Clash 2023 – Schedules

Find all the schedules for the non-championship event that kicks off the 2023 season, the Busch Light Clash contested at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, a temporary quarter-mile oval built in the Olympic stadium of the Californian city.

In 2022, NASCAR’s first division radically changed the location of its Clash, moving from Daytona International Speedway in Florida to Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in California. For the 2023 season, NASCAR has decided to extend the adventure to the Olympic Stadium in Los Angeles for this exhibition race.

The track, obviously temporary, is a quarter-mile oval, the format is atypical, with practice and qualifying, then eliminatory qualifying races will establish the starting grid for the main event which will be contested this year at night.

Busch Light Clash 2023 Schedule

Saturday, February 4, 2023

3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. (12:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. Sunday) – Three-group practice (three timed sessions per group)
5:35 – 6:30 p.m. (2:35 – 3:30 a.m. Sunday) – Qualifying (Only one car on track at a time / three timed laps / all positions)

Sunday, February 5, 2023

14 h 00 (23 h 00) – Heat Race 1 (25 tours)
14 h 15 (23 h 15) – Heat Race 2 (25 tours)
14 h 30 (23 h 30) – Heat Race 3 (25 tours)
14 h 45 (23 h 45) – Heat Race 4 (25 tours)
15 h 10 (00 h 10 le lundi) – Last Chance Qualifying Race 1 (50 tours)
15 h 35 (00 h 35 le lundi) – Last Chance Qualifying Race 2 (50 tours)
4:50 p.m. (1:50 a.m. Monday) – Drivers presentation
5:00 p.m. (2:00 a.m. Monday) – Race (150 laps / Green flag laps only / concert at half-race break)

All times are indicative and subject to change.