Neil Bonnett will return to his home...

Neil Bonnett will return to his home in Alabama in an attempt to hasten his recovery from amnesia the NASCAR driver suffered after a 13-car pileup in the TranSouth 500.

“The doctor feels that Neil’s memory will come back, and he’ll make a full recovery. But the doctor said that it could be hours or days. Maybe longer,” Bonnett’s wife, Susan, told The Charlotte Observer from McLeod Infirmary in Florence, S.C.

The incident that hospitalized Bonnett, 43, occurred on lap 212 of the 367-lap race when a tangle at the front of a big pack of fast cars triggered a chain reaction accident at Darlington Raceway Sunday. It was unclear exactly what happened to Bonnett’s Ford. Bonnett was the only driver hospitalized.

“Neil remembers pretty much everything from when we arrived at the hospital Sunday afternoon onward,” Susan Bonnett said. “But he remembers absolutely nothing from before then--nothing.