What time does the texas cup race start on sunday?

[Bryan Blanton]

Hi everyone i was just curious what time the cup race started on sunday cause i heard that there might be a chance of rain on sunday.

[flamehothead]

The Countdown to green starts at 2:30 ET and the race starts at 3:00ET. I live on the East coast so I am not sure about anywhere else .

[KurtBuschFan]

They're talking about rain in this area for alot of the weekend.  If nothing else it's gonna  be a cloudy chilly weekend here.  From looking at the forecast they're expecting rain until about noonish and then scattered stuff the rest of the afternoon with it picking back up around 9ish.  Boy am I glad I ended up not being able to get tickets and working all weekend.  I'd be a cold, wet, unhappy race fan this weekend.  Cause if we were to go we'd be out there overnight....I can't stand the traffic getting into and outta there!

[Bryan Blanton]

Is texas on central time?

[Bryan Blanton]

What town is the texas track in cause someone was telling me that it's not in the city of dallas but actually a few miles away.

[flamehothead]

I believe the track is actually in the City of Denton,Texas. The address for the track is Fort Worth.

[Bryan Blanton]

Can somebody explain the weather forecast down there for tomorrow what's going to cause the weather are there 2 systems - fronts merging together or is there 1 coming from the west?

[Bryan Blanton]

Isn't this weekends race going to be on nbc?

[Bryan Blanton]

Hi everyone i was just thinking of this if it rains tomorrow or if it rains in the morning and early afternoon hours but it stops what would happen cause i know nbc televises football on sunday nights if the race gets delayed 2 or 3 hours tomorrow but is started is there a possibility that they could switch the race from nbc to tnt?

[falcon325]

is there a possibility that they could switch the race from nbc to tnt?

Ooo.  Great question, Bryan.

I seem to recall that happening in the past, but I really don't know what the plan is for tomorrow.

I do see that the forecast calls for showers.   

[KurtBuschFan]

Umm actually the physical address of TMS is in fort worth...but i think it's technically in the city limits of Justin, TX

we're expecting a ton of rain here tomorrow, but i hope it holds off so the race can get in as scheduled....and hopefully it wont be as much of a yawner as tms races usually are....

[KurtBuschFan]

Well...a look out the window this morning shows a very overcast sky.  So I went to weather.com and looked at the hour by hour for justin, tx (which happens to be the physical location of the track) and what do i see?  Rain ALL DAY LONG   Rain and thundershowers that is....looking at the map currently there's nothing in the area, but it's only 8:30. 

[Bryan Blanton]

Also if the texas track gets really wet doesn't it take quite awhile to dry it because of it being so big.

I think there was a busch race there in 2002 that was delayed by rain and if i remember right it seemed like it took forever for them to get the track dry.

Maybe they've worked on that a little since then.

[falcon325]

Rain ALL DAY LONG. 

Somebody better alert the CDC.  There's gonna be a LOT of "sick" people tomorrow.   

[PlanoHarvickFan]

That's assuming the rain stops....according to the weather service, it's supposed to rain all day on MOnday too