NASCAR All-Star Race qualifying, Pit Crew Challenge on hold due to rain at North Wilkesboro
The rain has come to North Wilkesboro once again this week and the All-Star Race festivities are on hold for the moment. NASCAR is hoping to get going again tonight, but if the rain doesn’t hold off it could be an early night.
The qualifying session for the open races was just getting to the end. Then, the rain started to fall. Ty Gibbs was on the track and lost grip, sliding on his lap. He will get a chance, as well as Chase Briscoe and Alex Bowman, to redo their qualifying laps if the track gets dry.
The All-Star Race qualifying and Pit Crew Challenge are both on hold for the moment. Let’s hope that we can see some cars on the track again tonight.
UPDATE: The All-Star Race Open qualifying session was canceled. Drivers who posted qualifying times are not going to have those times count. It’s going to instead be set by driver points.
That means Ty Gibbs will start on the pole and Alex Bowman will be on the outside of the front row. Those two drivers would have gotten two more laps to qualify. So, Gibbs more or less gets to steal the pole. Good for him.
UPDATE: All-Star qualifying has been postponed 11:40 am ET on Saturday.
This is a developing story…