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[h=2]Bell wins by inches at Texas after big wreck for Peters[/h] Saturday, 10 June 2017


By John Sturbin, NASCAR Wire Service / Images

Christopher Bell, a self-described "dirt track kid" from Oklahoma, continued to show he's pretty good on pavement Friday night at Texas Motor Speedway.
Bell edged Chase Briscoe after a side-by-side, closing-laps battle to win the 21st annual winstaronlinegaming.com 400 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race. Bell, who started 21st in the 28-truck field, won under caution after a white-flag wreck involving Timothy Peters, Austin Self and Johnny Sauter on TMS' repaved and re-profiled 1.5-mile oval.
A 22-year-old native of Norman, Okla., who calls TMS his home track, Bell earned his first win at TMS, second of 2017 and fourth of his 37-race NCWTS career.
"First off, I want to make sure everyone is OK," said Bell, driver of the No. 4 JBL Toyota Tundra fielded by Kyle Busch Motorsports. "It's kind of a sorrowful victory here in Victory Lane. That was a pretty bad flip and I've taken my fair share of flips and it hurts a lot worse whenever it's in the grass like that one was, so I hope he's (Peters) OK. That's the most important part.
"But second of all, we're in Victory Lane, so it's just a dream come true to be able to win here in Texas – my hometown. All of the Tundras are built right here in Texas (San Antonio), so it's a huge win for us, everybody at Toyota and Toyota Racing Development. Man, our JBL Tundra was super, super good."
As Bell and Briscoe raced side-by-side for the win after a restart on Lap 166, Self's No. 22 Toyota spun and initiated contact with Peters exiting the dogleg and heading down the track's frontstretch. Peters' No. 99 Chevrolet Silverado spun and caught the infield grass, sending it tumbling and bouncing on the pavement. The No. 99 wound up on its top, with track safety workers needing several minutes to extricate Peters once the wreckage was turned over.
Peters was evaluated at the track's infield care center and released.
Briscoe was seeking his first series win and first for Ford this season. It appeared he was going to accomplish both after he took the lead from Bell on a restart following the night's eighth caution from Laps 155-159. NASCAR's scoring system determined Briscoe was in the lead on Lap 160 of 167 and when the yellow again flew on Lap 161 for a three-truck incident in Turn 4. When the green flew on Lap 166, Bell was able to edge Briscoe for the lead by inches as the wreck unfolded behind them.
"I never saw the white flag," said Bell, who led a race-high 92 laps. "I was concentrating on making him (Briscoe) slow down as much as I can. I didn't think he had the lead whenever he got it and then I didn't think I had the lead whenever I got it, so it's just so tight, man. Me and Chase have known each other for a long time – we're really good friends and met each other racing online whenever we were in our teens and now here we are racing in the Camping World Truck Series together."
Briscoe didn't question the scoring outcome involving his friendly rival.
"It was close, I enjoyed it," said Briscoe, driver of the No. 29 Ford F-150. "I definitely wanted to get the win. But I was sleeping on couches two years ago and never imagined I'd be here."
Grant Enfinger finished third, followed by Ryan Truex in fourth and fifth-place Ben Rhodes.
Bell began the night 52 points behind Sauter in the championship standings. The reigning series champion, Sauter finished eighth and saw his lead over Bell trimmed to 40 points. Accompanied by crew chief Rudy Fugle and wearing the winner's white cowboy hat, Bell exited Texas with a smile after his second win and sixth top-10 of 2017.
"This place has a special place in my heart," Bell said of TMS. "We raced down here a lot with Micro Sprints at Devil's Bowl Speedway (in Mesquite) and Kennedale (Raceway Park) but never at TMS. I was just a dirt track kid from Oklahoma, so to race here is a dream come true."

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NASCAR explains wild Texas Truck finish

By Kelly Crandall / Images by Michael Levitt/LAT

After Christopher Bell was declared the winner of Friday night's Camping World Truck Series race NASCAR's Steve O'Donnell had to take to Twitter to explain that decision.
Bell (leading, ABOVE) and Chase Briscoe were battling side-by-side for the race lead when the caution flew for a wreck behind them. Austin Wayne Self had broken loose and collided with Timothy Peters, sending Peters into the infield grass. After the right-front wheel came off, Peters' truck dug into the grass and began flipping. Happily, he was able to walk away from the wild wreck:



The race was already in overtime and as the caution flew, Bell and Briscoe had already crossed the start/finish line underneath the white flag. Per the rulebook, if the caution comes out on the last lap, drivers will be scored based on their position at the time of the caution.

However, controversy about who the winner was soon take over social media. It started when the FOX Sports 1 broadcast incorrectly told viewers Bell had won because he crossed the finish line first at the white flag. Many understood that to be false based on the rulebook.
Later, FS1 said it came down to video at the time of caution – which was correct – except they showed the wrong shot where Briscoe appeared to be ahead.
The problem was that video was based on the caution lights Texas Motor Speedway had on its fence, which were installed for the sake of the fans. They are not the official caution lights NASCAR uses.
At 10:55 p.m. O'Donnell, NASCAR executive vice president and chief development officer, brought it all to an end.
O'Donnell posted on his Twitter account how NASCAR determined that Bell was the winner, even sharing a picture showing Bell's No. 4 truck ahead of Briscoe's No. 29. Included is the timestamp showing when the caution was called: