NASCAR Truck Series race at Charlotte postponed for rain. New start time set
The NASCAR Truck Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway has been postponed to Saturday morning due to inclement weather.
The new race time, according to NASCAR: 8 a.m. Saturday. Fans can still watch the race at FS1. It’ll also be broadcast on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio and the NASCAR Radio Network.
The sanctioning body made the call at 8:11 p.m. Still, the green flag had not dropped in the North Carolina Education Lottery 200 as rain sprinkled onto the 1.5-mile racetrack before race officials said the race was good to begin. The sprinkle began right around 7 p.m. — when the racing was initially slated to start — and then a steady rain moved in thereafter.
That’s when NASCAR decided the track couldn’t be dried quickly enough to find a window to start and finish the race Friday.
It doesn’t look like the weather will relent much this weekend, either. There’s a 96% chance of precipitation with a 38% probability of thunderstorms on Saturday, according to AccuWeather.com. The O’Reilly Series race is scheduled to run just after 5 p.m. Saturday barring bad weather.
Sunday’s Cup race — the crown-jewel Coca-Cola 600 — is slated to run at 6 p.m. There’s a 55% probability of precipitation, according to AccuWeather, on Sunday evening.
Truck practice and qualifying was previously washed out on Friday due to rain. That meant that the starting lineup was set by the NASCAR rule book — and in part because the late Kyle Busch won the last Truck race in Dover, Spire Motorsports’ No. 7 Truck will begin on the pole.
Busch, the all-time NASCAR great and two-time Cup Series champion, is being replaced by Corey Day in his truck seat.
Prior to the cars going out on the oval, the crowd in the grandstands and on the grid honored Busch by taking part in a moment of silence.
This story was originally published May 22, 2026 at 8:15 PM.
