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Christopher Bell beats Denny Hamlin side-by-side at Phoenix, wins three in a row

JHby:Jonathan Howard•about 12 hours•

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Christopher Bell Phoenix win
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Three weeks in a row and Christopher Bell remains at the top of the NASCAR mountain! ANOTHER win, this time at Phoenix. He won this race a year ago and he has won it again. Is this the year of the 20 team?

Joe Gibbs should have let Christopher Bell go dirt racing years ago. In the last two years, Bell has started to establish himself as the second-best driver at JGR. However, this season, he’s staking the claim as the best.

The win at Atlanta was for being at the right place at the right time. COTA was a beautiful performance of closing out a race late against top-tier competition in William Byron and Kyle Busch.

This week at Phoenix, it was a pure flex. Option tire, primary tire – didn’t matter. Christopher Bell ran down Joey Logano in Stage 2 on the yellow tires while the 22 had the red tires. He was on another level compared to the rest of the field.

Denny Hamlin and Kyle Larson put up a fight but it wasn’t enough. Christopher Bell took Hamlin to the line, kept it clean, and won his third race in a row this season.

Massive win, massive performance. For those of you who hate seeing Bell win so much, the next three race tracks play into some of his greatest strengths as a driver. Las Vegas, Homestead, and Martinsville.

Would it be crazy to see Bell pick up another one or two wins in the next three weeks? Right now, I’m not sure anything would surprise me from how dominant he has been in 2025.

Here are the full results from today’s race. A lot happened.

From dirt, indoors and outdoors, to pavement – there isn’t anything that Christopher Bell can’t do this year. Bell is the first driver to win three races in a row in the Gen 7 car, too. Is this going to be his year?

Christopher Bell has more wins on his plate

With three wins to start the season, Christopher Bell is on a streak that we haven’t seen since Kyle Larson in 2021. That year was defined by the dominance of Larson who ultimately won the championship.

These next three weeks at Vegas, Homestead, and Martinsville could end up in wins as well. I do not think he will win six races in a row, but he could win one or two of these three.

At Las Vegas in the Next Gen car, Bell has three top-fives and four top-tens in six races. That includes three pole awards and two runner-up finishes. He has yet to win at the track but last October led 155 laps in the playoff race. Taking away his P33 and P34 finishes, outliers, Bell has an average finish of 4.75 in four races.

Going to Homestead-Miami probably gives Bell a greater chance of winning. But drivers like Kyle Larson and Tyler Reddick are fantastic at the Florida track as well. In the three Gen 7 races at the track, Bell has finishes of P11, P1, and P4.

At Martinsville, Bell has a win from 2022 and has raced well at the track in recent years. He has struggled in the last two races at the Paperclip but could get back to his winning ways at the short track. How many more wins can Bell pick up in the next three weeks?