Bubba Wallace shows speed, leads laps at Homestead
Despite leading in the final stage, Bubba Wallace had to settle for third-place Sunday in the Straight Talk Wireless 400.
Wallace started the race at Homestead-Miami Speedway ninth, collected six stage points, and led three times for 56 laps. His third-place finish marked his first Top-5 finish of the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season.
“We showed up here in Miami and had speed,” Wallace said. “That’s the first box you want to check. We all know when you are a race car driver, you want to show up and be competitive. We were that.”
Additionally, Wallace claimed the bonus point for the fastest lap of the race, posting a 32.335-second lap on Lap 218.
Led 56 laps and brings it home 3rd. Bubba Wallace talks with @JamieLittleTV after the Homestead-Miami finish. #NASCARonFS1 pic.twitter.com/2bU8jpRt99
— FOX: NASCAR (@NASCARONFOX) March 23, 2025
Prior to Sunday, Wallace’s highest finish of the season was a ninth-place run at Atlanta Motor Speedway in February.
“It’s been a grind all year long,” Wallace said. “I’m talking like we’re 20 races in. It’s only five, whatever it is. We’ve just been getting kicked in the teeth the last stage of every race. Finally closed one out. This feels good.”
Before the race, Wallace entered the race 11th in driver’s standings with an 11-point cushion over the playoff cutline. Now, Wallace is seventh in points with a 36-point advantage over the cutline.
Twenty races remain before the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs. The next scheduled race is Sunday, March 30 at Martinsville Speedway.
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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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