NASCAR ace sends update on pit crew member’s – Sports News
NASCAR star Shane van Gisbergen has supplied an update on the pit crew member J.P. Kealey, after he suffered damaged ribs and a partial lung collapse following a scary incident at Pocono. Kealey, a tire changer for the Trackhouse Racing star, was hit by a flying tire during a pit stop at NASCAR’s Great American Gateway 400 at Pocono Raceway.
As Kealey moved towards the rear proper aspect of Van Gisbergen‘s car, a tire meant for AJ Allmendinger, struck his higher physique, knocking him to the ground close to the back of the No. 88 vehicle. He shortly acquired back on his ft, shook off the horrifying incident, and accomplished Van Gisbergen’s pit stop during Stage 2. However, it was later revealed after the American Gateway 400, received by Chase Briscoe, Kealey was transported to the hospital and suffered damaged ribs and a partial lung collapse.
Kealey won’t be in Atlanta this weekend for NASCAR’s Quaker State 400. A substitute has been drafted for the race, and SVG, who received NASCAR’s inaugural Cup Series factors race in Mexico City earlier this month, has supplied an update on Kealey.
“Yeah, so he had a fractured rib, I think, and a partially punctured lung, so yeah, a couple weeks off,” the New Zealander advised CBS Sports. “But yeah, back home now, so yeah, it’s time, I’ve done ribs myself, it’s not real fun, so he’s got to take it easy for as long as he needs and come back when he’s good to go.”
SVG booked his spot within the NASCAR Cup playoffs with a dominant win in Mexico. The street and road course King completed more than 16 seconds forward of the competitors.
However, the previous Supercars champion’s place within the playoffs was known as into query by NASCAR legend Richard Petty, who slammed NASCAR’s “win and you’re in” system and included road and street programs on the race calendar as one other criticism on fashionable stock car racing.
Nonetheless, SVG says he was drafted into a full-time NASCAR seat for that actual cause: to dominate road and street programs and guide himself into the playoffs. “That’s why I’m here, to win road races. But I’m not here to run last on the ovals either,” mentioned Van Gisbergen.
“I need to keep getting better to justify being a Cup Series driver. I need to be performing on the ovals, too.
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“I really feel like we’re actually making strides, however yeah, that is what I’m right here to do, make the playoffs, put one other Trackhouse car within the playoffs, and yeah, cannot wait to do the victory lunch during the week at Trackhouse and simply see how stoked everyone seems to be there.
“You see the effort everyone puts in, and they don’t get the glory. They’re just stuck at the shop. I love taking that and sharing that moment with them during the week.”
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