Nearing the halfway point of the 2017 NASCAR season, the Monster Energy Cup Series makes its annual Fourth of July weekend stop at Daytona International Speedway with the Coke Zero 400 Saturday night.
NASCAR Daytona 2017 livestream: Start time, TV channel, and how to watch Coke Zero 400 online
Television coverage shifts from Fox to NBC this weekend
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What time does the Coke Zero 400 start?
Saturday’s race has a green flag time of approximately 7:50 p.m. ET.
How can I watch this race?
After Fox had the reins for the first 16 races of the season, NBC takes over for the rest of the year, beginning with Saturday’s race. The Coke Zero 400 coverage begins at 7 p.m. ET on NBC, with Rick Allen on the call alongside analysts Steve Letarte and Jeff Burton in the booth.
In addition, Mandy Snyder, Kelli Stavast, Dave Burns and Parker Kligerman will provide coverage from pit road.
Online streaming of the race will be available through NBC Sports.
Where is this race?
The Coke Zero 400 is the other race at Daytona International Speedway, with the season-opening Daytona 500, the Super Bowl of the sport. Brad Keselowski won this race in 2016, and Dale Earnhardt Jr., who won this race in 2015, is a two-time winner of the Coke Zero 400.
Earnhardt, who announced in April he would retire from racing on a full-time basis at the end of the year, starts on the pole. NASCAR’s 14-time most popular driver is facing an essentially must-win scenario where he needs to win one of the remaining 10 regular season races to make the playoffs. And there is no better track for Earnhardt to win than Daytona, where he’s a four-time winner and usually contends.
Quotable
Out of 16 races in 2017, there have been only 11 different winners so far.
“Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin, Matt Kenseth, Dale Jr., Clint Bowyer — all winless this season. There’s been 11 different winners, that includes Joey Logano, but that was an encumbered winner. Potentially, this could be the first time that all of the spots in the playoffs are filled with race winners. And, of course, you have the three-time winner already this year, Jimmie Johnson, with seven championships looking to go into elite status, something that no one has ever done before, win an eighth championship.”
— NBC’s Rick Allen, on the potential storylines this weekend at Daytona and beyond.
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