A leg injury Chase Elliott suffered in a snowboarding accident will sideline the star driver for an indefinite amount of time, Hendrick Motorsports announced.
Chase Elliott will miss Sunday’srace at Las Vegas Motor Speedway after undergoing a three-hour surgery to repair his fractured tibia.
"Certainly, there’s a little bit of a setback, and obviously Chase is very disappointed. The most important thing is Chase’s health, and we’ll have a suit ready for him when he’s healthy and ready to get back in a race car." Andrews added that the process has started to get a waiver for Elliot from NASCAR. If the waiver is granted, Elliott would be eligible to compete in the playoffs., a two-time Cup Series champion, said he spoke with Elliott and shared his own experience returning from a broken right leg and left foot at Daytona in 2015.
"That’s what we live for and build on our whole lives to have success. Chase is plenty young and, I’m sure, plenty healthy enough that it’s not going to be anything too crazy to go through."
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