{"id":114270,"date":"2025-08-27T17:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T17:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/114270\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T17:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T17:44:07","slug":"jack-wood-set-to-return-after-watkins-glen-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/114270\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Wood Set to Return After Watkins Glen Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_a9p6xmmuw\">Jack Wood, who <a class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_122o7vo\" href=\"https:\/\/tobychristie.com\/nascar\/truck-series\/jack-wood-out-for-richmond-truck-race-no-91-mhr-team-withdraws\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sat out the most recent NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Richmond<\/a> Raceway on August 15, is set to return to the driver&#8217;s seat of the <a class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_122o7vo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/onsi\/racing-america\/news\/trucks-jack-wood-promoted-to-full-time-with-mcanally-hilgemann-racing-01jfb6d6dm7g\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No. 91 McAnally-Hilgemann Racing Chevrolet Silverado<\/a> in Saturday&#8217;s Sober or Slammer 200 at Darlington Raceway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_ybe3ewzvz\">Wood, 25, suffered an undisclosed injury <a class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_122o7vo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NASCARONFOX\/status\/1953945995647373730\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">in a hard impact on Lap 36 of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series event at Watkins Glen<\/a> International on August 8. McAnally-Hilgemann Racing, which has yet to confirm the injuries that Wood sustained in his crash at Watkins Glen, confirmed that the driver would return for this week&#8217;s race in a Wednesday press release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_fzcjd26kw\">&#8220;Wood took a hard hit and has been going through extensive care measures followed by a week off to make sure he is ready to roll this weekend in Darlington,&#8221; the statement from the team explained. &#8220;Thankfully, with all the safety equipment NASCAR implements in these race trucks and forces the drivers to wear, Wood will be able to bounce back quickly and stay in contention for a solid run in the Sober or Slammer 200 Saturday afternoon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_estsu1dbs\">Here is a video of Wood&#8217;s Watkins Glen crash from the FS1 race broadcast:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A big hit for Jack Wood at Watkins Glen. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uSCmBFnb1C\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/uSCmBFnb1C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FOX: NASCAR (@NASCARONFOX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASCARONFOX\/status\/1953945995647373730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 8, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_81rjttrj9\">Wood, a native of Loomis, California, has competed in 17 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series events this season, and has a best finish of seventh this season, which he achieved at Rockingham Speedway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_3vksgf6r3\">Heading into this weekend&#8217;s race, Wood ranks 19th in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series championship standings, which despite missing the race at Richmond, would be enough for his career-best points finish if he is able to maintain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_wghwz9qht\">In 78 career starts in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series ranks, Wood has four top-10 finishes.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Articles<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Wood, who sat out the most recent NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Richmond Raceway on August&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[425,99],"class_list":["post-114270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}