UPDATE: Gray Gaulding has been cleared by NASCAR to qualify and race on Saturday.
Super pumped to announce that #NASCAR has cleared me to compete in the #KSL300 today. Thanks to everyone who has reached out with their support over the last 24 hours, it means so much 😎🤘🏻
— Gray Gaulding (@graygaulding) October 19, 2019
AND: Gray Gaulding’s throat started to swell. Then came the chest pains. And his body began to go numb.
The Xfinity Series driver for SS Green Light Racing was on a Stewart-Haas Racing plane Friday morning to Kansas City when he began to have health issues, leading to the plane making an emergency landing in St. Louis and medics rushing on the plane to help Gaulding.
He said everything was fine when he boarded the flight Friday morning. It left Concord-Padgett Regional Airport in North Carolina at 7:45 a.m. ET.
All was fine for the first 45 minutes of the flight. About 10 minutes after he had eaten a piece of homemade beef jerky, Gaulding said “I could feel my throat slowly start to swell up.”
Chest pains followed. His throat continued to swell. His body then began to go numb.
See much more at NBC Sports.
ORIGINAL POST: Gray Gaulding, 21, was on board a Stewart-Haas Racing plane Friday morning that had to make an unscheduled stop in St. Louis to allow Gaulding to seek medical attention, his SS Green Light Racing team confirmed.
— Motorsport —
While on the way to Kansas Speedway, Gray Gaulding experienced a suspected allergic reaction. Upon visiting the infield care center, doctors did not clear him to compete today. He will be re-evaluated Saturday morning. J. J. Yeley will practice the car for final Xfinity practice.
— SS Green Light Racing (@SSGLR0708) October 18, 2019