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02/01 14:00 CST NASCAR's Clash postponed to Wednesday due to historic snowfall
in North Carolina
NASCAR's Clash postponed to Wednesday due to historic snowfall in North Carolina
WINSTON, SALEM, N.C. (AP) --- A bomb cyclone over North Carolina forced NASCAR
to push its preseason exhibition to Wednesday night because the snow-covered
roads are too dangerous for teams and fans to get to historic Bowman-Gray
Stadium.
The Clash had been scheduled to run Sunday night and has now been postponed
twice, with a schedule adjustment, because of the intense snowfall that
blanketed the area. NASCAR first condensed the race into a one-day, Sunday-only
show, then pushed the race to Monday.
NASCAR said Sunday it was moving it to Wednesday evening "due to the impacts of
historic winter weather across the North Carolina region."
The race is now scheduled to run one week before qualifying for the Daytona
500, at Daytona International Speedway, where The Clash was held from 1979
through 2022.
The Clash went to a temporary track inside the Los Angeles Memorial Stadium for
three seasons, then moved to its grassroots anchor at Bowman Gray last year.
Its first year was a success but the second running has been interrupted by the
bomb cyclone, known to meteorologists as an intense, rapidly strengthening
weather system. It contributed to nearly a foot (30 centimeters) of snow in and
around Charlotte, North Carolina's largest city and home base for the majority
of the NASCAR teams.
The snowfall represented a top-five snow event all time in Charlotte, said
Peter Mullinax, a meteorologist with weather prediction center in College Park,
Maryland.
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