"If he wins it's a conspiracy";"Congratulations on 300 starts" - NASCAR fans react to Alex Bowman's 300th Cup career start at Dover

Hendrick Motorsports driver Alex Bowman is set to make his 300th start in the NASCAR Cup Series this weekend at Dover Motor Speedway. The eleventh race of the 2024 season marks the #48 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 driver's milestone in what has been a promising career in the highest echelon of the sport.

With the 2024 Wurth 400 destined to go live this Sunday, April 28, 2024, at 2:00 pm ET, fans took to social media to react to Alex Bowman's upcoming achievement in NASCAR.

Hinting towards how important milestones and moments for the Hendrick Motorsports team always seem to work out in their favor, one fan said:

"If he wins it's a conspiracy!"

Meanwhile, one of his primary sponsors in the sport, Ally, congratulated the 31-year-old.

"Congrats, @Alex_Bowman"

"congratulations on 300 starts Alex!!!" another fan wrote.

"So excited I get to be there to see this!!" exclaimed another.

"Go get ‘‘em Sunday!" wrote one fan.

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Alex Bowman reminisces about his journey with Hendrick Motorsports

Looking back at what has been a promising career so far at one of the sport's biggest teams, Alex Bowman had big shoes to fill at Hendrick Motorsports. Filling in for a retiring Jimmie Johnson in the #48 Chevrolet at Rick Hendrick's organization was and still is by no means an easy task.

The 31-year-old looked back at how this journey came to be as he approaches his 300th start with the racing outfit. Bowman reminisced about his journey and elaborated to hendrickmotorsports.com, saying:

"I took a job driving the simulator for Hendrick Motorsports. I worked with Kenny Francis in the simulator for many hours. Most everybody else was pretty busy and I was currently driving Cup cars. That year, I ran nine races for JR Motorsports in the Xfinity Series."

He added:

"Those went pretty well. It was July, two days before Loudon (New Hampshire) and Dale (Earnhardt Jr.) called. Everything kind of last minute spiraled into me filling in for him at Loudon."

During his eighth full-time season with the team, Alex Bowman has managed to accrue 7 wins to his name, along with 36 top 5 finishes and 84 top 10s over the years at Hendrick Motorsports. It remains to be seen how well he performs this Sunday at Dover.