NASCAR Saturday schedule at Auto Club Speedway

Cup and Xfinity cars are scheduled to be on track Saturday at Auto Club Speedway, weather permitting. Rain is in the forecast all day Saturday.

Cup cars are scheduled to practice and qualify. Xfinity cars are scheduled to practice, qualify and race.

Saturday: Cloudy with periods of rain. High of 43 degrees with a 100% chance of rain during the day.

Garage open

Track activity

Persistent rain has forced NASCAR to cancel Saturday practice and qualifying for the scheduled Cup and Xfinity Series races at Auto Club Speedway.

The starting lineups for the two races were set by rulebook metrics. Christopher Bell will be on the pole for Sunday’s Cup race, and Austin Hill will start first in Xfinity.

The Xfinity race is scheduled to start at 5 p.m. (ET) Saturday. Rain is predicted in the afternoon in the track area.

Sunday’s Cup race is scheduled at 3:30 p.m. (ET).

Austin Hill seeks to open the season with his second consecutive Xfinity Series victory Saturday at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California, after winning the season-opening race at Daytona.

Cole Custer seeks to win this race for a second year in a row at the 2-mile track.

START: The command to start engines will be given at 5:08 p.m. … Green flag is scheduled to wave at 5:17 p.m.

PRERACE: Xfinity garage opens at 10:30 a.m. … Practice is at noon. … Qualifying is at 12:30 p.m. … Driver intros are at 4:30  p.m. … Pastor David Castro will give the invocation at 5 p.m. … The national anthem will be performed at 5:01 p.m.

DISTANCE: The race is 150 laps (300 miles) on the 2-mile track.

STAGES: Stage 1 ends at Lap 35. Stage 2 ends at Lap 70.

STARTING LINEUP: Qualifying is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. Saturday.

TV/RADIO: FS1 will broadcast the race at 5 p.m. . … NASCAR Raceday