Time to kick off the thread for the new year.

Hall of Fame inductions for Jimmie Johnson, Donnie Allison, and Chad Knaus is tomorrow.

Schedule for the year
Race # Date Race Track
* Sun., Feb 4 Busch Light Clash at the Coliseum Los Angeles Coliseum
* Thu., Feb 15 Daytona 500 Duels Daytona International Speedway
1 Sun., Feb 18 DAYTONA 500 Daytona International Speedway
2 Sun., Feb 25 Ambetter Health 400 Atlanta Motor Speedway
3 Sun., Mar 3 Pennzoil 400 Las Vegas Motor Speedway
4 Sun., Mar 10 Shriners Children's 500 Phoenix Raceway
5 Sun., Mar 17 Food City 500 Bristol Motor Speedway
6 Sun., Mar 24 Echopark Texas Grand Prix Circuit of the Americas
7 Sun., Mar 31 Toyota Owners 400 Richmond Raceway
8 Sun., April 7 NOCO 400 Martinsville Speedway
9 Sun, Apr 14 Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 400 Texas Motor Speedway
10 Sun., Apr 21 GEICO 500 Talladega Superspeedway
11 Sun., April 28 Wrth 400 Dover Motor Speedway
12 Sun., May 5 AdventHealth 400 Kansas Speedway
13 Sun., May 12 Goodyear 400 Darlington Raceway
* Sun., May 19 All-Star Open North Wilkesboro Speedway
* Sun., May 19 All-Star Race North Wilkesboro Speedway
14 Sun., May 26 Coca-Cola 600 Charlotte Motor Speedway
15 Sun., Jun 2 Enjoy Illinois 300 World Wide Technology
16 Sun., Jun 9 Toyota / Save Mart 350 Sonoma Raceway
17 Sun., Jun 16 Iowa Corn 350 Iowa Speedway
18 Sun., Jun 23 Crayon 301 New Hampshire Motor Speedway
19 Sun., Jun 30 Ally 400 Nashville Superspeedway
20 Sun., Jul 7 Grant Park 165 Chicago Street Course
21 Sun., Jul 14 HighPoint.com 400 Pocono Raceway
22 Sun., Jul 21 Brickyard 400 Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Sun., Jul 28 Off Week (Olympics)
Sun., Aug 4 Off Week (Olympics)
23 Sun., Aug 11 Cook Out 400 Richmond Raceway
24 Sun., Aug 18 FireKeepers Casino 400 Michigan International Speedway
25 Sat., Aug 24 Coke Zero Sugar 400 Daytona International Speedway
26 Sun., Sep 1 Southern 500 Darlington Raceway
Playoffs Round of 16
27 Sun., Sep 8 Quaker State 400 Atlanta Motor Speedway
28 Sun., Sep 15 Go Bowling at the Glen Watkins Glen International
29 Sat., Sep 21 Bass Pro Shops Night Race Bristol Motor Speedway
Playoffs Round of 12
30 Sun., Sep 29 Hollywood Casino 400 Kansas Speedway
31 Sun., Oct 6 YellaWood 500 Talladega Superspeedway
32 Sun., Oct 13 Bank of America ROVAL 400 Charlotte Motor Speedway ROVAL
Playoffs Round of 8
33 Sun., Oct 20 South Point 400 Las Vegas Motor Speedway
34 Sun., Oct 27 Dixie Vodka 400 Homestead-Miami Speedway
35 Sun. Nov 3 Xfinity 500 Martinsville Raceway
Championship Race
36 Sun., Nov 10 NASCAR Cup Series Championship Phoenix Raceway

In

It's almost time for a new season!

Clash weekend

Saturday
7:30 p.m. heat race one (25 laps; FS1, Motor Racing Network, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)
7:45 p.m. heat race two (25 laps; FS1, Motor Racing Network, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)
8 p.m. heat race three (25 laps; FS1, Motor Racing Network, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)
8:15 p.m. heat race four (25 laps; FS1, Motor Racing Network, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)

Sunday
5:40 p.m. last chance qualifying race (75 laps; Fox, Motor Racing Network, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)
7 p.m. Busch Light Clash (150 laps; Fox, Motor Racing Network, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)

Race is tonight because of weather issues tomorrow.

In reply to TRM Dammit. Was not expecting that. May not work for me to watch.

Bell, Buescher, Cindric, Suarez, Dillon, Jones, and Berry don't qualify. Blaney had to use a provisional qualifier to make it in. The change really messed with some teams.

I missed the race entirely. I did see where Denny Hamlin has started his "everyone hates me" schtick already. I firmly believe he wants to be NASCAR's bad boy. He's trying so hard he just looks like a chode, though.

I just finished the Netflix nascar series. That'll make you dislike Hamlin even more. I need to keep up with this season more than recent years. Been watching more F1.

Grala raced his way in nipping McLeod. Sucks that a quite a few cars got some damage.

Looking at the weather forecast, the 500 will probably be run on Monday afternoon or evening. It's supposed to rain all day both Saturday and Sunday. I'm in West Palm, and it's the essentially the same forecast here.

Looks like they're trying to get in Xfinity in today (rain-shortened?)

Just to follow up with @raceweather - from observations in the circled area we have mist/drizzle and even light rain upstream but hard to calculate timing. Maybe a window with track drying but will it be enough. #NASCAR Update radar 1245p ET https://t.co/ktebKfExNF pic.twitter.com/HUms7SDfpx

— Brian Neudorff (@NASCAR_WXMAN) February 17, 2024

#NASCAR states start time for today's Xfinity race has been moved up to 4:30 p.m. ET. That will be when the green flag waves.

Driver intros: 3:45 p.m.
Command to fire engines: 4:18 p.m.

Race is on FS1 and MRN

— Dustin Long (@dustinlong) February 17, 2024

Xfinity race postponed until Monday 10:00am Central.

Let's see if this race goes off as planned today. I doubt it with an expected 1+ inches of rain predicted for the day.

In reply to scd88 The race has been postponed until 3 pm tomorrow.

In reply to JSS1999 Glad they made the decision early.

Full day of racing tomorrow if the weather cooperates.

The Xfinity race has been postponed until 8 pm.

is Juan Pablo Montoya driving today?

No injuries from an accident earlier when two jet drivers collided (one slid into another). NASCAR dispatched safety vehicles and put speedy dry in Turn 1 to clean the fuel spill. Looks like they’re washing the track now. pic.twitter.com/LBc4vqJuI2

— Jeff Gluck (@jeff_gluck) February 19, 2024

so pumped for the 500 followed by Xfinity race late night. My monday night just got a hell of a lot better

It's strange to not see Kevin Harvick behind the wheel. Regardless, I'm pretty pumped for this race and the start of a new season.

ITS MTJrs' YEAR!!!

In reply to scd88 his Cup career was literally the post-Dale era up to now.

6 laps in, wreck

Looks like Keselowski doing Keselowski things and pushing people way too early in the race.

Seems like the 21 was in the perfect position there to go airborne and it didn't. Improvements to the car are working?

Don't see the engine leaving after impact often

Any of y'all listen to the driver scanners during the race?

I've got Hamlin's scanner up at moment and he's pissed at the slow pace of race at moment.

In reply to Russ Dalrymple I used to listen at home a ton. When I attend the races I always bring my headset or rent one there.

This is so weird. The front four cars suddenly just pulled away from the field at will because everyone was going so slow. https://t.co/jlLlTrVp3H

— Jeff Gluck (@jeff_gluck) February 19, 2024

In reply to Russ Dalrymple He's free to take one for the team and speed up the pace.

Wish Fox could go to commercial just a few more times instead of showing actual race.