Alex Bowman, you just won the NASCAR Cup Series’ second annual Chicago Street Race.
What are you going to do now?
“We’re going to drink so much damn bourbon tonight, it’s going to be a bad deal,” he said post-race. “I’m probably going to wake up naked on the bathroom floor again. That’s just part of this deal sometimes.”
If Bowman’s post-race interview Sunday (July 7) after his eighth career Cup win did anything, it let everyone know how important snapping an 80-race winless streak was to the 30-year-old driver.
It also served as a reminder that Bowman has one of the funniest and likable personalities in the sport.
And judging by this tweet, he’s man of his word.
But I’m here to talk about the first part.
Despite being tied for the second most top-10 finishes (11) through 20 races this season, at no point has Bowman felt like a frontrunner.
How can you be when you’ve only led 14 laps?
And how much confidence can you feel when you’re struggling to prove you still have it after missing time over two seasons for a concussion and a broken back?
“We’ve kind of sucked ever since, and I didn’t — you start to second-guess if you’re ever going to get a chance to win a race again,” Bowman said with the sun setting on downtown Chicago.
He was even more candid about his struggles to return to winning form when he made it to the media center.
“The concussion, and then to straight away go break my back after recovering from that, and then to just tremendously struggle through last year and kind of lose our way a little bit, it was really difficult,” Bowman said. “There’s a lot of noise, and that makes it difficult for the team. …
“It has certainly been a large mental test to go through everything that has happened in the last two years and try to continue to overcome that each and every week, especially when things aren’t going your way, and honestly the last month has been super frustrating for us. We’ve had a lot of things outside of our control, cost us a lot of points, and it’s been really…
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