🚨2020 Cup Series champion and NASCAR's Most Popular Driver chaseelliott will return to competition this weekend at MartinsvilleSwy after missing six races due to a leg injury:
, 27, suffered a fractured tibia in his left leg while snowboarding in Colorado on March 3rd. driver has missed six races and now sits 34th in the championship standings. Josh Berry has run five of those races, finishing as high as second at Richmond. Jordan Taylor ran the other at COTA.
Elliott has been granted a medical waiver by NASCAR and remains eligible for the championship. Although he could still mathematically earn enough points to make the playoffs the traditional way, he'll likely have to win in order to secure a spot in the postseason.famously did just that in 2015 after missing ten races due to a broken leg, and he went on to win the Cup Series championship.
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