For the second straight week, Kyle Busch would come up short as he would finish second to Kasey Kahne, after finishing fourth in Las Vegas the week prior.
Bruton Smith gave away ten Mustangs and still the greatest venue in NASCAR racing was generously only half full. The Nationwide Series race was maybe a fourth full.
After a wild weekend at Bristol full of beating, banging, and tempers flaring, the Sprint Cup Series and Nationwide Series heads back out west to take on the fifth race of the season at the two mile Auto Club Speedway of Southern California.
From the intro songs to the beating and the banging that comes with short-track racing, here is what was surprising and not surprising from the 53rd annual Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway.
No other team currently in NASCAR has as much talent and young superstars coming up through NASCAR’s ranks than Joe Gibbs Racing. JGR has lots of young talent and a potential fourth Cup ride which could be driven by any of JGR’s new and young talent.
From the racing is rubbing on the track to the near misses on a very narrow pit road, the Bristol Motor Speedway lived up to its reputation and the Food City 500 delivered an extremely entertaining Sunday afternoon in Tennessee's Thunder Valley. The unique Bristol, "have at it boys". mentality began the moment the green flag fell on the 43 cars and continued well past the end of the race with a good old fashioned skirmish that resembled a World Wrestling Entertainment pay per view
After taking the lead on a late race restart with 45 laps to go from Brad Keselowski, Kasey Kahne would pull out ahead of the field to win the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway. It marks his first victory of the season, and second top 10 in a row after finishing to Matt Kenseth last week.
After its summer break, the JBS Equipment NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series presented by Elite Motorsports jumps right back into its Road to the Championship playoffs in a major way
LEGACY MOTOR CLUB announced today that Riley Herbst will join the organization as the driver of the No. 84 Toyota Camry XSE for the 2027 NASCAR Cup Series season in a multi-year deal.