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Associated Press
Jul 27, 2025, 06:22 PM ET
INDIANAPOLIS -- Bubba Wallace became the archetypal Black operator to triumph connected Indianapolis Motor Speedway's 2.5-mile oval, surviving a precocious rainfall delay, 2 overtimes, concerns implicit moving retired of substance and a hard-charging Kyle Larson connected Sunday successful the Brickyard 400.
The 3rd NASCAR Cup triumph of Wallace's vocation was besides his biggest. It snapped a 100-race winless streak that dated to 2022 astatine Kansas. He besides won astatine Talladega successful 2021. It's his archetypal triumph astatine 1 of NASCAR's 4 crown jewel races.
"Unbelievable," Wallace shouted connected his vigor aft crossing the gait of bricks.
And portion the last spread was 0.222 seconds, helium didn't scope triumph lane without immoderate consternation.
Larson trailed by 5.057 seconds with 14 laps to spell but the spread was down to astir 3 seconds with six remaining erstwhile the yellowish emblem came retired due to the fact that of rain. The cars rolled to a halt connected pit lane with 4 to go, giving Wallace astir 20 further minutes to deliberation and rethink his restart strategy.
But aft beating Larson done the 2nd turn, a clang down the leaders forced a 2nd overtime, extending the contention adjacent much laps arsenic Wallace's squad thought helium mightiness tally retired of gas.
Wallace risked everything by staying connected the way past bushed the defending contention victor disconnected the restart again to forestall Larson from becoming the 4th back-to-back victor of the Brickyard.
It besides alleviated the vexation Wallace felt Saturday erstwhile helium spent astir of the qualifying league connected the provisional rod lone to spot Chase Briscoe surpass with 1 of the past runs successful the session.
He made definite determination was nary repetition Sunday, giving an added boost to the 23XI Racing co-owned by hoops Hall of Famer Michael Jordan and past week's contention winner, Denny Hamlin, arsenic it continues to conflict NASCAR successful tribunal implicit its charter status.
