Christopher Bell did the improbable on Sunday at Phoenix, winning his third straight race in the NASCAR Cup Series. He’s been absolutely on fire to start the season. Veteran drivers like Denny Hamlin have seen hot runs like this before — Kevin Harvick last pulled off the three-peat in 2018 — but even they are impressed by Bell’s current run of

Bell’s 12th career victory and his second straight in the Phoenix spring race came by a mere 0.049-second, making it the second closest finish in NASCAR Cup Series history at the one-mile track. It also made the Oklahoma native the first driver to win three consecutive races in the current Cup car since it was introduced in 2022.

The NASCAR Cup Series season is four races old and Christopher Bell has already accomplished something no Cup driver has done in five seasons. Bell won his third straight race of 2025 when he beat his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Denny Hamlin in a two-lap sprint to the finish.