C Bell won the 2017 Chili Bowl, and why not put the winning sprint car in the trophy room?
a golden mile, and 4 golden drillers
some trophys are really damn big.
https://racingnews.co/2017/05/16/christopher-bell-chili-bowl-car-in-the-dining-room/
https://twitter.com/CBellRacing/status/1126226782842171392
For a good read on how this young guy (age 24) became a winning phenom, read
https://oklahoman.com/article/5589982/how-family-and-friends-helped-christopher-bells-racing-career-flourish
but in a nutshell,
Christopher Bell started coming to the track at about 3 or 4 years old to watch Daniel Orr race, Orr was a basket ball player who was coached by Bell's father.
Then he just started hanging around Orr's dad's shop, helping to work on the cars
Bell started racing junior sprints at I-44 Speedway when he was 6
Around age 9, Bell started making those road trips to Tulsa.
That's when Darren Ruston of El Reno entered the picture. His daughter, Kenzie, was moving from dirt racing to asphalt, and Ruston offered Kenzie's midget car to Bell.
Racing in Indiana is where he was seen by Keith Kunz Motorsports.
That turned out to be the game-changing relationship for Bell. He began racing for Kunz, replacing current NASCAR star Kyle Larson.
That led to Bell getting connected with Toyota's development program, landing him in a truck for Kyle Busch Motorsports in 2015, where he became the first Oklahoman to win a race in one of NASCAR's top three series.
And he topped that feat by winning the Craftsman Truck Series season championship last fall.
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