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Despite struggling this season, Bubba Wallace earned a respectable finish at Martinsville last Sunday. With 3 DNFs already in this campaign, a lot was at stake at Virginia for Wallace. He came through with a ninth-placed finish but there was a twist to it. The 23XI Racing driver was caught shoving boss Denny Hamlin on the track, which created a lot of chatter. However, his recent act makes it look like it never happened.

Hamlin and Wallace have more often than not shared an amicable relationship despite occasional run-ins on the tracks. While last Sunday’s incident had all the ingredients of creating some friction in their relationship, the Alabama-born driver’s recent social media antic seems to have greased it all over.

Bubba Wallace makes Denny Hamlin laugh with a hilarious act on social media

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A lot was assumed after Bubba Wallace punted Denny Hamlin multiple times at the recently concluded Martinsville race. However, it was worth noting that Hamlin first made the move on Wallace before the incident took place.

In fact, Hamlin recently explained the details of the event, one of them being him asking the 29-year-old to “get off his a**.” While fueling emotions and exchanges are a common sight at NASCAR tracks, some residual tension was still expected between Hamlin and Wallace.

Now this is not entirely true; and here’s why.

The former Richard Petty Motorsports driver was at his funniest recently. His Instagram post showed glimpses of “Instagram vs Reality…

Social media tends to give vague ideas about life. Wallace brings a reality check with his post, with humor. In his post, the #23 driver was seen golfing, exemplifying how things are depicted on Instagram. The picture looked perfect as he seemed to hit the ball pretty well. But did he, in reality?

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The next slide showed Wallace struggling to make the right shot. At times, he hit it wrong while other times he lost control of the club. Most importantly, this made his boss Hamlin chuckle. Indicating that there is no beef, he commented with laughter emoticons on the post.

However, it was not just him, plenty of others enjoyed it.

Fans burst into laughter at Bubba Wallace’s funny golf act on social media

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Bubba Wallace has time and again shown his humorous side to his fans. To this post, fans reacted in numbers. Some gave equally humorous replies while others pointed out which act from the post they liked the most.

“Bruh, I nearly spit out my drink”

“Bubba, come on man! Don’t be putting with a glove!”

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“I saw that swing, maybe the golfer should be replaced.”

“It’s the wave for me.”

“The dropping the club!” 

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More often than not, Wallace divides opinions but in this case, he surely has got everyone on board. Hopefully, he manages to provide an impressive run at his home track at Talladega on Sunday.

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