CONCORD, N.C. — Continued rain at Charlotte Motor Speedway has spilled from Friday afternoon to Saturday morning. As a result, the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series North Carolina Education Lottery 200, which was already postponed from Friday evening to Saturday morning, has been postponed again.
NASCAR will now attempt to run the race at 9 PM ET. FS1 will continue to televise the race as scheduled, and the NASCAR Radio Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio will provide the radio broadcast of the event.
The NASCAR Truck race will hopefully follow the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series Charbroil 300, which is currently scheduled for 5:00 PM ET. However, Mother Nature will have to cooperate for either of the two races to get in on Saturday afternoon/evening, let alone both.
Whenever the green flag is finally shown to the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series field, it will be Corey Day leading the field into Turn 1 at the 1.5-mile speedway. Day, who is driving the No. 7 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet Silverado, which was supposed to be driven by the late Kyle Busch, earned the top qualifying spot due to Busch’s dominant performance a weekend ago in the NASCAR Truck Series event at Dover Motor Speedway.
With NASCAR Truck Series qualifying being canceled on Friday, the starting lineup was set by NASCAR’s Performance Metric Formula. Busch, who started on the pole and dominated to take his 69th and final career Truck Series win a weekend ago, had a perfect metric formula rating.
Layne Riggs, the driver of the No. 34 Front Row Motorsports Ford F-150, will start from the outside of the front row in Saturday’s twice-postponed NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series North Carolina Education Lottery 200 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
