Intermittent rain forced NASCAR to postpone the Auto Club 500 after only 87 laps Sunday night, with Jimmie Johnson leading, despite hours spent trying to dry the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana.
The 250-lap race, the second on the Sprint Cup Series schedule, is set to resume at 10 a. m. today.
Only a few thousand of the track’s 92,000 seats were still filled with hardy fans when the race was called off, after a day and night when the wet weather made for an exercise in frustration.
After steady rain Saturday night and Sunday morning, NASCAR finally waved the green flag to start the race at 3:32 p. m. That was 2 hours 32 minutes after the race’s scheduled start—or at least two hours too early, depending on whom you asked.
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