Brian Vickers, who returned to Sprint Cup competition at Las Vegas two weeks ago following his December heart surgery, is experiencing yet another recurrence of the blood clots he has experienced on and off since 2010. Vickers was sidelined for a great deal of the 2010 season, when he drove the #83 Toyota at Red Bull Racing. He was then substituted by Elliott Sadler in the last four races of 2013 at Michael Waltrip Racing in the #55 Toyota, a few months after winning at New Hampshire that July. March happens to be blood clot awareness month and Saturday's Xfinity Series race at Fontana is called the Drive4Clots 300. Vickers said in an online post on Friday that he hopes his situation will be especially effective at this time of the year.
Vickers will once again be replaced by development driver Brett Moffitt, who drove Michael Waltrip's #55 to an eighth place finish at Atlanta on March 1. Moffitt drove the #34 Ford of Front Row Motorsports at Las Vegas and Phoenix as a fill-in for David Ragan, who himself is subbing for the injured Kyle Busch in the Joe Gibbs #18 Toyota. Moffitt was lined up to drive the #34 one more time at Fontana in the Cup race on Sunday before Vickers' latest issues arose. Instead, the fourth driver of that car in five races will be Roush Xfinity driver Chris Buescher. The #34 should have enough points for Buescher to make the Cup race.
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