Bubba Wallace may quickly be in line for a punishment from NASCAR for dooring Alex Bowman through the cool-down lap following the conclusion to Sunday’s Grant Park 165 Chicago Avenue Race.
That, after all, will come down as to if NASCAR feels what Wallace did was egregious sufficient to warrant a high quality and/or lack of driver factors. Talking on Monday’s “Actions Detrimental” podcast, 23XI Racing co-owner Denny Hamlin defined how the penalty course of works. Hamlin stated that NASCAR Senior Vice President of Competitors Elton Sawyer will doubtless have a separate dialog with each Wallace and Bowman this week and decide primarily based on the data he gathers.
“I feel that it begins with a dialog greater than doubtless,” Hamlin stated. “Greater than doubtless Elton Sawyer on this occasion will attain out to Bubba and have a dialog with him, have a dialog with Alex. That’s usually how they are saying they need to do it. They didn’t essentially do this in mine and Ross’s case at Phoenix. They type of simply took our phrase for it right here on the podcast, however they stated usually what they need to do is there’s an incident involving two drivers, retaliation or what have you ever. They’ll attain out to each events to get the details, after which they’ll decide from there. In the event that they view this egregious, that’s what they might do. And that’s an enormous if.”
Bubba Wallace going through punishment for dooring Alex Bowman in Chicago Avenue Race?
The incident occurred moments after Bowman took the checkered flag. Wallace was nonetheless upset after Bowman spun him out in Stage 1 and determined to enact his revenge on the Hendrick Motorsports driver. Wallace, who entered Sunday’s race just under Bowman on the playoff cutline, completed P13.
Bowman himself didn’t see any drawback with Wallace’s retaliation, saying it was “loads deserved.” Bowman doesn’t consider Wallace deserves any punishment from NASCAR.
“He barely hit me, all the pieces was high quality, and it was loads deserved,” Bowman stated ‘… I’d be mad, too. I ruined his day. I simply tousled. I’ve been embarrassed about it because it occurred. I attempted to name him through the rain delay, and I shot him a textual content.”
