NASCAR Cup Series

No. 55 Aaron’s Dream Machine Toyota driver Mark Martin watched last weekend’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Bristol Motor Speedway on television. But it wasn’t a peaceful weekend.

Two-time DAYTONA 500 Champion, Matt Kenseth, will sport the primary colors promoting Ford EcoBoost at Auto Club Speedway this upcoming weekend. This is the first time that the No. 17 entry for Roush Fenway Racing will carry the Ford EcoBoost paint scheme and comes at a track where Kenseth has achieved success at in the past; including three Sprint Cup victories.

Bristol is a place where bashing and banging is expected, yet while there was some of that going on, it proved to be just nice to watch last Sunday. Unfortunately, it was not exactly a hang on to your seat kind of affair.

On Saturday, Brad Keselowski tweeted “Cup car for 2morrow is best car i've ever had in cup.” Many questioned Keselowski’s attitude in approaching that, saying it was cocky, or could jinx him.

As a general rule, anytime you place 43 full sized stock cars on a half mile oval race track you have to be thinking about yellow caution flags and how many times you're going to see them. When that half mile oval happens to be the Bristol Motor Speedway, then we're really expecting to see some yellow flags.

Tommy Baldwin Racing (TBR) had a solid point day for both NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) teams at Bristol Motor Speedway. David Reutimann started 19th in the Food City 500 and battled the handling of the No. 10 Tradebank Chevrolet to finish in 21st-place.

Richard Childress Racing teammates finished sixth (Jeff Burton), 10th (Paul Menard), 11th (Kevin Harvick) and 22nd (Brendan Gaughan) in the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway.

After the morning downpour stopped and the track quickly dried, the green flag flew at Bristol Motor Speedway. Here is what was surprising and not surprising in the 52nd running of the Food City 500.

The Tennessee short track advertising controversy, with beating and banging making the half-mile what it is. Feelings get hurt here and some of the sports most memorable moments happen on the BMS high banks.