{"id":559947,"date":"2026-03-25T15:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/559947\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T15:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:03:09","slug":"nascar-weekend-schedule-forecast-for-martinsville-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/559947\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Weekend Schedule, Forecast for Martinsville Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\" Photo credit: Nigel Kinrade Photography <\/p>\n

Two of the national NASCAR<\/a> series are in action this weekend at Martinsville Speedway<\/a>, along with a different racing series.<\/p>\n

The historic short track will take center stage as NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour, O’Reilly Auto Parts Series, and Cup Series teams compete for wins and the signature grandfather clock trophy.<\/p>\n

The Craftsman Truck Series<\/a> teams will be off again this week after Corey Heim won at Darlington Raceway. They will return to action on April 3 at Rockingham Speedway.<\/p>\n

Martinsville Speedway weekend schedule<\/p>\n

Friday weather forecast<\/a>:\u00a0The WeatherUnderground forecast calls for partly cloudy skies in the morning and a chance of rain in the evening. A high of 66 degrees and a 54% chance of rain at the start of the Modified Tour race.<\/p>\n

Saturday weather forecast<\/a>:\u00a0The forecast calls for mostly sunny skies throughout the day. A high of 54 degrees and no chance of rain at the start of the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series race.<\/p>\n

Sunday weather forecast:<\/a>\u00a0The forecast calls for partly cloudy skies throughout the day. A high of 59 degrees and no chance of rain at the start of the Cup Series race.<\/p>\n

Friday, March 27, schedule (Eastern Time)<\/p>\n

7:30 a.m. \u2014 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour garage hours
\n11:30 a.m. – 7 p.m. \u2014 O’Reilly Auto Parts Series garage hours
\n12:30 – 1 p.m. \u2014 Modified Tour practice 1 (No TV)
\n1:10 – 1:40 p.m. \u2014 Modified Tour final practice (No TV)
\n3:15 – 4 p.m. \u2014 Modified Tour qualifying (No TV)
\n4:30 – 5:20 p.m. \u2014 O’Reilly Auto Parts Series practice (CW app)
\n5:35 – 6:30 p.m. \u2014 O’Reilly Auto Parts Series qualifying (CW app)
\n7:30 p.m. \u2014 Modified Tour race (200 laps, 105.2 miles. FloRacing, Radio coverage on Motor Racing Network)<\/p>\n

Saturday, March 28, schedule (Eastern Time)<\/p>\n

7 a.m. – 3 p.m. \u2014 Cup Series garage hours
\n11 a.m. \u2014 O’Reilly Auto Parts Series garage hours
\n12:30 – 1:30 p.m. \u2014 Cup Series practice (Prime Video, Radio coverage on MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)
\n1:40 – 2:30 p.m. \u2014 Cup Series qualifying (Prime Video, Radio coverage on MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)
\n3:30 p.m. \u2014 Xfinity Series race (250 laps, 131.5 miles. CW, radio coverage on MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)<\/p>\n

Sunday, March 29, schedule (Eastern Time)<\/p>\n

12:30 p.m. \u2014 Cup Series garage hours
\n3:30 p.m. \u2014 Cup Series race (400 laps, 210.4 miles. FS1, driver cameras on the Max app, radio coverage on MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo credit: Nigel Kinrade Photography Two of the national NASCAR series are in action this weekend at Martinsville…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,8354,7576,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-559947","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-nascar-cup-series","12":"tag-nascar-xfinity-series","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559947","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=559947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}