Bubba Wallace scores back-to-back Top-5 finishes to open season
HAMPTON, Ga. — Bubba Wallace has started the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series campaign with two consecutive Top-5 finishes.
Wallace finished fifth Sunday in the Ambetter Health 400 at Atlanta Motor Speedway after finishing fifth in the Daytona 500 last Monday.
“I’m so glad we’re done with superspeedway racing for a while,” Wallace said. “The mental toll it takes on you, to just making sure you make the right move for 260 laps, including the race last week too, is a lot.”
Wallace, who started 18th, led three laps and picked up three stage points in Stage 1.
“Team did a great job. I put us behind with that speeding penalty on pit road. Never gave up, though. Came from the back. Enjoying where we’re at right now. Just can’t get complacent.”
Wallace sits fourth in points entering next Sunday’s race at Las Vegas, 27 points ahead of the playoff cutline.
Being ranked fourth is the highest Wallace has ever been ranked in points two races into a Cup Series season.
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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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