Alex Bowman suffers engine failure at Bristol
A promising race day ended in the Bristol Motor Speedway garage area Sunday for Alex Bowman.
Food City 500 polesitter Alex Bowman, who led the opening 40 laps and collected 16 stage points across Stages 1 and 2, finished 37th, out of the race, with an engine issue.
Bowman started reporting to his Hendrick Motorsports team during Stage 3, around lap 287 of the 500-lap race, he was “blowing up.”
Bowman raced around the Tennessee speedway for about another 50 laps, falling multiple laps down, before pulling behind the wall.
After starting the season with five Top-10 finishes in the first six races, Bowman has extended a streak of no Top-10 finishes to three consecutive events.
Bowman finished 27th at Martinsville and 35th last weekend at Darlington.
Entering Bristol, Bowman was 10th in points with a 59-point cushion to the NASCAR Playoffs cutline.
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Dominic Aragon is currently the editor-in-chief for The Racing Experts.
From Grants, New Mexico, USA, Aragon started watching NASCAR in 2004 and has been covering the sport since 2009. Aragon is a 2012 graduate of Grants High School and a May 2016 graduate of the University of New Mexico with a B.A. in Mass Communications & Journalism. Aragon has worked in local and national media, as a musician, and an educator. He is co-author of the 2024 book "All of It: Daytona 500 Champion Tells the Rest of the Story" with racer Geoff Bodine.
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