With the third and final race of the NASCAR Cup Series Round of 16 underway, Joe Gibbs Racing’s Christopher Bell finds himself far too close to the cut-off line for comfort, hanging on with a 32-point cushion. His 2025 campaign has been a rollercoaster with three wins in the opening four races, only to stall into a winless drought that has left him searching for consistency. That tension came to a head at World Wide Technology Raceway last week, where the track’s brutal demands pushed him well to the edge, and his team radio caught a rare burst of frustration. And for the first time, Bell has broken his silence about that uncharacteristic outburst.

At Gateway, he clawed his way to a seventh-place finish in the Enjoy Illinois 300 while teammate Denny Hamlin snatched the win in the No. 11 T

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