Legendary NASCAR Cup team owner Joe Gibbs has revealed the emotions 🍒he went through on the final lap of Shriners Children’s 500, as Christopher Bell and Denny Hamlin fou🌸ght tooth-and-neck for victory.

A late caution period at Phoenix set up a three-lap dash to the finish, with Bell leading𒁏 the field in the #20 Toyota ahead of teammate Hamlin.

The two ran side-by-side around the one-mile oval, with Hendrick Motorsports’ Kyle Larson also breathing down their neck and ne꧅arly getting under both exiting Turn 4.

Ultimately, Bell managed to fend off Hamlin and Larson to win the race by just 0.♍049s, in what was the second-closest NASCAR finish at Phoenix.

While JGR boss Joe Gibbs got to celebrate a 1-2 finish as both Bell and Hamlin kept it clean, he admitted that it was hard to watch the two tussle it out for victory - especially with Larson r𝕴eady to pounce in case things went awry.

“Nervou༺s isn't probably a good word for it, I was ready to upchuck,” Gibbs said in the post-race press conferenc𝓀e.

“It is one of the things I always worry about when we get two of our cars up there because that makes for an intense meeti𒐪ng on Monday.

“Hey, they raced it out. It looked like nobody took unfair advantage. So I just⭕ appreciate tꦺhat.

“I think for the last few weeks in a row we had great finishes to races with people having a chance to show their skills and gཧet it done the right way. And I appreciate that again here.”

The Phoenix event marked the third consecutive win 🧸for Bell and the Toyota-affiliated JGR squa🌠d.

Following the race, 30-year-old Bell said his crew chief Adam Stevens had told him asღ early as 2021 that it would be possible for them to a💙chieve a three-peat in NASCAR.

Incidentally, it was Larson’s succeꦇsses during his sole title-winning season that served as inspiration for🥂 Bell and Stevens.