When you’re nine-years-old, there’s no way to know what your life — or your legacy — will look like. Today, Bubba Wallace, isn’t ready to define his own just yet. “Ask me when I’m old,” he laughed. But if his words hesitate, his actions don’t. From Mobile, Alabama, to NASCAR’s biggest stage, the throughline has been simple: community, respect and a willingness to show up.

As a kid, Wallace was just one of many faces at the Boys and Girls Club after-school program. Hanging with friends, burning off the day, never realizing the lessons and structure around him would stick.

“You just remember going there with your friends, creating those relationships… you didn’t even realize the time,” he recalled. “Looking back, you can see those mentorships, those people guiding you along the way for mom

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