NASCAR officials announced Wednesday that Bubba Wallace was penalized and fined $50,000 for his post-race incident with Alex Bowman at the Chicago Street Course over the weekend.
Alex Bowman admitted that he didn’t believe Bubba Wallace’s retaliation act during the Chicago Street Course over the weekend was worthy of a penalty considering the circumstances, but
disagreed. officials fined Wallace $50,000 on Wednesday for violating member conduct code when he slammed his car into the door of Bowman’s No. 48 during the cooldown lap of Sunday’s race. The post-race confrontation sent an unsuspecting Bowman into the wall. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM The situation followed an incident on Lap 25 when Bowman spun out Wallace, costing the No. 23 driver track position and a potential shot at winning the race.
Cup Series career. After the race, Bowman expressed that Wallace should not be punished, adding that he 'has every right to be mad.' BUBBA WALLACE RETALIATES AGAINST ALEX BOWMAN FOLLOWING SPIN OUT AT 'S CHICAGO STREET COURSE 'I’d be mad, too. I ruined his day. The restart was chaotic. I just made every wrong decision that I possibly could. I was fighting with my windshield wiper switch trying to get it working, and I couldn’t get it working. I was focused on that, missed the corner.' 'I locked all four tires and just slid right into him,' he continued. 'I just messed up and absolutely ruined his day.
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