{"id":445561,"date":"2026-01-31T17:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T17:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/445561\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T17:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T17:22:08","slug":"winter-weather-postpones-nascars-clash-at-bowman-gray-already-shortened-program-to-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/445561\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Weather Postpones NASCAR’s Clash at Bowman Gray Already Shortened Program to Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASCAR will not start its 2026 season with a snow race, with the announcement of the postponement of The Clash at Bowman Gray being moved to Monday, following Saturday morning’s snowstorm.
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After surviving a full season with zero postponements across the three national touring series in 2025<\/a>, NASCAR opens its 2026 campaign with a delay to The Clash, which was moved to Monday after heavy snowfall and harsh winter conditions on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

Before the postponement, the event had already been shortened, moving all activity to Sunday, cutting the Sport Mod and Modified companion races, and eliminating the Cup cars’ heat races.<\/p>\n

The winter storm warning for the Winston-Salem area predicts 3 to 7 inches of snow and is in effect until 7:00 AM Sunday morning. <\/p>\n

NASCAR’s original plan was to start prepping the track while snow was still falling on Saturday morning, bringing a fleet of vehicles to tackle the storm the night before.<\/p>\n

After initially being optimistic about holding the race on Sunday, NASCAR’s Executive Vice President Ben Kennedy changed his tune on Saturday morning after talks with local officials and the operations team.<\/p>\n

“Nothing matters more than the safety of our fans, even when the weather doesn\u2019t cooperate,” Kennedy wrote on X. “We were ready to fight the weather and appreciate the collaboration with Winston-Salem and NC officials to make the best decision. Our operations team is hard at work for a Monday race!”<\/p>\n

On top of track prep issues and transportation issues for drivers, teams, and spectators, the cold weather on Saturday and Sunday would’ve been the coldest the current iteration of the NASCAR Cup car has ever raced in, leaving unanswered questions about how the brakes would perform. <\/p>\n

As of Saturday morning, the adjusted Monday schedule is: Parking opens at 9 AM ET, Gates Open at 10 AM, Practice and Qualifying run at 11 AM, and will be aired on FS2. The Last Chance Qualifier for those that don’t advance to the feature through qualifying will run at 4:30 PM, with the race at 6:00 PM; both will be aired. on FOX.<\/p>\n

Winston-Salem, NC: Monday’s weather forecast is kinder than the weekend’s, with temperatures peaking at 37\u00b0F and falling to a possible 28\u00b0F at the time of the feature.<\/p>\n

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Victoria Beaver is a nomadic sports writer who spends her time hopping between race tracks and hippie farms. She\u2019s covered every corner of motorsports that will let her in from 410 Sprints to NASCAR to Supercross. Her daily driver is a 2010 Subaru that she refused to do the smallest amount of preventative maintenance on. Instead, she spends her free time and money building a 42-foot Skoolie to one day travel the country full time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR will not start its 2026 season with a snow race, with the announcement of the postponement of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,183855,782,183854,784,1642,634,183853,82],"class_list":["post-445561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-collection-motorsport","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-a93b52bc-6a17-4b8c-b214-da7b4e6ce257","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-locale-us","tag-nascar","tag-shorttitle-nascars-clash-at-bowman-gray-moved-to-monday-for-weather","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445561","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=445561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}