NASCAR at Las Vegas 2016: Start Time, Lineup, TV Schedule and More

The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series begins its annual, early-season voyage West this weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.  Drivers will hit the high-speed, 1.5-mile tri-oval for the only time in 2016 in the third race of the season.  It’s the second week in a row the circuit will hit a cookie-cutter mile-and-a-half, following last Sunday’s race at Atlanta. But Las Vegas is a totally different track than the beast from last weekend.  Its pavement isn’t nearly as aged and its banks aren’t as high, so drivers won’t be slipping and fighting for grip all afternoon. The race is also 100 miles shorter, so the physical exhaustion shouldn’t be as demanding. But NASCAR’s new setup that lends to a lowe...

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