Texas Race Postponed To August

The rain just wouldn't let up at the Texas Motor Speedway.

Originally scheduled for Saturday night, the Firestone 600 was postponed to Sunday at 1:06 pm local time.

Come Sunday afternoon the weepers were still weeping, causing a 40 minute delay, but the drivers were finally called to start their engines at 1:44pm.

An hour later the skies opened up, red flagging the race on Lap 71. With an ominous  forecast, INDYCAR made the decision to postpone the race to August 27th.

The one-day event will consist of an autograph session, practice and then the remaining 177 laps of the 600 km race at a time TBD. When the race picks up at Lap 71 the remaining order will consist of:

1 - James Hinchcliffe
2 - Ryan Hunter-Reay
3 - Mikhail Aleshin
4 - Will Power
5 - Ed Carpenter
6 - Gabby Chaves
7 - Helio Castroneves
8 - Charlie Kimball
9 - Carlos Munoz
10 - Juan Pablo Montoya

Both Conor Daly and Josef Newgarden, assuming he's medically cleared to drive, who were involved in a Lap 42 incident are expected to be allowed to return to the race.

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