Bubba Wallace collected points for the first 21 races of 2025, but on Sunday he won something more important: a trophy from the Crown Jewel and a place in the playoffs.
The Toyota 23xi Racing pilot endured a late delay and barely gained fuel to capture the 29th annual brickyard on Sunday 400 in the second extension to the legendary Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Ind.
After the rain fell with six laps to play and Wallace leading, the field was seated through a condition of red flag for a rain shower, with the 23X racing team feeling that they could only spend overtime.
During the restart and with 10 of the first 12 on the Old and Little Fuel tires, the native of Mobile, in Alberta of 31, led the two relatives, had enough fuel in the second and preceded Kyle Larson of 0.222 second for his third victory in career in career in career to break a sequence without 100 -hour victory.
Wallace, whose no. 23 Toyota belongs to Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin, led 30 laps and obtained a place in the playoff series by becoming the 13th different winner in 2025.
Wallace has gone to seem to have a victory with seven laps in the regulations to wonder if he had enough fuel in an uncertain period of extension. If he had lost fuel, it would have seriously damaged him in the points.
“I thought of … everything under this red flag,” said Wallace, whose previous victories were in Talladega and Kansas. “I am exhausted, and this rush towards adrenaline is crazy. To overcome so much and put these people here in Victory Lane, that’s what it is. This is the people who continue to push me (and) believe in me.”
As a team owner, Hamlin changed to street clothes and kissed the bricks like Wallace.
“They deserved to win the race,” said Hamlin, who finished third after starting the last in a rescue car. “They were faster. They moved away from the peloton there. If this race becomes green without rain, they win it squarely.
“Just a big day of impeccable execution by Bubba and (team leader) Charles (Denike).”
Ryan Preece and Brad Keselowski were respectively fourth and fifth.
Ty Gibbs won the 1 million dollars handbag of the challenge in season by exceeding Ty Dillon in the head-to-face match.
The Toyota n ° 54 of Gibbs finished 21st. Dillon has suffered nose damage on the path of an effort of 28th place.
Mitchell, ind., Native Chase Briscoe led his first laps to Indy after starting the post for the first time – the 18 circuits – before Michael McDowell pushes the Ross Chastain’s Chevrolet and sends the n ° 1 to the back in the wall of the turn 3.
Briscoe resumed the advance at the end of scene 1 of 50 laps, giving the pilot of the race of Joe Gibbs his second victory and the bonus points maximum.
Wallace followed in second position, while William Byron, Tyler Reddick and Chris Buescher were near behind.
At the end of stage 2, Erik Jones No. 43 cut a right front tire and struck the turning wall to force the third prudence, scraping the storm or team’s stay strategies.
The drivers of Ford Ryan Blaney and Keselowski remained away to form the first row for a restart, and Blaney held Larson for his fifth scene victory this season.
In a rescue car after a qualification accident as a last driver on Saturday, Hamlin arrived third, Byron and Brad Keselowski finishing the top five.
– field level media
