Brian Vickers will be back behind the wheel of the No. 55 Toyota Camry of Michael Waltrip Racing this weekend in Las Vegas.
Vickers missed the 2015 season’s first two races as he recovered from December 13 heart surgery. “At the hospital they discovered my body was rejecting an artificial patch that was inserted in 2010 to fix a hole in my heart. The procedure was painful but it went great and they feel better about my heart than before,” said the 31-year-old Thomasville, N.C. native. “The surgery was a lot higher risk, but they feel really good about how everything has progressed. My sternum is stronger than before. It’s wired together making loops like a coat hanger. “Overcoming problems like this is just what you have to do in life. There’s a lot of people battling things tougher than what I have battled,” Vickers declared in a team press release.
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