Temperatures were running high at Charlotte Motor Speedway this weekend, and so were tempers when the driver of the No. 43 Chevrolet Camaro, Bubba Wallace, threw a drink in the face of Alex Bowman immediately after the Roval 400.
Bowman and Wallace had multiple on-track incidents, including a bump on the first lap where Bowman carried too much speed into the back chicane and hit Wallace’s Chevrolet Camaro. In response, Wallace made several rude gestures throughout the race, with Bowman eventually spinning Wallace, putting him into the wall.
“I don’t know if he was made about the first lap or what but obviously, that was just a mistake. Then I got flipped over for every single straightaway for three laps,” Bowman said. “I got flipped off by him for three or four laps in Richmond so I was just over it. I gotta stand up for myself at some point, right? Probably wouldn’t have gotten wrecked if he had his finger back in the car.”
Following the race end, Bowman was receiving medical attention as he sat against the door of the No. 88 Chevrolet Camaro, exhausted and dehydrated from the race. That’s when Wallace walked up and confronted him.
After a brief exchange, Wallace ended up splashing his drink in Bowman’s face.
“He don’t like to race,” Wallace told NASCAR.com. “He just runs over everybody. He gets to Lap 1 and he runs over me and the 3 (Austin Dillon) into the back chicane. We’re back there in the trunk, man. Just take it easy for a lap. He had a fast car and he just runs over us. Shoot us through the chicane and then we get a penalty for it. Every time he gets to me, he just runs over me.”
“Smooth move of playing the sick card so I couldn’t bust him in his mouth,” Wallace added.
Bowman ended the day in second, while Wallace finished in 24th.
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Just a couple of good old boys not meaning no harm. Lol GYSOT !!!
There are no “Good Old Boys” left, I doubt hardly anyone of them can even turn a wrench or stay up all night at the shop or in the pits. there all a bunch of “boys” and some of them probibly have to be coddled! Not to mention this thing of having a “post season” in racing is pathetic, and they are now even calling it the “playoffs”? You don’t “play” a race, and before the you know who’s gets started they do call them “(game) consoles”.
Just make Daytona the “””superbowl””” already, after all it wasn’t always the season opener!
NASCAR is dead anyways they commercialized it to death.
Playoffs and point system is terrible. The best car and driver over the whole season should be the Champion, like it used to be. Segment racing is weird. If they want something different run heat races. Waiting to see if France family sells and takes the money while it’s still worth something.
Give me the finger for three laps running, you’d be lucky if all you got was spun into the wall. Don’t care what he did.
Quit watching NASCRAP after they crowned a supposed Champion that missed 11 total races. The points system is a joke and made just for media, not the best driver or team. They played into the media and corporate money and away from the fans. Most of these current drivers are just wimpy little boys that would get their asses kicked by real drivers from the old days, like Allison, Yarborough and etc. I read this article expecting to hear that Bowman got up and knocked his ass out, but no such happening.
Marsha Marsha Marsha !!!
Relax it’s just a kids game…..
Its entertainment you do understand all professional sports a rigged to one extent or another, you can always watch golf ?
Just my opinion..
Finish 2nd and 24th?
That kind of says it all, doesn’t it?
Wallace is kind of a baby. He’s not in Bowman’s league yet.