The competitive area at Cota creates history, ties record for most leading changes on the road course

The Echopark Automotive Grand Prix at Cota on Sunday wrote the history of the Nascar Cup Series after a sparkling race, in which Christopher Bell took the hardware home.

Bell shone on the final route and has won a victory in a row in the Cup series for the first time in 2023.

What is wild is that he did it in one of the most competitive areas in the history of the street racing route. According to Nascar knowledge, the race in Cota recorded a total of 20 lead change. This was the most bound for a road course in the Cup series story, which corresponded to Riverside in 1980 and in 1970.

The tour exchanged a few times in the locking route, with Bell finally overtaking Kyle Busch and then holding the victory against a hard -charged William Byron and Tyler Reddick.

Busch had a considerable lead over Bell with a few laps in front of him when a catastrophe met him.

A wreck between Denny Hamlin and Austin Dillon carefully threw the race from a curve, where Bell could bring the restart closer … directly in a position in which he could beat.

When Bell went to Cota to take the lead, he first contacted Busch's car door to the door. As a result, Busch's toe connection Bog and his car was never again on the track again.

“It was to push the car,” said Busch, according to Brett Winningham from Speedway Digest. “I only wish we had the same tires as the 20th as soon as we had this yellow, they are only in defense mode. Hast the contact in two and three the toe connection. “

Busch's late slide kept him from winning his first race in the appearances of the 59 -cup series, a long drought that is getting tougher. But Busch ran an excellent race as long as his equipment lasted.

Bell was only a little better in Cota on Sunday and achieved another hard -fought victory. He also won in Atlanta last weekend and won a race that was careful after beating Carson Hocevar and Kyle Larson.