Christopher Bell Goes Back-to-Back in 2025 – Earns First Win at COTA

Christopher Bell took the lead away from Kyle Busch in the closing laps of Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race and held off a strong charge from William Byron and Tyler Reddick to win for the first time at Circuit of the Americas! 🏁

 

This is the second straight win for the No. 20 Toyota in 2025 and the 11th victory of his career.

 

Byron and pole-sitter Tyler Reddick finished a close second and third.

 

After being spun out on lap one by Ross Chastain, Chase Elliott fought back all day to place in fourth while Kyle Busch, who led the most laps, rounded out the top five.

 

The young teenage phenom of Connor Zilisch was having a decent stint in his Cup Series debut until his Trackhouse Racing teammate Daniel Suarez spun in front of him towerd the middle of the race. Zilisch had know where to go and clobbered into the No. 99 of Suarez. Unfortunately, that would end the 18-year-old’s day. At the time of the accident, Zilisch was running an impressive 14th, the same spot where he qualified.

 

Results:

1. Christopher Bell 

2. William Byron 

3. Tyler Reddick – LLI Pick 1

4. Chase Elliott – LLI Pick 2

5. Kyle Busch 

6. Shane van Gisbergen – LLI Pick 3

7. Chris Buescher 

8. Noah Gragson 

9. Alex Bowman 

10. Todd Gilliland 

11. Michael McDowell 

12. Ross Chastain 

13. Carson Hocevar 

14. Chase Briscoe 

15. Brad Keselowski 

16. Justin Haley 

17. Riley Herbst 

18. Ricky Stenhouse Jr 

19. Ryan Blaney 

20. Bubba Wallace – Stage 1 🏁

21. Denny Hamlin 

22. John Hunter Nemechek 

23. Cole Custer 

24. Joey Logano 

25. Austin Cindric 

26. Josh Berry 

27. Erik Jones 

28. Ty Dillon 

29. Zane Smith 

30. AJ Allmendinger 

31. Cody Ware 

32. Kyle Larson 

33. Ryan Preece – Stage 2 🏁 

34. Ty Gibbs 

35. Austin Dillon – Crash

36. Daniel Suarez – Crash