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DAYTONA BEACH, FLORIDA – FEBRUARY 16: Bubba Wallace, driver of the #23 McDonald’s Toyota, waits on pit lane during qualifying for the NASCAR Cup Series 64th Annual Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on February 16, 2022 in Daytona Beach, Florida. (Photo by James Gilbert/Getty Images)
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DAYTONA BEACH, FLORIDA – FEBRUARY 16: Bubba Wallace, driver of the #23 McDonald’s Toyota, waits on pit lane during qualifying for the NASCAR Cup Series 64th Annual Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on February 16, 2022 in Daytona Beach, Florida. (Photo by James Gilbert/Getty Images)
Netflix’s recent docu-series, ‘Race: Bubba Wallace’, gives an inside look into the rise of the NASCAR driver. The series covers his beginnings in NASCAR, his rise, his highs, his lows, all the while being supported by testimonies and interviews from his family, his friends, his colleagues, and other contributors to his career.
However, there was one notable absentee from the series, his father, Darrell Wallace Sr.
In Episode 4, a text reads, “Darrell Wallace Sr. did not agree to be interviewed for this series.”
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This is probably because of the history of the relationship between the father and son that deteriorated to the point of a physical altercation at one point.
“The light switch went off, I got in my truck and went over and fought my dad, like swinging fists, just did before I thought. A physical altercation,” Bubba Wallace recalled in an interview with Dale Earnhardt Jr.
“For 15 years of racing, it was me and him. And then that day, that was it.”
Bubba Wallace had signaled to improve relations with father
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In the same interview with Dale Jr, Wallace revealed that he and his old man were “making some progress.”
“My dad is super hard-headed to talk to and just to make him understand things. I still love him to death, no matter what, right, wrong or indifferent, he’s still my dad,” he had said.
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Wallace continued, “Multiple times I did (extend an olive branch to his father). His favorite saying is, ‘Time shall heal all wounds.’ I’d say, ‘Hey man, wanna talk?’ He’d say, ‘Time shall heal all wounds.’ A couple months later, ‘Hey man, wanna talk?’ He’d say, ‘Time shall heal all wounds.’ You still have a little bit of that awkward tension there.”
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Feb 16, 2022; Daytona, FL, USA; NASCAR Cup Series driver Bubba Wallace (23) during qualifying for the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway. Mandatory Credit: Mike Dinovo-USA TODAY Sports
But this was what Bubba Wallace said back in 2019.
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In the docu-series, when he’s asked about the same thing, whether time heals all wounds, Wallace simply says, “No.”
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