{"id":18678,"date":"2018-08-17T12:05:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T16:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=18678"},"modified":"2018-08-17T12:05:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T16:05:23","slug":"rain-threat-forces-nascar-to-change-bristol-start-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2018\/08\/17\/rain-threat-forces-nascar-to-change-bristol-start-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain threat forces NASCAR to change Bristol start times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18681\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/08\/rain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/08\/rain.jpg 590w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/08\/rain-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/08\/rain-85x54.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With the threat of rain later in the evening, NASCAR has opted to change the start time of both Friday night&#8217;s Xfinity Series and Saturday&#8217;s Cup Series events.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway has been changed to 6:30 pm ET on NBCSN and the NBC Sports App. PRN and Sirius XM NASCAR Radio will carry it on the radio waves.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Friday night&#8217;s Xfinity Series event has also been moved up by 15 minutes. Coverage starts at 7 pm ET with the expected green flag at 7:15 pm ET.<\/p>\n<p>Pre race ceremonies for Saturday have been moved up an hour. Saturday\u2019s race under the lights is the 24th of 26 regular-season races in the Monster Energy Series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the threat of rain later in the evening, NASCAR has opted to change the start time of both Friday night&#8217;s Xfinity Series and Saturday&#8217;s Cup Series events. Saturday&#8217;s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway has been changed to 6:30 pm ET on NBCSN and the NBC Sports App. PRN and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-18678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18678","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=18678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18678"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=18678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}