Christopher Bell said Saturday that he plans to run the full distance of Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Sonoma Raceway.
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“Last week, after driving the car, I felt really, really good in the car through practice, and then even in the start of the race, I felt really well,” Bell told reporters Saturday. “I wanted to race, but the team around me felt pretty committed just going down the avenue of risk management at San Diego, with the tight confines of the concrete walls around you all the way around. So yeah, opted to sit out that one, and I feel I’m not getting out of this one.”
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“It’s not pain that’s limiting Bell from maximizing performance; it’s adapting to wheeling his hot rod with a cast on his left arm.”
“By the time we got to San Diego, I didn’t have any pain at all driving the car,” Bell explained. “I feel very clunky and very unorthodox with the cast on my arm and not being able to just move the wheel as quickly and as sharply as I am accustomed to, but I don’t really have any pain. I felt really comfortable in the car last week at San Diego. Through our simulator sessions here at Sonoma, been the same thing. I don’t think I can drive as well as I can without a cast, but it doesn’t hurt me to drive, so that’s really good.”
— NASCAR.com —