[MotorSports News]

Vitor Meira isn't exceptionally flexible at the moment, so "I'm just not going to be very good changing tires and fueling." But the veteran IndyCar Series driver will attend the Camping World Grand Prix at The Glen weekend to support the A.J. Foyt Racing team and driver Ryan Hunter-Reay.
It will be the first race Meira has attended since suffering two broken lower vertebrae during the Indianapolis 500 on May 24, but his thoughts have been with the team while recuperating and rehabilitating.
"They've been giving me a lot of support since the accident and most of all they're all my friends and I want to be with them," said Meira, who's wearing a torso brace in lieu of surgery. "Second of all, to be at the racetrack, that's where I always want to be and that's where I love to be. I don't want to be at home if I can be at the racetrack.
"I'll probably go around the track and watch some cars with a stopwatch and take some times and take notes on some different lines so I can keep Ryan updated on what people are doing out there."
Hunter-Reay, the defending race champion, will be driving the No. 14 ABC Supply Co. car for the third race. The sight of someone else driving his race car will be "very weird," according to Meira.
"Well, it's not my race car, I'm just driving A.J.'s race car but it was planned for me to be there. But it is different. It makes you appreciate a little more the opportunities you have."
Meira, who had a high finish of ninth in the season opener in his first year with A.J. Foyt Racing, returned this week from a 10-day trip to his native Brazil, where he was visiting his family and checking in with his personal physician.
"I had some business things there to sort out that I didn't have to do, but it would be good to do since I had the time," Meira said. "And I saw my family and my family doctor to keep everybody abreast."


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