Christopher Bell still believes his Joe Gibbs Racing team is underperforming and it will take more than a NASCAR Cup Series victory to change his mind.“I don’t think it’s about winning races,” Bell said Friday at Bristol Motor Speedway. “Certainly, that is an important part of it, but if I...

Christopher Bell is over what happened that ended his NASCAR Cup Series postseason run in 2024, but it did give him one bit of insight. “You’re not guaranteed anything,” Bell said this week, “and that was a friendly reminder of that.” Bell and his Joe Gibbs Racing team were eliminated...

Chris Gabehart admittedly had one big fear when he became the competition director at Joe Gibbs Racing: not having an impact. Gabehart was named to the role in November after six seasons as the leader of the No. 11 team for Denny Hamlin. It was, as he laughs when he...

NASCAR sent clarification to race teams on Thursday confirming that pitting in another team’s pit stall is allowed because it’s a safety issue.Christopher Bell had the left-front wheel on his Toyota tightened in Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Chase Briscoe’s pit stall on Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. It was...

The press release was issued on July 6, 2021.Speedway Motorsports ruffled feathers by announcing and detailing its plan to transform Atlanta Motor Speedway from a traditional intermediate racetrack into a superspeedway hybrid. It was described as a “historic project” and one that would “pave the way for a bold new...

Joe Gibbs Racing decided good wasn’t good enough after the 2024 season, and it makes for an intriguing year ahead for the organization.Three of the four Gibbs teams look different than last year, and one of its best crew chiefs, Chris Gabehart, has come off the pit box where he...

Christopher Bell will be without Adam Stevens for the foreseeable future as his crew chief recovers from surgery.Joe Gibbs Racing announced Monday that Stevens underwent successful surgery for a double knee injury that occurred during a family vacation. Stevens will be off the road as the NASCAR Cup Series resumes...

Christopher Bell would rather have been at a ‘handful of other racetracks’ than at Homestead-Miami Speedway.It wasn’t a track that brought a ton of confidence. Prior to Sunday, he’d led just four laps at the place at Cup level, and had finished no better than eighth.Still raw over not being...

Christopher Bell appropriately described the final laps of Sunday’s race on the Charlotte Roval and his relentless drive to the front as mind-blowing.Bell needed to win the elimination race to advance into the next round of the playoffs. A straightforward mission that others have found themselves facing in the past...

Crew chief Adam Stevens acknowledged that the lack of practice hindered Kyle Busch and the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing team early in the season. But after winning Wednesday night in Texas, Stevens admitted, “it’s become less and less of a factor” as races rolled off the calendar.“Because we’ve had...