Coke Zero Sugar 400 postponed to 10 a.m. ET, Sunday
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Following inclement weather Saturday night, the Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona has been postponed to 10 a.m. ET (TV: CNBC; Radio: MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
The regular-season finale was set to start at around 6 p.m. ET Saturday but NASCAR pulled the plug on the night around an hour after the scheduled start time due to all-day, persistent rain in Daytona.
The Coke Zero Sugar 400 was last postponed to a different day due to rain in 2019, when the race was last held the weekend adjacent to Fourth of July.
Since the race was first held at night in 1998, the start has been rain-delayed in 2015, 2010, 2005, rain-postponed in 2014 and postponed to October due to a wildfire in 1998.
Qualifying was also rained out which put Kyle Larson and Chase Elliott on the front row in front of the field, as follows:
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