CARLISLE, Pa. – With Paul McMahan out with an injury, CJB Motorsports has tabbed Ian Madsen to drive the team’s No. 5 entry this weekend in All Star Circuit of Champions competition.
McMahan is expected to be out at least the two weeks after suffering a concussion in last Friday’s FVP Hard Knox qualifying night at the 60th running Knoxville Nationals at Iowa’s Knoxville Raceway.
“Still not feeling well from my crash but today I went to a concussion specialist and they confirmed what I already knew,” McMahan said in a tweet implying a diagnosis of a concussion. “So I will be out of the [CJB No. 5] for a little while. Wait and see what the doctors say in two weeks and go from there. Thanks to everyone that has checked in on me.”
Still not feeling well from my crash but today I went to a concussion specialist and they confirmed what I already knew. So I will be out of the @CJB_51 for a little while. Wait and see what the doctors says in 2 weeks and go from there. Thanks everyone that has checked in on me
— PAUL MCMAHAN (@RealPaulMcMahan) August 18, 2021
In slides the veteran Madsen, who will race for his fourth different team of the year on Friday at I-96 Speedway in Lake Odessa, Mich., and Saturday at Ohio’s Waynesfield Raceway Park.
Madsen started the year with Sam McGhee Motorsports on the All Star Circuit of Champions tour, but Spencer Bayston replaced the 37-year-old in the car on June 17. Since then he’s run 12 events in the Dewall Racing No. 16 and the Demyan-Rudzik Racing No. 49X.
The Australian carries one win on the year, an Ohio Speedweek triumph June 11 at Attica Raceway Park.
As for McMahan, he will continue to recover from that wreck last week at Knoxville. Contact with Carson Macedo on the opening lap of the Hard Knox main event sent the 50-year-old flipping hard in turns one and two, effectively ending his
In 49 races this year, McMahan has a win, eight top-fives, 28 top-10s.
This isn’t the first time the CJB team welcomes a substitute behind the wheel.
The team’s part-time driver and USAC National Midget Series points leader, Buddy Kofoid, was supposed to run last week’s Knoxville Nationals. However, a broken right wrist suffered in a recent pavement late crash kept Kofoid on the mend, as Zeb Wise filled in for CJB’s second Knoxville Nationals entry.