Bubba Wallace’s spotter refuses to blame Zane Smith for Dover DNF, reveals the real culprit

Freddie Kraft and his DBC crew sees the Dover wreck of Bubba Wallace as a race incident.

Bubba Wallace’s spotter refuses to blame Zane Smith for Dover DNF, reveals the real culprit

Freddie Kraft (Via offaxispaint.com) and Bubba Walllace (Via IMAGO)

After a slow start to the season, Bubba Wallace produced some back-to-back solid runs in the races till Talladega and put-himself in a solid position. But the last two races have been a huge nightmare for him as he got DNFed in both. At Dega he was crashed out in a all-Toyota wreck and at Dover last Sunday, he was taken out by Zane Smith.

Bubba Wallace, while attempting to overtake Zane Smith, was spun from behind and he went on to collect Christopher Bell and Willaim Byron, resulting in the DNF of the trio. The back-to-back DNFs and cost him his spot in the top-16 in the championship points table. Now No:23 Toyota Camry’s spotter Freddie Krft has revealed who should be blamed for the crash.

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He pointed out that Zane Smith didn’t had any choice but to do what he did at Dover as if he had backed of, there was a huge possibility that he would’ve been taken out from the back. He then hilariously claimed that it was the person who made a post on X saying No:23 has the best DNF record in the current grid is the actual culprit.  

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If Zane does try to back out of that situation, it's not like we're the tail of the field, he's just gonna get run over from behind by somebody else. I can tell you whose fault it is, it's whoever f*****g tweeted two weeks ago that we had the longest streak without a DNF because now we've got back-to-back ones.
Freddie Kraft said via Door Bumper Clear podcast.

Freddie Kraft’s co-host claimed it was no one’s fault

Veteran spotter Brett Griffin, before Kraft gave the hilarious verdict, pointed out that no-one can be blamed for the incident. He admitted that Smith did make a mistake when he didn’t lift after Tyler Reddick got lose ahead of him, but he was being a racer and doing what he had to do.

Christopher Bell, Zane Smith and Bubba Wallace
Christopher Bell, Zane Smith and Bubba Wallace (Via IMAGO) The No:24 Car and No: 23 cars damaged (in circle via screenshot @NASCAR/X)

Tyler gets loose again and Zane is kind of coming down to get on his door it looked like to me almost to side draft him, that was where Zane made a mistake. I don’t think that it was anybody’s ‘fault’. I think Zane got in a bad spot and he didn’t try to dig himself out of it. He tried to remain a racecar driver in that particular situation and he needed to just forfeit what he was going to lose.

Brett Griffin said.

Bubba Wallace will have the best shot at getting back to victory lane this coming weekend at Kansas. He won his last and second career race at the track in 2022, and 23XI has won three races at the track so far in the Next-Gen era. So, he has a genuine shot at winning if he can be more consistent.

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