Bubba Wallace ‘frustrated’ with fifth in Daytona 500
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Another Daytona 500, another Bubba Wallace Top-5 finish.
Wallace finished fifth in Monday’s Daytona 500, his third Top-5 finish in The Great American Race, and second in three years.
“I’m so frustrated, but proud of this team,” Wallace said. “This was the cleanest 500 car I’ve ever had. That’s nice! Lot of positives. The team, 95% execution, but you got to have 100. I don’t know exactly what happened.
“Just didn’t need that, but proud of the race we ran. Have a full race under us to go debrief and come back stronger for the next race here.”
Wallace started 24th, earning stage points in each of the first two stages.
Leaving Daytona, Wallace is fifth in points, 25 points ahead of the playoff 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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