{"id":1910532,"date":"2023-04-06T04:57:37","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T08:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/christopher-bell-apologizes-to-william-byron-after-blaming-ross-chastain-for-late-race-accident-at-richmond\/"},"modified":"2023-04-06T04:59:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T08:59:53","slug":"christopher-bell-apologizes-to-william-byron-after-blaming-ross-chastain-for-late-race-accident-at-richmond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/christopher-bell-apologizes-to-william-byron-after-blaming-ross-chastain-for-late-race-accident-at-richmond\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Bell Apologizes to William Byron After Blaming Ross Chastain for Late Race Accident at Richmond"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchristopher-bell-apologizes-to-william-byron-after-blaming-ross-chastain-for-late-race-accident-at-richmond%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1910532&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div>\n<p>Christopher Bell has apologized to William Byron after spinning him out near the end of the race at Richmond Raceway this past Sunday. He initially blamed Ross Chastain for the incident but has since taken responsibility for his actions.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10426\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10426\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10426\">Christopher Bell via Noah Lewis YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With just 21 laps left in the race, Bell attempted to block Chastain&#8217;s run, but he was too late, and as he moved up the track, he collided with Byron&#8217;s left rear quarter panel, sending him spinning into the outside wall.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n            <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"William Byron spins after contact from Christopher Bell at Richmond\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AxQfRuQikgU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n        <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Following the conclusion of the race, Bell initially placed the blame on Chastain, describing him as a &#8220;wrecking ball&#8221; and a &#8220;bonzai.&#8221; However, he has since taken responsibility for his actions and apologized to Byron on Twitter.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n            <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Christopher Bell Calls Ross Chastain \"The Wrecking Ball,\" Frustrated Chastain Responds\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/73uNb2YX-Io?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n        <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Although he apologized to Byron and admitted fault, Bell did not publicly apologize to Chastain.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10425\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10425\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10425\">Christopher Bell spins out William Byron during the Federated Autoparts 400 at Richmond Raceway via NASCAR YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Chastain, on the other hand, denied causing the wreck and took issue with Bell&#8217;s comments. He pointed out that there was no contact with Byron and that he just took an aggressive line and held it on the restart.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10429\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10429\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10429\">Ross Chastain via Noah Lewis YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Despite the incident, Bell and Chastain remain competitive on the track, and there is no word of any lasting animosity between the two drivers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boundingintosports.com\/2023\/03\/denny-hamlin-reacts-to-alex-bowman-describing-end-of-cota-race-as-embarrassing-suggests-single-file-restarts-for-nascar-overtime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Denny Hamlin Reacts To Alex Bowman Describing End Of COTA Race As \u201cEmbarrassing,\u201d Suggests Single-File Restarts For NASCAR Overtime<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Bell apologized to William Byron for spinning him out near the end of the race at Richmond Raceway this past Sunday after he had previously blamed Ross Chastain. Christopher Bell via Noah Lewis YouTube With just 21 laps left in the race, a restart saw Ty Gibbs dive to the bottom of the track<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1910533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[8151,5442,18210,9668,11157,18101,7458,5752,5069,10161,12448,6231],"class_list":["post-1910532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-accident","tag-apologizes","tag-bell","tag-blaming","tag-byron","tag-chastain","tag-christopher","tag-late","tag-race","tag-richmond","tag-ross","tag-william"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1910532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1910533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1910532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1910532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}