{"id":20674,"date":"2025-08-01T05:20:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T09:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/bubba-wallace-makes-history-first-black-driver-wins-the-brickyard-400\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T05:20:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T09:20:12","slug":"bubba-wallace-makes-history-first-black-driver-wins-the-brickyard-400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nascar\/bubba-wallace-makes-history-first-black-driver-wins-the-brickyard-400\/","title":{"rendered":"Bubba Wallace Makes History: First Black Driver Wins the Brickyard 400"},"content":{"rendered":"Bubba Wallace celebrated a historic victory at the Brickyard 400, marking a significant milestone in his career and in the history of motorsports.\n\n<h2>Wallace Makes History in Indianapolis<\/h2>\n\nThe driver, after exiting car number 23, couldn&#8217;t hide his emotion as he savored this triumph on the 2.5-mile oval of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. This victory is especially notable, as it makes him the first African-American driver to win a major race on this circuit.\n\nWallace, 31, overcame a series of challenges, including a rain delay and two exciting extensions. In addition, he faced the pressure of competing against defending champion Kyle Larson.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;This victory is truly special,&#8221; Wallace said.<\/p><cite>Bubba Wallace<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThis victory represents Wallace&#8217;s third career win in the NASCAR Cup Series, and it&#8217;s his first in one of the series&#8217; most prestigious events, joining the Daytona 500, the Coca-Cola 600, and the Southern 500. Furthermore, it ends a 100-race winless streak dating back to 2022.\n\nThe image of Bubba Wallace celebrating his victory at the Brickyard 400, his first win in one of NASCAR&#8217;s four most important races.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0727%2Fr1524499_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Bubba Wallace celebra su victoria\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Bubba Wallace&#8217;s Brickyard 400 win is his first at one of NASCAR\u2019s four crown jewel races.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nWallace&#8217;s strategy during the restarts was key. In the first one, he managed to overtake Larson, although an accident forced a second extension. Wallace demonstrated his determination.\n\n\u201cI wanted to win this race straight up. I wanted to get back to racing,\u201d Wallace said.\n\nWallace&#8217;s triumph also served to compensate for Saturday&#8217;s frustration, when Chase Briscoe snatched the pole position from him in qualifying.\n\nThis victory is a boost for the 23XI Racing team, co-owned by Basketball Hall of Famer Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin, who is currently facing legal challenges.\n\nIn the race, Ty Gibbs took the In-Season Challenge, surpassing Ty Dillon.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bubba Wallace celebrated a historic victory at the Brickyard 400, marking a significant milestone in his career and in the history of motorsports. Wallace Makes History in Indianapolis The driver, after exiting car number 23, couldn&#8217;t hide his emotion as he savored this triumph on the 2.5-mile oval of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. This victory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[6395,6436,63,182],"class_list":{"0":"post-20674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-brickyard-400","9":"tag-bubba-wallace","10":"tag-indianapolis","11":"tag-nascar"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}