NASCAR went nearly five decades of modern-era Cup Series racing with just two road courses on the schedule. First it was Riverside and Watkins Glen, then Sonoma replaced Riverside.
A third was finally added in 2018 when Charlotte Motor Speedway went road-racing for its second race of each season, and along the way invented the word roval to define its combination of road course and traditional oval, which is actually a quad-oval, but let’s move along.
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These days there are five road courses. Not only that, this weekend the Cup Series runs its second road-course race in seven days. A week after the Chicago Street Race, they disturb the peace in California’s wine country, where Sonoma Raceway is host to a Cup race for the 36th time since 1989.
The best current road-course racer in NASCAR, Shane van Gisbergen, attempts the hat trick after winning the past two Cup roadies — in Mexico City last month and Chicago last week.
And if you’re thinking, “I’d like to watch that, I wonder if I can,” you’re in luck. You can watch that, along with other NASCAR racing, and if you thought we were gonna keep the times and channels a secret, you’re sadly mistaken.
Friday: Right-hand turns for Xfinity Series
4 p.m.: Xfinity Series practice (CW app).
5:05 p.m.: Xfinity Series qualifying (CW app).
Saturday: NASCAR Cup Series qualifying, Xfinity race at Sonoma
1:30 p.m.: Cup Series practice (TruTV).
2:40 p.m.: Cup Series qualifying (TruTV).
4:30: Xfinity Series, Pit Boss/FoodMaxx 250 (CW).
Sunday: Can SVG win a third straight road race?
3:30 p.m.: Cup Series, Toyota/Save Mart 350 (TNT).
This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: NASCAR Sonoma road-course race: Time, TV channel for TNT coverage from California
Reporting by Ken Willis, Daytona Beach News-Journal / The Daytona Beach News-Journal
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