{"id":18602,"date":"2018-08-08T13:31:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T17:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=18602"},"modified":"2018-08-08T12:12:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T16:12:40","slug":"nascar-at-michigan-and-mid-ohio-weekend-schedule-race-start-times-and-tv-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2018\/08\/08\/nascar-at-michigan-and-mid-ohio-weekend-schedule-race-start-times-and-tv-info\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR at Michigan and Mid-Ohio: Weekend Schedule, Race start times and tv info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18603\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/08\/michiganspeedway.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/08\/michiganspeedway.jpg 575w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/08\/michiganspeedway-300x120.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18604\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/08\/midohio.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"92\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/08\/midohio.png 575w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/08\/midohio-300x48.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This weekend both the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series and the Camping World Truck Series will be in action at Michigan International Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>The 2-mile track has been one of the fastest on the schedule and with it&#8217;s location so close to the headquarters of Ford and Chevrolet remains one of the most talked about among fans. While the MENCS and CWTS are competing in the hills of Brooklyn, the Xfinity Series will be at Mid-Ohio for a road course event on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Tireball Sports has the complete weekend schedule, previous winners and weather info all ready for you below.<\/p>\n<h2>NASCAR Weekend Schedule<\/h2>\n<p><strong>FRIDAY, AUG. 10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MICHIGAN<br \/>\n12:05-12:55 p.m.: Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series opening practice, NBCSN\/NBC Sports App<br \/>\n1:05-1:55 p.m.: NASCAR Camping World Truck Series opening practice, FS1<br \/>\n3:05-3:55 p.m.: NASCAR Camping World Truck Series final practice, FS1<br \/>\n5:05 p.m.: Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Busch Pole Qualifying, NBCSN\/NBC Sports App<\/p>\n<p>MID-OHIO<br \/>\n1:35-2:55 p.m.: NASCAR Xfinity Series opening practice, NBC Sports App<br \/>\n4:05-4:55 p.m.: NASCAR Xfinity Series final practice, NBC Sports App<\/p>\n<p><strong>SATURDAY, AUG. 11<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MICHIGAN<br \/>\n8:35-9:25 a.m.: Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series second practice, CNBC\/NBC Sports App<br \/>\n9:30 a.m.: NASCAR Camping World Truck Series pole qualifying, FS1<br \/>\n11:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.: Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series final practice, NBC Sports App<br \/>\n1 p.m.: NASCAR Camping World Truck Series UNOH 200 (100 laps, 200 miles), FS1\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">Green Flag: 1:15 p.m. ET<\/span><\/p>\n<p>MID-OHIO<br \/>\n11:30 a.m.: NASCAR Xfinity Series pole qualifying, NBC Sports App<br \/>\n3 p.m.:NASCAR Xfinity Series Rock N Roll Tequila 170 presented by Amethyst Beverage (75 laps, 169.35 miles), NBCSN\/NBC Sports App\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">Green Flag: 3:19 p.m. ET<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>SUNDAY, AUG. 12<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MICHIGAN<br \/>\n2:30 p.m.: Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Consumers Energy 400 (200 laps, 400 miles), NBCSN\/NBC Sports App <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Green Flag: 2:48 p.m. ET<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Previous Winners<\/h2>\n<p>MENCS &#8211; Clint Bowyer (Spring) Kyle Larson had won three in a row previously<br \/>\nCWTS &#8211; Bubba Wallace<br \/>\nXfinity (Mid-Ohio) &#8211; Sam Hornish Jr.<\/p>\n<h2>Weather<\/h2>\n<p>There is a 40% chance of rain this weekend at Michigan. There is expected to be a good amount of cloud cover with temps in the low 80s. The situation will be much the same at Mid-Ohio with the chance of rain increasing slightly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASCAR Weekend Schedule for Michigan International Speedway August 2018 Mid-Ohio <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[789,442,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-18602","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-michigan-international-speedway","12":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18602","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=18602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18602"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=18602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}