{"id":899768,"date":"2026-09-17T23:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T23:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/899768\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T23:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T23:50:11","slug":"is-nascar-arca-menards-series-race-at-bristol-delayed-today-when-will-it-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/899768\/","title":{"rendered":"Is NASCAR ARCA Menards Series Race at Bristol Delayed Today? When Will it Start?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Is the NASCAR ARCA Menards Series race at Bristol delayed today? Here\u2019s the latest on the delay and when the race is expected to start.<\/p>\n

Carson Brown will roll off from the pole tonight at Bristol Motor Speedway, but a lingering rain threat looms over the ARCA Menards Series Bush\u2019s Best 200.<\/p>\n

With the ARCA East championship on the line and a Craftsman Truck Series race still to run Thursday night, any storm delay would squeeze an already crowded schedule at the .533-mile track.<\/p>\n

The Bush\u2019s Best 200 airs on FS1 at 5:30 p.m. ET, with the UNOH 250 Truck Series race following at 8 p.m. ET on the same channel, according to a complete rundown of Thursday\u2019s broadcast schedule<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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BristolWeather Outlook For Saturday\u2019s Cup Race<\/p>\n

No official delay had been declared as green-flag time approached, though the sky over East Tennessee remains unsettled. Thursday\u2019s daytime forecast calls for partly cloudy skies, a high near 89 degrees and a 30% chance of thunderstorms, according to Thursday\u2019s official race weather forecast<\/a>. The threat eases after dark, with a low around 67 degrees expected during the Bush\u2019s Best 200 and the later UNOH 250.<\/p>\n

Friday brings the weekend\u2019s steepest rain risk, with a 50% chance of storms forecast during O\u2019Reilly Series and Cup Series qualifying sessions. Saturday looks calmer. Daytime highs should reach the mid-80s with only a stray shower possible, while nighttime conditions clear to a low near 65 degrees by the time NASCAR\u2019s Bass Pro Shops Night Race takes the green flag at 7:30 p.m. ET, according to NASCAR.com\u2018s official race weekend schedule listing<\/a>. The 500-lap Cup Series showcase airs on USA Network and HBO Max.<\/p>\n

For now, Bristol\u2019s forecast points toward a workable window for both Thursday\u2019s ARCA finale and Saturday\u2019s marquee Cup race, even as scattered storms keep the weekend from a clean bill of weather.<\/p>\n

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Carson Brown Leads Bristol\u2019s ARCA Favorites<\/p>\n

Brown turned the fastest lap of Thursday\u2019s session, according to ARCA Racing\u2018s official qualifying results posted Thursday<\/a>, claiming his sixth pole of the season ahead of Thomas Annunziata and Tristan McKee.<\/p>\n

Max Reaves and McKee enter locked in a one-point battle for the ARCA East title, according to Frontstretch reporter Mark Kristl\u2019s in-depth preview published Wednesday night<\/a>. Reaves drives the Joe Gibbs Racing No. 18 Toyota that has swept every Bristol ARCA race since 2020, though he has never raced the track in person.<\/p>\n

McKee, however, ran here a year ago and finished second. \u201cI feel like I\u2019ll get up to speed there pretty quickly and be able to dial in the car instead of working on getting used to the track,\u201d McKee said, as quoted by Frontstretch. Reigning ARCA East champion Isaac Kitzmiller trails the leaders by 17 points but remains within striking distance entering the finale.<\/p>\n

Jake Bollman, Thomas Annunziata\u2019s Nitro Motorsports teammate, arrives locked in his own 13-point fight for the main-series title and qualified fourth despite never having seen Bristol before Thursday. Gavan Boschele rounded out the top five, with Max Reaves qualifying seventh and Isaac Kitzmiller eighth. Truck Series regular Kaden Honeycutt, running double duty Thursday, starts ninth after winning earlier this season at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tJonathan Vankin<\/a> JONATHAN VANKIN is an award-winning journalist who covers MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL, boxing, golf, and Olympic sports for Heavy.com. He twice won New England Newspaper and Press Association awards for sports feature writing. He was a sports editor and writer at The Daily Yomiuri in Tokyo, Japan, covering the Olympics, pro baseball, boxing, sumo and other sports. More about Jonathan Vankin<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Is the NASCAR ARCA Menards Series race at Bristol delayed today? Here\u2019s the latest on the delay…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-899768","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\/899768","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=899768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}