Rain delays NASCAR twinbill
Associated Press
FORT WORTH, TEXAS
For all the talk about green-white-checkered finishes in NASCAR this season, the Sprint Cup and Nationwide races can’t even get started in rainy Texas.
Persistent wet weather Sunday forced the postponement of a Sprint Cup and Nationwide doubleheader until today.
The Sprint Cup race was called Sunday about 75 minutes after its scheduled 3:16 p.m. start because of persistent drizzle and the forecast for misty conditions until late in the evening. The race was rescheduled for today at noon.
“It is disappointing not to race, but this happens now and then,” said Ryan Newman, who starts 10th a week after winning at Phoenix International to break a 77-race winless streak. “I think we are going to be good [today]. We just have to live with it. It is part of racing.”
Rain on Saturday wiped out the Nationwide race then. It had been rescheduled for Sunday night after the Cup race and will now be run today at approximately 5 p.m.
About 21‚Ñ2 inches of rain fell at the track Saturday and Sunday. The forecast calls for cloudy skies with only a minimal chance of rain today.
If both races are run, that means 15 drivers face the potential of 801 miles behind the wheel — 501 miles in the Cup race and 300 more in the Nationwide race.