Bowman was sidelined a few month in the past after struggling a compression fracture when he collided with one other car, rolling a number of instances in a dash automotive crash at 34 Raceway in Iowa.
He has missed three points-paying occasions and the All-Star Race at North Wilkesboro whereas he recovered.
“It’s a lift for all of us to have Alex return to the #48 automotive this weekend at our residence monitor,” stated Rick Hendrick, proprietor of Hendrick Motorsports.
“He’s nonetheless 17th in factors, which says loads about how effectively the workforce carried out at the beginning of the 12 months. Alex has labored laborious to rehab the harm and are available again sturdy, and I search for him to proceed having a championship-caliber season.”
Josh Berry, who beforehand subbed for an injured Chase Elliott earlier this 12 months, was behind the wheel of the #48 automotive this previous month, with finishes of 10th, 25th, and 30th.
He additionally made the All-Star Race after profitable the Open. Berry is a daily within the NASCAR Xfinity Sequence, driving full-time for JR Motorsports.
Bowman has been granted a medical waiver by NASCAR and stays eligible for the championship playoffs. He’s 17th, simply 5 factors outdoors the playoffs proper now. He completed 10th in final 12 months’s Coke 600.
Kyle Larson, Hendrick Motorsports, HendrickCars.com Throwback Chevrolet Camaro and Tyler Reddick, 23XI Racing, Ahead Collectively Toyota Camry
Photograph by: John Harrelson / NKP / Motorsport Images
NASCAR makes chassis adjustments following Larson/Preece crash
NASCAR has made two updates to the chassis following its investigation of the Talladega crash involving Kyle Larson and Ryan Preece.
After spinning, Larson’s automotive shot again up the monitor into the trail of Preece, who made direct contact with the passenger-side door of the automotive.
The violent impression precipitated vital harm to the aspect of Larson’s automotive, and a door bar contained in the cockpit might be seen pushed upwards and twisted after the crash.
NASCAR took each the #5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet and the #41 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford again to the R&D Middle to analyze.
Each Larson and Preece had been unhurt within the crash, however Preece stated it was “positively one of many hardest hits I’ve ever taken in my racing profession.”
NASCAR has now made adjustments to the correct aspect door bar gussets, whereas the entrance clip V-brace have to be faraway from the meeting. These updates are efficient instant.
In a memo despatched to the race groups, NASCAR made it clear that additional updates are being thought-about. The sanctioning physique might be performing two days of of crash assessments this week at a facility in Ohio.
