Hemera/Thinkstock(DOVER, Del.) — Dale Earnhardt Jr., who’s missed NASCAR action over the past couple of months due to a concussion, will make an appearance at this weekend’s race at Dover International Speedway, though he won’t be behind the wheel of his No. 88 car.
Earnhardt Jr. says he will sit in the No. 88 pit box and observe the Sprint Cup Series’ Citizen Soldier 400 as Jeff Gordon again fills in for him.
“It’s going to be kind of different, tough, maybe not a ton of fun,” Earnhardt Jr. said on The Dale Jr. Download podcast this week, according to NASCAR.com. “It’s a bit weird to be not in the car but at the track when you’re a driver. You don’t know what to do with yourself. But I’m going to try to support the guys and maybe learn a thing or two.”
Earnhardt Jr. also discussed his progress in recovering from the concussion. It’s believed he suffered the concussion during a crash at Michigan International Speedway in June.
“[I]t’s getting better,” he said. “My doctors talk about getting me back to where I can be a normal person, and then there’s getting me back to being a race car driver. I’m almost back…to being a normal, functioning person with no issues. To become that guy I need to be inside the car, we really have to train my senses to be perfect.”
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