Summary: The series of 12 Questions interviews continues this week with Christopher Bell, the Chili Bowl champion, Camping World Truck Series champion and current Xfinity Series driver for Joe Gibbs Racing. This interview was recorded as a podcast but is also transcribed for those who would rather read.<br> 1. How often do you have dreams about racing?<br> I haven’t dreamed about racing in a while. As a kid, I used to always have nightmares that I wouldn’t be ready in time. I don’t know why, but I would always have nightmares that I would miss my heat race at the Chili Bowl or something. Like I wasn’t dressed in time and the next thing you know, your heat race or the feature’s pushing off and you’re trying to get in your car. I would have those dreams quite frequently whenever I was a kid. Recently, I haven’t dreamed too much about racing.<br> 2. If you get into someone during a race — intentional or not — does it matter if you apologize?<br> If you intentionally wreck someone, then there’s no need to apologize. If it’s an accident and you really didn’t mean to do it, I think you need to make that effort to connect with him. Generally, if I accidentally get into someone, I guess I don’t go immediately because everybody’s still wound up from the race. But within a couple hours, I’ll reach out and try to talk to him.<br> Like via text?<br> Yeah.<br> 3. What is the biggest compliment someone could give you?<br> Honestly, this is gonna sound weird, but growing up and following (Kyle) Larson’s footsteps, the biggest compliment that people have given me is when they compare me to Larson, because he’s the greatest race car driver I’ve seen. And so for people to have me and him in the same conversation, it’s pretty cool.<br> 4. NASCAR comes to you and says, “Hey, we are bringing a celebrity to the race and we’re wondering if you have time to say hi.” Who is a celebrity you’d be really excited to host?<br><br> <br> I don’t know. I don’t really follow too much of the celebrity scene I guess, but recently, I just watched Ride Along and get a good laugh out of Kevin Hart, so that’d be kind of cool.<br> He’d be fun to hang out with at the track.<br> Yeah. He’d make you laugh, anyway.<br> 5. In an effort to show they are health-conscious, NASCAR offers the No. 1 pit stall selection for an upcoming race to the first driver willing to go vegan for a month. Would you do it?<br> No. I live on meat, so there’s no way.<br> 6. It’s time for the Random Race Challenge. I have picked a random race from your career and you have to guess where you finished.<br> I’ll be good at this.<br> You have good memory?<br> Yes.<br> Then I probably didn’t go hard enough because I was like, “There’s not enough NASCAR races to where you would probably remember most of the NASCAR races.”<br> If you picked a dirt race in 2013, I’d tell you where I finished.<br> Well let’s see. Where did you finish in the 2014 Belleville Nationals feature?<br> Second. No, third. No, sorry, fourth. I think it was, Rico (Abreu) won, I finished fourth.<br> You did finish fourth.<br> Sorry, it was ’15 when I finished second to (Bryan) Clauson.<br> How do you have such a good memory for a race? I can’t even remember races from this year.<br> I don’t know, man. That’s just something that I’ve always had. For the most part, you can tell me any race and I’ll be able to tell you where I finished and pretty much how the race went. I remember at Belleville in 2014, the dash is what lines you up in the feature, and I think me and Rico were running first and second in the dash and I thought I had a flat tire, so I pulled in. So I finished last in the dash which was sixth or eighth, and I didn’t have a flat,
