A persistent rain, coupled with a pessimistic weather forecast for the remainder of the day, has forced the postponement of Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race and the previously postponed Nationwide Series event until Monday at Texas Motor Speedway.
The Sprint Cup race will begin at 11 a.m. CT and will be followed by the by the Nationwide race at 4 p.m. Fifteen drivers will have to run 800 miles.
Monday’s forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies with a high of 66 degrees and eight to 10 mile-per-hour winds from the northeast.
“It was the fan friendly thing to do in terms of allowing our fans with either ticket to stay for both races,” Texas Motor Speedway President Eddie Gossage said in a release.
The only time in the 14-year history of Texas Motor Speedway that a NASCAR event had to be run on Monday occurred in 2002. The Samsung/RadioShack 500 was run on April 8, 2002 and was won by Matt Kenseth.
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The Sprint Cup race will begin at 11 a.m. CT and will be followed by the by the Nationwide race at 4 p.m. Fifteen drivers will have to run 800 miles.
Monday’s forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies with a high of 66 degrees and eight to 10 mile-per-hour winds from the northeast.
“It was the fan friendly thing to do in terms of allowing our fans with either ticket to stay for both races,” Texas Motor Speedway President Eddie Gossage said in a release.
The only time in the 14-year history of Texas Motor Speedway that a NASCAR event had to be run on Monday occurred in 2002. The Samsung/RadioShack 500 was run on April 8, 2002 and was won by Matt Kenseth.
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