Lonnie Wheatley
NORMAN, Okla. (July 2, 2014) – Christopher Bell finished off a busy stretch of racing over the final half of June with another pair of top-ten feature runs during the All Star Circuit of Champions Ohio Sprint Speedweek.
What was scheduled to be eleven consecutive nights of winged Sprint Car racing action was cut short by a pair of rainouts along the way and then an incident that cut Bell’s Ohio Speedweek effort short.
“A car blew up in front of us and we had nowhere to go, that car is pretty much junk,” Bell explained of the Friday night heat race incident at Limaland Motorsports Park that brought an end to his Speedweek, forcing him to sit out the Saturday finale.
Bell and the Keith Kunz Motorsports No. 71 Sprint Car were plenty fast before that though, earning a seventh-place finish in Thursday’s feature at Fremont Speedway. It was Bell’s second top-ten run of All Star Speedweek after placing tenth at Waynesfield the previous Sunday (June 22).
“We were fast at Fremont, we were probably a top-three car most of the way, just a couple of little mistakes and that put us back to seventh,” Bell explained.
“Ohio Speedweek is really tough, especially when you’ve got 50 cars every night,” Bell continued.
The two week stretch of winged racing that included four nights of ASCS Speedweek action that netted two wins and four nights of All Star Speedweek action that resulted in a pair of top-tens was definitely beneficial for Bell.
“I got a lot of good seat time, a lot of valuable laps,” Bell said.
Bell will get plenty more in the coming weeks, beginning with the $7,500-to-win Bob Reynolds Memorial at Waynesfield Raceway Park on Thursday night, a winged 360 NRA Sprint Car event.
From there, it’s back to the USAC National Midget championship points chase with the Angell Park Speedway’s 33rd Annual Pepsi Nationals in Sun Prairie, WI, on Saturday and Sunday. Bell, the reigning USAC National Midget champion, looks to gain some valuable points as he enters the weekend ranked fourth.
2014 Quick Stats: 55 races, 14 wins, 29 top-fives, 36 top-tens.
Next Up:
Thursday, Waynesfield Raceway Park (Waynesfield, OH) – Marshall Motorsports 33 Winged Sprint Car
Saturday, Angell Park Speedway (Sun Prairie, WI) – Kunz 71 Midget
Sunday, Angell Park Speedway (Sun Prairie, WI) – Kunz 71 Midget
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