CONCORD, N.C. — Chase Elliott will return to racing this weekend at Martinsville Speedway after he missed the previous six NASCAR Cup races with a damaged left leg.

The 27-year-old Elliott was injured in a snowboarding accident in Colorado in early March. The 2020 Cup Collection champion rehabilitated in Colorado earlier than returning to his dwelling in Dawsonville, Georgia, in late March to proceed bodily remedy.

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The Hendrick Motorsports driver examined this week within the Chevrolet Driver-in-the-Loop simulator in Harmony, North Carolina, earlier than making the ultimate resolution to return at Martinsville.

“We’re wanting ahead to having Chase again in his race automobile to choose up the place he left off,” group proprietor Rick Hendrick mentioned. “Because the harm, he is labored extraordinarily laborious and targeted all his time and power on returning to the No. 9 group.

“All through the final six weeks, he is stayed totally engaged with all the pieces we’re doing, and we all know he is chomping on the bit to get on the racetrack and compete for wins.”

Josh Berry stuffed in for Elliott in 5 of the previous six Cup Collection occasions with a greatest end of second, which got here at Richmond Raceway. Jordan Taylor drove the No. 9 Chevrolet at Circuit of The Americas, beginning fourth and ending twenty fourth in his Cup debut.