{"id":107324,"date":"2025-08-24T20:39:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T20:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/107324\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T20:39:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T20:39:16","slug":"nascar-xfinity-series-qualifying-canceled-due-to-weather-at-daytona-cup-series-qualifying-scheduled-for-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/107324\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Xfinity Series qualifying canceled due to weather at Daytona; Cup Series qualifying scheduled for later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. &#8211; As is the norm, inclement weather is in the forecast for this weekend in Daytona Beach and particularly, at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hendrickmotorsports.com\/news\/articles\/143683\/nascar-paint-schemes-preview-daytona-cup-series-hendrick-motorsports\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daytona International Speedway<\/a>, site of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hendrickmotorsports.com\/news\/articles\/143699\/nascar-cup-series-2026-schedule-chicagoland-north-wilkesboro-dover-hosts-all-star\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASCAR Cup\u00a0Series<\/a> regular season finale <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hendrickmotorsports.com\/news\/articles\/143689\/nascar-on-tv-this-week-daytona-international-speedway-cup-xfinity-series\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on Saturday<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After being delayed due to a lightning hold, 15 Xfinity Series cars took to the track to run qualifying laps before Mother Nature intervened again. This time, NASCAR pulled the plug, setting the field for Friday night&#8217;s Xfinity event by metric.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cup Series qualifying was originally set for 5 p.m. Should it also be scrubbed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hendrickmotorsports.com\/photos\/143758\/mlb-hall-of-fame-pitcher-broadcaster-john-smoltz-visits-hendrick-motorsports#\/0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASCAR<\/a> will set the starting lineup for Saturday night&#8217;s race via formula. An Xfinity Series race was also set for 7:30 p.m. on Friday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Check back in at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hendrickmotorsports.com\/news\/articles\/143704\/rick-hendrick-motorsports-nascar-cup-series-playoffs-kickoff-luncheon-gordon-byron-elliott-larson-bowman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HendrickMotorsports.com<\/a> for updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>RELATED:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hendrickmotorsports.com\/news\/articles\/143761\/hendrick-motorsports-artifact-of-the-week-geoff-bodine-william-byron-daytona-500\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Win a William Byron shirt and hat with this week&#8217;s trivia quiz!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASCAR schedule for this weekend<\/p>\n<p>Friday,\u00a0Aug. 22&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>3 p.m.\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Xfinity Series qualifying (CW App)&#13;<br \/>\n5 &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hendrickmotorsports.com\/news\/articles\/143699\/nascar-cup-series-2026-schedule-chicagoland-north-wilkesboro-dover-hosts-all-star\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cup Series<\/a>\u00a0qualifying (truTV)&#13;<br \/>\n7:30 &#8211;\u00a0Xfinity Series race (CW)&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, Aug. 23&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>7:30 p.m. &#8211;\u00a0Cup Series race (NBC)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. &#8211; As is the norm, inclement weather is in the forecast for this weekend in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[425,99],"class_list":["post-107324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}