Rainy weather forced NASCAR to postpone Saturday night's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway to Sunday. The race, which had completed 48 of a scheduled 500 laps, started late due to lightning and then was hit with persistent rain.
The race will resume at 1 p.m. ET Sunday with TV coverage on CNBC. Radio coverage is on PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
Joe Gibbs Racing driver Kyle Busch is the current leader, with rookies Chase Elliott and Ryan Blaney behind him in second and third, respectively. Denny Hamlin and Matt Kenseth, Busch's JGR teammates, are fourth and fifth, respectively.
Joey Logano, the two-time defending race winner, is ninth.
The Bristol Night Race is the 23rd of 36 points-paying races in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. It's the circuit's second stop of the season at the .533-mile, high-banked oval. Carl Edwards won the spring race, and he started on the Coors Light Pole on Saturday.
Rain has been an issue all week for all three NASCAR national series. Wet weather delayed the start of Wednesday night's NASCAR Camping World Truck Series UNOH 200, which was won by Ben Kennedy. Rain also washed out Thursday's final practice for the NASCAR XFINITY Series and delayed Friday's qualifying session for the series.
The race will resume at 1 p.m. ET Sunday with TV coverage on CNBC. Radio coverage is on PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
Joe Gibbs Racing driver Kyle Busch is the current leader, with rookies Chase Elliott and Ryan Blaney behind him in second and third, respectively. Denny Hamlin and Matt Kenseth, Busch's JGR teammates, are fourth and fifth, respectively.
Joey Logano, the two-time defending race winner, is ninth.
The Bristol Night Race is the 23rd of 36 points-paying races in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. It's the circuit's second stop of the season at the .533-mile, high-banked oval. Carl Edwards won the spring race, and he started on the Coors Light Pole on Saturday.
Rain has been an issue all week for all three NASCAR national series. Wet weather delayed the start of Wednesday night's NASCAR Camping World Truck Series UNOH 200, which was won by Ben Kennedy. Rain also washed out Thursday's final practice for the NASCAR XFINITY Series and delayed Friday's qualifying session for the series.
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