Dale Earnhardt Jr. won’t return to the seat of his Hendrick Motorsports car for at least another two weeks as he continues treatment for a concussion he suffered in June. Earnhardt will be replaced by Alex Bowman this weekend at Michigan International Speedway and Jeff Gordon on Labor Day weekend at Darlington Raceway. “We know how hard Dale is working…
Photo: Jeff Gordon/ABC News INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Dale Earnhardt Jr. will miss two more races as he recovers from concussion-like symptoms and retired NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon will replace him at Indianapolis and Pocono. The announcement came Wednesday from Hendrick Motorsports, which said Earnhardt has not been cleared by doctors to drive. He missed last weekend’s race in New Hampshire…
Credit: Harrelson Photography for Darlington Raceway. (Back: Darlington Raceway President Chip Wile, middle: Director of Sports Marketing for Nationwide Jim McCoy, front: Dale Earnhardt Jr.) DARLINGTON, S.C. (Darlington Raceway) — In partnership with Darlington Raceway, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Nationwide revealed the No. 88 Nationwide Insurance Gray Ghost Chevrolet SS that Earnhardt will drive in the Southern 500 during Labor…
When famed NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. announced this week that he would donate his brain to science so that researchers could study the long-term effects of concussions on the race track, he became the latest notable athlete to pledge their brain for research after their death.
