Michael McDowell is going to raise money for charities with the gift that Bubba Wallace gave him.
McDowell crashed Wallace in qualifying for the All-Star Race on Wednesday night. Frustrated, Wallace left the front bumper of his car in the McDowell team truck.
On Friday, the McDowell team announced that the bumper would be auctioned off to benefit Motor Racing Outreach, a charity that caters to those in the NASCAR garage on race weekends.
“Everyone has an opinion on what happened,” McDowell said in the statement announcing the auction. “I have my side of things, Bubba has hers and all the fans have hers too. It’s one of the reasons NASCAR wanted to go to Bristol for the All-Star race. We created the excitement and now the fans can score. difference and own a piece of history. “
It is pretty clear that McDowell’s car turned left on the straight to hit Wallace. You can judge for yourself whether it was an intentional act or simply a mistake by a professional racing driver. Wallace had hit McDowell seconds earlier when he made a pass for the position.
“People say he is one of the nicest guys in the garage, that he can’t wait for the message of fear from God that he will send me about preaching, praise and respect,” Wallace told Fox after the race. “What a joke it is.”
However, Wallace doesn’t think the auction is a joke. He supported the idea on social media.
When life gives you lemons, go underground and raise money for @FollowMRO. You may not agree with what happened along the way, but we can agree with a positive outcome of the situation. https://t.co/F8cyXdjEmv
– Bubba Wallace (@BubbaWallace) July 17, 2020
Wallace was a candidate to enter the All-Star Race, either with a stage victory in the qualifying race or by a fan vote, a vote he led when NASCAR released the results in progress before the race. But since his car was destroyed in the accident, he was not eligible to be voted on in the main event won by Chase Elliott.
