Tickets for Bush’s Beans Practice Day and weekend events on sale now
BRISTOL, Tenn. (Feb. 10, 2022) – Bristol Motor Speedway officials announced today Bush’s Beans Practice Day will once again kick off the Food City Dirt Race weekend schedule of racing on Friday, April 15 with a pair of sessions slated for both the NASCAR Cup Series and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. In addition, Bush’s Beans also will return as the sponsor for qualifying heat race sessions for both series on Saturday afternoon, April 16, as NASCAR returns to the iconic dirt-transformed half-mile for a second season of dirt racing action.
Friday’s Bush’s Beans Practice Day will feature two scheduled practice sessions for both the NASCAR Cup Series and the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. The two 50-minute Cup Series practices will be held at 4:05 p.m. and 6:35 p.m. Two 50-minute practices also will be held for the Camping World Truck Series, at 3:05 p.m. and 5:35 p.m. Tickets are on sale now for Friday’s Bush’s Beans Practice Day at $15 each.
On Saturday, both series will compete in heat races to determine their race-day starting positions during Bush’s Beans Qualifying. Four 15-lap heat races in both the NASCAR Cup Series and Camping World Truck Series will be conducted to determine the starting lineups for each main race. Bush’s Beans Qualifying heat races for the Food City Dirt Race in the Cup Series will be held at 6, 6:15, 6:30 and 6:45 p.m. The four Bush’s Beans Qualifying heat races for the Pinty’s Truck Race on Dirt will be held at 4:30, 4:45, 5 and 5:15 p.m. The Bush’s Beans Qualifying heat races on Saturday will precede the Pinty’s Truck Race on Dirt, which will take the green flag at 8 p.m. ET (FS1, MRN Radio, Sirius XM NASCAR Radio).
Saturday’s Bush’s Beans Qualifying heat races in the NASCAR Cup Series will set the field for Easter Sunday’s much-anticipated Food City Dirt Race, scheduled for a green flag start at 7 p.m. ET (FOX, PRN Radio, Sirius XM NASCAR Radio). Food City is celebrating its 30th anniversary as sponsor of the spring Cup race at BMS. The Food City Dirt Race is the second dirt race for the Cup Series in the sport’s modern era. Team Penske’s Joey Logano won the historic Food City Dirt Race last year at BMS and prior to that, the last time the Cup Series raced on a dirt surface was in Sept. 1970 at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds, won by Richard Petty.
Bush Brothers & Company, an East Tennessee based business, has been a BMS partner since 2015, and also sponsored both of these events last year.
For ticket information, please visit www.bristolmotorspeedway.com or call the BMS Ticket Sales Center at (866) 415-4158.
About Bristol Motor Speedway
Forged amid the scenic mountains of Northeast Tennessee near the Virginia state line, Bristol Motor Speedway is The Last Great Colosseum, a versatile multi-use venue that hosts major auto races, football games, concerts and many other captivating events. The facility features a 0.533-mile concrete oval race track with 28-degree corner banking and 650-feet straightaways that offers racing in several NASCAR touring series, highlighted by two major Cup Series weekends each year. In 2020, the track also served as host of the prestigious NASCAR All-Star Race, and in 2021 began converting to a temporary dirt track each spring to take the Cup Series back to its racing roots. While at the track, fans are offered a unique viewing experience courtesy of Colossus TV, the world’s largest outdoor center-hung four-sided video screen with a 540,000-watt audio system. The adjacent quarter-mile dragstrip, Bristol Dragway, offers more than 50 events annually, including the marquee NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals. The Thunder Valley Amphitheatre presented by Ballad Health transforms Bristol Dragway into a premier outdoor concert venue for the world’s greatest music performers. Three football games have kicked-off inside the oval, most notably the 2016 Pilot Flying J Battle at Bristol, where border rivals the University of Tennessee and Virginia Tech met before an NCAA-record crowd of 156,990. In existence since 1961, Bristol Motor Speedway was purchased in 1996 by Speedway Motorsports, Inc., a publicly traded company that is a leading marketer and promoter of motorsports entertainment in the United States. For more information, please visit www.bristolmotorspeedway.com.
