Christopher Bell’s NASCAR Cup career has seen its highest of highs and lowest of lows at Martinsville Speedway .

His playoff win at the half-mile track in Ridgeway, Virginia, in 2022 clinched his spot in the Championship 4 to avoid certain elimination.

And a year ago — again needing a win to keep his playoff dreams alive — the 30-year-old Norman native slid into the wall during a desperation attempt to make one final pass and gain the points he needed to advance. But making the pass as he rode the wall, a move that was banned in NASCAR a year earlier, Bell was penalized and eliminated from the playoffs.

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