Christopher Bell walked away from COTA on Sunday with back-to-back race wins. Was that enough to launch him into the No. 1 slot of the Power Rankings? Or was another driver able to do enough to hold him off?

Daniel Suarez — Finished 36th: “I just hit the curb, hit the ground and then it spun me out. When you have low air pressure, that’s very easy to do because the car is lower to the ground. I wish I could say it was a big mistake, but it wasn’t. It was just maybe a tire width too far to the left, and I hit the curb and I spun out.”

Bell's victory also marks the first time a driver has won twice within the first three races of the Cup Series season since Kevin Harvick did so in 2018. That year, Harvick would go on to win eight times in total and make it all the way to the Championship 4 at season's end.