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Bubba Wallace was left fuming by Christopher Bell in Atlanta(Image: Getty)<\/p>\n
23XI Racing’s Bubba Wallace was forthright with his opinion about Christopher Bell at EchoPark Speedway on Saturday, calling the Joe Gibbs Racing star a “f—— dumb—” over his team radio.<\/p>\n
The Quaker State 400 in Atlanta on Saturday turned out to be a whirlwind of action, culminating in Chase Elliott narrowly defeating Brad Keselowski for his first NASCAR Cup Series win since last year in Texas. With an assist from teammate Alex Bowman, the Hendrick Motorsports driver executed a flawless final lap, leaving Keselowski trailing.<\/p>\n
Elliott quickly sent a message to Rick Hendrick after his win<\/a>, which came after a dramatic 0.001 second near-miss<\/a> earlier in the race. The race was thrown into chaos by a massive crash that left In-Season Challenge brackets<\/a> into disarray.<\/p>\n READ MORE: ‘I’m NASCAR star who went viral then came to instant realization about career’<\/a>READ MORE: NASCAR underdog proving people wrong as surprise package of Cup Series season<\/a><\/p>\n Wallace, who crossed the finish line in 22nd place on Saturday night, didn’t hold back when commenting on Bell over the team radio after a collision earlier in the race, which caused Bell huge damage and knocked Ryan Blaney out of the race.<\/p>\n “Christopher Bell is a f—— dumba–. That’s what he gets,” Wallace broadcasted over the team radio.<\/p>\n After a harrowing high-speed crash at Pocono the previous weekend due to a blown tire, Wallace had been optimistic about a better performance at EchoPark. But it proved another tough evening as one of many big names to be helplessly caught in the chaos.<\/p>\n “That was the most frustrated I’ve been in a long time,” Wallace expressed post-crash at Pocono. “That was like a gut punch … really hard to swallow. Yeah, it’s qualifying … whatever.<\/p>\n “But it took me back to like a-few-years-ago Bubba, where it’s like, yeah, here we go. You ride on the momentum high and you get excited and have some optimism, and then you’re just smacked in the face with some B-S.”<\/p>\n “I woke up Sunday. It was a new day and was excited to move forward in the race. Take our time. Didn’t move as forward as fast as we liked, but knew it was going to be a grind and then the brakes explode. Long story short – super frustrating.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bubba Wallace was not a happy man following the NASCAR Cup Series race at EchoPark Speedway in Atlanta…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[22019,16413,1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-26855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-bubba-wallace","9":"tag-christopher-bell","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114771803750782700","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"NASCAR](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_NASCAR-drivers-pile-up-during-the-Quaker-State-400.jpg\")
Christopher Bell caused a pile-up early in the race which impacted Wallace(Image: Getty)<\/p>\n