What time does the 2019 NASCAR Cup race start in Texas?

It's race day at Texas Motor Speedway, and we have all the information needed to prepare for Sunday's O'Reilly Auto Parts 500, the seventh race in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series:

START TIME: 3 pm ET (2 pm local time). GREEN FLAG: 3:16 pm (2:16 pm local time).

NASCAR Hall of Fame pilot Rusty Wallace will ask the drivers to start their engines at 15:07. ET (14:07 local time).

TV: Fox. The broadcast before the race starts at 14:30. ET (13h30 local).

RADIO: Performance Racing Network. DIFFUSION: Fox Sports Go.

RACE DISTANCE: 334 rounds around the 1.5 mile track for a total of 501 miles.

DURATION OF STEPS (turns per step): Stage 1: 85, Stage 2: 85, Stage 3: 164.

Kevin Harvick poses with a young fan after winning the 2018 playoff race at Texas Motor Speedway. (Photo: Jerome Miron, USA TODAY Sports)

NATIONAL ANTHEM: The 1st Army Band of the Cavalry Division will perform the national anthem at 15:01. ET (02:01 local time) followed by a C-130J overflight of 314 Air Wing at Little Rock Air Base.

WEATHER Amazingly cold. Weather Channel calls for a partly cloudy sky with temperatures going to the mid-50s.

LAST TIME: Kevin Harvick led 177 laps and beat Ryan Blaney by 0.447 seconds in overtime to win the series race last November. And a year ago, Kyle Busch beat Harvick by .300 seconds to win the first of three consecutive races in April 2018.

S & # 39; ALIGN: Jimmie Johnson won his 36th career pole and his first since July 17, 2016 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway to conduct a sweep of the first three places at Hendrick Motorsports, to qualify again has left at least one driver mad with chaos.

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