Rain postpones NASCAR Truck race again. Here’s the new Charlotte on-track schedule
The NASCAR Truck Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway has been postponed because of rain again.
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On Saturday morning, just around 8:45 a.m., the sanctioning body announced that the truck race will now run at 9 p.m. ET. It’ll still be televised on FS1 and NASCAR Racing Network and broadcasted on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
This is the second time in as many days that rain has intervened on the start of the truck series. Friday night, a little after 8 p.m., NASCAR postponed the truck race to Saturday morning due to a sprinkling-turned-deluge at the 1.5-mile racetrack in Concord.
The good news? There are currently “no changes” to the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series on-track schedule. That means that this is what the new on-track schedule looks like on Saturday, according to the new announcement plus the information available on the racetrack’s website.
The bad news? It doesn’t look like the weather will relent much this weekend, either. There’s a 96% chance of precipitation with a 38% probability of thunderstorms throughout the day Saturday, according to AccuWeather.com.
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Sunday’s Cup race — the crown-jewel Coca-Cola 600 — is slated to run at 6 p.m. There’s a 55% probability of precipitation, according to AccuWeather, on Sunday evening.
Truck practice and qualifying was previously washed out on Friday due to rain. That meant that the starting lineup was set by the NASCAR rule book — and in part because the late Kyle Busch won the last Truck race in Dover, Spire Motorsports’ No. 7 Truck will begin on the pole.
Busch, the all-time NASCAR great and two-time Cup Series champion, is being replaced by Corey Day in his truck seat.
Prior to the cars going out on the oval on Friday, the crowd in the grandstands and on the grid honored Busch by taking part in a moment of silence.
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This story was originally published May 22, 2026 at 8:15 PM.
