{"id":121468,"date":"2025-09-05T09:20:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T09:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/121468\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T09:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T09:20:13","slug":"bubba-wallace-has-nascar-proposal-for-f1-legend-lewis-hamilton-motorsport-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/121468\/","title":{"rendered":"Bubba Wallace has NASCAR proposal for F1 legend Lewis Hamilton – Motorsport – Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bubba Wallace<\/a> may be living the NASCAR<\/a> dream, but he appears to have aspirations beyond stock cars in the back of his mind, having recently proposed a brief car swap.<\/p>\n

The driver of the No. 23 23XI Racing Toyota, who was briefly left ‘blind’ during a recent race<\/a>, suggested in a Reddit<\/a> \u2018Ask Me Anything\u2019 in partnership with sponsor, Chumba Casino<\/a>, in which he admitted to harboring Formula 1<\/a> dreams.<\/p>\n

Asked for his thoughts on the series and whether or not he would consider it, Wallace responded, \u201cI would love to do a car swap with Lewis Hamilton<\/a>.\u201d The 31-year-old\u2019s proposal comes amidst what is proving to be a difficult season for the seven-time F1 champion, who has struggled to find his feet since switching Mercedes for Ferrari, even prompting him to label himself \u201cabsolutely useless\u201d after qualifying in Hungary<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Given Hamilton\u2019s rough patch of form, which has seen him fail to reach a podium for the Scuderia, barring a sprint race win in China and a third in the Miami sprint, perhaps a change of scenery could be exactly what he needs.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, he has previously expressed an interest in giving NASCAR a go, commenting in 2023, via NBC Sports<\/a>, \u201cI did a car swap with Tony Stewart<\/a> years ago, which was fun.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d love to try it at some stage. It\u2019s not a dream for me to go race another series, but I am an admirer. I\u2019m a fan of racing and other sports. So I would like to try it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 40-year-old also noted that he is keen to try his hand at Motor GP, adding, \u201cI sometimes watch IndyCar and would love to try one of those at some stage. But right now my focus is solely on Formula One, and I don\u2019t plan on leaving anytime soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for where Wallace would want such a switch to take place, should his dream ever become a reality, it appears a trip to Belgium may be high on his wish list. Asked if there was a track he wished he could someday race on, the Brickyard 400 winner<\/a> replied, \u201cI\u2019ve never really had a track that I would love to race at outside of the ones that we already do. I don\u2019t know; let\u2019s go to Spa.\u201d<\/p>\n

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That being said, Wallace\u2019s ambitions beyond NASCAR aren\u2019t limited to just F1, noting that he is also keen \u201cto try NHRA one time,\u201d adding that going \u201c300 mph sounds fun!!\u201d<\/p>\n

In that case, he may want to follow in Hamilton\u2019s footsteps and have a word with NASCAR legend Stewart, who now competes in the Top Fuel class. In fact, he recently won the Regular Season Championship<\/a> despite this only being his second year competing full-time, celebrating this latest milestone with a giant $150,000 check<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bubba Wallace may be living the NASCAR dream, but he appears to have aspirations beyond stock cars in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[2331,49,48,578,576,932,2332,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-121468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-bubba-wallace","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-f1","12":"tag-formula-1","13":"tag-lewis-hamilton","14":"tag-motorsport-section","15":"tag-nascar","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}