Erik Jones was cleared by doctors and approved to return by NASCAR on Thursday, but his Legacy Motor Club team will hold him out of this weekend’s race at Kansas Speedway to allow him more time to recover from his crash at Talladega. Jones sustained a compression fracture in a lower vertebra during the wreck. Corey Heim will drive the No.
NASCAR Cup Series driver Erik Jones collides driver Bubba Wallace during a NASCAR Cup Series auto race at Talladega Superspeedway, Sunday, April 21, 2024, in Talladega. Ala. FILE - Erik Jones during the NASCAR Daytona 500 auto racing media day Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024, at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla. Jones suffered a compression fracture in a lower vertebra in a wreck at Talladega and will not drive this weekend in the NASCAR Cup series race at Dover Motor Speedway.
Corey Heim will drive the No. 43 Toyota in Sunday’s race. Jones plans to be in attendance at Kansas and help crew chief Dave Elenz before returning to the driver’s seat at Darlington Raceway, where he has two Cup Series victories. Late in the race at Talladega, John Hunter Nemechek appeared to bump the rear of Bubba Wallace, who then clipped Jones and sent him crashing hard into the outside wall. He was initially examined and released from the infield care center, but Jones’ team said after the race that he had been transported to UAB University Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama, for more testing.
Jones returned home to North Carolina that Sunday night and met with specialists in the Charlotte area. They determined that the 27-year-old driver had sustained a compression fracture in a lower vertebra. Heim finished 25th in his Cup Series debut at Dover. The 21-year-old will also drive his regular Truck Series ride for Tricon Garage in Saturday night’s race at Kansas, where he finished second in the spring race a year ago.
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