LONG POND, Pennsylvania — With 10 races remaining within the NASCAR Cup Collection common season, Bubba Wallace and Alex Bowman have little margin for error.
Each drivers are at present contained in the Cup Collection playoff image after 16 races, however with the potential for extra winners beneath the reduce 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 reduce 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 an honest spot, however not a protected spot in any respect. A win makes us protected, in order that’s the one aim on our thoughts.”
Bowman is in a extra precarious state of affairs, sitting fifteenth on the grid, solely 22 factors above the reduce 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 a great swing again in the precise route. It’d undoubtedly be higher to win and be locked in. We had been doing all the precise issues, after which we found out the best way to crash fairly a bit. Hopefully that is behind us and we might be pointed in the precise 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.
