Driver is free to look for ride elsewhere
Darrell “Bubba” Wallace, a four-time winner in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series this past season, has asked for and been granted his release from Joe Gibbs Racing, according to the organization.
While he has competed full-time in the NCWTS for Kyle Busch Motorsports since 2013, Wallace was under contract through JGR, and competed in two Nationwide Series events in 2014 for the group. He finished 31st early in the season at Talladega and ninth in July at Daytona in the team’s No. 20 Toyota.
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In two seasons with KBM, owned by Sprint Cup Series driver Kyle Busch, Wallace scored five Truck Series wins and finished eighth (2013) and third (’14) in the points standings.
He also scored three career poles.
Busch announced earlier this year that KBM would field three teams for 2015, with drivers Erik Jones and Justin Boston competing full-time while Busch, Matt Tifft and Daniel Suarez will share seat time in a third Toyota entry.
JGR officials had said that they hoped to obtain the necessary sponsorship that would allow Wallace to compete in what will be the XFINITY Series in 2015. In addition to expanding to four full-time Sprint Cup teams for next season, JGR will also field three XFINITY Series teams with Suarez competing full-time and the remaining entries expected to feature a rotating driver lineup.
Wallace became the first African-American driver to win in one of NASCAR’s top three national series since NASCAR Hall of Fame member Wendell Scott’s victory in 1963 when he won his first Truck Series race in 2013 at Martinsville Speedway.
A former NASCAR K&N Pro Series East rookie of the year award winner, Wallace returned to the half-mile track this year to win again, and added victories at Gateway, Eldora and in the season-ending stop at Homestead-Miami.
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