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September 11, 2021

Christopher Bell

Pit Road TV Interview

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Q. Up-and-down day for Christopher Bell. Certainly battled some handling gremlins at the start of this one. I know you weren't very happy initially, but sounded like by the end got this car pretty happy for you. Were you pretty happy with it by the end of it?

CHRISTOPHER BELL: Yeah, I mean, I think obviously all of our Joe Gibbs Racing cars were extremely fast, so hats off to everyone back there at the job, Toyota, TRD that gives us the resources that we need to come out here and do good. We knew going into Richmond that this is one of our better racetracks, so we needed to capitalize on that and get all the points we could.

Really proud of everyone on this DeWalt Camry. They worked hard. The start of the race was a little bit disappointing to give up stage points in Stage 1, but we did good; we got some points there in Stage 2 and got a good finish out of it.

Q. We go to Bristol next week, another track you're pretty good at. How do you feel about where you're at, and you're I think plus 17 to the good, so you're in a good spot with points.

CHRISTOPHER BELL: Yeah, I feel good about it, and Bristol is a really good racetrack for our company and me and a driver, but it's a little bit -- it's just you can get caught up in stuff so easily at Bristol. It's nice to have a buffer and hopefully we can go to Bristol and have an uneventful event.