{"id":443162,"date":"2026-01-30T14:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/443162\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T14:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:33:12","slug":"nascar-postpones-cook-out-clash-adjacent-races-but-main-event-still-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/443162\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR postpones Cook Out Clash-adjacent races, but main event still on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">NASCAR has \u201cpostponed the two local races scheduled for Saturday\u201d at Bowman Gray Stadium which were \u201cpart of this weekend\u2019s Cook Out Clash,\u201d due to impending winter weather. However, Friday\u2019s Clash Preview at the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds Event Center is \u201cstill scheduled\u201d from 10am-2pm ET. The Cup drivers practice, qualifying and heat races have also \u201cbeen postponed because of the impending weather conditions.\u201d NASCAR said that the Sportsman and Modified races \u201care not cancelled, but the hope is to run those two races at a future date.\u201d The Cook Out Clash is \u201cstill scheduled for Sunday,\u201d with practice and qualifying \u201cscheduled from\u201d 2pm-4pm and set to be broadcast live on FS2. The Last Chance Qualifier is scheduled for 6pm on Fox (<a href=\"https:\/\/journalnow.com\/sports\/other\/motorsports\/article_ab02a774-3829-4909-a06b-da75b053061a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL, 1\/29<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">The incoming winter weather in the North Carolina area this weekend is \u201csetting up what could be the coldest race in NASCAR history.\u201d Multiple \u201cfallback options were examined,\u201d but \u201cultimately keeping the Clash at Bowman Gray &#8212; and as close to its originally scheduled date as possible &#8212; made the most sense.\u201d This marks the \u201csecond time in three years that Mother Nature has significantly negatively impacted the Clash.\u201d The 2024 edition \u201chastily moved up a day\u201d due to severe weather bearing down on the L.A. area (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7008094\/2026\/01\/29\/nascar-clash-bowman-gray-weather-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">THE ATHLETIC, 1\/29<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR has \u201cpostponed the two local races scheduled for Saturday\u201d at Bowman Gray Stadium which were \u201cpart of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,12716,634,82],"class_list":["post-443162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-motorsports","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443162","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=443162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}