Vickers Out For Three Months, Mears In For Red Bull...

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David Newton has been all over the health issues of Brian Vickers- which the HQ feels sounds a lot like a predecessor to DVT...

Red Bull Racing says they're going to wait for final recommendations from doctors and that details of Vickers' prognosis will be announced on Friday at Charlotte Motor Speedway, where he and and Red Bull GM Jay Frye will have a news conference.

Mike Massaro catches up with David Newton about the situation for the 83 car...


Here's the early stages of the news with Massaro and Terry Blount...

Vickers out with Hockey Type injury...

Much like a hockey player with an "Upper Body" injury, NASCAR Racer Brian Vickers is out and in the hospital with an "Undisclosed Medical Condition".

The "Condition" will keep Vickers in the hospital and keep him from racing this week at Dover Speedway, Casey Mears will drive the #83 car.

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((Brian Vickers tries to determine his condition//Courtesy: Getty Images for NASCAR))

Vickers, who is a solid, if unspectacular racer with 2 wins to his credit will remain hospitalized until his condition can be determined. Red Bull Racing didn't say much more than that.

To see what his condition is, let's see what condition his condition is in. (For those unaware, check out the classic movie The Big Lebowski). Thanks You Tube:

No Jack in NASCAR

It appears as though Jack Daniels is leaving NASCAR. At least they are as a car sponsor, no doubt the fans won't be giving up on them so quickly, it is after all a beverage of choice for many NASCAR fans. However for the guys at Richard Childress racing, it creates some problems.

The story from bizjournals.com here .

More from the 4-letter word (ESPN) here .

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The question now is what will RCR do? Casey Mears has been driving the #07 Jack Daniels car all season long, the car was the 4th for RCR. Team owner Richard Childress was very vague about the teams plans after the season, luckily for them, Jack Daniels will finish out the '09 season which is almost at an end.

RCR Flip-Flops Crews For Talladega

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Richard Childress will swap the crews for slumping drivers Kevin Harvick and Casey Mears following this weekend's race at Talladega Superspeedway.

Both teams have underperformed this season, the first in which Richard Childress Racing is fielding four full-time cars. Harvick has slipped six spots in the standings to 16th over the past two weeks, while Mears is 22nd and off to a slow start in his first year with RCR.

The drivers will swap their entire crews after Sunday's race.

"The decision to interchange the (teams) was made to make both programs stronger and more successful," team owner Childress said Wednesday. "Our main objective has always been to have all four of RCR's teams qualify for the Chase for the Sprint Cup. Neither team has had the success this season that we know they're capable of, so we decided it was time to make a change to improve the two teams and the overall strength of RCR.

"We feel this change positions us to achieve that goal."

Todd Berrier and his crew will move from Harvick's No. 29 team to Mears' No. 07 next week. Berrier has been with Harvick since the Nationwide Series, and took over the Cup program in 2003. The duo won eight Cup races together, including the 2007 Daytona 500 and the 2003 race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Berrier also led Harvick to the Nationwide Series championship in 2001.

Gil Martin will take his crew to Harvick's car. He has been with the No. 07 team since the 2006 season, and led Clint Bowyer into the Chase the past two seasons.

Martin previously worked with Harvick on the No. 29 car in 2002, leading Harvick to a win that season at Chicago.

"Todd and Gil are proven winners who have strong and successful teams behind them," Childress said. "Chemistry is an important part of any successful organization and I felt it was time to change the makeup of these two teams. We've done this before with positive results."

RCR is considered one of the top four organizations in NASCAR, but its teams have yet to collect victories at the same pace as Hendrick Motorsports, Joe Gibbs Racing and Roush-Fenway Racing. All three teams have multiple victories this season, but RCR is so far winless.

Still, Bowyer has been strong driving the expansion No. 33 team, which is comprised of many of the crew members who helped him to last year's Nationwide title. Bowyer was as high as second in the standings early this season, but has slipped to sixth over the past two weeks.

Jeff Burton, the fourth RCR driver, is 11th in the standings.

Junior And Mears On Probation After Phoenix Run-In

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NASCAR announced today that it has placed Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Casey Mears on probation for the next six races in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, as a result of their on-track incident last Saturday at the conclusion of the race at Phoenix International Raceway.

Earnhardt, driver of the No. 88 team and Mears, driver of the No. 07 team, both violated Section 12-4-A (actions detrimental to stock car racing; hitting another competitor’s car after the race had concluded) of the 2009 NASCAR rule book.

The probation takes effect beginning with this weekend’s event at Talladega Superspeedway.

Here's the tete-a-tete ((about the 2:30 mark))...
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