NASCAR Friday Schedule at Texas Motor Speedway

Texas Motor Speedway will be busy with practice, qualifying and racing for the Truck and XFinity series for more than eight consecutive hours.

The truck series practices and qualifies the afternoon for a 167 round race which will start at 20:00 ET (FS1).

Connor Zilisch sustained lower back injuries in the last round of Talladega crash.

The XFinity series practices and qualifies for a 200-Round race Saturday.

The Cup Series Garage also opens five hours Friday for technical inspections before the exercise and the qualifying Saturday.

Chase Elliott wants to win his first cup victory since last year’s Texas race, while Ryan Blaney tries to end the recent battle.

Texas car Speedway schedule

(All times east)

Friday, May 2

Garage open

• 09:30 – Midnight – Truck Series
• 12 – 19:30 – XFINITY SERIES
• 2 – 19:00 – Cup series

Trace activity

• 2:35 – 15:30 – Truck practice (no TV)
• 3:40 – 16:30 – Truck qualifying (no TV)
• 5 – 17:55 – XFinity Practice (CW -App)
• 6:05 – 19:00 – XFINITY QUALIFICATION (CW -APP)
• 20:00 – truck race (167 rounds, 250.5 miles, stage 1 on lap 40, phase 2 at cloth 80; fs1, mrn, siriusxm nascar radio

Again

Friday, Distributed thunderstorms in the AM and cloudy air later that day with a highlight of 72 degrees. Winds of the North North East at 10 to 15 mph and a 50% chance of rain. It is expected to be 70 degrees with a 24% chance of rain at the beginning of the truck race.