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CONCORD, N.C. -- For 49 years, the crown jewel of Lowe's Motor Speedway had never failed to run a lap on the day it was scheduled.A heavy rain shower, though, thoroughly doused the 1.5-mile speedway seemingly just minutes before NASCAR was to give the Coca-Cola 600 field the command to fire engines, leaving the 50th edition to set a disappointing new benchmark for the nearly sold-out crowd.
Now, the race will fire off on Monday afternoon, with NASCAR saying the green flag will fall at 12:01 pm/ET and television coverage provided by FOX.
After the first round of rain hit the track around the original start time, the skies appeared to hold enough for track drying efforts to get a thorough start. But another round of rain hit the track and a persistant drizzle pulled the jet dryers off the track.
Finally, with NASCAR realizing that track drying efforts would likely be futile with more showers in the area, they called the race for the evening just before 8:30 pm/ET. The skies had cleared at that point, but at 9:30pm/ET more rain started to fall at the track.
The rescheduled start time on Monday is certainly quite puzzling. Rain is certainly a possibility Monday, as it is for the rest of the week in the metropolitan Charlotte area, and waiting until noon to start the longest race on the NASCAR schedule is only playing in to the hands of more weather impacting the race.
The 600 easily could have been started at 10am/ET Monday, but instead is leaving two hours to chance not getting the race in at all.
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