Stewart is sidelined indefinitely with a fractured vertebra.
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“I don’t know how it happened”, Vickers said. Based on last year’s two races with the rules at Kentucky and Darlington as well as a recent test at Vegas, there are high hopes from the competitors that lower downforce will lead to better racing, which is music to many fans’ ears.
He can’t compete while being treated for the clots because the blood thinners increase his risk of serious internal bleeding if he is hurt in a crash.
Stewart-Haas Racing has named Brian Vickers interim driver of its No. 14 Chevrolet SS for all NASCAR Sprint Cup Series events during 2016 Speedweeks at Daytona International Speedway.
It’s official: The 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season has begun, with the first practice for Saturday night’s Sprint Unlimited (FOX, 8 p.m. ET) at Daytona International Speedway in the books.
A major storyline heading into this year’s Daytona 500 is the completion of the massive renovation at the fabled track.
Interested In A Chevrolet Truck? Race teams also won’t use their best cars in the exhibition because they want to save their best equipment for the February 21 Daytona 500.
Junior is the unquestioned top restrictor plate driver in the series today, and his 10 wins at plate tracks are twice as many as any other active driver. “It felt pretty stable which is nice, but I’d like to see a little more speed in it…if we could gain a little bit each time, that would be great”. Vickers has typically run well at Daytona, nabbing a runner-up finish in his last start here during the summer night race in 2013. He used the live-streaming app Periscope to answer fan questions as he walked on a treadmill. Logano, thanks to some shenanigans between he and Matt Kenseth last season, ended up missing the final round of the Chase despite stellar performances all year long, which included a three race stretch during the Chase where he ended up in Victory Lane each time.
“It’s unfortunate that this is the auto I’m in, because that means Tony’s not here”, Vickers said. “We’ve been through a lot worse than this”.
Stewart-Haas Racing has yet to name a replacement driver(s) past Daytona. “I told myself that if I was to come back to racing particularly in the Sprint Cup Series I wanted to be in a vehicle that I was confident could win when I walked in the garage”.
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“We’ve got multiple partners and different considerations with respective sponsors”, SHR President Brett Frood said. The title then went to JGR driver Kyle Busch, who won the season-finale at Homestead to earn his first Sprint Cup championship. Yet drivers are only a few days away from firing up the engines on the shores of Daytona Beach, Florida. The Wood Brothers, who have been in NASCAR since 1953, haven’t run a full-time schedule since after the 2008 season.
