NASCAR star Alex Bowman to miss at least three races after sprint car crash
- Alex Bowman suffered a broken vertebra in a sprint-car crash and is expected to be out for at least three weeks.
- Josh Berry will replace Bowman during his recovery starting this weekend at Dover Motor Speedway.
- Bowman suffered the compression fracture in his back when his race car flipped at 34 Raceway, an Iowa dirt track.
- Bowman is expected to miss three-to-four weeks, meaning he would be out this weekend at Dover and at least the following two weeks at Kansas Speedway and Darlington Raceway.
- Bowman has seven career Cup victories and has made the playoffs all five years he has raced at Hendrick.