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An intermittent, but persistent, rain forced NASCAR to postpone its' 400 mile Sprint Cup race, at Kentucky Speedway until Sunday at 1PM EDT.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the pole at a record speed as eight drivers broke the track record set by Jimmie Johnson last year.
Friday night's Nationwide Series race, won by 2012 Sprint Cup Champion Brad Keselowski, was cut short due to rain also.
This was the first postponement of a Sprint Cup race, due to weather, since last year's Daytona 500.
Series officials had hoped to get the race underway by postponing the start and using jet dryers. Only the weather wouldn't cooperate.
“We knew it would be touch-and-go and from early in the morning we were tracking the weather,” NASCAR spokesman Kerry Tharp told the Associated Press. “We dispatched the driers and they stayed out ahead of it, but the weather cells never did move out of the area and they looked like they would linger.
“It's a 90-minute to two-hour window with the best of conditions, and once it reached around 9 p.m. and it was still raining and in the forecast, we made the decision we thought was best.”
Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the pole at a record speed as eight drivers broke the track record set by Jimmie Johnson last year.
Friday night's Nationwide Series race, won by 2012 Sprint Cup Champion Brad Keselowski, was cut short due to rain also.
This was the first postponement of a Sprint Cup race, due to weather, since last year's Daytona 500.
Series officials had hoped to get the race underway by postponing the start and using jet dryers. Only the weather wouldn't cooperate.
“We knew it would be touch-and-go and from early in the morning we were tracking the weather,” NASCAR spokesman Kerry Tharp told the Associated Press. “We dispatched the driers and they stayed out ahead of it, but the weather cells never did move out of the area and they looked like they would linger.
“It's a 90-minute to two-hour window with the best of conditions, and once it reached around 9 p.m. and it was still raining and in the forecast, we made the decision we thought was best.”