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Bubba Wallace
Richard Petty Motorsports
2020 Sprint Stats
Points
384
Starts
21
Wins
0
Poles
0
Top 5
0
Top 10
4
2020 Fantasy Outlook
Wallace is entering a contract year at Richard Petty Motorsports. The last two seasons in the No. 43 Chevrolet haven't shown much growth for the young driver. Wallace has managed nearly identical average start and average finish (around 24.0) marks for both campaigns, and he's finished 28th-place in the driver points both seasons. It really has been a flat line performance to this point. RPM will be taking a long, hard look at Wallace this season. With sponsorship getting tougher and tougher to come by, results need to start happening on the track in order for Wallace to secure a contract extension here. That pressure will either galvanize this youngster and he'll step up, or he could completely fold under that pressure. It's tough to predict. However, we do note that he only cracked the Top 20 twice in the final eight events of 2019. Read Past Outlooks
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Crew Chief Jerry Baxter
Crew chief ejected
NASCAR Cup
August 2, 2020
Wallace had his crew chief suspended and will have to forfeit his starting position for Sunday's race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway after it was found that there was an improperly mounted ballast, Bob Pockrass of Fox Sports reports.
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Wallace will also be docked 10 points for the infraction. He would have started 15th, so he will have to work his way through the field at a track that is historically difficult to pass. Because he keeps his official starting position, Wallace is not is not a very enticing DFS option.
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Richard Petty Motorsports welcomes Wallace back for season two in the No. 43 Chevrolet. Last season's Rookie of the Year candidate started strong out of the gates with his runner-up finish in the Daytona 500, but it was a much different story from there on out. The Mobile, Alabama native labored to just two more Top 10s during the season for a total of three for the campaign. Wallace's 24.5 average finish over the course of last season resulted in a 28th-place finish in the final driver standings. We expect some marginal improvement for this driver and team over last season. After all, Aric Almirola was piloting this same car to six or seven Top 10s per year and high teen to low 20 standings finishes for many seasons. Wallace has similar potential. Crew chief Drew Blickensderfer will continue calling the shots as we see this driver continue to grow this season.
Wallace will finally get his crack at the top level of NASCAR in 2018. He takes over the No. 43 Chevrolet of Richard Petty Motorsports and fills the seat that Aric Almirola vacated. Wallace comes over from Roush Fenway Racing's Xfinity Series team where in five seasons he managed 35 Top-10 finishes and grabbed a top standings finish of seventh-place in 2015. He made four relief appearances for Almirola last season in the No. 43 Ford during his back injury hiatus. The 24-year-old driver performed impressively in those outings collecting two Top-15 and three Top-20 finishes. The relief duty served as an audition for Richard Petty Motorsports, and they saw all they needed to see to give Wallace the ride for 2018. RPM will shift from Ford to Chevrolet in the upcoming season, so Wallace and this team have lots of upside.
Wallace's 2016 season failed to measure up to expectations in a few ways. His Top 10 totals dropped from 14 to nine over the previous year, and he slipped from seventh to 11th in the overall driver standings over 2015. Once again he was held out of victory lane and saw his average finish drop from 11.8 to 15.7 year-over-year. The downturn in performance was disappointing and saw Wallace nowhere near making the Chase for the Cup playoff. Roush Fenway Racing is in a bit of turmoil right now and it's showing up in this race team. Wallace will return for another full schedule in 2017 although not much is known about the team's makeup or the sponsorship package. This young driver will likely face some headwinds again in his pursuit of success in the Xfinity Series.
Wallace didn’t have quite the season we expected for his first full-time effort in the Xfinity Series last year. He claimed no wins and only 14 Top-10 finishes in a season that lacked a lot of week-to-week consistency. Wallace only led 85 total laps during his rookie campaign, so it seemed this team lacked some speed when compared to others. The young driver will get a new crew chief in season two. Matt Puccia takes over atop the No. 6 team’s war wagon and will guide Wallace to hopefully a better season in 2016. While victories are probably a slim hope at this point, we would expect to see a generous increase in Top-5 and Top-10 finishes in the upcoming campaign.
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NASCAR Cup
July 31, 2020
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Suffers from heat exhaustion
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June 8, 2020
Wallace was treated for heat exhaustion in the infield medical center Sunday and released following the Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
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Scores Second Top 10 of the Season
NASCAR Cup
June 1, 2020
Wallace scored his second Top-10 finish of the season with his 10th-place finish at Bristol Motor Speedway Sunday afternoon, richardpettymotorsports.com reports.
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Withdraws from Talladega iRacing event
NASCAR Cup
April 25, 2020
Wallace posted on his personal Twitter account Friday that he will not race in Sunday's iRacing event at Talladega,
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Loses Sponsor after Bristol iRace
NASCAR Cup
April 6, 2020
On Sunday afternoon, Ben Blessing was in his home in Tennessee, running around his living room screaming, "I ain't paying him a cent." Blessing is referring to Darrell "Bubba" Wallace Jr., the NASCAR driver that Blessing's company Blue-Emu agreed to sponsor for the virtual iRacing event on Sunday at Bristol Motor Speedway, Action Network reports.
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