury, which wasn’t severe enough to force him sit out this Sunday’s Pocono race. If it was a previous generation car, the injury could’ve bee much worse. Talking about the incident ahead of this weekend’s race, the veteran admitted that he was lucky to escape without any major issues.

It was a big one, but I’m just so, so incredibly fortunate and thankful and blessed that my head was OK. To get out of there with just a fractured wrist is pretty immaculate. I owe all of the credit to NASCAR and my team for building safe cars.

Christopher Bell said ahead of Pocono race.

Further talking about the point, Christopher Bell pointed out that NASCAR deserves all the credit for the car safety, as they have been doing an impressive job regarding learning from the incidents that happened in the past. The R&D investment following the massive Kurt Busch and Ryan Blaney crash in the 7^th Gen era played a key role the current development in safety standard.

I know I said it in my statement earlier, but all of the previous drivers who have paid somewhat of a price to make these cars as safe as they are today, NASCAR from learning from every experience that they’ve had and every moment, every crash, it all paid off last Sunday.

Christopher Bell added via NASCAR.com.

Christopher Bell declares the Next-Gen safety features worked perfectly for him

Talking more about the safety aspect of the Next-Gen cars, the No:20 Camry driver pointed out that the car worked absolutely perfect for him. He also credited John Patalak for the making the seat that kept his head safe, helping him to avoid a concussion.

The car did absolutely perfect, and all of my safety gear did absolutely perfect, and that’s why I’m back in the car this week. I think John Patalak is the guy who has really scienced out the head-foam surround and stuff like that, and I was really, really grateful Sunday whenever I hit the wall that all of that R&D. All of that effort had gone into making sure that I had the perfect containment system, and it worked. Everything worked perfectly.

Christopher Bell said.

Talking about incident to the media, Legacy Motor Club driver Erik Jones admitted that he is glad everything worked fine for his Toyota teammate and credited the Next-Gen car’s safety standard for it. He is waiting for NASCAR to learn more from the incident, including the cracked frame and work on making the cars safer again.  

At the end of the day, it seems like everything worked pretty well…Christopher is in one piece pretty much and is here racing. So, I think that says a lot, but as far as the real nitty-gritty and what can be better about his stuff and what can be better going forward. I’ll just wait for NASCAR on that.

Erik Jones asserted.

The comments from the duo are on point, shows how the sport has been spot on with the safety aspect of the cars. Still there needs to be more R&D done on the incident, as the aero-features of the car played a major role in the wreck initially happening.  

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