NASCAR Reveals Shocking Details About Bell Crash
What’s Happening? NASCAR officials revealed that Christopher Bell’s hard crash at Michigan International Speedway was one of the hardest hits in…
Christopher Bell’s Crew Chief, Adam Stevens, says that the veteran driver is on track with his recovery from an injury suffered at Michigan earlier this season.
At the start of NASCAR’s summer stretch, Christopher Bell suffered one of the hardest crashes in recent NASCAR history.
Racing with Chase Elliott in the top five at Michigan International Speedway in May, the No. 9 snapped loose and collected Bell into the turn four wall.
While Elliott walked away safe, Bell was not as lucky, walking out with a broken left wrist ahead of a tough stretch that included street races and road courses.
The following week, ahead of NASCAR’s first race at Naval Base Coronado, officials revealed that Bell’s hit was the hardest of the NASCAR Next Gen era and one of the hardest of the past decade, measuring the impact with Delta V.
What’s Happening? NASCAR officials revealed that Christopher Bell’s hard crash at Michigan International Speedway was one of the hardest hits in…
Since then, Bell has not missed a race. When O’Reilly Auto Parts Series talent Brent Crews stepped in at San Diego, and his Crew Chief, Adam Stevens, speaking with SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, said that even if his driver is not yet 100%, he sure seems to be close.
“If he’s not 100%, he’s certainly sneaking up on it. . . He did put a cast back on for the Atlanta race and had it cut off before,” Stevens said. “I think he even got on the airplane on the way home.”
Speaking more directly for his driver, Stevens noted that Bell’s recovery is right on track, meeting each milestone on schedule with no setbacks.
“The doctors say that all the x-rays and all the scans and assessments are going well, and he’s meeting all his milestones and ahead of schedule,” Stevens said.
While the team is trying to move past this incident, Bell is making it rather easy in the midst of one of his best stretches in recent memory.
Since his injury, and discounting his sub-out at San Diego, the No. 20 car has brought home three top-five finishes in the four races Bell has finished behind the wheel.
Most notable of all these have come on varying types of tracks, with Bell finishing runner-up this past weekend in Atlanta and at Chicagoland the week before.
Statistically, Bell has also already made up for his lost results in those first two races, jumping all the way to ninth in points, 105 points above the Chase cutline.
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