Kyle Busch led 378 of 503 laps before a sellout crowd at Bristol Motor Speedway for his second NASCAR Sprint Cup Series win of the season, holding off Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Denny Hamlin. Jimmie Johnson climbed into the top 10 with a third-place finish while Hendrick Motorsports teammate Jeff Gordon held onto the point lead with a top-five finish. Hear from Busch, Hamlin and more.
The racing action at Bristol Motor Speedway is well-known for generating quotes. Bristol fans can recite them like the pledge of allegiance including liners like “That’s just Bristol” and “It’s Bristol baby!”
Where else will you see mild-mannered drivers like Matt Kenseth and Jeff Gordon have a candid conversation on pit-road after the 2006 Food City 500?
Now you have the chance to see NASCAR’s top drivers (Kasey Kahne, Clint Bowyer, Elliott Sadler & A.J. Allmendinger) drop their gloves once again to prove they are the King of Bristol!
Don’t worry, you won’t see black eyes or bloodied noses because we’re settling the score on Nintendo Wii Boxing. The only thing getting roughed up is the driver’s pride.
The boxing tournament is only one of many interactive activities happening at Food City Race Night in Hospitality Village including a Q&A Session with the Roush-Fenway Drivers and live music.
We’re not talking about Kevin Harvick and Tony Stewart playing Rock Band (which is happening at 7:45 PM) but national recording artists like King Billy, 10,000 Flames and Great White.
Ford Fan Friday is a can’t miss day of racing including Food City 500 qualifying and night of interaction and entertainment. To sum up Friday it’s a whole lotta’ rock stars and race cars! You can’t miss it!
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Bristol’s has had its share of dominating drivers. There’s Darrell Waltrip, Rusty Wallace and Dale Earnhardt. Even more recent, racers like Jeff Gordon and Kurt Busch have owned the high banks of Bristol for a period of time. But without a doubt, one of Bristol’s true masters is none other than Cale Yarborough.
His Bristol numbers are astounding. In 29 Bristol starts, Cale won nine times. Of the 14,200 laps that made up those 29 races, he completed 10,878 of them (77%). And of those laps completed, 4,305 of them were logged with Yarborough in the lead (see Yarborough’s complete Bristol stats).
Cale’s Bristol success came while driving for NASCAR legend and car owner, Junior Johnson.
The Scotts Saturday Night Special, slated for March 21 at BMS, will see these two reunited… not as owner and driver, but racer against racer.
The below photo features Cale Yarborough and Junior Johnson from 1979, and the car Cale will race at Bristol some 30 years later in the Scotts Saturday Night Special – an event that is event is aptly named, as this step back in racing history promises to be pretty darn “special.”
