After nearly doubling the expected TV window, NASCAR’s Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium finally ended close to 10 p.m. ET on Wednesday (Feb. 4) after nearly four hours.
Ryan Preece scored his first win in a NASCAR Cup Series car to open the 2026 season.
Former Stock Car Scoop host Adam Cheek fills in, along with guest Vito Pugliese, to discuss the long-delayed race and the impact of the sleet that fell during it. They also share what they’re expecting for Daytona 500 weekend and more.
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Adam Cheek joined Frontstretch as a contributing writer in January 2019. A 2020 graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, he covered sports there and later spent a year and a half as a sports host on 910 the Fan in Richmond, VA. He's freelanced for Richmond Magazine and the Richmond Times-Dispatch and also hosts the Adam Cheek's Sports Week podcast. Adam has followed racing since the age of three, inheriting the passion from his grandfather, who raced in amateur events up and down the East Coast in the 1950s.
So NASCAR made a deal with Fox that they are free to cutaway to one of their other inept channels because they are obligated to show the end of a race? Switching to FS2 so they can cut to more important things like their ridiculous low-brow Masked Douchebaggery?
NASCAR had better get a grip!!!
As opposed to the ‘high brow’ racing you see at Bowman Grey? Not a big fan of ‘crash-to-pass’ racing. It was not a great show and there are lots of people that don’t get FS2. I would have called the race when it sleeted.
That’s what short track racing is, and has been since Day One.
“Crash-to-Win” is what you get on the big tracks. But a newbie may not understand that.
Always enjoy your Scoops, Adam! Thanks to both you and Vito!