With all due respect to Alex Bowman’s restoration from vertigo, and return to the Hendrick Motorsports No. 48 over the weekend after lacking 4 NASCAR Cup Sequence races, now it’s time for the 32-year-old to avoid wasting his job.
Everybody downplays it, however Bowman is in a contract yr, and having confronted a number of medical points through the years whereas additionally not successful on the scope of his famous person teammates, that journey may develop into out there with out its present driver successful some races this summer time.
To wit, 2014 Cup Sequence champion turned FOX Sports activities shade analyst Kevin Harvick mentioned it extra bluntly than anybody else has but whereas discussing the comeback on his Blissful Hour YouTube present.
“It’s nice to have Alex Bowman again within the automotive,” Kevin Harvick mentioned. “That’s the journey that he had and earned to get thus far. You couldn’t ask for a more durable racetrack to come back again to than Bristol with all of the G’s and all the warmth. It was scorching this weekend. Usually not that heat within the spring race at Bristol.
“It’s good to see him again within the automotive, however now we’re again to analyzing the 48’s efficiency, and it wasn’t good. All through the weekend, they didn’t actually have any velocity and wound up in an accident. Now, they received to focus on we’ve received the driving force’s well being again the place it must be. Now, what will we received to do to get this automotive again to the place it must be, solidly within the prime 10? That’ll be the subsequent tall activity that they’ve to determine.”
After which … Bowman must race to justify his subsequent contract.
In case you’re going to maintain your job, you’re going to must win.”
Bowman has eight profession wins since becoming a member of Hendrick in 2018, at first changing Dale Earnhardt Jr. within the No. 88 in 2018 after which taking on for Jimmie Johnson within the No. 48 in 2021. He has simply two wins over the past four-plus seasons.
Along with his Corridor of Fame resume, and present analyst job, Harvick additionally owns a expertise company and represents quite a few drivers within the Cup Sequence storage and is clued in on foolish season issues in addition to anybody.
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