NASCAR: Texas running order following postponement
By Asher Fair
Take a look at the running order of the NASCAR Cup Series round of 8 playoff race at Texas Motor Speedway following Sunday’s postponement.
The Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500 NASCAR Cup Series round of 8 playoff race, the second of three races in the third round of the four-round, 10-race playoffs, was originally scheduled to take place yesterday afternoon into yesterday evening at Texas Motor Speedway.
Instead, the 334-lap race around the four-turn, 1.5-mile (2.414-kilometer) oval in Fort Worth, Texas was halted after 52 laps due to rain, and despite NASCAR’s efforts to get the track dried, it was unable to be restarted.
NASCAR announced last night that the remaining 282 laps of the race had been rescheduled today. The race is scheduled to resume at 10:00 a.m. ET.
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When the race resumes at lap 53, Stewart-Haas Racing’s Clint Bowyer is set to be the leader. He is the race’s fifth leader, as the opening 52 laps saw four lead changes.
Teammate Kevin Harvick started the race from the pole position and led the first 28 laps, but contact with the wall has him mired one lap off the lead lap in 36th place.
The top 34 drivers are on the lead lap, with two one lap off the lead lap (Spire Motorsports’ Reed Sorenson and Harvick), one two laps off the lead lap (Tommy Baldwin Racing’s Josh Bilicki), one 10 laps off the lead lap (Roush Fenway Racing’s Chris Buescher), one 11 laps off the lead lap (StarCom Racing’s Quin Houff) and one officially out of the race (Rick Ware Racing’s J.J. Yeley).
Crashes by Buescher on lap six and Yeley on lap 23 brought out the race’s first two caution flag periods, with the third having come out as a result of the bad weather.
Here is the full running order for the resumption of the 2020 Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500 at Texas Motor Speedway.
Running Order
1st – Clint Bowyer
2nd – Jimmie Johnson
3rd – Erik Jones
4th – Joey Logano
5th – Martin Truex Jr.
6th – Chase Elliott
7th – Ryan Blaney
8th – Austin Dillon
9th – Brad Keselowski
10th – Kyle Busch
11th – Tyler Reddick
12th – William Byron
13th – Matt DiBenedetto
14th – Kurt Busch
15th – Denny Hamlin
16th – Matt Kenseth
17th – Christopher Bell
18th – Alex Bowman
19th – John Hunter Nemechek
20th – Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
21st – Bubba Wallace
22nd – Michael McDowell
23rd – Ryan Newman
24th – Cole Custer
25th – Corey LaJoie
26th – Ryan Preece
27th – Aric Almirola
28th – Ty Dillon
29th – Joey Gase
30th – Garrett Smithley
31st – Timmy Hill
32nd – Daniel Suarez
33rd – Chad Finchum
34th – Brennan Poole
35th – Reed Sorenson
36th – Kevin Harvick
37th – Josh Bilicki
38th – Chris Buescher
39th – Quin Houff
40th – J.J. Yeley
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Tune in to NBC Sports Network at 10:00 a.m. ET this morning for the resumption of the Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500 from Texas Motor Speedway.