A Wreck of a Weekend at Fontana
Rain washed out qualifying on Friday.
They managed to get the trucks race to the finish line early this afternoon, but now it's raining again ... or drizzling, anyway ... and the Nationwide race appears in peril.
And on top of everything else ... rain is forecast for ALL day Sunday. Which means the main event almost certainly isn't going to happen on time.
The leader in the clubhouse is NASCAR opting for an 11 a.m. start Monday.
And how many of the tens of thousands of ticket holders actually will be able to go to that race?
But no refunds, as I understand it.
That's the peril of scheduling a race for SoCal in February. Historically, our wettest month. It can rain here, in February. And it is.
The website weather.com puts the chance of rain at 40 percent or better for every hour from tonight until 5 p.m. tomorrow. The race COULD start as late as 8 p.m. Sunday, if the rain ends early enough. But that would involve drying the track and hoping it doesn't ooze water, as it did at Turn 3 on Friday.
What few fans were in the stands a few hours ago are gone. Under the grandstands, maybe. Perhaps in their cars driving home.
Just what this track did NOT need. Another underwhelming event. Actually, almost a non-event, if it happens Monday.