NASCAR News: Bubba Wallace fed up after another wreck

23XI Racing star Bubba Wallace could not hide his frustration at Nashville Superspeedway on Sunday after another wreck saw him fall further down the NASCAR Cup Series standings.

Five races into the season, all of the attention was on Tyler Reddick after his red-hot start to the year, but at that stage, Wallace was second after a fine start of his own and trailed his teammate by just 61 points.

Nine races later, the gap in the standings now stands at 319 points, with Wallace having fallen to 15th after a string of difficult mid-season results, some of which have been no fault of his own.

The latest of those came at Nashville on lap 205, when Chris Buescher moved up the track having made contact with Carson Hocevar, sandwiching Wallace between himself and William Byron in the No. 24 and causing him to take big damage.

With no brakes and his steering locked, Wallace's No. 23 came down the track, tagging Alex Bowman in the No. 48 and also sending him spinning. Both of their days were over.

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“Minding our own business again. Another week our team doesn’t get the finish they deserve," Wallace said after the incident.

"I’m tired, man. It’s hard to be in the same boat constantly every week. You got to figure out how to put it behind you and show up.

"I somehow become the bad guy the days following this, but I got to figure out how to be better and learn from it.

"It’s really hard when you are driving your best and trying to just make progress throughout the race and you get wiped out. On to Michigan.”

Wallace demoted in Cup Series standings

As mentioned, Wallace fell three further places in the standings as a result of the wreck and his subsequent result, leaving him 15th in the Cup Series standings.

This puts him just 34 points ahead of 17th-place Ryan Preece through 14 races and needing to look nervously over his shoulder ahead of the next few race weekends.

**NASCAR Cup Series Standings after Nashville**
Pos	Driver	Manufacturer	Points (Stage)	Wins	Top 5s	Top 10s
1	Tyler Reddick	Toyota	657 (122)	5	9	11
2	Denny Hamlin	Toyota	560 (123)	2	7	9
3	Ryan Blaney	Ford	483 (114)	1	3	9
4	Chase Elliott	Chevrolet	460 (68)	2	5	8
5	Ty Gibbs	Toyota	449 (95)	1	6	9
6	Kyle Larson	Chevrolet	409 (122)	0	4	7
7	Christopher Bell	Toyota	399 (95)	0	5	6
8	Chris Buescher	Ford	393 (70)	0	2	6
9	Carson Hocevar	Chevrolet	383 (53)	1	3	6
10	Daniel Suárez	Chevrolet	378 (41)	1	2	4
11	William Byron	Chevrolet	352 (65)	0	2	7
12	Shane van Gisbergen	Chevrolet	348 (44)	1	3	4
13	Brad Keselowski	Ford	347 (54)	0	2	4
14	Chase Briscoe	Toyota	343 (69)	0	5	6
15	Bubba Wallace	Toyota	338 (77)	0	1	6
16	Austin Cindric	Ford	306 (67)	0	1	4
17	Ryan Preece	Ford	304 (46)	0	0	2
18	Joey Logano	Ford	297 (63)	0	2	4
19	Michael McDowell	Chevrolet	275 (25)	0	2	3
20	Zane Smith	Ford	272 (11)	0	1	5
21	Erik Jones	Toyota	270 (16)	0	0	2
22	AJ Allmendinger	Chevrolet	266 (35)	0	0	2
23	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	Chevrolet	263 (31)	0	2	3
24	Austin Dillon	Chevrolet	244 (15)	0	0	1
25	Todd Gilliland	Ford	240 (19)	0	0	1
26	Ross Chastain	Chevrolet	239 (32)	0	1	2
27	Riley Herbst	Toyota	224 (16)	0	0	1
28	John H. Nemechek	Toyota	213 (19)	0	0	1
29	Noah Gragson	Ford	202 (4)	0	0	1
30	Ty Dillon	Chevrolet	177 (0)	0	0	0
31	Josh Berry	Ford	174 (30)	0	0	2
32	Alex Bowman	Chevrolet	160 (20)	0	2	2
33	Cole Custer	Chevrolet	150 (3)	0	0	0
34	Connor Zilisch	Chevrolet	147 (5)	0	0	0
35	Cody Ware	Chevrolet	117 (4)	0	0	0
36	Casey Mears	Chevrolet	9 (3)	0	0	0
37	Katherine Legge	Chevrolet	8 (0)	0	0	0
38	BJ McLeod	Chevrolet	3 (0)	0	0	0