LONG POND, Pennsylvania — With 10 races remaining within the NASCAR Cup Sequence common season, Bubba Wallace and Alex Bowman have little margin for error.
Each drivers are presently contained in the Cup Sequence playoff image after 16 races, however with the potential for extra winners beneath the minimize line, each drivers know {that a} win is the one certain path to the postseason.
Wallace, who’s thirteenth on the playoff grid and 57 factors above the minimize line, is trying to get again to the playoffs after lacking out in 2024. He is additionally attempting to snap a winless drought that dates again to Kansas in September of 2022.
“I’ve had that mentality for the final three years that we have to win,” Wallace stated. “Nothing has modified there. We have been executing all yr, placing some races collectively. I am actually happy with how Mexico Metropolis went. We’re in a good spot, however not a secure spot in any respect. A win makes us secure, in order that’s the one purpose on our thoughts.”
Bowman is in a extra precarious state of affairs, sitting fifteenth on the grid, solely 22 factors above the minimize line. His fourth-place end in Mexico Metropolis on June 15 was his greatest end since his runner-up effort at Homestead-Miami Speedway on March 23.
“We’re not in a great place by any means,” Bowman stated. “Over the past two months main into Mexico, we bled a ton of factors. We simply have to get again to operating the place we should always. Final week was swing again in the correct route. It’d positively be higher to win and be locked in. We have been doing all the correct issues, after which we found out tips on how to crash fairly a bit. Hopefully that is behind us and we might be pointed in the correct route.”
Bowman and Wallace will begin twenty fifth and thirty fourth, respectively, in Sunday’s Nice American Getaway 400 at Pocono Raceway.
All quotations obtained firsthand except in any other case famous.
