WATCH: Joe Gibbs Racing team bus caught on fire at New Hampshire Motor Speedway

Joe Gibbs Racing had a tough weekend so far at New Hampshire.

WATCH: Joe Gibbs Racing team bus caught on fire at New Hampshire Motor Speedway

Joe Gibbs Racing team bus caught on fire (Via IMAGO and Screenshot)

The NASCAR garage is at New Hampshire for the 18th Cup race of the 2024 season, the USA Today 301. Championship front-runners Joe Gibbs Racing, who has won a combined five races this season virtue of their star driver veteran Denny Hamlin and youngster Christopher Bell, started the weekend with loss.

A video shared on Facebook by a user a named Keith Clark showed a team bus caught on fire and the safety crew trying to put the fire out. It was later confirmed by journalist Toby Christy that the Bus belonged to Joe Gibbs Racing and team and it was used by them for meetings and gatherings at the track. Fortunately, no one was injured because of the incident.

Facebook user Keith Clark captured this video from NHMS late Thursday/early Friday. Joe Gibbs Racing has confirmed to me that this is their team bus, which is used for meetings and gatherings at the track, on fire in the video. Nobody was in the bus at the time, and no injuries.
Toby Christy wrote on X.

The team bus fire wasn’t the only mess JGR had at New Hampshire

Joe Gibbs Racing driver Christopher Bell accidently made a bigger mess at New Hampshire during his press-conference. While talking about his leadership role at the team, he accidently revealed that Chase Briscoe will be joining JGR in the 2025 season the replacement of Martin Truex Jr. he instantly regretted the mistake and nervously smiled.

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Denny Hamlin and Christopher Bell
Denny Hamlin and Christopher Bell (Via IMAGO)

While many drivers and individuals associated with the racing community saw the hilarious side of the incident, the damage was done as team lost the advantages they would have had if the announcement was made officially. Now the team has to come up with some ways to sort the situations.

That's a big deal, right? Like the driver announcement is a really big deal and I completely fudged it up. I've never in my life screwed up that bad. And that was a huge, huge mistake and I'm very glad that they took it easy on me.
Christopher Bell said.

The No:20 Toyota driver seems very disappointed with his actions and would be hoping that his team will be able to salvage the situation and get something better out of it. The best thing he can do on Sunday is win the race and make people over the drama.

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