NASCAR announced the Cup race has been postponed until noon ET Monday after rain kept the race from beginning. The race will air on Fox Sports 1 and carried by Motor Racing Network on the radio. SiriusXM NASCAR Radio will have MRN’s broadcast. The green flag for Sunday’s Cup race was scheduled to wave at 4:01 p.m. ET, nearly two hours after the scheduled start, but rain began to fall as the cars were on the track for the pace laps. NASCAR brought the cars back down to pit road at 4:07 p.m. ET. Chase Elliott will start on the pole and be joined by Hendrick Motorsports teammate William Byron. Four cars will start at the rear of the field for failing inspection Sunday morning. The wunderground.com forecast for Monday calls for partly cloudy skies with a high of 66 degrees and a 15 percent chance of rain.<doc-sep>The Gander RV 400 at Dover International Speedway has been postponed until Monday afternoon. A persistent rain forced the decision as the race was originally scheduled for 2 p.m. ET Sunday. It will now go green at 12 p.m. ET Monday, broadcast live on Fox Sports 1, MRN, and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. Dover is the 11th race of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season. Because of the weather, NASCAR officials have called for a competition caution on Lap 40. The stage breaks at Dover will be Laps 120 and 240 with the scheduled distance being 400 laps. Hendrick Motorsports teammates Chase Elliott and William Byron will lead the field to the green flag. Elliott won last weekend at Talladega and is also the most recent winner at Dover, having gone to victory lane at the facility last fall. Kyle Larson and Joey Logano will start from row two. Kevin Harvick, the defending winner of this race, will start sixth in row three. Four drivers will move to the rear of the field for failing pre-race inspection multiple times. Thirty-seven cars will take the green flag.<doc-sep>DOVER, Del. -- Jimmie Johnson posed for a photo with Hall of Famers Bobby Allison and Richard Petty at an appearance this weekend and wrote the caption "367 and counting." The combined win total of the two retired legends plus Johnson has been stuck on that number since June 4, 2017, when Johnson won the most recent of his 83 NASCAR Cup races. Mired in the worst slump of his career, the seven-time NASCAR champion was back at his favorite track on Sunday, his 11 wins at Dover International Speedway a record. He has to wait another day to go for No. 12 and end his slump. NASCAR will race at noon ET Monday after rain fell on the mile concrete track all day and the only action came from a Charlie Daniels Band concert. If the devil went down to Delaware, he would have needed a poncho. NASCAR tried to start the race but pulled the cars from the track after a handful of pace laps once the rain came again. The 43-year-old Johnson, who recently ran the Boston Marathon, flashed some speed at Dover when he topped the final practice Saturday with a fast lap of 161.863 mph in the No. 48 Chevrolet. "This is just one of those places that an athlete finds a bond with a facility or a venue," Johnson said. "I don't care if I have three wheels left on this thing, I feel like I still have a shot to win. I just love this place." With Dover celebrating its 50th anniversary season, the race winners will receive a 60-pound Miles the Monster trophy converted from its customary concrete-like finish to metallic gold. NASCAR Cup Series teams push their cars back to the garage after Sunday's race at Dover International Speedway was postponed due to rain. AP Photo/Jason Minto Johnson has 11 of the standard-issue trophies: The Hendrick Motorsports driver swept Dover in 2002 and 2009 and won races in 2005, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017. He joined Petty (Martinsville, 15; North Wilkesboro, 15; Richmond, 13; Rockingham, 11) and Darrell Waltrip (Bristol, 12; Martinsville, 11) as drivers who won 11 races at a single track. His 83rd career victory tied him with Cale Yarborough for sixth on the career victory list. Waltrip and Allison are next at 84. Petty is the runaway leader with 200 career wins. "I'm very biased about this racetrack. I think it's the best one out there," Johnson said. "I think all drivers can appreciate just the challenge that comes with this track -- the banking, the speed, the transitions from the straightaways through the corners. I noticed on social media before we got here that drivers and crew members and crew chiefs were all talking about how much they love coming here." He will start 12th and try to help Hendrick have another stout race day. Chase Elliott got his first win of the season -- the first for Chevrolet and the first for Hendrick Motorsports -- last week at Talladega. Elliott and teammate William Byron make it a 1-2 front row for Hendrick at Dover. The 23-year-old Elliott became the youngest pole winner at Dover when he set a track record of 165.960 mph in qualifying. Dover hasn't held a Monday race since 2007, when Martin Truex Jr. earned his first Cup victory. He has added 19 more wins and the 2017 NASCAR Cup championship over that span. "One of my favorites to come to, for sure," Truex said. "It's called the Monster for a reason. It's mean and it's fast and it's big. It's kind of crazy." He wants a second Monday win at Dover. Johnson aims for No. 12 here. All the team needs at a chance to reach its milestones is a dry concrete track. Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.