NASCAR can have no less than one race on Monday.
The sanctioning physique introduced late Saturday afternoon that the second-tier Xfinity Collection race at Daytona Worldwide Speedway had been postponed to Monday due to persistent rain. The race was scheduled to start after 5 p.m. ET on Saturday. It is going to now start at 11 a.m. ET on Monday.
Rain arrived mid-day on Saturday and reveals no indicators of stopping anytime quickly. Barring a drastic change within the forecast, a regularly-scheduled Daytona 500 on Sunday will not be going to occur. The race is scheduled to start shortly after 3 p.m. ET on Sunday.
It’s anticipated to rain the remainder of Saturday and thru the whole lot of Sunday. Hourly rain probabilities for the Daytona Seashore, Florida, space are over 80% till Sunday night and don’t drop under 50% till the early hours of Monday morning.
If the season-opening Cup Collection race is delayed by rain and cannot be run on Sunday, it’s prone to be run after the Xfinity Collection race on Monday. The Xfinity Collection race is scheduled early sufficient for loads of time for the five hundred to be run afterward.
The Daytona 500 has been suffering from rain in current seasons. The 2020 race was delayed till Monday and the 2021 race completed late Sunday night time due to rain.
The specter of rain has loomed for the whole week main as much as the five hundred. NASCAR moved Saturday afternoon’s ARCA race to late Friday night time after the conclusion of the Truck Collection race to make sure that the fourth-tier collection would get its race full and groups wouldn’t be pressured to remain in Daytona for a number of extra days. The ARCA race completed early Saturday morning after it mixed with the Truck race to function 21 cautions over 180 scheduled laps of racing between the 2 occasions.
