The 2012 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East Champion and Sonoco Rookie of the Year, Kyle Larson, battled Kyle Busch Saturday at Bristol Motor Speedway in the all time second closest Nationwide finish at the “World’s Fastest Half Mile.”
Bumper-to-bumper racing, beating and banging, and hot tempers can all be found during a race at the Bristol Motor Speedway. Those aspects are what make Bristol special and they are some of the best and most classic characteristics in racing.
After breaking the Sprint Cup qualifying record and securing the pole for the Food City 500, leading Happy Hour practice, and winning the Jeff Foxworthy’s Grit Chips 300, Kyle Busch seemed to be the driver to beat this weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway.
Kyle Busch won the NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) Jeff Foxworthy's Grit Chips 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway in what was a thrilling end to a great race. Busch beat Kyle Larson by .023 seconds.
Ducking through lap traffic, taking any line they could to get to the line and bumping along the way, Kyle Busch would beat Kyle Larson to the line by 0.023 seconds. It marks Busch's second Nationwide Series victory of 2013.
For defending race and Sprint Cup Series champion Brad Keselowski, this weekend’s action at the Bristol Motor Speedway arrives at just the right time.
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The Gen-6 program, NASCAR’s most comprehensive overhaul since 2007, took a giant step toward meeting program goals on Friday at Bristol Motor Speedway. The goals of the Generation 6 program were “to re-establish brand identity among automotive manufacturers, and to provide competitive upgrades in an effort to improve competition in NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series.”
In spring of 2007 at Bristol Motor Speedway, NASCAR held the first race for the brand new Gen-5 or “COT” race car as it was known as then. Jeff Gordon sat on the pole that day with a speed of 125.453 mph.
Going to Bristol last August, hugely changed my perspective of that track and why fans love the Bristol Motor Speedway so much. Bristol isn’t just a race track, it’s a community.
Kyle Busch captured the Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) Food City 500 Coors Light Pole Award with a lap of 129.535 mph, 14.813 seconds at Bristol Motor Speedway on Friday. The qualifying lap also broke the previous track record of 128.995 mph, held by Ryan Newman (2003).
Everything is bigger in Texas, even modest days. Roush Fenway Keseleowski (RFK) Racing didn’t score the Circuit of the America’s (COTA) win, but there was victory in the way its three teams raced.
The 2026 Daytona 500 champion from Corning, California, led a race-high 58 of 95 laps and became the first ever competitor to win the first three events in a Cup Series schedule following a dominant victory in Austin.
