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Bubba Wallace Reveals He’s Immune to the Common “Rigged” Criticism of His Historic NASCAR Win in Talladega

Published 04/25/2022, 5:20 AM EDT

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Seven months after his historic and completely legit Talladega race win, Bubba Wallace is still bombarded with senseless haters. However, the 23XI Racing driver has become quite immune to this senseless criticism.

Ahead of the race at Talladega, Bubba Wallace spoke about the commonality or the one thing his haters keep mentioning about his Talladega win. And that is the element of rain, and how it helped ‘him’ and him only.

“There’s been plenty of instances where those have happened, and teams have capitalized on it,” Wallace said about races being decided during circumstances of rain.

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“The people that aren’t fans of yours and are just going to continue to carry that to the grave that it was rigged, or we only won because it rained. All of the 40 drivers in the field knew it was going to rain. Why didn’t they win?”

Even though the #23 driver insisted that one can’t spend too much time on such hate, he revealed that he does go back and reads the comments. “Every post that I click on there—I just go back and read the comments because it’s like ugh, no, still dumbasses today,” he added.

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Bubba Wallace finds support from ‘controversial’ NASCAR driver

A few days ago, Brandon Brown, the NASCAR Xfinity Series who found himself in the middle of the LGB political controversy without doing or saying anything to warrant it, responded resolutely to a Bubba Wallace hater.

The supposed fan of NASCAR suggested that the 23XI Racing driver’s win at Talladega last year was “very un-sportsmanlike” and “detrimental” to NASCAR, that he “cowardly hoped for rain.”

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This led to Brandon Brown, who has developed some expertise of his own in dealing with unwarranted, senseless, extremist criticism, jumping in the ring for the Cup Series driver.

“A win is a win, no matter if it’s rain, darkness (like mine) or any other safety hazard that calls the race per NASCAR No need to bring hate to anyones win, no matter who it is,” Brown replied.

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“@BubbaWallace works his a** off and deserves this win and the next ones to come.”

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Shaharyar is an F1 & NASCAR writer at EssentiallySports. A graduate in Journalism from Amity University, he has been a passionate follower of motorsports for a better part of the decade. A Max Verstappen and Ferrari supporter, he dreams of a pairing of the two in future.
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