 
		
	The Ones Left Standing in the Smoke
Not everyone was celebrating Sunday night at Martinsville.
 
		
	Not everyone was celebrating Sunday night at Martinsville.
 
		
	Christopher Bell keeps bringing fast cars to Vegas—and leaving with a lighter heart and heavier “what-ifs.”
 
		
	Fire, flat tires, and a small army of bent sheet metal defined Bristol, but Bell walked off with the only thing that mattered.
 
		
	Christopher Bell’s Sunday was equal parts pace, promise, and pirouettes.
 
		
	In the aftermath of his February victory at Atlanta Motor Speedway—before the name change to EchoPark Speedway—Christopher Bell was first to admit the win was unexpected.
 
		
	The timing seemed odd.
 
		
	Christopher Bell emerged from the smoke Sunday night like a gladiator stumbling out of the Colosseum.
 
		
	Brad Keselowski showed up to North Wilkesboro with the confidence of a man who knew where the grip was and wasn’t afraid to use it.
 
		
	After winning three straight NASCAR Cup Series races early this season, Christopher Bell hasn’t fallen off the face of the earth.
 
		
	Sunday night at Darlington Raceway, William Byron stood on pit road like a man who’d spent three hours building a sandcastle only to have the tide come in and wash it all away.