Ready for some Monday Night Madhouse?
Well, you’re getting it, thanks to Old Man Winter.
NASCAR announced Saturday morning it’s postponing the season-opening exhibition — the Cook Out Clash — from Sunday to Monday due to the blast of winter pounding the U.S., including Winston-Salem, N.C., where historic Bowman Gray Stadium — an action-inducing quarter-miler long known as “The Madhouse” — is playing host to the Clash for the second straight year.
A weekend storm system promises high chances for snow for South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia, according to the National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center.
New NASCAR Clash schedule
The new schedule, for Monday, looks like this:
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11 a.m.: Practice and qualifying (Fox Sports 2).
4:30 p.m.: Last Chance Qualifier (Fox).
6 p.m.: Cook Out Clash (Fox).
The weekend was originally scheduled to include late-model and sportsman series racing Saturday, but that was postponed late in the week. With Sunday’s forecast showing no signs of warming, NASCAR and Fox found Monday as an alternative.
Sunday’s Winston-Salem forecast calls for temps in the low to mid-20s during original race hours. Monday’s forecast is better, though just marginally — daytime highs reach the upper 30s, but that figures to drop with the sun around the 6 p.m. start time of the main event.
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When is the Daytona 500?
The start of NASCAR’s regular season, as always, begins Feb. 11 at Daytona International Speedway with five days of action, culminating with the Feb. 15 Daytona 500.
This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: NASCAR Clash postponed to Monday at cold Bowman Gray. TV channel same
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