{"id":1565356,"date":"2023-05-17T13:22:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T17:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1565356"},"modified":"2023-05-17T13:22:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T17:22:31","slug":"bubba-wallace-reaches-milestone-climb-toward-1st-playoff-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/bubba-wallace-reaches-milestone-climb-toward-1st-playoff-appearance\/","title":{"rendered":"Bubba Wallace Reaches Another Notable Milestone In Climb Toward 1st Career Playoff Appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bubba Wallace<\/a> had one of the best race weekends of his NASCAR<\/a> Cup Series career at Darlington Raceway last week when he turned a second-place starting spot into a fifth-place finish that both established a new career mark and put him in position to make the playoffs for the first time<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a season-best fourth-place run at Kansas Speedway on May 7, Wallace produced his best qualifying effort of the season and second-best of his career, behind only the pole award he won at Michigan International Speedway in August 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He then kept his No. 23 Toyota for 23XI Racing up toward the front at Darlington and scored a second straight top-five result for the first time in his six years as a full-time Cup Series driver, even though he was upset after the race with how NASCAR scored the running order after a late wreck. Wallace\u2019s three top-fives on the season are two shy of the career-best mark he reached a year ago, although he fell short of the playoffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wallace is in line to reach the Cup Series playoffs for the first time<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Both @BubbaWallace<\/a> and @ChaseBriscoe_14<\/a> climb their way into the top 16 following Sunday. \ud83d\udc40 pic.twitter.com\/2AxO35Agle<\/a><\/p>— NASCAR (@NASCAR) May 16, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>