{"id":233218,"date":"2025-10-23T01:18:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T01:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/233218\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T01:18:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T01:18:27","slug":"william-sawalich-to-miss-nascar-xfinity-series-race-at-martinsville-speedway-speedway-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/233218\/","title":{"rendered":"William Sawalich to Miss NASCAR Xfinity Series Race at Martinsville Speedway &#8211; Speedway Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Gibbs Racing announced today that William Sawalich will miss Saturday\u2019s NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Martinsville Speedway after experiencing concussion-like symptoms following his accident during last Saturday\u2019s race at Talladega Superspeedway. In his absence, Justin Bonsignore will drive the No. 18 SoundGear Toyota GR Supra this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m disappointed to not be in the car this weekend, but my health is my number one priority,\u201d Sawalich said. \u201cI\u2019m feeling better every day and working with Dr. Collins at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and NASCAR to go through their concussion protocol to return to the track as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>JGR PR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Gibbs Racing announced today that William Sawalich will miss Saturday\u2019s NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Martinsville Speedway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,12101,26793,5508,634,582,721,722,82,98034,926,723],"class_list":["post-233218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-joe-gibbs-racing","tag-martinsville-speedway","tag-miss","tag-nascar","tag-racing","tag-series","tag-speedway","tag-sports","tag-talladega-superspeedway","tag-toyota","tag-xfinity-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}