Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Collection race at Pocono Raceway was initially scheduled to start out simply after 3pm EST, with the inexperienced flag deliberate for 3:21pm EST.
As a result of menace of inclement climate, the beginning of Sunday’s 400-mile/160-lap occasion has been moved up a full two hours to 1pm EST. Such a change is partly because of this leg of the NASCAR season current on the streaming platform Prime Video, which might be way more versatile than conventional cable when adjusting begin instances.
There will probably be no change to the opening instances for the parking heaps (6 am EST) and gates (8 am EST) on the Pennsylvania monitor.
The Nice American Getaway 400 is ready to be the sixteenth spherical of the 2026 NASCAR Cup season. Chase Briscoe enters because the defending winner of this race. Observe and qualifying are scheduled to happen on Saturday afternoon, previous the NASCAR O’Reilly race.
Pocono has been part of the NASCAR schedule since 1974, and the summer time occasion has usually been impacted by inclement climate through the years. The race has been shortened by rain 5 instances, with Chris Buescher incomes his first profession win the final time it occurred in 2016. The race has been absolutely postponed an additional 3 times, and the 2002 race needed to be ended early attributable to darkness.
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