Time, TV channel. Free Amazon Prime trial?

Here we are. No more waiting around; it’s really happening.

NASCAR’s partnership with Amazon Prime is finally ready to change your viewing habits. Or try to do that, anyway. The guess here is, a lot of folks will just say “to hell with it” and come back in five weeks when this little sliver of the schedule is over.

A few won’t come back, but you’ll get that in big-time sports entertainment.

But guess what. It doesn’t have to be that way. We’re here to tell you, there’s a way for you to watch these next five Cup Series races, beginning with this week’s Coca-Cola 600, without shelling out a penny to Amazon and its Prime Video efforts.

Watch the Coca Cola 600 on Amazon Prime

Just visit amazon.com/amazonprime and click the link that lets you sign up for a monthlong free trial. That will take you through this weekend and the subsequent four weekends that make up Prime’s new five-race slice of the Cup schedule.

Watch 5 NASCAR races on Amazon Prime (without paying!)

Don’t worry, Amazon is quite aware you either already know about this or you’re being informed about it. They don’t really care. In fact, they’d be thrilled if you signed up for it, definitely for one reason and, though they wouldn’t say this out loud, probably for another.

The first: They’re a confident bunch there at Amazon, and why wouldn’t they be? They practically rule the road of commerce these days. They feel, if you sign up for a free month, you’ll stumble upon other Prime offerings that really float your boat, and within a month, you’ll come to feel you can’t live without it.

But they also know a certain number of you will forget to cancel at the end of those 30 days and you know what that means: You’ll start getting charged $14.99 a month until you realize what’s happening, and some of us take longer than others to notice such things.

Meanwhile, some of this weekend’s NASCAR racing is on some of your familiar cable channels, and here’s the rundown.

Friday: NASCAR Truck Series, ARCA in starring roles at Charlotte

3:35 p.m.: Truck Series practice (FS2).

4:40: Truck Series qualifying (FS2).

6: ARCA race (FS1).

8:30: Truck Series race (FS1).

Saturday: Xfinity Series race, Coca-Cola 600 qualifying

11 a.m.: Xfinity Series practice (CW app).

12:05 p.m.: Xfinity Series qualifying (CW app).

1:35: Cup Series practice (Prime).

2:45: Cup Series qualifying (Prime).

4:30: Xfinity Series race (CW).

Sunday: Longest NASCAR race goes into the night

6 p.m.: Cup Series, Coca-Cola 600 (Prime).