“Jeff’s a team player”, said Rick Hendrick, owner of Hendrick Motorsports.
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NASCAR confirmed today that Earnhardt would be out for at least two more weeks due to ongoing issues with balance and nausea, which he described in detail on Dirty Mo Radio’s The Dale Jr. Alex Bowman drove the No. 88 Chevrolet on Sunday.
Jeff Gordon isn’t done quite yet at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
“I think this is a pretty unique situation we’re going to experience this week”. “I’ve got some great doctors to learn from”.
“I’m going to continue to work with my doctors and understand more about the injury and how to treat it”, Earnhardt said. By allowing teams to apply for a waiver so the driver will still be eligible to make the playoffs, NASCAR made it possible for Earnhardt to take himself out of the vehicle.
“I have talked to him since he found out he will drive the No. 88 at Indianapolis”, Waltrip said. “I don’t want him to push himself”. Dale Jr also had a Impact test, a CONIGITIVE examination that among other things tests the memory and reaction time, Showed results equal to his most resent baseline test, Earnhardt Said.
“I asked him what he was doing next week”.
Earnhardt dropped in a quick update Sunday night during “The Dale Jr”. Hendrick told him to bring his uniform.
Hendrick replied, “No, I’m serious”.
The high-profile changing of seats prompts several questions – for the recovering Earnhardt Jr., the returning Jeff Gordon and the No. 88 team itself.
Gordon is the only five-time victor of the Brickyard 400 and race organizers billed the 2015 race as his “last ride” in Indy.
The 44-year-old Gordon is the only five-time victor of the Brickyard 400 and since retiring at the end of last season, has served primarily as a TV analyst.
Welp, Jeff Gordon’s retirement from NASCAR seems not to have lasted very long.
Gordon can’t drive for another team outside HMS and the team is at the four-car NASCAR limit; it can’t field a auto for Gordon on a part-time basis (Gordon is listed as the owner of the No. 48).
Earnhardt now sits 16 on the Chase Grid. He missed two races during the 2012 Chase because of a pair of concussions suffered in a six-race stretch, and sitting out those events immediately ended any title shot. The latest symptoms surfaced after a mid-June crash at Michigan International Speedway and the wreck at Daytona.
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Earnhardt is winless this season and 13th in the points standings. He went on to win four more times, in 1998, 2001, 2004 and 2014. NASCAR has never denied a waiver request.
