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Bubba Wallace brought it home fifth in Sunday’s Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, a much-needed quality run with now just four regular season races remaining. Wallace entered Sunday’s race 27 points back of the playoff cutline, but now heads into the two-week Olympic break within seven points of Ross Chastain for the 16th and final playoff spot. Though he admitted after the race he put his team behind the eight ball in practice and qualifying, he’s proud of how he and his team fought on Sunday. “It was OK,” Wallace told NBC Sports after the race. “I really put our team behind start…

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