(By Eric Rood) – Christopher Bell has had a rough start to his 2016 season. The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver tumbled across the front straight in spectacular fashion at Daytona in the series’ 2016 opener and just when things were looking up last weekend in Atlanta, everything went terribly wrong again and Bell found himself sitting in another bent race truck.

Bell led the Great Clips 200 at Atlanta Motor Speedway with just eight laps to go when some rubbing bodywork cut his front-right tire as he exited Turn 4 at AMS. With no control on the outside tire, his Kyle Busch-owned Toyota headed straight up the track and clobbered the outside wall at high speed. All of the safety features got the job done and Bell was able to lower his own window net and climb from the car, but those kind of hard hits with a lot of the nose don’t feel great.

It was a bad day, in fact, for all of Kyle Busch’s entries with Daniel Suarez ending his race with an accident 11 laps prior and rookie William Byron only completing 59 laps before his engine let go. Meanwhile, John Hunter Nemechek inherited the lead after Bell’s crash and held on to take home his second career NASCAR win.

Still, there’s no reason for the 2015 Mudsummer Classic winner to panic; Bell has shown plenty of pace led 42 of the race’s laps this weekend. With the truck series now concluding in a Chase format, expect the young gun to pick up enough wins and points to be in the thick of the title race at season’s end.