🇺🇸 Bubba Wallace

Bubba Wallace is an established professional racing full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 23 Toyota for 23XI Racing. Over 340 starts in the series from 2018 to 2026, he has taken four wins and twenty podiums, with the bulk of his starts coming on oval tracks. He has also raced the NASCAR Truck and Xfinity series, and made a single endurance start in IMSA Pilot Challenge GS class in 2024.[1]

Wallace's four wins have come across his nine seasons in NASCAR's top series, where he has established himself as a mid-field regular. He has finished ahead of multiple elite professionals, including the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series champion Denny Hamlin and the 2024 Cup champion Christopher Bell, though both drivers consistently outpace him over the course of a season. His record against his most frequent competitors, established professionals William Byron and elite professional Ryan Blaney, shows him usually finishing behind them; he has been beaten 89 times by Hamlin and 96 times by Bell across their shared starts.[2]

The NASCAR Cup grid mixes amateurs through graded professionals, and Wallace typically runs mid-pack within it. His performances reflect the gap between occasional success against the series' strongest drivers and consistent competition with those at his own level and slightly above.