Nascar- A Rainy Race
For only the third time in history, the Texas Motor Speedway is hosting NASCAR fans on a Monday. The Duck Commander 500 race was postponed on Sunday due to rainy weather. But the event is instead taking place Monday, creating a huge traffic alerts for drivers in north Fort Worth.
Between brief rain showers, NASCAR workers tried Sunday to push water off of the track, hoping to get the race started on the scheduled day. It proved to be an impossible task, and conditions were never deemed dry enough for racing. Fans cleared the stands after waiting for hours in the cold, wet and windy weather. Many of those fans headed back to the speedway on Monday morning, creating an increase in traffic at a time and place where one is not usually seen. Schools and neighborhoods located near the Texas Motor Speedway were predicted to be the most impacted, because they are not used to seeing such high-volume traffic. However, things ran pretty smoothly, including school buses heading to campuses.
The main roads being affected include Interstate-35W, Highway 114, FM 156, Highway 287 and Highway 170. Motorists are advised to avoid this north Fort Worth area on Monday if at all possible, or plan to spend extra time on the road.
Race fans arriving at the Texas Motor Speedway on Monday morning said that they did encounter traffic backups, but nobody was complaining.
Tim Kimmel a resident of Austin said that he comes up over here every month and the roads have gotten better and better every year.
Sam Smith came to DFW from Arkansas. He has tickets to the Duck Commander 500 race and the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship game on Monday night in Arlington.
If the NCAA men’s basketball Final Four wasn’t enough to play havoc with the NASCAR schedule this weekend at Texas Motor Speedway, rain is playing a role Sunday, delaying the start of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race.
Heavy rain hit the track throughout Sunday morning and continued past 1:30 pm and NASCAR has put all prerace activities on hold for the race, which was scheduled to go green at 3:17 pm.
The rain let up a bit around 2:15 and NASCAR began track-drying efforts. Driver introductions and prerace ceremonies were completed by 4:30 pm but the track was still wet thanks to the cold, intermittent rain and weepers where water seeps up through cracks on the track.
The National Weather Service predicts a 40 percent chance the rest of the day. The race is scheduled for 334 laps, meaning the race is official if the leader completes 167 laps.
For only the third time in history, the Texas Motor Speedway is hosting NASCAR fans on a Monday. The Duck Commander 500 race was postponed on Sunday due to rainy weather. But the event is instead taking place Monday, creating a huge traffic alerts for drivers in north Fort Worth.
Between brief rain showers, NASCAR workers tried Sunday to push water off of the track, hoping to get the race started on the scheduled day. It proved to be an impossible task, and conditions were never deemed dry enough for racing. Fans cleared the stands after waiting for hours in the cold, wet and windy weather. Many of those fans headed back to the speedway on Monday morning, creating an increase in traffic at a time and place where one is not usually seen. Schools and neighborhoods located near the Texas Motor Speedway were predicted to be the most impacted, because they are not used to seeing such high-volume traffic. However, things ran pretty smoothly, including school buses heading to campuses.
The main roads being affected include Interstate-35W, Highway 114, FM 156, Highway 287 and Highway 170. Motorists are advised to avoid this north Fort Worth area on Monday if at all possible, or plan to spend extra time on the road.
Race fans arriving at the Texas Motor Speedway on Monday morning said that they did encounter traffic backups, but nobody was complaining.
Tim Kimmel a resident of Austin said that he comes up over here every month and the roads have gotten better and better every year.
Sam Smith came to DFW from Arkansas. He has tickets to the Duck Commander 500 race and the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship game on Monday night in Arlington.
If the NCAA men’s basketball Final Four wasn’t enough to play havoc with the NASCAR schedule this weekend at Texas Motor Speedway, rain is playing a role Sunday, delaying the start of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race.
Heavy rain hit the track throughout Sunday morning and continued past 1:30 pm and NASCAR has put all prerace activities on hold for the race, which was scheduled to go green at 3:17 pm.
The rain let up a bit around 2:15 and NASCAR began track-drying efforts. Driver introductions and prerace ceremonies were completed by 4:30 pm but the track was still wet thanks to the cold, intermittent rain and weepers where water seeps up through cracks on the track.
The National Weather Service predicts a 40 percent chance the rest of the day. The race is scheduled for 334 laps, meaning the race is official if the leader completes 167 laps.