And anyone who thought we were going racing after that - have you ever heard the song “What a Fool Believes”? (OK, I’ll stop).Ĭoncord Mills, the nearby shopping mall, had the advantage of being enclosed and was packed to the gills Sunday afternoon as race fans sought a diversion from watching the rain fall. So that concert was also canceled due to safety concerns. But that old black water, it kept on rollin’. The Doobie Brothers were supposed to play an outdoor pre-race concert. It felt like a cool and wet day in late November, with the temperature hovering around 58 degrees. On Sunday, race fans huddled under their tents or in their cars or, if they braved the weather to walk around, wore hoodies and jeans and carried umbrellas. The Cup race will be telecast on FOX and the Xfinity Series race on FS1. Monday.įans with tickets to the original races this weekend will also have those tickets honored Monday. Gates open at Charlotte Motor Speedway at 9 a.m. The Xfinity Series race will be the undercard Monday, starting at 11 a.m. The Coca-Cola 600 - already NASCAR’s longest Cup race - will now make everyone wait a little longer. The only racing we saw Sunday was the Indy 500, telecast on the big screen inside the CMS infield. Sunday, the race was instead postponed at 6:30 p.m. The weather certainly didn’t permit it Sunday, on a day so rainy that the speedway could have handed out snorkels. The Coca-Cola 600 was ultimately postponed until Monday afternoon, when it’s supposed to start at 3 p.m., weather permitting. On Sunday, the race teams at Charlotte Motor Speedway would have been better served building an ark. Rain causes a delay of a NASCAR Cup Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Sunday in Concord, N.C.ĬONCORD, N.C.
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