With all due respect to Alex Bowman’s restoration from vertigo, and return to the Hendrick Motorsports No. 48 over the weekend after lacking 4 NASCAR Cup Sequence races, now it’s time for the 32-year-old to avoid wasting his job.
Everybody downplays it, however Bowman is in a contract yr, and having confronted a number of medical points over time whereas additionally not profitable on the scope of his famous person teammates, that journey would possibly change into obtainable with out its present driver profitable some races this summer season.
To wit, 2014 Cup Sequence champion turned FOX Sports activities shade analyst Kevin Harvick stated it extra bluntly than anybody else has but whereas discussing the comeback on his Comfortable Hour YouTube present.
“It’s nice to have Alex Bowman again within the automobile,” Kevin Harvick stated. “That’s the journey that he had and earned to get so far. You couldn’t ask for a more durable racetrack to return again to than Bristol with all of the G’s and all the warmth. It was sizzling this weekend. Usually not that heat within the spring race at Bristol.
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“It’s good to see him again within the automobile, however now we’re again to analyzing the 48’s efficiency, and it wasn’t good. All through the weekend, they didn’t actually have any pace and wound up in an accident. Now, they obtained to focus on we’ve obtained the motive force’s well being again the place it must be. Now, what can we obtained to do to get this automobile again to the place it must be, solidly within the high 10? That’ll be the subsequent tall activity that they’ve to determine.”
After which … Bowman must race to justify his subsequent contract.
For those who’re going to maintain your job, you’re going to must win.”
Bowman has eight profession wins since becoming a member of Hendrick in 2018, at first changing Dale Earnhardt Jr. within the No. 88 in 2018 after which taking up for Jimmie Johnson within the No. 48 in 2021. He has simply two wins during the last four-plus seasons.
Along with his Corridor of Fame resume, and present analyst job, Harvick additionally owns a expertise company and represents quite a few drivers within the Cup Sequence storage and is clued in on foolish season issues in addition to anybody.
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