re: Is Bubba Wallace a Contendor?

At least the woke or entitled drivers in F1 are at least good

I mean, judging by those stats it's clear why his face is on every single NASCAR promo

I used to say you could count on three things at Bristol:
1- Some nobodies will wind up in the top ten

2- Some stars will finish in the thirties

3- Jimmy Spencer will have an impact

After last night its now 80 races since Bubba has won. And Reddick is his teammate and competes every week.

Yep. It's not like he has bad equipment.

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But the root of him jumping into the BLM scene had nothing to do with cops.

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He was vocal about the other stuff before the incident at Talladega for anyone who follows the sport. Pretty much since he got into the 43 at RPM. He was pretty open about it with Dale Jr and other podcasters when questioned because of the BLM movement and other stuff especially given the Air Force was one of his top sponsors.

The noose thing was also secondary to the backlash he was given because he was asked point blank how he felt about Confederate flags being displayed at the track and gave his honest opinion that because of how he grew up and where he grew up you never knew what the intent was behind that flag and it could be uneasy. Then the garage pull at the first race at Dega since NASCAR banned the Confederate flag that incident happened after he received a lot of targeted hate over his comments about the flag being displayed. IIRC his team is who called in NASCAR to investigate because someone cut the pull off and it was found on some of their equipment. NASCAR called in the FBI because they were very aware of the backlash he was getting and not investigating could open them up to criticism. He 100% leaned into it and if what came out about him not even seeing the garage pull but his team being the ones to call it in is true...then I get why he leaned into it.

Dude took a lot of shite over the flag on social media and in person (still does). He earns some of the boos because of his on track antics, and sure some disagreement over some of the leaning he did into the stuff at Talladega. Then again a lot of the animosity is because people didn't read the facts as presented and understand the backstory there like in your post, or maybe a large portion of the fanbase is pretty racist and that incident just gave them an excuse to showcase that and they are leaning into it.

People also forget that every driver in the garage, led by Kevin Harvick and Jimmie Johnson, walked with him in solidarity on pit road at Dega before the race. So if you are going to get on Bubba for "bending the knee", the criticism needs to go to Harvick and every other driver in that garage or you're a hypocrite.

Also, Bubba is one of the most-liked drivers in the garage. His 2 best friends are Chase Elliott and Ryan Blaney, two good 'ol boys who don't suffer fools(especially Chase).

He's a product of the DEI movement, in my opinion. Can't see him ever being a top contender. I'm sick of how they "promote" him after the "noose" fiasco.

I don't hate him. I just don't care for his attitude. I just refer to him as "Crybaby"!

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People also forget that every driver in the garage, led by Kevin Harvick and Jimmie Johnson, walked with him in solidarity on pit road at Dega before the race.

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Look, that was Nascar at its finest scripting a Hollywood style made for TV woke moment. They made this quietly mandatory and if you didn’t support the sham you would end up paying the Nascar price with many tools in their arsenal. Nascar controls EVERYTHING that happens on pit road and this was no exception. Drivers had to bend the knee to wokeness to show solidarity with the woke Nascar leaders.