Kyle Busch has some experience when it comes to recovering from an injury and has some advice for Chase Elliott
During Chase Elliott’s recuperation period, the 27-year-old driver conversed with Kyle Busch who suffered a broken right leg and a fractured left foot in 2015in a NASCAR Xfinity Series crash.
Busch missed 11 weeks with his injuries and said Elliott’s leg injury is more like his foot break where plates and screws were installed.
“It’s just not easy to jump right back in and go,” Busch said. “Even in my fifth week when I won at Sonoma, I couldn’t walk afterwards it hurt so bad.
“When you’re in a race car you’re hitting the brake pedal and you’re pushing that. You’re pushing load through all of those joints down through the brake pedal. It’s going to be an uncomfortable scenario for him for the next little bit. It wasn’t always pleasant with the plates and the screws for the whole year until I got them out. I walked out of the hospital, I was like “Damn! I feel good. This feels like a brand-new foot.’”
When Alex Bowman missed five weeks last year due to a concussion, his situation was a different experience than he anticipated.
“I was probably training harder that whole time than I had been my entire life,” Bowman said. “I think for me the biggest thing was being nervous about crashing again.”
Denny Hamlin, who has had to come back from knee and back injuries, said an athlete who’s returning from an injury, or an illness never wants to be the weak link.
“So, I really think you get the best out of your drivers when sometimes they face adversity, especially physically,” Hamlin said.
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