Bell, who had gained in his final three begins on the 1.058-mile oval, restarted third initially of a two-lap extra time behind Cole Custer and Sheldon Creed.
Custer moved shortly to the lead, however Creed and Bell closed in and after Creed received into Custer, which opened the door for Bell to maneuver into the lead on the ultimate lap. Bell then held off Creed by 0.254 seconds on the checkered flag for his fourth consecutive win at New Hampshire.
Bell is the fourth completely different driver to win in Joe Gibbs Racing’s No. 20 Toyota and picked up his 18th profession victory.
“I really feel so unhealthy for Sheldon. He’s been actually, actually near successful certainly one of these items. At this time, he did every thing proper to win that race,” Bell stated. “He restarted in the correct lane, good push and coming to the white flag he received Cole unfastened, which opened the door for me.
“This automotive was actually, actually good early within the race however as soon as I misplaced observe place, I used to be simply one other man. We received actually fortunate there.”
Custer, who led probably the most laps (114 of 203), ended up third and maintains his lead within the collection standings. Justin Allgaier was fourth and Carson Kvapil was fifth.
Finishing the highest 10 had been Ryan Sieg, Parker Kligerman, Riley Herbst, Alex Bowman and Corey Heim.
Stage 1
Sam Mayer grabbed the lead on a restart six laps remaining and held off Sammy Smith by 1.133 seconds to earn the Stage 1 win. Herbst was third, A.J. Allmendinger fourth and Allgaier fifth.
With damp situations nonetheless current, NASCAR had groups begin the race on moist climate tires for the primary time in collection historical past on an oval observe. They ran 11 laps earlier than NASCAR put out a contest warning to permit groups to alter to slick tires.
Stage 2
Bell led each lap and cruised to a 4.172-second win over Justin Bonsignore to take the Stage 2 win. Custer was third, Creed fourth and Chandler Smith ended up fifth.
Stage 3
In the course of the break between Phases 2 and three, all of the lead lap vehicles elected to pit with Custer first off pit highway. Allgaier had an prolonged cease as a number of lug nuts fell off a left-side tire. Custer led Bell and Chandler Smith when the race resumed with 102 laps remaining.
With 70 laps remaining, Custer had constructed an virtually 3-second lead over Bell, however all drivers nonetheless wanted to pit as soon as extra for gasoline.
Ryan Sieg was among the many first drivers to hit pit highway with about 55 laps to go to make their remaining inexperienced flag cease for brand new tires and gasoline to make it to the end. Bell was subsequent with 51 laps remaining.
As soon as the cycle of stops was accomplished with 36 laps to go, Custer emerged with a greater than 4-second lead over Bell with Chandler Smith in third.
Armani Williams spun out in Flip 2 and down the backstretch on lap 168 to convey out a warning which despatched a lot of the lead lap vehicles down pit highway once more for recent tires.
As soon as once more, Custer was first off pit highway. Jesse Love and Kvapil remained on the observe and led Custer when the race returned to inexperienced with 26 laps remaining. Kvapil jumped to the lead and Custer to second on the restart.
Whereas making an attempt to go three-wide, Chandler Smith received spun round after contact with Creed to arrange one other restart with 19 laps to go and Kvapil ah”ead of Custer.
Mayer went four-wide on the restart which triggered a 10-car accident that additionally collected Bonsignore and Austin Hill, amongst others. Custer led Kvapil and Bell with 12 laps remaining.
A wreck involving Nathan Byrd and Hailie Deegan arrange one other restart with six laps to go and Custer nonetheless out entrance.
Deegan and Mason Massey wrecked with three to go to convey out a warning and ship the race into extra time with Custer forward of Bell and Creed.
