Petty team close to signing big sponsor for Bubba Wallace

Half-White Bubba Wallace and his white father

Bubba Wallace and his father

Bubba Wallace scored his first top-10 finish in a month Saturday and teased a potential deal that he said will send his Richard Petty Motorsports team “over the top if we can get it done."

"Everybody say a prayer for us," Wallace told NBCSN’s Marty Snider after the race. "There’s a big deal on the line right now and this can only help so much. I’ve yet to check my phone to see the status of it. This will send us over the top if we can get it done. Been a lot of hard work off the racetrack from my team, everybody involved to make things better and that’s what we’re trying to do. So putting solid runs tighter and having awesome restart all night this is only going to help the effort."