""I get back to the bus now and Amanda is more upset than I am," Wallace told ESPN. "It's difficult to navigate that because over the years she's known this is what we have and I have to make this work. ... Now I walk back, like after Kansas, and I was fine, and she's beside herself. It's kind of funny.""
""Bubba is obviously very emotional, and you've seen that in a lot of his interviews the last few years," Freddie Kraft, Wallace's spotter and longtime friend, told ESPN. "He would have very high highs and very low lows. "Now it seems like the highs are even higher and the lows are never as low as they've been before. We talk after the race, and a lot of ti"
Bubba Wallace regularly returned from races emotionally drained, sometimes smashing sunglasses while his wife Amanda felt equally upset and unsure how to respond. A late-September Kansas incident in which Denny Hamlin's move ran Wallace into the fence cost both a win and playoff advancement, and Wallace handled the aftermath with professionalism. The birth of his son Becks Wallace in late September 2024 served as a major catalyst for change. Wallace now displays higher highs and milder lows, is more engaging and easier to work with, and manages personal and professional life with greater balance. Amanda frequently reacts more strongly after races than Wallace himself.
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