Rain forces postponement of Sprint Cup race at Kentucky
June 29, 2013
By Reid Spencer
NASCAR Wire Service
SPARTA,
Ky. -- Persistent rain forced postponement of Saturday night's Quaker
State 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Kentucky Speedway,
turning a scheduled night race into a day race.
The 17th Cup event of the season has been rescheduled for noon ET Sunday, with record-setting pole winner Dale Earnhardt
Jr. leading the field to green. TNT will carry the race live.
The
Cup garage will open at 9 a.m. Parking lots will open at 8 a.m. with
gates open to the public at 10 a.m. This is the first race
postponement of the 2013 Cup season.
Sunday's
race will be the third Cup event held at the 1.5-mile intermediate
track. Kyle Busch won the inaugural running of the race
in 2011, and Brad Keselowski took the checkered flag last year en route
to the series championship.
The
Quaker State 400 marks the start of the 10-event Race to the Chase, the
defining stretch for drivers trying to gain or hold positions
in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, the 10-race playoff that will
determine the Cup champion.
The
top 10 drivers in the standings earn berths in the Chase, along with
the two drivers in positions 11-20 with the most victories.
Position in the standings is the tiebreaker among drivers with the same
number of wins.
Earnhardt,
who qualified at a track-record 183.636 mph, hasn't won since June of
last year at Michigan, but he's currently tied with
Greg Biffle for sixth in the Cup standings. Five-time champion Jimmie
Johnson leads the series by 25 points over second-place Carl Edwards.
Edwards and Johnson qualified second and third, respectively for the Quaker State 400.
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