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NASCAR Sonoma: Start time, lineup, TV schedule and more

Jeff Gluck  |  Paste BN Sports

SONOMA, Calif. — It's NASCAR race day at Sonoma Raceway, and we've got some essential information you need to get ready for today's Toyota/Save Mart 350.

START TIME: Ol' DW -- NASCAR Hall of Famer Darrell Waltrip -- will instruct drivers to start their engines at 3:08 Eastern time today (12:08 local), followed by the green flag at 3:20 p.m. So if you want to skip the pre-race show and just tune in for the race, turn on your TV at 3:20.

RACE DISTANCE: The Toyota/Save Mart 350 is not 350 miles, but 350 kilometers. That's a total of 110 laps and 218.9 miles around Sonoma's hilly 1.99-mile road course.

NATIONAL ANTHEM: Any James Durbin fans out there? Durbin, a Santa Cruz, Calif. native who rose to fame on American Idol, will do the honors today.

TV/RADIO SCHEDULE: TNT will broadcast today's race and has a pre-race show beginning at 2:30 p.m. ET. The Performance Racing Network (PRN) will call the race on the radio.

WEATHER: After a sunny few days in California, the drivers will race under mostly cloudy skies today, according to the National Weather Service. Temperatures will be in the mid-70s, but it will be a bit windy -- and there's even a 20% chance of rain.

LAST TIME: Clint Bowyer, who hadn't been one of the favorites to win, pulled off a surprising victory at Sonoma after Kurt Busch's car started breaking with 10 laps to go.

STARTING LINEUP: Jamie McMurray took advantage of the new group qualifying format to win his second pole at Sonoma (2007).

Here's the starting lineup for Sunday's race at Sonoma:

  1. Jamie McMurray
  2. Marcos Ambrose
  3. Carl Edwards
  4. Greg Biffle
  5. Clint Bowyer
  6. Matt Kenseth
  7. Kurt Busch
  8. Joey Logano
  9. Kyle Busch
  10. Jeff Gordon
  11. Tony Stewart
  12. Kevin Harvick
  13. Juan Pablo Montoya
  14. Martin Truex Jr.
  15. Kasey Kahne
  16. Paul Menard
  17. Denny Hamlin
  18. Brad Keselowski
  19. Jimmie Johnson
  20. Bobby Labonte
  21. Casey Mears
  22. Jacques Villeneuve
  23. David Ragan
  24. Boris Said
  25. Ron Fellows
  26. Dale Earnhardt Jr.
  27. Jeff Burton
  28. David Stremme
  29. David Gilliland
  30. Ryan Newman
  31. Danica Patrick
  32. Aric Almirola
  33. Travis Kvapil
  34. Jason Bowles (driving for Brian Vickers)
  35. Josh Wise
  36. Justin Marks
  37. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
  38. David Reutimann
  39. Alex Kennedy
  40. Paulie Harraka
  41. Tomy Drissi
  42. JJ Yeley
  43. Victor Gonzalez Jr.

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