Toyota Racing Post-Race Recap
NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS)
Iowa Speedway
Race 19 of 33 – 218.75 miles, 250 laps
July 27, 2019
TOYOTA FINISHING POSITIONS
1st, Chase Briscoe*
2nd, CHRISTOPHER BELL
3rd, John Hunter Nemechek*
4th, Noah Gragson*
5th, Tyler Reddick*
7th, SHANE LEE
13th, RILEY HERBST
19th, JOEY GASE
21st, STEFAN PARSONS
23rd, STAN MULLIS
32nd, CHAD FINCHUM
33rd, BRANDON JONES
35th, TIMMY HILL
*non-Toyota driver
- Christopher Bell was the highest-finishing Supra driver with a second-place finish in the NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) race at Iowa Speedway on Saturday.
- Bell won both stages of the race and led a dominating 234 laps (of 250) around the Iowa short track, however eventual race-winner Chase Briscoe was on fresher tires and passed him with five laps remaining.
- Bell has not finished worse than second-place in his last four NXS starts at Iowa Speedway.
- Supra driver Shane Lee earned his first top-10 of the season with a seventh-place finish at Iowa.
TOYOTA QUOTES
CHRISTOPHER BELL, No. 20 Rheem Toyota Supra, Joe Gibbs Racing
Finishing Position: 2nd
Was there anything you could do in the closing laps to hold off Chase Briscoe?
“I don’t know, man. That was tough. To be able to hold him (Chase Briscoe) off as long as I did and not win the race stings. This Rheem Supra was super, super fast today. It’s damned if you do and damned if you don’t. Whenever he got inside of me there, I felt like my best bet to win the race was to try and stay right on his door and chase him down into the corner. Maybe I could have charged the corner a little bit harder and not let him clear me or just opened up my entry and tried to turn down. There’s no telling. He did a good job, he won the race and we had a great race car so there’s nothing to hang our hat on.”
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