Former NASCAR Champion ‘Concerned’ About Bubba Wallace originally appeared on The Spun.
The 2025 season hasn’t been great for Bubba Wallace, but it didn’t truly become a disaster until last Sunday at Pocono Raceway.
Wallace’s weekend started off with him failing to run a qualifying lap because the hot rod for his No. 23 Toyota wouldn’t fire. Any hope of him making a miraculous run up the leaderboard was derailed when he suffered a brake failure.
Unfortunately for Wallace, he has failed to finish six of 17 races this season.
“That was the most frustrated I’ve been in a long time,” Wallace said. “That was like a gut punch … really hard to swallow. Yeah, it’s qualifying … whatever. But it took me back to like a-few-years-ago Bubba, where it’s like, yeah, here we go. You ride on the momentum high and you get excited and have some optimism, and then you’re just smacked in the face with some B-S.”
Even though Wallace has time to turn his rough season around, some people are convinced it’s just not meant to be for him and 23XI Racing.
Former NASCAR driver Kevin Harvick isn’t ready to write off Wallace just yet, but he admit he’s concerned about his recent performances.
“I would say there are some concerns about the 23XI speed in general,” Harvick said, via On3. “I don’t think Reddick has been as fast; I think Bubba started really well and has been kind of average in a lot of the most recent weeks.”
Wallace has a chance to redeem himself this Saturday at Atlanta Moto Speedway. He’s entering this weekend’s race with a positive mindset.
“We’ll get out of this little slump that we’re in and get back on the momentum train,” Wallace told reporters.
As of this weekend, Wallace is 14th in the Cup Series standings.
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Former NASCAR Champion ‘Concerned’ About Bubba Wallace first appeared on The Spun on Jun 28, 2025
This story was originally reported by The Spun on Jun 28, 2025, where it first appeared.
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