It was a display of NASCAR’s youth movement Wednesday night as 20-year-old Christopher Bell held off 18-year-old veteran dirt late model star Bobby Pierce in a spectacular battle to win the 1-800-CarCash Mud Summer Classic at Eldora Speedway. Bell and Pierce were the class of the field and staged a furious battle in a in a start and stop race that saw a record 13 cautions. It was Bell’s first NASCAR win in just his third start in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.
Bell led a race high 106 of the 150 laps as Pierce led the second most, 40, and never lost touch with the leader. Pierce was making his first NASCAR Camping World Truck series start and pulled off a nearly perfect night earlier winning the pole then his heat race and falling just one spot shy of the win. Tyler Reddick was third thanks to a late race charge to the front; Erik Jones also with a late race charge was fourth, Daniel Hemric was fifth.
After starting fourth, Bell was up to second by lap 25. MORE>>>
Greg is the author of "The Nuts and Bolts of NASCAR: The Definitive Viewers' Guide to Big-Time Stock Car Auto Racing" and has been published in major publications across the country including the Los Angeles Times, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He was also a contributor to Chicken Soup for the NASCAR Soul, published in 2010, and the Christmas edition in 2016. He wrote as the NASCAR, Formula 1, Auto Reviews and National Veterans Affairs Examiner for Examiner.com and has appeared on Fox News. He holds a BS degree in communications, a Masters degree in psychology and is currently a PhD candidate majoring in psychology. He is currently the weekend Motorsports Editor for Autoweek.
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