A riveting battle between Alex Bowman and Bubba Wallace in Chicago was not an anticipated storyline for the 2025 Cup Sequence season. The drivers have been seeded towards one another for the second spherical of NASCAR’s in-season event, which can go down on the streets of Chicago on Sunday. Solely one in every of them will stay in competition for the title after the 75 laps in Grant Park.
That is notably intriguing since they have already got a historical past in Chicago. Following Bowman’s victory on the circuit final 12 months, Wallace had slammed into him throughout the cool-down lap. He did this in retaliation for Bowman spinning him on the race’s twenty fifth lap. NASCAR thought-about Wallace’s act of revenge offensive and was fined $50,000.
Bowman was fast to apologize for the error and sorted issues out within the aftermath. He was even important of the promotion for fining Wallace. Whereas all seems clean on the floor now, some leftover emotions would possibly flip up on Sunday, contemplating the excessive stakes that the 2 can be racing for. $1 million isn’t a small bag of cash to surrender.
