Bubba Wallace reacted to his eighth-place finish at Watkins Glen, outperforming the expectations yet again with another strong showing.
It’s now been two weeks since Indianapolis, but Bubba Wallace is still running well. He won the Brickyard 400 and hasn’t looked back ever since, coming across as a significantly more confident driver in recent weeks.
He didn’t quite have the car to make real noise at Watkins Glen — and let’s be honest, nobody was catching winner Shane van Gisbergen anyway — but Wallace did his best. He made it count in the form of another top-10 finish, coming in eighth.
It was his fourth straight top-10 finish. And that it came on a road course was huge; Wallace isn’t always at his best on the road courses.
“It was solid. McDonald’s team did a really, really good job getting our Toyota close,” Bubba Wallace told Frontstretch. “We were still missing the beat a little bit just from the start of the weekend.”
Wallace was coming off a race in which he saved a disaster day. He was two laps down at Iowa late in the race last week and managed to come all the way back to finish sixth. And that happened on a day when just about everyone else was struggling to pass. It was impressive.
So, too, was Sunday’s run at Watkins Glen. Wallace gave it everything he had and it paid off in the form of another top-10 finish.
“We just had to execute, run a clean race all day and make the most of it,” Bubba Wallace said. “That’s what we did. And we come out with a top 10. Months ago we determined that we were a 10th-12th place car on road courses, and that’s just volumes to the people on this team and them pushing me to believe in that and to give it my all. And this is what we get. So I appreciate them.”
So what’s different right now for Bubba Wallace? He attributed the recent change to a renewed sense of confidence coming off the Indianapolis win.
“Just calming down, slowing things down, processing things a little bit slower and making it work,” Wallace said.
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