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Fresh off Charlotte, we get into the Alex Bowman–Bubba Wallace wreck. Was it just a racing incident, or is the outrage really about the 48's history? Is Bowman cooked? We also look at Bubba's season of bad breaks and whether he's good to race next week. Then we ask if Denny Hamlin has any real path left to the championship, and why it may already be gone. The O'Reilly series title fight steals the weekend as Corey Day's surge reshapes the picture. In the driver legacy game, we rank Dale Jarrett, Terry Labonte and Rusty Wallace, and talk about why older NASCAR eras felt more memorable. Plus Lights Too Bright (Ferrari, Bubba, Lewis and a Commanders detour), Corey LaJoie's comments about independent media, and a Phoenix preview with some Days of Thunder sequel talk.