Joe Gibbs Racing ace Christopher Bell says he and his crew chief had been dreaming about clinching three consecutive race wins in the NASCAR Cup Series ꦜsince he joined the team in 2021.

Bell became just the 29th driver in the history of the championship to complete the famous three-peat after leading a JGR 1-2 in Sunday’s Shriners Children's 500 at 🥀Phoenix Raceway. He had already won the previous two rounds at Atlanta and Austin.

The last driver to achieve that feat was Hendrick Motorsports’ Kyle Larson, who scored a trio of consecutive wins on two separat🐈e occasions in his title-winning 2021 season.

Bell revealed that his cre꧑w chief Adam Stevens made him believe that it would be possible to emulate Larson’s success when he joined Joe Gibbs Racing fo🐼ur years ago, as he recalled a conversation from 2021. 

“Three straight [wins], it's surreal,” he said. “I will never forget 2021, my first ye💧ar with Adam Stevens, [when] Kyle Larson won three st🥂raight.

“Me and Adam🐈 got off to a rocky start. We are sitting in his office at JGR, and he looked at me and said we can do this.

“He said I want to d🦩o these three straight sitting in these exact two same chairs talking about him and Kyle Busch. I said I know that we can do this. It took a while to get here but we finally did it.

“I'm soဣ proud of all of the mechanics, the engineers, Adam, the pit cre♏w members, everybody on this no 20 car.

“What you are seeing is everybody pulling the rope in the same direction, everybody doing their jobs to the best of their abilitie🌸s.

“This is what I knew that could come out of this from the team, and I will say it came from Adam. I didn't know what was capable of t🍎his team, Adam knew what was capable of this team, and we are finally starting to see the fruit of 🃏it.”

Bell was on course for a comfortable victory at Phoeꦉnix until a late caution caused by the other JGR Toyota of Ty Gibbs t▨hrew a spanner in the works.

But the 30-year-old managed to fend off his teammate Denny Hamlin as well as Larson▨’s Chevrolet to take a narrow 0.049s victory.

The Oklahoma native admitted that he faced the worst-case scenario on option tyres as the race resumed with just two𒀰 laps remaining.

“Whenever you are sitting there dreamingไ it up, that's about as ugly as it gets,” he said immediately after the race.

“You put the red tyres on, you are lik🌳e alright what I don't want to happen is go 20-30 laps and get a yellow. then that happened. “Then we went 10 more laps and we had another yellow.

“Then it was all about who could get clear on the restart, neither of us could. We were just racing really really ha꧂rd there coming to the line. JGR 1-2, how about that!”