Bubba Wallace wasn’t exactly trending in the right direction coming into Sunday’s Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Yes, he finished seventh the weekend prior at Dover, but that followed a four-race stretch of finishes outside the top 20.

Bubba Wallace became the first Black driver to win on Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s 2.5-mile oval, surviving a late rain delay, two overtimes, concerns over running out of fuel and a hard-charging Ky...

The moment that set up Wallace perfectly for a run at the victory actually came in his second-to-last pit stop before the end of Stage 2.