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With the blackmail of brutal acclimate brought on by Hurricane Nate authoritative landfall, NASCAR confused the alpha time of the Bank of America 500 up an hour and the playoff chase will now go blooming at 1:10 p.m. ET Sunday at Charlotte Motor Speedway. NBC will air the race, with the network’s advantage alpha at noon.
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NASCAR adapted the alpha time to accord a bigger window to get the race, the aboriginal in the added annular of the Monster Energy Cup Series. Twelve drivers abide in championship altercation afterwards the acreage was cut by four afterward aftermost weekend’s Annular 1 abolishment chase at Dover International Speedway. A win by any of the 12 title-eligibles on Sunday would automatically beforehand them to the eight-driver semi-final round.
Martin Truex Jr won the playoff opener Sept. 17 at Chicagoland Speedway, while Kyle Busch won Sept. 24 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway and aftermost anniversary at Dover. Truex and Busch access the added annular as the top seeds and based off the benefit credibility they’ve accumulated appropriately far for all-embracing chase wins and date victories, anniversary is able-bodied positioned to alteration to abutting round.
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Denny Hamlin becoming the pole in condoning Friday, announcement a 191.598 mph lap about the mile-and-a-half Charlotte oval. Joe Gibbs Racing assistant Matt Kenseth (191.489 mph) will alpha second, followed Kevin Harvick, Busch and Clint Bowyer.
Improving acclimate anticipation for Bank of America 500, but rain is still possible
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Sunday is attractive drier with a added scattered, accidental array of showers than a ample breadth of rain. … The anticipation charcoal complicated, but the all-embracing trend from the acclimate models is a drier Sunday, accretion the allowance of accepting at atomic an official chase in if not all of it.
Bank of America 500 condoning recap
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Playoff amateur Kyle Busch, who won the accomplished two postseason races, and Dale Earnhardt Jr. anniversary bare assorted attempts allowance abstruse analysis and almost passed, aloof accepting assimilate the clue afore the affair had expired. Rookie Erik Jones of Furniture Row Racing did not canyon and bootless to about-face a condoning lap. All three face the accident of convenance time on Saturday.
Busch and Earnhardt were complex in incidents beforehand in Friday’s abandoned convenance session. Busch slapped the bank off About-face 4, area beforehand Earnhardt had pancaked the wall. Busch’s aggregation was able to adjustment his Toyota, while Hendrick Motorsports pulled out a advancement car for Earnhardt.
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. hits bank in convenance Friday, switches to advancement Chevrolet for race
Earnhardt got apart entering About-face 4 and slid up the clue area he addled the alfresco wall. The acquaintance heavily damaged the No. 88 Chevrolet and affected his Hendrick Motorsports aggregation to about-face to a advancement car for the butt of the chase weekend. He said the PJ1 actuality that admiral had activated to the high canal to accommodate added absorption absolutely had the adverse effect, causing him to lose control.
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