Bubba Wallace Blames Ross Chastain for the 25-Car Mega Wreck at Talladega

23XI Racing’s star driver Bubba Wallace the first to spin out in the 25-car wreck at Talladega blamed Ross Chastain for the incident.

Bubba Wallace Blames Ross Chastain for the 25-Car Mega Wreck at Talladega

Ross Chastain spun Bubba Wallace (Images via sportsnaut.com and Screenshot/Fox Sports)

The NASCAR Cup Series race on Sunday at Talladega was wild, with Carson Hocevar securing his maiden win taking advantage of his aggressive racing style. Stage two wreck that collected 25 cars was the moment the changed the whole dynamic of the race.

23XI Racing’s Bubba Wallace found himself leading the race at the start of the second stage with Trackhouse Racing’s Ross Chastain behind him fighting for P1. 17 laps into the stage, the No:1 Chevy tried to overtake the No:23 Toyota by moving up the track.

The TRD driver moved up ahead of him as expected to make a block. Unfortunately, this resulted in a contact that send him spinning and making contact with the outside wall. It triggered a multi-car crash, taking out the likes of Ryan Blaney, Joey Logano and Kyle Larson out of the race.

The veteran was furious with the incident and was quick to put the blame on Trackhouse driver for the incident. Bubba Wallace’s message to his spotter Freddie Kraft about DNF was also hilarious, as the latter couldn’t see the car due to the smoke cloud following the wreck.

BW: He wrecked me

FK: I can’t see the car… How is it?

BW: I’ll see you in Texas

Bubba Wallace and Freddie Kraft on team radio.

Bubba Wallace takes some blame to himself over the incident

On his post-race interview the 23XI Racing driver shared his disappointment about the wreck and him dropping four spots down the table with Fox Sports. He admitted that hates how everything played out for his team and added that they should done better in the strategy side.

Bubba Wallace
Bubba Wallace (Via Motorcyclesports.net)

Damn. Nothing to show for in the first stage. Obviously, just trying to figure out the strategies stuff. Man, just hate it. Hate it for Xfinity, hate it for our team. Don’t want to have any DNFs; we have two now, so it’s a bummer.

Bubba Wallace said.

Further talking about the point, the veteran admitted that the Toyota’s haven’t been good when it comes to being pushed in 2026 and he is responsible for some of that. It’s something they needs to fix before next weekends’ race at Texas.

We got to figure out how to be pushed better, so I take responsibility on that. We’ll have a good debrief and figure out what we can do to make our Toyotas a little bit better being pushed, and maybe not have that happen. But appreciate Xfinity, we’ll go on to ole Texas and have some fun.

Bubba Wallace added.

The comments from the veteran are on point and shows there are a lot of room for improvement for the No:23 team. It would be interesting to see how everything is going to playout for the star driver in the coming races, as the pressure is on his shoulder are mounting.

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