Kyle Busch reacts to Bubba Wallace, Alex Bowman feud, Chicago scrap

Last week, during the Chicago Street Race, Bubba Wallace and Alex Bowman got into it. Kyle Busch has thoughts on the situation. A bit of rough racing, bumping, and outright aggressiveness ended with Wallace spinning in the NASCAR race.

Kyle Busch has been in his fair share of on-track incidents. One guy doesn’t want to give, another guy doesn’t want to give, so someone has to take. Bubba Wallace and Alex Bowman were going at it on Sunday.

Bowman was on fresher tires, Wallace was fighting for position in the Top 10. However, the field was bunching up behind them. Push came to shove. Wallace ended up spinning, hitting a wall, and falling back in the field.

“Yeah, what was interesting, I think there was, I don’t know if it was in Bubba’s mind, had to be a little bit, that him and Bowman were going against each other for the bracket challenge for the weekend,” Kyle Busch said on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. “So, he was trying to hold back the 48 as much as he could, even though the 48 was on fresher tires. And just block him and knock him out of the way, and they were being rough with one another, literally for that.

“I’m one of those guys where I’m like, you gotta finish, too, right? Like, there’s a race within a race but you’ve gotta focus on the bigger grand scheme of things which is going out there and finishing the race and score as many points as you can for the, if you’re not going to win, he wants to point his way into the playoffs, obviously. So, that was definitely a hit in their book of not being able to get a good finish as much as they wanted.

“But it looked afterwards like it was no hard feelings because Bubba basically said that, right? Like, ‘Hey, I was running you rough, I was running you hard, I was trying to block you, I was hanging on for dear life.’ So, there wasn’t as much drama afterwards as much as people would have thought because, you know, I think Bubba conceded to the fact that like he was doing all that he could to try to prohibit the 48 from passing him. So, not as much drama afterwards as many of us thought was going to happen there. I don’t think those two really like each other all that well. There’s been a few times over the years they’ve run over one another.”

Kyle Busch is right. Bubba Wallace owned up to the incident. There was also apparently an issue with not having a spotter in that area of the track where he was spun. So, Wallace thought he was clear, but he wasn’t.

Bowman and Wallace did speak after the race. Nothing about that conversation appeared to be hostile. Still, two years in a row that the 48 has sent the 23 around late.