As for Bell, his up and down day finished with a very positive outcome, but that excitement was tempered by the fact that his Chase berth came at the expense of his teammate’s title hopes.
“Some days it’s not your day, but today was definitely our day, that’s for sure,” Bell said of advancing to the Championship 4. “I don’t know what happened, we had such a good Tundra there at the beginning of the race and the light switch flipped off there with the restart with about 40 to go and then all of the sudden we just got ate up on the restart, a truck slid in front of us and I kind of felt like that was the end of the year right there. But thankful the good Lord was on our side and (that) we get to race for a championship at Homestead.”
“I hate it for William (Byron) because obviously he was one of the trucks that was expected to go to Homestead and be the guy to beat really. It’s not pretty how we got in, but we got in and now we’re going to be a lot better than we were today.”
The Oklahoma native now sets his sights on Homestead-Miami, in a bid to score KBM’s second consecutive series title.
“Obviously I don’t have the experience that these guys do, but I went to Homestead last year and I ran the whole race and I was able to get some seat time there compared to coming to a place like this where I don’t have any experience.” Bell said. “Homestead is a really neat place and really worn out and it’s really fun to race on. I’m really excited to get there and I know I’m going to have a really fast Tundra underneath me. It’s going to be fun to be able to race for a championship.”
As the sun sets in the west, it rises in the east and shines on three men who join Johnny Sauter in one final race to decide it all in 2016.
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