{"id":17644,"date":"2016-04-07T23:35:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T03:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=17644"},"modified":"2016-04-07T23:35:57","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T03:35:57","slug":"nascar-at-texas-2016-weekend-schedule-practice-qualifying-and-start-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2016\/04\/07\/nascar-at-texas-2016-weekend-schedule-practice-qualifying-and-start-times\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR at Texas 2016: Weekend schedule, practice, qualifying and start times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17220\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/11\/texas.jpg\" alt=\"texas\" width=\"575\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/11\/texas.jpg 575w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/11\/texas-300x80.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This weekend NASCAR goes to Texas. Both the Xfinity and Sprint Cup Series are in action this weekend with the first on track activities taking place on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Come Friday the Xfinity Series runs the O&#8217;Reilly Auto Parts 300 while the Cup Series takes center stage on Saturday night with the Duck Commander 500.<\/p>\n<h2>NASCAR Weekend Schedule at Texas Motor Speedway<\/h2>\n<p><strong>FRIDAY, APRIL 8:<\/strong><br \/>\n2:45 p.m.: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coors Light Pole Qualifying, FS1<br \/>\n4:45 p.m.: NASCAR XFINITY Series Coors Light Pole Qualifying, FS1<br \/>\n6:30-7:50 p.m.: NASCAR Sprint Series final practice, FS1<br \/>\n8:30 p.m.: NASCAR XFINITY Series O&#8217;Reilly Auto Parts 300 (200 laps, 300 miles), FS1\u00a0<strong>Green flag: 8:46 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SATURDAY, APRIL 9:<\/strong><br \/>\n7:30 p.m.: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Duck Commander 500 (334 laps, 501 miles), FOX\u00a0<strong>Green flag: 7:46 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Previous Winners<\/h2>\n<p>Sprint Cup: Jimmie Johnson has won the last three races at Texas and five of the last seven.<br \/>\nXfinity Series: Erik Jones (Spring) Brad Keselowski (Fall)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend NASCAR goes to Texas. Both the Xfinity and Sprint Cup Series are in action this weekend with the first on track activities taking place on Thursday. Come Friday the Xfinity Series runs the O&#8217;Reilly Auto Parts 300 while the Cup Series takes center stage on Saturday night with the Duck Commander 500. NASCAR [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[789,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":["post-17644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cup-series","category-nascar-topstory","category-news","tag-front","tag-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17644"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=17644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}