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| NASCAR: Atlanta Cup Race Moved to Tuesday |
The event is important for racers looking to clinch spots and now the race will get underway on Tuesday afternoon. Realistically, considering the likelihood of rain through Tuesday morning, there's a strong possibility NASCAR could begin trying for a start at midday, with the capability of running the race late into Tuesday evening and even the wee hours of Wednesday. Many of the prerace festivities went on as scheduled, including driver introductions, the national anthem and a concert by Lynyrd Skynyrd. Blowers were sent out shortly after the scheduled 7:30 p.m. start time, and NASCAR thought there was about a three-hour window to get in at least a shortened race. Then, with the track nearly dry, a short but heavy dose of rain moved in about 9:30 p.m. It didn't even show up on the radar. "We were probably about 25 to 30 minutes from dropping the green flag," said Ed Clark, president of Atlanta Motor Speedway. "We don't know where it came from." At that point, it would have taken another three hours to dry the track again -- even if the rain held off -- and the race wouldn't have started until after midnight. NASCAR won't even bother trying to get the race in Monday, considering a forecast that called for 4 to 5 inches of rain and potentially high winds in the afternoon as what was left from the still potent storm moved through the Atlanta area, having dumped more than a foot of rain on the Gulf Coast. If the weather cooperates, that is.The Tuesday forecast called for a 70 percent chance of rain. Weather issues are nothing new at this 1.54-mile track, located about 30 miles south of Atlanta. A spring blizzard forced a 1993 race to be postponed for a week. Since 2000, three races have been bumped back to Monday, and another was shortened because of inclement weather. The weather had been warm and sunny for the first two days of the weekend. A truck race was run Friday night, and the Nationwide Series was on the track Saturday night. The online sportsbook BetPhoenix will have all of the odds on this race as well as the race this weekend at Richmond. 
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NASCAR fans everywhere are excited to see the Atlanta Cup race, but not Mother Nature. As rain from the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee fell over the 1.54-mile quad-oval, the lone Georgian in the 43-car field for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Advocare 500 was relegated to playing the waiting game. At 9:30 p.m., the race still hadn't started, the weather turned worse and officials were close calling off the event.
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