He only has 89 starts in the Cup series. He has 222 career starts in the top 3 national series with his highlights being 6 wins in the Truck series, but he was a development driver for the top team in NASCAR (Kyle Busch Motorsports, who is an affiliate of Joe Gibbs Racing) and thus had superior equipment for 5 of those wins.
I mean it’s not great, but I wouldn’t say uncommon. He’s a C tier driver, but you know, the whole half black thing really puts him in a spotlight he’d never see otherwise.
Generally it takes guys several years to see sustained success unless they are really talented and have a great owner backing them with a great team. Usually the top 5-6 guys win all the races. You’ll see the older, more experienced guys up near the lead every weekend and guys like “bubba” congratulating themselves over a top 15 finish when Kevin Harvick pushed them for the last quarter of the race.
Not sure about 220 but it's not uncommon for someone to have not won a race even deep in their career. To be even racing on the NASCAR circuit requires you to be extremely skilled. It's pretty much only the same ten drivers winning every race with a few outliers anyways. Everyone else is garbage tier compared to them and are only useful to get owner points and manufacturer points.
Is that uncommon?
It seems like a bad record, I just don't know anything about NASCAR
Don't know for sure, but 220 races (including the lesser series) seems a bit much without a win.
He only has 89 starts in the Cup series. He has 222 career starts in the top 3 national series with his highlights being 6 wins in the Truck series, but he was a development driver for the top team in NASCAR (Kyle Busch Motorsports, who is an affiliate of Joe Gibbs Racing) and thus had superior equipment for 5 of those wins.
https://www.racing-reference.info/driver/Bubba_Wallace
Also worth mentioning is that he was quite the hothead before this. He's also been diagonsed with bipolar disorder.
I mean it’s not great, but I wouldn’t say uncommon. He’s a C tier driver, but you know, the whole half black thing really puts him in a spotlight he’d never see otherwise.
Generally it takes guys several years to see sustained success unless they are really talented and have a great owner backing them with a great team. Usually the top 5-6 guys win all the races. You’ll see the older, more experienced guys up near the lead every weekend and guys like “bubba” congratulating themselves over a top 15 finish when Kevin Harvick pushed them for the last quarter of the race.
Not sure about 220 but it's not uncommon for someone to have not won a race even deep in their career. To be even racing on the NASCAR circuit requires you to be extremely skilled. It's pretty much only the same ten drivers winning every race with a few outliers anyways. Everyone else is garbage tier compared to them and are only useful to get owner points and manufacturer points.