The 23XI Racing driver tried desperately to shove Team Penske’s Ryan Blaney and get in position to race leader Austin Cindric for the win in Sunday’s Daytona 500. He succeeded in the first part but not in the second, just coming up short of winner Cindric at the finish on Sunday.
The runner-up finish was his second in the Cup Series’ biggest race, the first coming in 2018 in his first full-time season in the series.
“Great Speedweeks – we’ll come home second,” Wallace said.
“I’m going to be pissed off about this one for a while. I was happy on the first second place we got a couple years ago.
“This one sucks, when you’re that close, but all-in-all, happy for our team, happy for our partners, and on to California.”
Wallace has proven to be a very talented superspeedway racer and took his first Cup Series victory last autumn in a rain-shortened event at Talladega. Four of his top six finishes in the series have come at Daytona and Talladega.
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