(Update: This story is no longer timely, since the Clash schedule has changed yet again. Here are the new details.)
When all else fails, try warming the heart’s cockles with a few dozen pushrod V8s at full growl.
NASCAR hopes to make that effort with its annual season-opening exhibition — the Cook Out Clash — but it won’t happen Sunday. The lingering winter blast covered NASCAR’s plans with thick blankets of snow.
More than half of the weekend’s racing plans were scrapped, but the main event is still on the docket for Monday at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, N.C., where current temps remain in the teens and aren’t expected to get above the upper-20s today.
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About a foot of snow fell in Winston-Salem, where skies have cleared but thawing is slow. The North Carolina Department of Transportation has been imploring drivers to stay off the icy roads, so unless that relents, Monday’s Clash could take place in front of sparsely populated grandstands circling the quarter-mile track.
So let’s hope for the best and try to cross your fingers inside those insulated Carhartt gloves you dragged from the sock drawer this weekend.
How to watch NASCAR Clash from Bowman Gray: Time and TV channel for Monday
11 a.m.: Practice and qualifying (FS2).
4:30 p.m.: Last Chance Qualifier (Fox).
6 p.m.: Cook Out Clash (Fox).
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NASCAR’s official regular season will begin, thankfully, in the Sunshine State, as it always does, in Daytona Beach at the World Center of Racing — Daytona International Speedway.
Here’s the lineup of season-openers …
Wednesday, Feb. 11: Pole qualifying for Daytona 500 (FS1, 8:15 p.m.), to set the front row. Results also determine lineup for Thursday’s Duels.
Thursday, Feb. 12: The Duels, a pair of 150-mile races to finalize the lineup for the Daytona 500.
Friday, Feb. 13: Truck Series, Fresh From Florida 250 (FS1, 7:30 p.m.).
Saturday, Feb. 14, Doubleheader: ARCA Series, General Tire 200 (Fox, noon); O’Reilly Auto Parts Series, United Rentals 300 (CW, 5 p.m.).
Sunday, Feb. 15: Daytona 500 (Fox, 2:30 p.m.).
This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: How to watch NASCAR Clash on TV? Try waiting until Monday. UPDATE
Reporting by Ken Willis, Daytona Beach News-Journal / The Daytona Beach News-Journal
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