#14-Tony Stewart continues to recover from the back injury suffered in an ATV accident a few weeks ago. He gave an update on his progress with a phone call to the FOX television crew during Sunday’s Daytona 500 broadcast. ‘[I] don’t even get X-rayed again until March 9,’ Stewart said. ‘So we’re really not going to know what the progress of the bone is. Myself personally I’ve been up getting around a lot each day, I can tell a noticeable difference each day from the previous day so I am feeling a lot better and [am] on a mission to get back to the race track. That’s probably been the hardest part of the last 10 days is not being at the track, not seeing the officials, guys from the other team, everything from Speedweeks.’(MRN)(2-22-2016)
UPDATE Ty Dillon is expected to be the interim replacement driver for Tony Stewart’s #14 Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet for three of the next four NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races. Dillon will fill in for the injured Stewart at Atlanta, Phoenix and Auto Club Speedway, according to a headline Tuesday on the SHR website. The headline has since been deleted. Another interim driver, Brian Vickers ‘ who stepped in for Stewart during the Daytona 500 and finished 26th ‘ is expected to be behind the wheel at Las Vegas, according to the same post.(NASCAR.com)(2-23-2016)
UPDATE2: Stewart-Haas Racing, tweeted Tuesday afternoon, that Ty Dillon will be in the #14 at Atlanta and Brian Vickers will drive at Las Vegas. Future races are to be determined.
