2013 NASCAR at Bristol Motor Speedway race day weather forecast: Chance of showers

Does the NASCAR Sprint Cup series race today at Bristol Motor Speedway? Yes I believe they do, but not without the threat of a couple of rain showers and the possibility of a rain delay or two. Stall front will be draped across the Tennessee Valley today. Along and near this boundary will be scattered showers. While it is hard to know exactly when showers will form and where they will go, it appears by most forecast data that a good deal of activity takes place this morning and then becoming more broken and scattered as we go into the afternoon and evening. This give me enough confidence to say we see a race today at Bristol Motor Speedway and think the odds of seeing a complete race is 60 to 70 percent.

While I don’t anticipate a washout today for the Food City 500, I am not going to rule out the possibility of a rain delay or two. A forecast like this makes it hard to pinpoint the when and where rain showers may develop. It’s not always the rain you see on radar that you have to worry about it’s the showers you don’t see. That means just because the radar doesn’t show rain at a particular time doesn’t mean that in 15 to 30 minutes a shower forms on radar.

Race Schedule: All Times Eastern

SUNDAY:
11 a.m EDT
Sprint Cup pre-race – Cloudy, possible rain showers – temp: 50
12 p.m EDT
Sprint Cup pre-race – Cloudy, possible rain showers – temp: 55
1 p.m EDT
Sprint Cup race – Cloudy, possible rain showers – temp: 57
2 p.m EDT
Sprint Cup race – Cloudy, possible rain showers – temp: 58
3 p.m EDT
Sprint Cup race – Cloudy, possible rain showers – temp: 58
4 p.m EDT
Sprint Cup race – Cloudy, possible rain showers – temp: 59