Snow is threatening to throw a wrench into NASCAR’s Clash race weekend at Bowman Gray Stadium, but if winter weather does end up impacting the race weekend, it’d be far from the first time snow has impacted a NASCAR race. 

Here are four examples of snow impacting previous NASCAR race weekends. 

Auto Club, February 2023

During the last NASCAR race weekend ever held at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California, Mother Nature seemed hesitant to let NASCAR leave the two-mile track. Just after engines were fired for the NASCAR Xfinity Series (now NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series) race on Saturday, Feb. 25,, rain mixed with a tiny bit of snow ended up postponing the race to after the conclusion of the Cup Series race on Feb. 26.

Current Cup Series driver John Hunter Nemechek won the race, becoming the last NASCAR winner ever at Auto Club after Kyle Busch won the Cup Series race hours earlier.

Martinsville, March 2018

Snow last postponed a NASCAR race at Martinsville Speedway in March 2018. It began to snow during the March 24 NASCAR Truck Series race, which was then postponed to Monday, March 26. The following day’s NASCAR Cup Series race was then postponed to Monday as well, with both races finishing on March 26. 

Interestingly enough, Nemechek went on to win the Truck Series race, while Clint Bowyer went on to win the ninth race of his Cup Series career in the postponed STP 500. That victory was the second-to-last win of Bowyer’s career. 

Bristol, March 2006

On March 25, 2006, snow began to fall during the NASCAR Busch Series (now NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series) race at Bristol Motor Speedway. The snow forced a long delay, but unlike at Martinsville in 2018, the race concluded on the same day that it finished. After a lengthy red flag, the race resumed, and Kyle Busch ended up taking the checkered flag. 

Atlanta, March 1993

Perhaps the most infamous example on this list, this race was scheduled to take place on March 14, 1993 — right in the middle of the so-called “Storm of the Century” that dumped snow all over the East Coast of the United States. 

The race was pushed back nearly a full week to March 20, with then 52-year-old Morgan Shepherd taking his fourth and final career Cup Series win driving the iconic Wood Brothers No. 21. Shepherd beat Ernie Irvan, Rusty Wallace, a rookie Jeff Gordon and Ricky Rudd to claim the victory.