“I Don’t Think as a Company, We Are Where We Were”: Alex Bowman Makes Stunning Revelation on Hendrick Motorsports Amid Disastrous Season

Hendrick Motorsports is a team that is associated with just one thing – winning NASCAR Cup Series races and titles. This year though, despite a pleasant start to the season, the team seems to have fallen back from the rest of the competition. Currently looking at the standings, aside from William Byron and Kyle Larson, the others are struggling to even make it to the playoffs.

While a significant part of the struggles of Chase Elliott and Alex Bowman can be attributed to injuries, their overall performances have not improved by any significant measure either. While speaking to Bob Pockrass of Fox Sports, Bowman spoke about the current state that his team was in, making a stunning revelation amid their horrid season.

Alex Bowman reveals Hendrick Motorsports’ performance situation

Pockrass asked Bowman about how his performance changed ever since he returned to the car after his injuries, referring to how the HMS driver started the season strongly, but now struggles almost every other week.

Bowman replied, “It’s probably a little bit of both. Sitting out of a race car for four weeks while everybody’s in the race car getting better is definitely not a good thing. You definitely fall behind a little bit there. But the garage, the ebbs and flows of it, I don’t think as a company, we are where we were when we started the year.”

Alex Bowman had six top-10s in his first seven starts this year and now has had 10 consecutive races outside the top-10. He discusses that change in performance prior to last week’s race at New Hampshire: pic.twitter.com/UTWLTagFCE

— Bob Pockrass (@bobpockrass) July 20, 2023

He added, “Obviously, we were super strong each and every week then. Not that we’re not strong right now, I just feel like other guys have definitely gotten stronger. We’re all working hard at it.”

Bowman and Elliott languish outside of the playoffs with diminishing hope

Both Bowman and Elliott missed quite a few races mid-season due to injuries they had suffered off the track. But looking at them now it has been quite some time since their return. Yes, they would have required some time to slowly start improving, but with barely six races remaining in the regular season, there have been growing concerns about their playoff contention.

At this stage, both drivers require a win for them to get into the postseason. However, as races come and go, things are starting to look grim for both drivers. Bowman currently occupies the 20th slot in the standings, meanwhile, Elliott holds the 23rd position.

Logically, there are enough spots for the round of 16, considering there have only been 11 different winners, not counting Shane van Gisbergen. So technically, there is a chance for both HMS stars, but there is very little time.