{"id":445866,"date":"2026-01-31T20:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T20:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/445866\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T20:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T20:42:09","slug":"nascar-moves-clash-to-monday-at-bowman-gray-stadium-because-of-winter-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/445866\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR moves Clash to Monday at Bowman Gray Stadium because of winter weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASCAR has rescheduled the Clash to Monday, Feb. 2 at 6 p.m. ET because of winter weather in the Winston-Salem, North Carolina, area.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nascar.com\/news-media\/2026\/01\/31\/cook-out-clash-postponed-to-monday-due-to-winter-weather\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Per a NASCAR release<\/a>, the decision was made based on difficult weekend travel conditions and \u201can abundance of caution for race fans, the Winston-Salem community and the North Carolina region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Practice and qualifying will take place Monday at 11 a.m. ET and will be televised on FS2. The Last Chance Qualifier for the exhibition race will be at 4:30 p.m. on Fox, which also will broadcast the main event that will feature 23 drivers.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nothing matters more than the safety of our fans, even when the weather doesn\u2019t cooperate. 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! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RR5TLIB2Cz\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/RR5TLIB2Cz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Kennedy (@BenKennedy33) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenKennedy33\/status\/2017632956764852600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 31, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASCAR has revised the Clash schedule twice because of weather, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nascar\/news\/nascar-postpones-clash-heat-races-practice-and-qualifying-because-of-winter-weather\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">initially moving practice and qualifying from Saturday to Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/hourly\/us\/nc\/winston-salem\/date\/2026-1-31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Per the WeatherUnderground site<\/a>, the forecast is for 3-5 inches of snow Saturday with a high temperature of 21 degrees. Sunday calls for sunny skies with a high of 30 degrees, and Monday will be mainly sunny with a high of 38 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>NASCAR has said that its plan <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nascar.com\/news-media\/2026\/01\/30\/hauler-talk-nascar-will-hold-cook-out-clash-at-first-available-opportunity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">is to race on the first available day that the track is ready<\/a>, and the city of Winston-Salem (which owns Bowman Gray Stadium) has given the go-ahead.<\/p>\n<p>                                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR has rescheduled the Clash to Monday, Feb. 2 at 6 p.m. ET because of winter weather in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-445866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445866","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=445866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}