Bell, who had gained in his final three begins on the 1.058-mile oval, restarted third firstly of a two-lap time beyond regulation behind Cole Custer and Sheldon Creed.
Custer moved shortly to the lead, however Creed and Bell closed in and after Creed acquired 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 dangerous for Sheldon. He’s been actually, actually near profitable certainly one of this stuff. Right this moment, he did the whole lot proper to win that race,” Bell mentioned. “He restarted in the precise lane, good push and coming to the white flag he acquired Cole unfastened, which opened the door for me.
“This automotive was actually, actually good early within the race however as soon as I misplaced monitor place, I used to be simply one other man. We acquired actually fortunate there.”
Custer, who led essentially 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 circumstances nonetheless current, NASCAR had groups begin the race on moist climate tires for the primary time in collection historical past on an oval monitor. They ran 11 laps earlier than NASCAR put out a contest warning to permit groups to vary 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
Throughout the break between Levels 2 and three, all of the lead lap automobiles elected to pit with Custer first off pit street. 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 nearly 3-second lead over Bell, however all drivers nonetheless wanted to pit as soon as extra for gas.
Ryan Sieg was among the many first drivers to hit pit street with about 55 laps to go to make their last inexperienced flag cease for brand spanking new tires and gas 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 carry out a warning which despatched a lot of the lead lap automobiles down pit street once more for recent tires.
As soon as once more, Custer was first off pit street. Jesse Love and Kvapil remained on the monitor 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 acquired 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 carry out a warning and ship the race into time beyond regulation with Custer forward of Bell and Creed.
