NASCAR Cup Series driver Kurt Busch announced Saturday that he will miss the remainder of this season because of a concussion he suffered in July. The injury will also preclude Busch from competing full-time next year.
The 2004 NASCAR Cup Series champion, Busch was injured during qualifying at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Penn. when his car drifted up the track and slammed into a wall. The crash forced the 44-year-old veteran to miss the next 13 consecutive races and invited areemerged last month
when driver Alex Bowman was concussed after his car hit the wall during a race in Texas in a similar fashion to Busch’s vehicle. Drivers have complained about experiencing harder impacts in the newer cars and Bowman after his collision said it was the “hardest I’ve crashed anything in my entire life.”“I don’t think they understand the extent of it and actually the extent of how bad it is when you hit stuff,” driver Kevin Harvick told NBC Sports in reference to NASCAR.
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