{"id":54328,"date":"2025-08-08T11:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T11:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/54328\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T11:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T11:05:09","slug":"nascar-friday-schedule-at-watkins-glen-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/54328\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Friday schedule at Watkins Glen International"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ARCA and Truck series will race Friday at Watkins Glen International as the road course in New York opens its annual NASCAR weekend.<\/p>\n

After practicing and qualifying from 10 to 11:20 a.m., ARCA will race at 2 p.m. The Truck series will practice and qualify from 11:35 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. before racing at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n

There will be four Cup drivers in the Truck race: Chris Buescher, Christopher Bell, Kyle Busch and Ross Chastain.<\/p>\n

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Multiple Cup drivers will do double duty this weekend at Watkins Glen International. <\/p>\n

Xfinity full-time driver Connor Zilisch will be racing in the Truck race (and in Sunday\u2019s Cup race). Zilisch also is the defending winner of the ARCA race but is absent from that entry list.<\/p>\n

The Truck series\u2019 most recent race at Watkins Glen International was on Aug. 7, 2021 when Austin Hill won an event that was shortened by lightning.<\/p>\n

Watkins Glen International Friday schedule<\/p>\n

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

Friday, Aug. 8<\/p>\n

Garage open<\/p>\n

8:15 a.m. – 6 p.m. \u2014 ARCA Series10 a.m. – 10:30 p.m. \u2014 Truck Series11:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. \u2014 Xfinity Series<\/p>\n

Track activity<\/p>\n

10 – 10:45 a.m. \u2014 ARCA practice11 – 11:20 a.m. \u2014 ARCA qualifying11:35 a.m. – 12:25 p.m. \u2014 Truck practice, FS212:40 – 1:30 p.m. \u2014 Truck qualifying, FS22 p.m. \u2014 ARCA race (150 laps, 131.25 miles; FS2, Motor Racing Network)5 p.m. \u2014 Truck race (72 laps, 176.4 miles; Stage 1 at Lap 20, Stage 2 at Lap 40; FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR RadioWeather<\/p>\n

Friday<\/a>: Mostly sunny with a high of 85 degrees and winds from the south at 5 to 10 mph. It\u2019s expected to be 83 degrees with a 2% chance for rain at the start of the ARCA race. It\u2019s expected to be 84 degrees with a 0% chance for rain at the start of the Truck race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ARCA and Truck series will race Friday at Watkins Glen International as the road course in New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-54328","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\/54328","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=54328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}