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Christopher Bell Eliminated From Championship 4 After a Too Conservative Season
In a winner-take-all race at Martinsville, where William Byron and Ryan Blaney led 96% of the laps from below the playoff cut line, Byron and Blaney's duel made it a race-long battle between Christopher Bell and Kyle Larson for the final transfer spot, but it really wasn't much of a battle. Even though Bell entered the race with a one-point lead over Larson, as predicted here, Larson overtook him on stage points in Stage 1, and Bell never really found a way back in. Larson spent the vast majority of the race ahead of Bell and finished fifth to Bell's seventh in a race where the Toyotas were surprisingly off-song. Ultimately, although Bell was actually the fastest Toyota driver this season and had his share of wins, he was a little too complacent in terms of focusing on consistency rather than dominating races and top-level performance, which probably bit him in the end.
Source: Racing Reference
Source: Racing Reference
