“They’ve kind of let me down”: Alex Bowman reveals his favorite bourbon brand to Kevin Harvick

After snapping his 80-race winless streak in Chicago, Alex Bowman had an all-night-long party with his girlfriend and friends. The Hendrick Motorsports driver had waited for the moment since his last triumph, at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway all the way back in 2022.

However, the Chicago race winner revealed that his experience with Papi wine, several bottles of which have been stocked at his house since his last win in March 2022, didn’t go well. He instead told Kevin Harvick about his “go-to” drink - Weller Antique 107. The latter is advertised as "a wheated bourbon with a full-bodied flavor and a balanced palate."

"There were two bottles of Papi that had this massive anticipation and they kind of let me down a little bit. My favorite, I like Weller Antique 107, [its] my go-to so yeah I don't feel that good right now," Bowman said via NASCAR on Fox on YouTube (8.15).

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Alex Bowman started his Grant Park 165 run from eighth place but climbed the charts, finishing sixth in Stage 1 and second in Stage 2. In the final stage, he trailed behind Joey Hand but with just 8 laps to go until the checkered flag dropped, the #48 Chevy lunged ahead of the #60 Ford and braved the final single-file restart to lock in place into the playoffs.

Before the Chicago Street Race, Bowman was the only driver among his teammates, William Byron, Chase Elliott, and Kyle Larson, to have not won a race this season and whose playoff hopes weren't strong enough.

Alex Bowman shed light on the "large mental test" he endured during his winless streak since 2022

Alex Bowman wrapped up his 2022 season in 16th place after claiming the LVMS win, four top-5s, and five top-10s. The next season saw him rake in four top-5s and ten top10s, but he couldn't take his #48 Chevy to the victory lane. Moreover, he missed three Cup Series weekends after fracturing his back because of a sprint car racing accident. Though he was granted a medical waiver, his inability to collect wins resulted in no benefits reaped.

This year, however, Bowman was close to sealing his eighth victory during the season-opener Daytona 500 but his teammate William Byron stole the show after claiming a controversial win. Since losing the battle on the Daytona International Speedway, Alex Bowman scored multiple top-5 finishes but couldn't become the first driver to cross the start/finish line before the pack.

Bowman revealed how his winless weekends posed a mental test as his teammates were doing way better despite having equal machines at hand.

“We have all the tools we need to win, and our teammates have been really good throughout that time. But we just couldn’t put it together. It has certainly been a large mental test to go through everything that has happened in the last two years and try to continue to overcome that each and every week, especially when things aren’t going your way, and honestly, the last month has been super-frustrating for us," Bowman said via NASCAR.

"We’ve had a lot of things outside of our control, cost us a lot of points, and it’s been really frustrating. To be able—there’s a lot of emotions that go away with this because of how hard that has been,” the 8x Cup Series race winner added.

Alex Bowman's Chicago win has pulled him up from 13th place in the regular season standings to 11th.