The Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway will now be a day race after rain postponed the 500-lap contest until Sunday.
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The race will now continue starting at 1 p.m. ET on Sunday.
NASCAR discontinued the race Saturday night after getting in just 48 laps between the originally scheduled 8 p.m. start and the 11 o’clock hour.
After drying the track for almost 90 minutes, NASCAR sent the field back onto the track for 10 laps under caution only to have more rain pelt the track, causing the postponement.
32 laps in here at BMS and we’re under CAUTION due to rain. Pole-sitter Carl Edwards slid to seventh. His three Joe Gibbs Racing teammates were all in the top five of the grid: Denny Hamlin in second, Kyle Busch in third and Matt Kenseth in fifth.
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When action got back under way Sunday night, the field lined up in the order it had been running Saturday night when the rain came. The track’s timeline gave them 19 days to convert the infield to a football field and make things ready for what Bristol executive vice president and general manager Jerry Caldwell figured would be more than 155,000 fans coming out to watch the game.
