When NASCAR Cup driver Denny Hamlin and basketball Hall of Fame member Michael Jordan began forming 23XI Racing Hamlin believed in Bubba Wallace’s capability and understood his potential long before the driver won this year’s Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Bubba Wallace won the Brickyard 400 and along the way sped back into our weekly top-10 NASCAR driver rankings.

Bubba Wallace became the first Black driver to win a major race on Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s 2.5-mile oval, surviving a late rain delay, two overtimes, concerns over running out of fuel and a hard-charging Kyle Larson on Sunday in the Brickyard 400.