![]() The 23-year-old Perkins called his Talladega accident the biggest of his career. That makes this weekend his first chance back in the car for Our Motorsports. He sat out the Dover race and the Xfinity Series was off last weekend while Cup and Trucks raced at Kansas Speedway. “I was calling the doctors up and saying, ‘OK, let’s get it going.’ I’m just really happy to be back in the 02 this weekend.” Blaine Perkins. “Then after that, it was like, ‘OK, I want to get back in the car. “I think it was probably one or two days there of just trying to feel better, get better,” Perkins said. Perkins proved to be fine and was back in the gym about a week later. Perkins said he was kept overnight in a hospital to check on some of the bruising he suffered in the incident around where his safety belts were. Perkins told NBC Sports on Friday at Darlington Raceway that he was not diagnosed with a concussion but did see a neurologist to be cleared to return. He is back in a car this weekend for the first time since that wild ride. Perkins was kept overnight and released the following day. Sore after rolling over six times during last month’s Xfinity Series race at Talladega Superspeedway, Blaine Perkins didn’t get a chance to see what he had survived until he watched video of it on his phone - as he rode in an ambulance to a Birmingham, Alabama, hospital. ![]() Xfinity Series race (200 laps, 200 miles USA Network, Motor Racing Network, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)ĭARLINGTON, S.C. Cup Series qualifying (USA Network, Motor Racing Network, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) Xfinity Series qualifying (NBC Sports App) Phoenix Raceway (Cup and Xfinity) Weather The driver who finishes highest among the Championship 4 will win the title. Joey Logano, Christopher Bell, Chase Elliott and Ross Chastain will be racing for the Cup championship in Sunday’s 312-mile race (3 p.m. The final race of the Xfinity season is scheduled for a 6 p.m. The Xfinity champion will be crowned Saturday night. MORE: Kelley Earnhardt Miller: Big sister, big boss at JR Motorsports ET (NBC Sports App), and Cup drivers will qualify at 3:35 p.m. Xfinity drivers will qualify at 2:30 p.m. NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Series drivers will be on track Saturday at Phoenix Raceway as the season winds into its final two days.Ĭup and Xfinity qualifying sessions are scheduled Saturday afternoon.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |