The only thing Christopher Bell does in the NASCAR Xfinity Series at New Hampshire Motor Speedway is win.
Bell claimed his fourth Xfinity race at the Magic Mile in dramatic fashion Saturday, completing a three-wide pass on Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Sheldon Creed and Cole Custer in the final lap of overtime for the win. The Oklahoman has won every single Xfinity race he has started at New Hampshire and now has 18th career wins in the series overall.
Creed tied Dale Jarrett for most second-place finishes in Xfinity Series history with 10 runner-ups after leading the on the final lap. He nudged Custer out of the lead in turn 4 and was outside of Bell early in the final lap, but Custer paid him back with contact in turn 2.
Custer led a race-high 115 laps on the day, including most of the late stages before five cautions plagued the ending to the race. He restarted with the lead ahead of Bell before falling behind the JGR drivers of Bell and Creed.
Custer extended his regular-season points lead over Chandler Smith, after the No. 81 spun out battling for fourth with Creed and Jesse Love. Smith ended up finishing 15th.
Justin Allgaier overcame a slow pit stop on lap 93 and battled back on two other separate occasions to finish fourth. JR Motorsports teammate Carson Kvapil completed the top five.
Ryan Sieg, Parker Kligerman, Riley Herbst, Alex Bowman and Corey Heim rounded out the top 10.
The Xfinity field got to experience wet-weather tires during the first 11 laps of the race, with drivers either taking advantage of the track conditions or struggling because of them. While Custer started on pole and maintained the lead and Bell worked his way from 23rd to fourth after pit stops, Smith slid back from starting second all the way to 23rd.
After the first caution for a switch to the dry tires, a pair of yellows for Patrick Emerling coming to a stop and Kligerman spinning out split the strategies around the field. Custer led the majority of stage one, but after a six-lap dash, Sam Mayer gapped the field to win his first stage of the season.
Sammy Smith held onto second over Herbst in third and AJ Allmendinger in fourth. Allgaier completed the stage one top five.
Bowman, Kvapil, Sieg, Jeb Burton and Justin Bonsignore made up the top 10 for stage one.
NASCAR Whelen Modified veteran Bonsignore stayed out during the stage one caution but quickly lost the top spot to Bell on the restart. Bell pulled away uncontested by Bonsignore…
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