Inclement Weather Wipes Out Saturday at Charlotte, Setting Up Sunday Doubleheader

By David Morgan, Associate Editor

CONCORD, N.C. – Saturday is officially a wash at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

With the remnants of Hurricane Isaias working its way north after making landfall on Friday night in Florida, the forecast of continued and at times heavy rain throughout Saturday has forced NASCAR and track officials to postpone all on-track activity that was previously scheduled for the day.

Saturday was scheduled to host both NASCAR Cup Series practice and qualifying, as well as a full day of activity for the NASCAR O’Reilly Series, including the Blue Cross NC 300 that was supposed to roll off at 4:00 pm ET.

As a result, the O’Reilly Series race has been moved to Sunday following the conclusion of the sixth race of the NASCAR Cup Series Chase – the Bank of America 400 – still on track to roll at its originally scheduled time of 3:00 pm ET on USA Network.

The O’Reilly Series race is scheduled to take place at 8:00 pm ET on The CW.

With practice and qualifying cancelled for both series, the lineup for each of their respective races will be set by the rulebook and lined up via the metric.

NASCAR Cup Series points leader Kyle Larson will start on the pole for the Cup Series race. Chase Briscoe, who took home the win last weekend at Las Vegas will join him on the front row.

The remaining Chase drivers will start as follows: Tyler Reddick (third), Ryan Blaney (fourth), Austin Cindric (fifth), William Byron (sixth), Joey Logano (seventh), Bubba Wallace (eighth), Chase Elliott (ninth), Carson Hocevar (11^th), Denny Hamlin (12^th), Chris Buescher, (13^th) Ty Gibbs (14^th), Daniel Suarez (15^th), Christopher Bell (17^th), and Ryan Preece (24^th).

Carson Kvapil will start on the pole for the O’Reilly Series race with last weekend’s winner Corey Day starting alongside.

O’Reilly Series Chase drivers make up the top-eight starting spots, including defending series champion Jesse Love in third, followed by Brent Crews, Sam Mayer, Taylor Gray, Austin Hill, and current points leader Sheldon Creed.

Rajah Caruth starts in 10^th, with Sammy Smith in 13^th, Parker Retzlaff in 16^th, and Justin Allgaier in 23^rd.