NASCAR ALLOWS NO. 14 CAR TO COMPETE IN EXHIBITION

NASCAR will allow Stewart-Haas Racing ’s No. 14 Chevrolet to compete in the season-opening Sprint Unlimited exhibition with a substitute driver, series executive vice president and chief racing development officer Steve

O’Donnell said. Tony Stewart earned the spot as a former winner of the event but suffered a burst fracture of a back vertebra in an offseason ATV accident. He is out for an undetermined amount of time, according to SHR.