{"id":202417,"date":"2025-10-10T10:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T10:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/202417\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T10:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T10:25:12","slug":"how-to-watch-saturdays-xfinity-race-at-las-vegas-start-time-tv-info-and-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/202417\/","title":{"rendered":"How to watch Saturday’s Xfinity race at Las Vegas: Start time, TV info and weather"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Xfinity Series playoffs will begin the Round of 8 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway with Connor Zilisch the overwhelming favorite for the Championship 4.<\/p>\n

At least one driver will make the title race through points, and Zilisch has a 57-point gap on the cutoff \u2014 the largest margin entering the third round in playoff history.<\/p>\n

The JR Motorsports star, who won the Roval for his series-leading 10th victory this season, has a 33-point lead on second-ranked teammate Justin Allgaier. The seven playoff drivers behind Zilisch are separated by 35 points.<\/p>\n

Zilisch will try to extend his record streak of 17 consecutive top-five finishes, but he might want to avoid finishing first at Vegas. No Xfinity champion has won the Round of 8 opener in history.<\/p>\n

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Harrison Burton and AM Racing announced Wednesday that Burton will not return to the Xfinity teams after this season. <\/p>\n

Details for Saturday\u2019s Xfinity race at Las Vegas<\/p>\n

(All times Eastern)<\/p>\n

START: The green flag is scheduled to wave at 7:45 p.m.<\/p>\n

PRERACE: The Xfinity garage will open at 12:30 p.m. … Qualifying will be at 3:05 p.m. … Driver introductions will be at 7 p.m. … The national anthem will be performed by Wy Mac at 7:27 p.m. … The command to start engines is scheduled to be given at 7:34 p.m. by journalist and cancer survivor Holly Cain, accompanied by Shawn Holt, co-founder & CEO of Focused Health & Betty Carreno.<\/p>\n

DISTANCE: The race is 201 laps (301.5 miles) on the 1.5-mile oval in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n

STAGES: Stage 1 ends at Lap 45. Stage 2 ends at Lap 90.<\/p>\n

PURSE: $1,651,939<\/p>\n

ENTRY LIST: Click here for the 38 cars entered at Las Vegas Motor Speedway<\/a>.<\/p>\n

TV\/RADIO: CW will broadcast the race starting at 7 p.m. … Performance Racing Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio will have radio coverage.<\/p>\n

FORECAST: WeatherUnderground<\/a>: Partly cloudy with a high of 87 degrees and winds from the south at 20 to 30 mph with a 15% chance of rain. It\u2019s expected to be 84 degrees with no chance of rain at the start of the Xfinity race.<\/p>\n

LAST TIME: Justin Allgaier earned his first victory at Las Vegas, leading a race-high 102 laps to win on March 15.<\/p>\n

LAST YEAR: AJ Allmendinger led a race-high 102 laps last Oct. 18 to advance to the Championship 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Xfinity Series playoffs will begin the Round of 8 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway with Connor Zilisch…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-202417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}