Chase Elliott will return to the NASCAR Cup Series at Martinsville.
Elliott, 27, has been replaced by Josh Berry in four of those races and Jordan Taylor in the other. Berry finished second at Richmond behind Hendrick Motorsports teammate Kyle Larson.
The 2020 Cup Series champion has a waiver from NASCAR that will allow him to be playoff eligible if he wins a race over the next 19 regular season races. Since Elliott is currently 232 points back of points leader Christopher Bell, it’s extremely unlikely he’ll score enough points without a win to make the 16-driver postseason without a victory.
Kyle Busch won his first Cup Series title in 2015 after missing the first 11 races of the season because of leg injuries suffered in an Xfinity Series crash. Busch went on to win four races in a five-race stretch not long after his return to the cockpit and won the final race of the season to capture the title.
The five races Elliott missed this season were the first races he had missed in his career. Elliott had made 254 consecutive Cup Series starts since he started racing fill-time in 2016 and has finished in the top 10 of the points standings in each of his first seven years at NASCAR’s top level.
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