Bubba Wallace gifts Luke Combs custom fire suit ahead of Ally 400 at Nashville
Bubba Wallace met up with country music superstar Luke Combs ahead of Sunday’s Ally 400 at Nashville Superspeedway.
The two hung out in the infield pre-race, and Wallace even gifted Combs with his own custom fire suit.
Combs and Columbia teamed up to help create a camouflage design for Wallace’s No. 23 Toyota for Sunday’s race. Wallace has raced a Combs-inspired paint scheme before, but all those involved outdid themselves this season.
On top of the paint scheme, Combs drove the pace car before the 300-lap race.
“A show with this much horsepower deserves plenty of star power too,” said Matt Greci, general manager for Nashville Superspeedway. “You never know who will show up when NASCAR comes to the Music City for the Ally 400. We’re going to give Luke a fast car and see if he’s fast enough to drive away from the field of NASCAR’s best as we kick off Sunday’s showdown.”
Bubba Wallace details battle on playoff bubble ahead of Nashville
As for Wallace, he’s in desperate need of a quality run at Nashville following a string of underwhelming performances. Wallace has finished P17 or worse in his last four starts, including a P34 finish this past Sunday at New Hampshire. He now finds himself 13 points back of Joey Logano for the 16th and final playoff spot.
“It’s a little bit of both [speed and handling]. Like I’ve tried to come into this year way more prepared than I have been, studying more film, being more attentive in the meetings, asking, I would think more of the right questions, but just asking more questions in general,” Wallace said, via Bob Pockrass of FOX Sports. “It’s hard, man. We’re fighting for thousandths of an inch. That’s what it’s all about and I say we have enough smart people on our team.
“Well, there’s a lot of teams in this sport that have a lot of smart people. So, you’re going up against the best of the best and that’s what makes you show up the following weeks is when you do get beat, you’ve got things to work on and it’s the competition side of things. So, as much as we’re off, it’s not much, but it’s just enough to keep us working hard and trying to find out what it is to get back to where we ran last year.”