{"id":454594,"date":"2026-02-05T02:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T02:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/454594\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T02:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T02:50:07","slug":"2026-cook-out-clash-at-bowman-gray-ryan-preece-takes-the-checkered-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/454594\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray: Ryan Preece Takes the Checkered Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 pd-b-15\">The NASCAR season started with the Clash at Bowman Gray!<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 pd-b-15\">Ryan Preece took the checkered flag in the exhibition race. William Byron finished second. Ryan Blaney came in third.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 pd-b-15\">The first taste of 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nascar\/cup-series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NASCAR Cup Series<\/a> action came on Wednesday night in the 2026 Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The race was interrupted by numerous weather delays, but ended with an exciting 30 laps. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 pd-b-15\">Here are the top moments from The Clash, in what&#8217;s its second season at Bowman Gray Stadium:<\/p>\n<p>9:39p ET<\/p>\n<p> Leaderboard: Ryan Preece Wins    <\/p>\n<p>Live Coverage for this began on 9:42p ET<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NASCAR season started with the Clash at Bowman Gray! Ryan Preece took the checkered flag in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-454594","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\/454594","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=454594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}