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On Tuesday the Michael Waltrip Racing team confirmed that driver, Martin Truex Jr., sustained a scaphoid fracture and sprain of his right as a result of an accident in Saturday night's race at Bristol Motor Speedway.
According to the team “doctors fitted Truex with a special cast Tuesday he'll wear indefinitely. The cast enables him to better grip the steering wheel and compete in Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Atlanta Motor Speedway as well as the 11 remaining races.
With two races remaining in NASCAR's regular season the 33-year old Truex is 14th in the points and has one win (at Sonoma Raceway in June) which entitles him to hold the first of two provisional wild card entries to NASCAR's 10-race playoffs called “The Chase for the Sprint Cup.”
Truex worked closely with NASCAR this week and has been cleared to race. He was involved in a multi-car accident on lap 448 Saturday sending his Toyota into the outside wall. He was treated in the track's medical center Saturday and sent home to North Carolina.
MWR has yet to determine if a stand-by driver is needed for this weekend.
According to the team “doctors fitted Truex with a special cast Tuesday he'll wear indefinitely. The cast enables him to better grip the steering wheel and compete in Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Atlanta Motor Speedway as well as the 11 remaining races.
With two races remaining in NASCAR's regular season the 33-year old Truex is 14th in the points and has one win (at Sonoma Raceway in June) which entitles him to hold the first of two provisional wild card entries to NASCAR's 10-race playoffs called “The Chase for the Sprint Cup.”
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Truex worked closely with NASCAR this week and has been cleared to race. He was involved in a multi-car accident on lap 448 Saturday sending his Toyota into the outside wall. He was treated in the track's medical center Saturday and sent home to North Carolina.
MWR has yet to determine if a stand-by driver is needed for this weekend.