NASCAR Cup: Bowman to race in Mexico City with Alfredo on standby
MEXICO CITY — Hendrick Motorsports confirmed Alex Bowman will have Anthony Alfredo on standby this weekend when the NASCAR Cup Series races in Mexico City.
Doctors evaluated Bowman this week for back pain after a hard crash in last week’s Cup Series race at Michigan. Hendrick Motorsports decided to have Alfredo on standby “as a precaution.”
“Alfredo is entered in Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity Series event at Autódromo Hermanos Rodriguez and has prepared extensively for the road course as the organization’s primary simulator driver,” the organization stated Thursday.
Bowman crashed head-on into the outside wall during the second stage of the race in Michigan. He described it as one of the hardest hits he ever took in his racing career.
In the last nine races, Bowman has had seven finishes outside of the top-25 and is now just above the provisional playoff cutline. Luckily, road courses are a strong suit for him — he has five top-10 finishes in the last nine road course races, including a win last year in Chicago and a ninth-place finish at Circuit of the Americas in March.
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Jonathan Fjeld is the co-owner of the The Racing Experts, LLC. He has been with TRE since 2010.
A Twin Valley, MN, native, Fjeld became a motorsports fan at just three years old (first race was the 2002 Pennsylvania 500). He worked as a contributor and writer for TRE from 2010-18. Since then, he has stepped up and covered 24 NASCAR race weekends and taken on a larger role with TRE. He became the co-owner and managing editor in 2023 and has guided the site to massive growth in that time.
Fjeld has covered a wide array of stories and moments over the years, including Kevin Harvick's final Cup Series season, the first NASCAR national series disqualification in over 50 years, Shane van Gisbergen's stunning win in Chicago and the first Cup Series race at Road America in 66 years – as well as up-and-coming drivers' stories and stories from inside the sport, like the tech it takes for Hendrick Motorsports to remain a top-tier team.
Currently, he resides in Albuquerque, N.M., where he works for KOB 4, an NBC station. He works as a digital producer and does on-air reports. He loves spending time with friends and family, playing and listening to music, exploring new places, being outdoors, reading books and writing among other activities. You can email him at fjeldjonathan@gmail.com