{"id":506,"date":"2026-03-08T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/?p=506"},"modified":"2026-03-08T14:41:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:41:00","slug":"hendrick-motorsports-confirms-status-of-alex-bowmans-seat-when-he-returns-from-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/?p=506","title":{"rendered":"Hendrick Motorsports confirms status of Alex Bowman&#8217;s seat when he returns from illness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Alex Bowman&#8217;s NASCAR Cup Series seat is safe, with the 32-year-old set to return to the No. 48 for Hendrick Motorsports once he has recovered from vertigo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">During last weekend&#8217;s DuraMAX Texas Grand Prix, Bowman struggled with illness. On Lap 71 of the action in Austin, he was replaced by Myatt Snider, with Bowman later being diagnosed with vertigo. As a result, he is set to miss this weekend&#8217;s drive for Hendrick Motorsports at Phoenix Raceway, with Anthony Alfredo set to stand in for Bowman.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">It remains unclear as to what triggered Bowman&#8217;s bout with vertigo, with Hendrick Motorsports president Jeff Andrews explaining his driver&#8217;s recent diagnosis has nothing to do with prior concussions. &#8220;It&#8217;s very odd,&#8221; Andrews recently said on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong style=\"text-align: justify\">Dale Earnhardt Jr has helped high school classmate rediscover passion for NASCAR<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong style=\"text-align: justify\">From Tiger Woods&#8217; teammate to Dario Franchitti and Jimmie Johnson&#8217;s NASCAR owner<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;No, there was nothing &#8211; there was no indication prior to the race. Several of us talked to Alex for quite a while, not only through the weekend but then again on Sunday. So, at some point during the race, this started to set in with him and became progressively worse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Hendrick Motorsports president also noted that while he had seen Bowman battle through illness and injury during race weekends in the past, his battle with vertigo was a major concern given its impact on him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong style=\"text-align: justify\"><em style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong style=\"text-align: justify\">Subscribe to our NASCAR newsletter here.<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" data-document-id=\"cms\/api\/amp\/image\/AA1XLJJJ\" data-reference=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1XLJJJ.jpg\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto\"\/> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;I want to say one thing about Alex Bowman,&#8221; added Andrews.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;We have watched him struggle his way through and fight his way through some race weekends when he was not feeling well and in a lot of pain, and this certainly was another level beyond that in terms of when it starts to affect your equilibrium and nausea that goes with that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;I think he was willing to fight through that, but when it starts to affect your vision, that&#8217;s when the team said it was time to get out of the car, which absolutely killed him and crushed him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;So, we knew when Alex Bowman was wanting to get out of a race car that we needed to find someone else to get in there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Andrews added: &#8220;It really has kind of come out of nowhere, so to speak.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;Alex has been seen and treated for some back and neck pain in the past, like I think most of these guys and ladies that strap into these stock cars and cinch those belts do after a fairly long career.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;But nothing out of the ordinary. Our staff hadn&#8217;t been treating him any differently from another driver or athlete.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Bowman&#8217;s NASCAR Cup Series seat is safe, with the 32-year-old set to return to the No. 48 for Hendrick Motorsports once he has recovered from vertigo. 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