Hendrick Motorsports will put 2024 NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Elements Collection 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 automotive 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 automotive at Phoenix, ending thirty third after being collected in a restart crash.
The staff has additionally confirmed that bowman started experiencing signs of vertigo in the course of the race at COTA, with staff basic 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 rather a lot into the restoration course of, and we will proceed to assist him each step of the way in which. Our precedence stays ensuring Alex is absolutely prepared earlier than returning to the race automotive.”
Alex Bowman, No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet
Photograph by: Chris Graythen – Getty Pictures
Allgaier competes full-time for JR Motorsports within the O’Reilly Collection, and simply earned his twenty ninth profession victory final weekend. He has over 500 begins on the secondary degree of NASCAR, however Allgaier additionally has some Cup expertise as nicely.
He has made 84 Cup begins between 2013 and 2026, most just lately making an look within the Daytona 500 with JR Motorsports, the place he crashed out of the lead of the race. Allgaier has two high 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 automotive on the 1.5-mile Vegas observe since 2015, however he received final yr’s O’Reilly race on the intermediate observe.
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