<doc-sep>Update: This article has been updated to reflect the race's postponement to Monday afternoon. What channel is the NASCAR race on today? What time does the NASCAR race start? These are the questions that plague race fans every Sunday with the varying Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series schedule that places races on either Fox or FS1 for the first half of the 2019 season with differing start times. Monday's Gander RV 400 can be seen on FS1 with coverage beginning at 12 p.m. ET. Live streaming of the race is also available on the Fox Sports Go app or can be watched on fuboTV, which offers a free seven-day trial. MORE: Watch the Gander RV 400 live with fuboTV (7-day trial) The race was originally schedule for 2 p.m. E.T. on Sunday afternoon, but following over two hours of delay for rain, NASCAR decided to move the race due Monday given the fact Dover International Speedway has no lights. The Gander RV 400 is a return to short track racing following a crazy and crash-filled Geico 500 at NASCAR's longest track at Talladega Superspeedway. Dover International Speedway is a 1-mile oval with 24 degrees of banking. What channel is NASCAR on today? Time, TV for Dover race Race : Gander RV 400 at Dover International Speedway : Gander RV 400 at Dover International Speedway Date : Monday, May 6 : Monday, May 6 Start time : Noon ET : Noon ET TV channel : FS1 : FS1 Live stream : Fox Sports Go | fuboTV : Fox Sports Go | fuboTV Radio: MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio With Chase Elliott's win last weekend at Talladega, there have now been five different winners in each of the Cup Series' last five races (Elliott, Kyle Busch, Brad Keselowski, Martin Truex Jr. and Denny Hamlin). Despite that being the case, Busch is on a torrid start to the season, finishing in the top 10 in 12 straight races dating back to last year, with three wins through this season's first 10 races. He also has a precedent of success at Dover, with 12 career wins across NASCAR's three national series on the Dover track. MORE: NEWS: #GanderRV400 at the @MonsterMile postponed until 12 PM ET Monday due to inclement weather. Details: https://t.co/wloehcbxVL pic.twitter.com/c2TyqCnKvI — NASCAR (@NASCAR) May 5, 2019 " target="_blank">NASCAR at Dover: Live updates, results, highlights from postponed Gander RV 400 Elliott would seem positioned well to build off his success at Talladega given that he is the defending champion at the Monster Mile, but the track has produced six different winners in its last six races. Kevin Harvick is the most recent driver to have won in Dover twice, taking the checkered flag twice in the last seven races. Not far off of Busch's lead in the Cup Series standings is Joey Logano, but Team Penske drivers have not fared well on this track. Penske's last Monster Mile victory came from Brad Keselowski in September 2012. Team Penske won 41 times on 21 different tracks since its most recent Dover victory. Jimmie Johnson will look to tie Darrell Waltrip for the most successful driver at a single track as he goes for his 12th career win at Dover International Speedway. All three of NASCAR's national series returned to single-car qualifying at oval tracks this week, scrapping its five-year group qualifying format after the new rules package installed this year had the unintended side effect of drivers gaming the system.<doc-sep>
NASCAR fans will have to wait an extra day to see the Cup race at Dover International Speedway. Track and series officials announced the Gander RV 400, scheduled to go green shortly after 2 p.m. ET on Sunday, has been postponed until Monday because of persistent rain. The race is now scheduled to begin at noon ET and will be televised on Fox Sports 1. Rain began falling early Sunday morning in Dover, Delaware, and continued into the afternoon before officials were finally forced to reschedule the 11th Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race of the season. Dover International Speedway does not have lights, so racing at night was not an option. Dover hasn’t held a Monday race since 2007. Monday's forecast looks considerably better. The Weather Channel is calling for partly cloudy skies and temperatures in the high 60s. Thirty-seven cars are entered in the race and all went through inspection Sunday morning. Four cars — the No. 88 Chevrolet of Alex Bowman, the No. 19 Toyota of Martin Truex Jr., the No. 47 Chevrolet of Ryan Preece and the No. 36 Ford of Matt Tift — failed multiple inspections and will be forced to start at the rear of the field. Preece also had his car chief ejected for this race, while Bowman, Truex and Tift will compete without their race engineers. Chase Elliott, who won the playoff race at Dover last fall, will start on the pole. Elliott scored his first victory of 2019 last weekend at Talladega Superspeedway. Seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson holds the track record with 11 wins. Mired in a career-long slump, Johnson has not won a Cup Series race since capturing No. 11 at Dover on June 4, 2017. Here is the lineup for the Gander RV 400 (car number in parentheses): 1. (9) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet 2. (24) William Byron, Chevrolet 3. (42) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet 4. (22) Joey Logano, Ford 5. (88) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet 6. (4) Kevin Harvick, Ford 7. (10) Aric Almirola, Ford 8. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota 9. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford 10. (14) Clint Bowyer, Ford 11. (12) Ryan Blaney, Ford 12. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet 13. (19) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota 14. (41) Daniel Suarez, Ford 15. (20) Erik Jones, Toyota 16. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet 17. (95) Matt DiBenedetto, Toyota 18. (21) Paul Menard, Ford 19. (1) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet 20. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford 21. (6) Ryan Newman, Ford 22. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota 23. (8) Daniel Hemric, Chevrolet 24. (38) David Ragan, Ford 25. (13) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet 26. (34) Michael McDowell, Ford 27. (43) Bubba Wallace, Chevrolet 28. (32) Corey LaJoie, Ford 29. (47) Ryan Preece, Chevrolet 30. (37) Chris Buescher, Chevrolet 31. (00) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet 32. (36) Matt Tifft, Ford 33. (51) Cody Ware, Ford 34. (52) BJ McLeod, Chevrolet 36. (15) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet 37. (27) Reed Sorenson, Chevrolet Follow Horrow on Twitter @EllenJHorrow