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Homestead, fla. – One day, one must think that the Achtbaan of Alex Bowman has experienced over the past few years, he will end up with him who becomes more often than angry.
On Sunday at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Bowman has a chance to win and finish second on Kyle Larson. But it should not be overlooked what Bowman did this past weekend and what he is doing this season.
Of course, the highs and lows of the weekend are consistent with the extremes that Bowman has faced over the past year.
After signing a contract extension days before the 2023 Daytona 500 -an agreement that took him through the 2026 season with Hendrick Motorsports -Bowman entered the points early in the 2023 season, a few weeks later sustained an injury in a Sprint Car crash a few weeks later, a war With its victory in the annual win of the year. Rumors before the playoffs would be replaced if he did not go far, his title hope ended when his car was disqualified for being underweight and almost Sunday’s cup race on Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Bowman said before this year’s Daytona 500 that a few participants considered him the most underrated manager of the sport, and Bowman said: ‘I appreciate people who say it and I think to me, I had a lot of success, but I also had years where things didn’t go on how I wanted them and wanted the team.
“I think I was probably on both sides of it and we ended it at a good point last year by many BS, hopefully we are on the good side of it. I don’t want to underestimate myself, I just want to go out and win races, and I’d rather prove it than say it. ‘
While Kyle Larson celebrated his first win of the season, some others did not leave so happy.
In a team that includes two former Cup champions in Larson and Chase Elliott and the two-time ruling Daytona 500 champion in William Byron, it is easy for many to overlook Bowman, who has eight Career Cup victories.
“This is our man,” Jeff Gordon, vice -chairman of Hendrick Motorsports, said about Bowman after Sunday’s race.
We are glad to see (the No. 48 team) do well. “
Bowman’s mating with crew head Blake Harris, who debuted at the beginning of the 2023 season, produced results despite some of the problems they face.
Harris had one year’s main experience of the cup crew before joining Hendrick Motorsports. Bowman led four races in the 2023 season. He missed three races because of the back injury he sustained in a sprint on the car, and then struggled to get the right feeling of the car in the season. Bowman showed better results in 2024 when he was healthy.
He advanced last year after the round of 8 until his car failed after the Charlotte Roval Cutoff race, dropped him out of a transfer spot and put the eventual champion Joey Logano on Bowman’s place.
Bowman had seven top 15 finals in last year’s playoffs, including a few top 10s in the third round to the disqualification.
He opened the season with five top -10s in the first six races and is third in the points in this weekend’s race in Martinsville Speedway.
“I feel like we happened in the playoffs last year and were knocked out in the round of 8 by getting dq’d, I feel like we’ve fallen off the radar, where we carried the momentum in our minds this summer,” Harris told NBC Sports on Sunday.
“We found a few things that he became very comfortable with. … I think it just allowed us to step through some things methodically and give him the confidence in what he should do. ‘
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Bowman was fast all weekend and claimed the pole and leaded 43 rounds. He was one of those who was part of a test on Homestead the day after last fall’s race and who helped him with the 1.5 mile of South Florida Speedway.
During the race of Sunday, Bowman damaged his car due to earlier wall contact and hit the wall when Larson closed, allowing Larson to succeed with seven rounds.
“I don’t think we were almost as good as we were at the test, especially not to drive the wall,” Bowman said on Sunday. “I just couldn’t run the wall all weekend, and that’s what I could do very well during the test. So we have to go back and do our homework and find out why it was.
‘But feels like our short -term speed was of course really good to be able to drive there and get the lead, put Bubba (Wallace) under pressure, and then put myself in a mistake. So, yes, annoying. I mean, Kyle (Larson’s) the biggest race car driver of our generation. This is the one man we beat it.
“It’s definitely not the end of the world, but we have to go and get trophies.”
