page_title: Christopher Bell (racing driver)
section_title: Early career and dirt track racing
hierarchical_section_title: Christopher Bell (racing driver) / Racing career / Early career and dirt track racing
caption_attribution_description: 2013 USAC National Midget car champion Christopher Bell practicing at Angell Park Speedway in the middle of the season.
context_page_description: Christopher David Bell is an American professional stock car racing driver and a Toyota Racing Development driver. He currently competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 95 Toyota Camry for Leavine Family Racing. He is the 2017 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Champion.
context_section_description: Bell began his racing career in micro sprints at I-44 Riverside Speedway in the early 2000s. He earned the Lucas Oil ASCS2 Championship in 2010 before winning the 66 Mike Phillips Memorial micro-sprint car race in 2011. The following year, he finished second in the Short Track Nationals at I-30 Speedway, a race sanctioned by the American Sprint Car Series. In 2013, he joined Keith Kunz Motorsports in USAC racing, replacing Kyle Larson. On October 31, he joined CH Motorsports' sprint car racing program. Bell concluded 2013 as the USAC National Midget Champion. In 2014, he began racing asphalt Super Late Models for Kyle Busch Motorsports, including competing in the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series. On May 7, he won his first career WoO Sprint Car Series race at Jacksonville Speedway. As a Super Late Model driver, he won races at New Smyrna Speedway, South Alabama Speedway and Southern National Motorsports Park. During the year, he won 24 USAC Midget races and 26 total dirt races, including the Turkey Night Grand Prix.
  In 2017, Bell won the Chili Bowl Nationals, becoming the first Oklahoman to win the event since Andy Hillenburg in 1994. Bell followed the 2017 Chili Bowl win with his third consecutive Turnpike Challenge victory, the most recent win coming at home town track  I-44 Riverside Speedway in Oklahoma City. He finished up the 2017 season with a win in the Tulsa Shootout's Winged Outlaw Division.
  He won the Chili Bowl again in 2018 and 2019 to become only the third three-time winner.
caption: Bell's USAC midget at Angell Park Speedway in 2013
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