NASCAR Cup PR

Joe Gibbs Racing driver Christopher Bell was made available to media via videoconference prior to the Bristol event today:

Spire Motorsports will promote the inaugural NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) Race at Knoxville Raceway aboard Corey LaJoie’s No. 7 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series (NCS) Food City Dirt Race at Bristol Motor Speedway.

Caregility, a company dedicated to delivering care to wherever the patient is located through the use of the Caregility Virtual Care Platform, will leverage its motorsports partnerships to honor the nurses from Mary Washington Healthcare (MWHC) during this weekend’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway.

Not since the checkered flag flew on NASCAR Hall of Famer Richard Petty for winning the race on September 30, 1970 at North Carolina State Fairgrounds in Raleigh, North Carolina has the NASCAR Cup Series competed on a dirt track.

Richard Childress Racing at Bristol Motor Speedway Dirt Track… With the NASCAR Cup Series taking to dirt for the first time since 1970, Richard Childress Racing will compete in the inaugural event at the Bristol Motor Speedway Dirt Track.

Kyle Larson, driver of the No. 5 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE, on what comes to mind in advance of first Cup Series dirt race at Bristol: “Anticipation and the unknown. Even me being a dirt racer, I really don’t know what to expect.

RANDALL BURNETT, CREW CHIEF, NO. 8 BETMGM CAMARO ZL1 1LE, Teleconference Transcript:

Bristol Motor Speedway has been revamped into a half-mile dirt facility, something that no one in the field has ever seen before in a Cup car.

But I think with it being a dirt track, yes, I think people look at me with all the experience that I have on dirt as being even more of a favorite.

Chase Briscoe, driver of the No. 14 Ford Performance Racing School Ford Mustang in the NASCAR Cup Series, has one NASCAR victory on dirt after winning the Eldora Dirt Derby in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series in 2018.