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Rain postpones NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race

Speed News Desk 25 March 2018, 18:01 IST

Rain postpones NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race

National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) has postponed the Camping World Truck Series until Sunday. The  competitors stopped midway as it started raining heavily on Saturday afternoon. NASCAR is an American auto racing sanctioning and operating company that is best known for stock-car racing.

After it started raining, the proceedings had to halt after 23 laps at Martinsville Speedway. The race will start again after Sunday’s STP 500 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series event at the .526-mile short track, with an estimated start time of 7 p.m. The race will air on FS1.

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Benjamin "Ben" Rhodes reached the No. 1 truck of Mike Senica stalled on the track on Lap 15. He started from the pole and led every lap of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.

NASCAR didn't start the race again and NASCAR stopped the trucks on pit road after Lap 23 at 2:16 p.m. Ben will remain the leader when the race will start, followed by his ThorSport Racing teammate Matt Crafton, who qualified second, and Kyle Benjamin, who advanced one position from fourth after the start on Saturday.

Monster Energy Series qualifying, slated for after the Truck Series race, was canceled. The Monster Energy Series race will start at 2 p.m. ET Sunday (FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

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