Bubba Wallace speaks out after welcoming newborn son

While Bubba Wallace isn’t racing for a NASCAR championship this year, he won the championship of life recently. The 23XI Racing driver is a new dad and he couldn’t be happier.

Bubba Wallace and his wife Amanda welcomed their son to the world last Sunday. Wallace knew about his son’s birth an hour or two before racing at Kansas.

Becks Hayden Wallace is almost a week old now. His dad is getting ready to go racing at Talladega on Sunday, but has kept him busy at home.

“I’ve been focused on baby boy! What a blessing he has been to our family,” Wallace said on TV before qualifying. “Becks is doing really good. He sleeps a lot, which is great. People talk about a lack of sleep, I hope my wife isn’t watching, because I feel good. I hope she feels good. Yeah, everything’s been going really good and this first week, I’m enjoying it, I’ve had a smile on my face.

“We’ve been learning what not to do. I feel like I’m a master at changing diapers, I never changed a diaper before on my own. So, I figured that out but I feel like I’m going to get humbled here the next couple of weeks, he’s got some tricks up his sleeves already. But all in all it’s just been a really good week.”

As the father of a 16-month-old, yeah, don’t assume you’ve got those diapers down just yet. Babies can and will find a way to leak, blow out, and otherwise bypass those Pampers.

Do Bubba Wallace, Tyler Reddick have targets on their back?

Off the track, there is a lot going on around 23XI Racing. Bubba Wallace is a new dad and there is a lawsuit against NASCAR that the team is pursuing along antitrust lines.

So, do the drivers feel a target on their back? Do they think NASCAR or its officials are out to get them and make an example out of 23XI for stepping out of line?

Tyler Reddick doesn’t think so.

“I mean they let us know what’s going on and yeah, basically along the same lines as what you guys have heard from Curtis and the lawyers,” Reddick said to media members, via Steven Taranto of CBS Sports. “So, yeah all good here.”

Reddick reiterated it when he was asked for a follow-up.

“No, I haven’t felt uncomfortable yet. I’ll let you know if that changes.”

When it comes to uncomfortable, Tyler Reddick felt that when he left his old team for 23XI Racing. Now that was controversial.

“Well, that was uncomfortable,” Reddick said of his move away from Richard Childress. “This, in my opinion thus far, has not been uncomfortable.”