The race was scheduled for 9:00am AEST on Saturday before being delayed in the first instance to 10:00pm AEST.
Rain pushed the start back to Sunday morning at 11:00 am AEST. However, it was pushed further back owing to the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series being delayed.
While the O’Reilly Series was able to get the go-ahead, the Truck Series will have to wait until an as-yet-to-be-announced time.
Practice and qualifying were rained out, forcing NASCAR to set the field according to the rule book, reverting to the qualifying metric.
That gave pole position to Corey Day’s #7 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet Silverado, which was to be driven by Kyle Busch before his untimely death.
With the order set by the metric, van Gisbergen is scheduled to start from second-to-last in 36th
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