Greg Zipadelli (Getty) While Austin Dillon keeps the No. 14 automotive’s driver’s seat warm for Tony Stewart at Michigan, a timetable hasn’t been decided for Stewart’s return.
“We don’t know that yet,” Stewart-Haas Competition Director Greg Zipadelli said Friday, when asked if Stewart was out the rest of the season, “I’m working beneath the idea that he’s out for the next month or so or longer. He went to the doctor’s this week, he had a decent visit. No setbacks. Mainly, quite simple directions, keep in his mattress along with your leg up over your heart for the next seven days after which come again and see me. We’ll reevaluate you and let you know what you can do. That’s what he’s doing.”
On Monday, August 5, Stewart suffered a grade two fracture of his proper tibia and fibula in a dash automobile accident in Oskaloosa, Iowa. Stewart was leading when he crashed right into a lapped automotive that was spinning in front of him.
Zipadelli said final week at Watkins Glen that the group was looking at Nationwide drivers to fill the races Stewart will miss, and said Friday that it’d probably be two drivers for the rest of the length of Stewart’s absence, whether or not it is a month, the remainder of the season, or anything in between.
Dillon already has a relationship with Bass Pro Shops, one of Stewart’s sponsors. While that performed a role, being the 2010 Camping World Truck Series champion and main the Nationwide points this season obviously doesn’t hurt either. Plus, Dillon finished eleventh at Michigan in June.
“We looked at that, the affiliation with Bass Pro Store, each sponsors were on board,” Zipadelli mentioned. “That may be a massive precedence to us that our companions are on board with every little thing we do. Obviously, we let them down with Tony not being within the car the rest of the yr and we have to do the best we will to signify them and they’re a big part of our decisions.”
Greg Zipadelli says timetable for Tony Stewart’s return hasn’t been determined
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