Some things never change, a pattern that dates to NASCAR's iron-fisted rule since its beginnings. As the sport attempted to present a family friendly imagine Bill France Sr. had to keep its whiskey-running early days hushed. It should come as no surprise that over sixty years later NASCAR endeavors to hush its drivers.
Mike Wallace and the No. 01 JD Motorsports team are prepared to head to the action-packed Bristol Motor Speedway with the support of Calhoun’s. The restaurant is a part of the Copper Cellar Family of Restaurants including Copper Cellar, Smoky Mountain Brewery, Chesapeake’s, and Cherokee Grill.
March is filters month at NAPA AUTO PARTS, and to celebrate the month-long promotion, Clint Bowyer’s Toyota will carry NAPA’s iconic blue and yellow colors this weekend when the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series visits Bristol Motor Speedway.
RCR in Thunder Valley ... In 137 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) starts at Bristol Motor Speedway, Richard Childress Racing boasts nine wins - seven with Dale Earnhardt, one with Kevin Harvick and one with Jeff Burton - three pole awards, 32 top-five and 59 top-10 finishes.
After a successful outing with the No. 51 team at Phoenix International Raceway, A.J. Allmendinger will pair with Phoenix Racing again this week at Bristol Motor Speedway for the Food City 500. Allmendinger will pilot the Guy Roofing Chevrolet in his second Sprint Cup Series event of 2013.
Biffle has 20 Sprint Cup Series starts at Bristol, earning six top-five and 11 top-10 finishes. He has an average starting position of 12.9 and finishing position of 12.2 at the short track.
Like most drivers, David Ragan circles the Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway race on the calendar as one to look forward to. But this year, he also put a question mark next to it. Without any Sprint Cup Series testing at the .533-mile oval in the new Gen-6 car, the driver says the short track will be the first "wild card" on the 2013 schedule.
David Gilliland always brings some extra speed to Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway. This week, he's also bringing a new paint scheme. The No. 38 Ford will feature the brown and orange scheme of A&W Restaurants for this weekend's Food City 500 at the .533-mile oval.
The track surface of Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway might be relatively new, but racing on it still brings back old memories for Josh Wise. The driver of the No. 35 MDS Transport Ford thinks back to his early-career short-track days whenever he races at the .533-mile oval and always looks forward to the dates at the venue on the Sprint Cup schedule.
Spire Motorsports has logged one top five, four top 10s and one pole award. Corey LaJoie owns the team's best finish, a fourth-place effort earned in October 2023.
NHRA announced today that “Chasing Speed,” a six-part docuseries that recently aired on VICE TV, will debut in full on NHRA’s YouTube page on Wednesday.
