Who… should you be talking about after the race?
He said on Saturday (June 22) that the credit for his success at Loudon goes to his team, but Christopher Bell is a threat to win every time he races at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. On Sunday (June 23), Bell sat out a rain delay of more than two hours to win the USA TODAY 301 over Chase Briscoe to complete the weekend sweep after taking Saturday’s Xfinity Series race as well.
The win is Bell’s third of 2024, tying him for the playoff lead with eight races remaining to set the field.
Loudon has become Bell’s playground in recent years. He’s four-for-four in the Xfinity Series and has a pair of Cup wins that could easily be three or four with a little luck. New Hampshire is the last flat mile on the schedule before the title race at Phoenix Raceway, so it could bode well for Bell that he ran so well on Sunday, rain or no rain.
And don’t forget Josh Berry. Berry has been on a hot streak of late. Crew chief Rodney Childers said before the race that Berry has studied Kevin Harvick’s driving style at The Magic Mile, and that paid off in dividends on Sunday as Berry battled with Bell and Briscoe for the win before settling for a well-deserved third-place finish, putting two Stewart-Haas Racing cars inside the top three on Sunday.
What… is the big question leaving this race in the rearview?
The struggles began almost at the drop of the flag on Sunday. Kyle Busch was a lap down by lap 40, Austin Dillon soon after.
A hard crash just shy of halfway for Busch made his day go from bad to worse, although he was able to continue. And the hits kept on coming. Busch crashed again just before the race was red-flagged for rain, and was able to get back on track only to give up the ghost under caution as the race prepared to resume. That finally ended his day as Busch…
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