By his own admission, Bubba Wallace’s first nine races of the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series season have been far from perfect. Crashes, engine issues, pit stop mishaps, speeding penalties, miscues — Wallace and the No. 23 Toyota team have seen it all in the first quarter of NASCAR’s season.
However, the 29-year-old driver for Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin’s 23XI Racing team has high hopes for the next stretch of the season. Not only does Wallace say he and the team are learning from their mistakes, but his first career Cup wins also were at two of the next three tracks: Talladega Superspeedway and Kansas Speedway.
