{"id":12300,"date":"2014-03-21T08:17:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T12:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=12300"},"modified":"2014-03-23T18:38:09","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T22:38:09","slug":"nascar-at-fontana-2014-weekend-schedule-start-time-practice-qualifying-tv-and-weather-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2014\/03\/21\/nascar-at-fontana-2014-weekend-schedule-start-time-practice-qualifying-tv-and-weather-info\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR at Fontana 2014: Weekend Schedule, Start Time, Practice, Qualifying, TV and Weather Info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12303\" alt=\"autoclub\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/03\/autoclub.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/03\/autoclub.jpg 922w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/03\/autoclub-594x335.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/03\/autoclub-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 922px) 100vw, 922px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NASCAR heads to Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, CA this weekend for the fifth races of the 2014 season.<\/p>\n<p>Both the Nationwide and Sprint Cup series will race at the 2-mile low banked D-shaped oval. The Camping World Truck Series is off again this week. The Nationwide Series will run the <em>TreatMyClot.com 300<\/em> on Saturday while the Sprint Cup cars will run the <em>Auto Club 400<\/em>\u00a0on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Below you will find the Auto Club Speedway race weekend schedule, including the race start time, practice and qualifying times, TV info, and weather at the track if you are headed out to see the races this weekend.<\/p>\n<h2>Weekend Schedule:<\/h2>\n<p><em>All times listed are ET<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Friday, March 21:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>3 p.m., NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Practice, FOX Sports 1<br \/>\n4:30 p.m., NASCAR Nationwide Series Practice, FOX Sports 1<br \/>\n6 p.m., NASCAR Nationwide Series Practice, FOX Sports 1<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">7:30 p.m., NASCAR Sprint Cup Qualifying, FOX Sports 1 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2014\/03\/21\/matt-kenseth-wins-pole-at-fonana-full-qualifying-results-for-auto-club-400\/\">KENSETH ON POLE, FULL QUALIFYING RESULTS<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Saturday, March 22:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>12:30 p.m., NASCAR Sprint Cup Practice, FOX Sports 1<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">1:30 p.m., NASCAR Nationwide Series Qualifying, FOX Sports 1<\/span><br \/>\n3:30 p.m., NASCAR Sprint Cup Final Practice, FOX Sports 1<br \/>\n<strong>5 p.m., NASCAR Nationwide Series Race TreatMyClot.com 300 \u00a0<span style=\"color: #339966;\">Green Flag: <span style=\"color: #000000;\">5:18<\/span><\/span>\u00a0p.m ET (150 laps, 300 miles) <a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2014\/03\/22\/kyle-larson-wins-nationwide-series-race-at-fontana-full-results-for-treat-my-clot-300\/\">WINNER: KYLE LARSON, FULL RESULTS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><!-- medium in story ad --> <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 468px; height: 15px;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6139055459619465\" data-ad-slot=\"9984433490\"><\/ins><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Sunday, March 23<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>3 p.m., NASCAR Sprint Cup Race Auto Club 400, <span style=\"color: #339966;\">Green Flag: <span style=\"color: #000000;\">3:18 pm (200 laps, 400 miles) <a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2014\/03\/23\/kyle-busch-wins-at-fontana-results-for-the-auto-club-400\/\">WINNER: KYLE BUSCH, FULL RESULTS<\/a><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2014\/03\/23\/nascar-at-fontana-starting-lineup-green-flag-start-time-and-tv-info-for-auto-club-400\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Race Day Info:<\/h2>\n<p><em>Sprint Cup:<br \/>\n<\/em><strong>Grand Marshal:<\/strong>\u00a0Gonzo (the Muppet)\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12310 alignright\" alt=\"gonzo\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/03\/gonzo.jpg\" width=\"325\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/03\/gonzo.jpg 325w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/03\/gonzo-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Honorary\u00a0Starter:\u00a0<\/strong>Bode Miller and wife Morgan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Last Year\u2019s Winner:<br \/>\nSprint Cup:<\/strong> Kyle Busch<br \/>\n<strong>NNS:<\/strong> Kyle Busch<\/p>\n<h2>Weather:<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Beautiful weather this weekend in Fontana. Low 70&#8217;s on both Friday and Saturday. High of 77 degrees for the Sprint Cup race on Sunday, no rain in the forecast!!<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Like our post? Find it informative? Please SHARE IT WITH YOUR FRIENDS!<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASCAR heads to Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, CA this weekend for the fifth races of the 2014 season. Both the Nationwide and Sprint Cup series will race at the 2-mile low banked D-shaped oval. The Camping World Truck Series is off again this week. The Nationwide Series will run the TreatMyClot.com 300 on Saturday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[789,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-12300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-nascar-topstory","9":"category-news","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12300"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}