Xfinity Playoff Schedule Couldn’t be Better for Christopher Bell

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Christopher Bell couldn’t ask for a better array of races as the NASCAR Xfinity Series Playoffs approach.Though he has no more than two career starts at any of the six tracks that will determine who races for the championship at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Bell has scored at least one top-five at each of them—with the exception of the Charlotte Motor Speedway road course, at which no one has yet raced.

The driver of the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota has one victory in two starts at Richmond, which will host the Playoff-opening Go Bowling 250 (7:30 p.m. ET Friday on NBCSN, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). He also has a win in his only race at Kansas, the venue for the first race in the second round.

“I’m excited for the Playoffs,” Bell said on Tuesday during NASCAR Xfinity Series media day at Charlotte Motor Speedway. “The schedule actually works out really well for me. We’ve got Richmond, Roval Dover… the Roval (Charlotte road course), nobody really knows what to expect. I feel like we’re going to be really fast at Richmond. I’ve already won there earlier this year. So I feel good.

“And then the second round is Kansas, Texas, Phoenix, which are all race tracks that I’ve run extremely well at and Joe Gibbs Racing runs extremely well at. I’m really happy right now with where we’re at.”

Bell enters the Playoffs second in the standings, seven points behind regular-season champion Justin Allgaier.