Mark McFarland

Initial reports indicating Busch Series driver McFarland’s clearance to race this weekend at Daytona International Speedway proved to be erroneous when additional MRI scans were reviewed by doctors late Tuesday night. As a result, Martin Truex Jr. will step in to drive the JR Motorsports’s No. 88 Navy Chevrolet this weekend at Daytona, jayski.com reports.

Rich Hubbs had many key racing jobs before becoming team manager and crew chief for JR Motorsports’ No. 88 NAVY team in the NASCAR Busch Series and every one of them prepared him for the job that lay ahead, jrmotorsport.com reports.

It has been 1½ decades since McFarland raced on any type of road course. That was in his go-kart days, a time when he was dominating his way to 186 career wins. Always a student of the game, McFarland concluded a two-day session yesterday at the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving in Phoenix, Az in hopes of polishing off those rusty skills, bgnracing.com reports.