Bubba Wallace Insider Clarifies Intention Behind Infamous Tweet After Michael Jordan’s NASCAR Driver’s Ban

After multiple people compared the 23XI Racing driver’s Las Vegas Motor Speedway incident to be in line with what Matt Kenseth did to Joey Logano in 2015, Bubba Wallace’s spotter Freddie Kraft claimed the comparison to be inconsistent and called it unprecedented via a tweet that received significant backlash. He later clarified the same on his podcast.

Kraft said, “In my mind it is unprecedented, no one got suspended for what Bubba did. If your closest comparison was Matt Kenseth, who has riding around half throttle, 15 laps down, waiting on the leader to wreck him, I don’t think that’s the same as hooking a guy in the right rear.”

“You’ve seen multiple examples of people hooking in the right rear who were not suspended. That’s why I tweeted unprecedented. Did I disagree with the suspension? No! I didn’t think so…”

“I thought maybe a heavy fine and points were coming. I said on here that I thought it was gonna be unprecedented they suspended him. You have to draw the line somewhere and I’m fine with that as long as when we go forward the next time that this happens, it better be the same penalty now because you have drawn the line in the sand there that wrecking somebody intentionally is unacceptable and we’re gonna come down hard on you.”

“So as long as that continues on in the future, I’m good with it.”

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What did Matt Kenseth do that got him suspended?

Before Bubba Wallace received a one-race suspension, Matt Kenseth apparently was the last driver to have got the same punishment. But what did he exactly do and is it comparable to what Bubba Wallace did to Kyle Larson in Las Vegas this year?

Kraft described that the two incidents were not comparable and he was right about it. How you may ask? Well for one Wallace right-hooked Larson on the front straightaway in a form of retaliation, however, both drivers were not competing for the playoffs. Meanwhile back in 2015, Matt Kenseth decided to hook and shove Joey Logano into the wall, taking both of them out in the process. But in this case, Logano was eligible for the chase, his subsequent wreck meant that he no longer was in contention of a chance in championship.

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When Logano did pop back up, Kenseth made sure to drive into him all the way to the outside wall and knocked both of them out of the race. The nature and the build-up to both incidents were highly different and thus Kraft states that he found the suspension to be unprecedented since he was looking towards something like a points dock or a heavy fine.