Hendrick Motorsports will put 2024 NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Elements Sequence champion Justin Allgaier behind the wheel of the #48 Chevrolet for this weekend’s race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Alex Bowman was pressured out of the automobile mid-race at COTA with Myatt Snider ending the occasion for him, and later within the week, he was identified with vertigo. HMS sim driver Anthony Alfredo drove the automobile at Phoenix, ending thirty third after being collected in a restart crash.
The workforce has additionally confirmed that bowman started experiencing signs of vertigo through the race at COTA, with workforce common supervisor Jeff Andrews saying: “Alex continues to work intently with docs towards being medically cleared, however he’s nonetheless experiencing some lingering signs. He’s put so much into the restoration course of, and we will proceed to help him each step of the best way. Our precedence stays ensuring Alex is absolutely prepared earlier than returning to the race automobile.”
Alex Bowman, No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet
Picture by: Chris Graythen – Getty Photos
Allgaier competes full-time for JR Motorsports within the O’Reilly Sequence, and simply earned his twenty ninth profession victory final weekend. He has over 500 begins on the secondary stage of NASCAR, however Allgaier additionally has some Cup expertise as nicely.
He has made 84 Cup begins between 2013 and 2026, most not too long ago making an look within the Daytona 500 with JR Motorsports, the place he crashed out of the lead of the race. Allgaier has two prime tens in his transient Cup profession with a finest end of eighth. He final filled-in at Hendrick in 2024, ending thirteenth within the Coca-Cola 600 whereas Kyle Larson competed within the Indianapolis 500.
Allgaier hasn’t raced a Cup automobile on the 1.5-mile Vegas observe since 2015, however he received final 12 months’s O’Reilly race on the intermediate observe.
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