Alex Bowman Finishes Third at Talladega and Yes, That’s a Big Deal
It wasn’t a win, but for Alex Bowman, surviving Talladega without crashing and finishing third felt like something much bigger.
It wasn’t a win, but for Alex Bowman, surviving Talladega without crashing and finishing third felt like something much bigger.
A promising return quickly unraveled Sunday when Bristol chaos caught Alex Bowman in the wrong place.
Alex Bowman’s first race after a vertigo diagnosis isn’t a gentle warm-up. It’s Bristol: 500 laps of chaos that might make anyone reconsider their life choices.
Justin Allgaier returns to the No. 48 as Bowman’s vertigo battle drags into April, turning Hendrick’s season into an unexpected driver rotation.
Bowman sits out Las Vegas with dizziness, a career-long habit of ill-timed interruptions continuing just as his Hendrick future comes into question.
Vertigo knocks the Hendrick driver out of Phoenix, leaving Anthony Alfredo in the car and Bowman watching from the sidelines at a time he’d rather be proving a point.
For a fleeting moment, Bowman was within a single point of advancing—then reality hit like a worn-out tire.
It took a Daytona thriller to get Bowman in—now the fight to stay in begins.
Of course, Hendrick Motorsports driver Alex Bowman would prefer not to have his championship potential rely so heavily on one race, the Daytona season finale.
What started with a bump in Chicago ended with a dinner in California—Bowman and Wallace are back on good terms.