2025 Bristol Night Race results: Christopher Bell survives last lap bump and run to win thriller

Bristol, Tennessee – In a race that saw Thunder Valley getting on while the man and the machine have exhausted, Christopher Bell won the Bass Pro night race at Bristol Motor Speedway in an exciting finish. Bell’s victory is his fourth of the season and the third consequence to open the playoffs for Joe Gibbs Racing, but he marked Bell’s first victory in a paid cup race from Phoenix in March.

At the start of the race, a new tire complex on the right side held its promise of aggressive levels of wear and falling, which led to a case full of action which saw rapid and sudden twists and suddenly all along and a total of 14 warnings, the most in any night race of Bristol in 20 years. The last caution, triggered during contact with Cole Custer sent Bubba Wallace to the wall, created a split of strategies where the leader of the Brad Keselowski, Bell and others have opposed the fresh tires they had left while Carson Hocevar, Zane Smith and Alex Bowman – in a situation where he was to win in the eliminatory series – is stayed outside for the last blow.

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With the coolest tires, Bell did a quick job on the pilots on the old tires, installing a last round where Keselowski took a last blow on Bell, loading in the last corner and striking Bell in the rear bumper to try to move it out of the way. But the bump and the race were quite for nothing, because Bell was able to hang on and returned to the checkered flag to win the victory, bouncing a week after taking the frustration of his crew on their end -up strategy in Gateway.

“I was nervous on both. I did not know if I wanted to be at the bottom or at the top (for restart), and each time Brad chose the top did not really give me an option. I had to choose the background,” Bell told USA Network after victory. “All night long, I don’t know, the old tires really, really pushed in the middle of the corners, so I hoped that these guys on the old tires were growing, and they did it. I was able to get out or submit to them. It was not pretty at the end, but we did it.

“… We just know that any week, a given week, it could be us, and it was not us for a long time. But Bristol, baby, tonight, it’s us!”

Keselowski had to settle for second place, followed by Smith, Ryan Blaney, Joey Logano, Corey Heim – who obtained his first top 10 during his seventh career start – Hocevar, Bowman, Chase Briscoe and Ty Gibbs. Gibbs led the most laps with 201, but saw his chances of making his first cup victory disappear when he missed the entrance for Pit Road late in the race, then had right front tire problems.

Bowman titled the four drivers trying to accumulate above the cup line during the elimination race of the first round on Saturday evening, but he, Shane Van Gisbergen, Austin Dillon and Josh Berry – after an ardent exit when his right forehead has ignited and swallowed up his car in smoke and flames – were all eliminated from the end of the end of the Tour of 12. Helped at Chase Elliott, who failed to finish after a hard accident in turn 3 and 4), was able to hang on to the last place above the cup line after entering the 12th night in the classification of the playoffs.

Denny Hamlin will start the round of 12 to the New Hampshire at the top of the classification of the playoffs with a 26 -point advantage on the Cup line, followed by William Byron and Kyle Larson (+24), Christopher Bell (+20), Ryan Blaney (+19), Chase Briscoe (+10), Chase Elliott (+5) and Bubba Wallace (+1). Austin Cindric (-1), Joey Logano (-2), Ross Chastain (-2) and Tyler Reddick (-3) will all start the second round below the cutting line to go around 8.

Bass Pro night race results

1. # 20 – Christopher Bell
2. # 6 – Brad Keselowski
3. # 38 – Zane Smith
4. # 12 – Ryan Blaney
5. # 22 – Joey Logano
6. # 67 – Corey Heim
7. # 77 – Carson Hocevar
8. # 48 – Alex Bowman
9. # 19 – Chase Briscoe
10. # 54 – Ty Gibbs
11. # 17 – Chris Buescher
12. # 24 – William Byron
13. # 7 – Justin Haley
14. # 42 – John Hunter Nemechek
15. # 45 – Tyler Reddick
16. # 8 – Kyle Busch
17. # 71 – Michael McDowell
18. # 35 – Riley Herbst (R)
19. # 1 – Ross Chastain
20. # 43 – Erik Jones
21. # 60 – Ryan Preece
22. # 47 – Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
23. # 4 – Noah Gragson
24. # 34 – Todd Gilliland
25. # 33 – Austin Hill
26. # 88 – Shane Van Gisbergen (R)
27. # 10 – Ty Dillon
28. # 3 – Austin Dillon
29. # 51 – Cody Ware
30. # 2 – Austin Cindric
31. # 11 – Denny Hamlin
32. # 5 – Kyle Larson
33. # 41 – CUSTER COLE
34. # 23 – Bubba Wallace
35. # 66 – Chad Finchum
36. # 16 – AJ ALLMENDINGER
37. # 99 – Daniel Suarez
38. # 9 – Chase Elliott
39. # 21 – Josh Berry