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NASCAR Cup Sequence observe and qualifying is scheduled Saturday at Watkins Glen Worldwide as groups put together for Sunday’s 90-lap race, the next-to-last occasion on the common season schedule.
Kevin Harvick, winner of last Sunday’s race at Richmond Raceway, will probably be trying to assert his third consecutive victory.
Ryan Blaney and Martin Truex Jr. will renew their battle for the sixteenth and closing spot within the playoffs. Blaney leads Truex by 26 factors coming into Sunday’s race. After all, if a brand new winner emerges on the Glen, that driver will slide into the sixteenth spot.
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Additionally on Saturday’s schedule is observe and qualifying for the Xfinity Sequence and an 82-lap Xfinity race at 3 p.m. (USA Community).
Watkins Glen Worldwide
Climate forecast
Saturday: Intervals of clouds and sunshine. Excessive of 86.
Saturday, August 20
(All instances Japanese)
Storage open
- 7 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. — Cup Sequence
- 8:30 a.m. — Xfinity Sequence
Observe exercise
- 10:05 – 10:35 a.m. — Xfinity Sequence observe (NBC Sports activities App)
- 10:35 – 11:30 a.m. — Xfinity Sequence qualifying (NBC Sports activities App)
- 12:05 – 1:05 p.m. — Cup Sequence observe (NBC Sports activities App)
- 1:05 – 2 p.m. — Cup Sequence qualifying (NBC Sports activities App, Motor Racing Community, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)
- 3 p.m. — Xfinity Sequence race (82 laps, 200 miles; USA Community, Motor Racing Community, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)