NASCAR announced that it has postponed the Cook Out Clash to Wednesday, February 4 at 6 pm due to significant snowfall that hit Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

In a blog post, the Justin Swilling, NASCAR’s Project Lead for the event shared, “This event is for the fans, and the fans at The Madhouse are some of the most passionate fans in all of sports. Moving the Cook Out Clash to Wednesday, Feb. 4, gives us the best opportunity to hold this event with fans at Bowman Gray Stadium while allowing the City of Winston-Salem to dedicate all of their resources to respond to the needs created by this historic weather event.”

“At the end of the day, this decision is made again in an abundance of caution for the fans and the competitors that are traveling to the venue,” Swilling said. “It’s mission critical that we get everyone here safely. And all of those different stakeholders — the race car drivers, the teams and, most importantly, the fans — all of those are perfect ingredients for an incredible event. We don’t feel we can have one without the other, of course. So it made a ton of sense for us to make this move and also give ourselves some additional time early in the week to ensure that all of the wintry mix between snow and ice and sleet and everything in between was cleared off all areas of the property.”

He reiterated, “We explored all scenarios, but at the end of the day, we’re here for the fans. And we want to make sure that they’re a critical piece. Any time anybody’s come to ‘The Madhouse’ for an event, it’s just as much the fans as it is the competitors that makes it a show. So we explored all scenarios, but at the end of the day, we wanted to give ourselves plenty of time, wanted to give the community plenty of time as well to get over the most recent storms that we’ve had, and we felt that Wednesday was the safest time to have everybody ascend on Bowman Gray Stadium.”

Action for the Cook Out Clash is expected to begin with practice and qualifying at 1:30 pm ET. It will be broadcast on the FOX Sports App. The 75-lap Last Chance Qualifier race will be held at 4:30 pm and broadcast on Fox. The main event will then begin its broadcast at the aforementioned 6 PM ET on Fox.

FloRacing shared video footage of track officials working to get the track cleared with jet driers.

The track was completely covered in snow yesterday afternoon. 

Winter wonderland at Bowman Gray Stadium ❄️

Snow is still falling in Winston-Salem but @BGSRacing track support team is working around the clock to get the track ready for Monday. pic.twitter.com/r4dy56LrFK

— Payton Mannie (@paytonmannie) January 31, 2026

However, in its blog post, NASCAR said that the “pavement was almost completely dry before 3 pm ET on Sunday.”

The Winston-Salem area of North Carolina, where Bowman Gray Stadium is located, received approximately 8-10″ of snow.

A preliminary snow accumulation map is available based on snow reports received through 6am Sunday. Two maximums of snowfall are noted with one across the western Piedmont & Triad area and another in the Coastal Plain with a remarkable minimum observed across the Triangle area. pic.twitter.com/zjOA2RTuzq

— NWS Raleigh (@NWSRaleigh) February 1, 2026

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