Christopher Bell feels he was “cheated out of championship finale” at Martinsville
Christopher Bell made some bold comments about the missing out of Championship-4 over disqualification at Martinsville.
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The 2024 NASCAR Cup season saw Christopher Bell establishing himself as a solid championship contender, with three wins and was a strong contender for the title. But his title chase ended with a massive disappointment, after he was eliminated from the playoffs in the R-8 following his disqualification at Martinsville for riding the wall.
Christopher Bell employed the banned move, and got DQed despite the fact that move didn’t earn him anything in terms positions. While talking about the saga at Phoenix, Bell confessed that he feels he was cheated out of the championship. He went onto blame the incident on race fixing and manipulation by Chevy duo of Austin Dillon and Ross Chastain.
I just, I feel cheated. I feel cheated out of a chance to compete for a championship. Yeah, it all stems from what happened, er, 15, 20 to go whenever the race got fixed and manipulated by Chevrolet.
Christopher Bell said during media availability at Phoenix.
He pointed out that the Chevy drivers forced his hands to make the mistake on the last lap of the race. Bell believes shouldn’t have never been in the position, if not for the Chevy drivers played their game to help William Byron, to not to lose positions and making it into the final race.
That forced our hands to do what we did and ultimately it forced me into a mistake on the last lap to get into the wall. And I feel like I should never have been in that position had the race been ran fairly the 24 car would have lost enough spots to get me into the final race.
Christopher Bell added.
Christopher Bell defends his wall-ride that got him disqualified
The Joe Gibbs Racing driver while discussing the DQ pointed out that the wall ride can’t be called a move, because wall-ride was never his intention. He asserted that he didn’t gain any advantage by riding the wall and asserted that he didn’t broke the rule.
Uh, yeah, I mean, I think that uh – I hate calling the last lap ‘a move.’ Because it was not a ‘move.’ You know, my intentions were never to ride the wall, I didn’t gain an advantage riding the wall, so it was not a move, and I don’t believe I broke the rule.
Christopher Bell said.
The No:20 racer seems to be really disappointed with how his season ended and also the fact the Chevy drivers who pulled of some questionable wasn’t penalized severely enough. It will be interesting to see if Bell has more to say about the Martinsville saga.
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