Alex Bowman health update emerges after huge | Sports News

Jeff Gordon has given an update on Alex Bowman’s situation after the Hendrick Motorsports driver’s brutal head-on wreck at Michigan International Speedway on Sunday.

Bowman’s afternoon in Michigan got here to an abrupt finish when Austin Cindric tapped the rear left of Cole Custer, sending him straight into each Daniel Suarez and Bowman. It marked the newest powerful second for Bowman in current weeks, whereas Chase Elliott’s end within the No.9 had followers claiming ‘enough is enough’ plus Dale Earnhardt Jr. made a daring declare in regards to the standing of different teammates Kyle Larson and William Byron.

As Custer, Suarez, and Chase Briscoe all spun, it was Bowman who got here off worst, flying nose-first into the barrier at high pace, crushing the entrance of his No. 48 Chevrolet ZL1.

“That one was really ——- big,” Bowman may very well be heard telling his workforce over the radio earlier than, fortunately, he was capable of exit the car below his own energy, whereas the race was red-flagged.

After being launched from the infield care heart, Bowman advised Amazon Prime, “Yeah, that hurt, a lot. That was probably top of the board on hits I’ve taken, and unfortunately, I’ve taken a lot of hits, so hate that for the Ally 48 team.”

Now with NASCAR heading for Mexico City, it appears Bowman has recovered properly from the brutal hit, with Hendrick Motorsports co-owner and vice chairman Gordon telling Danielle Trotta on Tuesday that the 32 12 months previous “was very sore but ok and has no reason to believe he won’t be in the car at Mexico City.”

Bowman certainly received’t wish to be compelled to overlook Sunday’s race in Mexico City, with it being the primary Cup Series race to happen on overseas soil since 1958.

However, whereas it seems that Bowman will participate within the extremely anticipated race at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, one driver whose standing for the occasion stays unclear is Denny Hamlin.

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The Joe Gibbs Racing driver’s fiancée Jordan Fish is at the moment anticipating their third little one, with the workforce having ready Ryan Truex to step in for Hamlin on the drop of a hat each in Michigan and Nashville.

Now, with Fish nonetheless but to present start and Mexico City approaching, it’s wanting more and more doubtless that Hamlin received’t be participating within the Viva Mexico 250.

“I said from the very beginning, if she hasn’t had it by the time I need to leave for Mexico, then I’m not going to go to Mexico,” he mentioned on SiriusXM, by way of NASCAR. “I think that that’s the proper thing to do.

“But really, just letting her call the shots. I think that’s the best thing. When her body and her mind says that it’s time, then that’s what we’ll do.

“And ultimately, I need to be there for her, during, post-(birth) and all those things. Just going to make sure I spend the proper time with her, and obviously the racing will come second this week.”

Should Truex step into the No. 11 Toyota on Hamlin’s behalf in Mexico City, it might mark the 33-year-old’s first look within the Cup Series since 2019 when he did not qualify for the Daytona 500.