NASCAR 2019 Race 8: Bristol Food City 500 race thread

Schedule:

Friday, April 5
1:35 p.m. Cup Series first practice NASCAR.com
3:05 p.m. Xfinity first practice FS1/fuboTV
5:05 p.m. Xfinity final practice FS1/fuboTV
6:10 p.m. Cup Series qualifying FS1/fuboTV

Saturday, April 6
8:30 a.m. Cup Series second practice FS1/fuboTV
9:40 a.m. Xfinity Series qualifying FS1/fuboTV
11:05 a.m. Xfinity Series final practice FS1/fuboTV
1 p.m. Xfinity Series Alsco 300 FS1/fuboTV

Sunday, April 7
2 p.m. Food City 500 FS1/fuboTV



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Distance 266.5 miles (428.9 km)
Laps 500
Stage 1: Lap 125
Stage 2: Lap 250
Stage 3: Lap 500+

Track Specifications:
0.533-mile concrete oval
Degree of banking in corners: 24 to 30 degrees
Degree of banking in straights: 4 to 9 degrees
Straightaways: 650 feet long.
Concrete racing surface: 43 feet wide.
Bristol has two pits roads: 22 pit stalls on the front stretch and 21 on the back stretch
Pit Stall Size: 25.5 feet long, 15.5 feet wide
Pit Road Speed: 30 mph
Pace Car Track Speed: 35mph
Track Opened: 1960
First Cup race: 1961
Seating capacity: 153,000 [was 158,000 and 160,000]

2018 April Race Winner: Kyle Busch, 77.465 mph, started 1st.
2018 August Race Winner: Kurt Busch, 89.532 mph, started 9th.

Track Race Record 1st Race: Cale Yarborough, Apr 1977, 100.989
Track Race Record 2nd Race: Charlie Glotzbach, July 1971, 101.074
Slowest Race Record: Ned Jarrett, July 1965, 61.826mph
Oldest Race Winner: Dale Earnhardt, 48 years, 3 months, 30 days, 8/28/1999
Youngest Race Winner: Kyle Busch, 21 years, 10 months, 23 days, 3/25/2007
Worst Starting Spot to Win: Elliott Sadler, March 2001, started 38th

2018 April Pole Winner: Kyle Busch, 128.822mph, finished 1st.
2018 August Pole Winner: Kyle Larson, 127.792 mph, finished 2nd

Track Qualifying Record: Denny Hamlin, August 19, 2016, 131.4668 (1st round)
Oldest Pole Winner: Harry Gant, 54 years, 7 months, 17 days, 8/27/1994
Youngest Pole Winner: Joey Logano, 19 years, 9 months, 23 days, 3/19/2010

Most Wins - All Time: Darrell Waltrip, 12
Most Wins - Active Driver: Kyle Busch, 7; Kurt Busch, 5; Matt Kenseth, 4
Most Poles - All Time: Cale Yarborough, Mark Martin - 9
Most Poles - Active Driver: Ryan Newman, Denny Hamlin, 3

Most Top 5s: 26 - Richard Petty
Most Top 5s - Active: 15 - Matt Kenseth
Most Top 10s: 37 - Richard Petty
Most Top 10s - Active: 22 - Matt Kenseth

Race statistics

Lead changes: 8 among different drivers
Cautions/Laps: 13 for 114
Red flags: 3 for 18 hours, 58 minutes and 48 seconds
Time of race: 3 hours, 26 minutes and 25 seconds
Average speed: 77.465 miles per hour (124.668 km/h)

1) Kevin Harvick
2) Martin Truex Jr.
3) Kyle Busch
4) Joey Logano

Kevin Harvick
Kyle Busch*
Joey Logano
Martin Truex Jr

Kyle Busch ^^^^^
Kyle Larson
Brad Keselowski
Joey Logano

Kyle Busch***
Brad Keselowski
Joey Logano
Martin Truex Jr.

Martin Truex Jr.*****
Kevin Harvick
Kyle Busch
Joey Logano

into round 2 for Qualifying and Ryan Blaney sets a new track record for lap time.
He has only put in 2 hard laps up to this point (only took 1 lap at speed in each round so far), so he may even get faster in round 3 :eek:

Starting Order:

No. 1 Chase Elliott 9
No. 2 William Byron 24
No. 3 Ryan Blaney 12
No. 4 Erik Jones 20
No. 5 Denny Hamlin 11
No. 6 Aric Almirola 10
No. 7 Joey Logano 22
No. 8 Clint Bowyer 14
No. 9 Paul Menard 21
No. 10 Jimmie Johnson 48
No. 11 Ryan Newman 6
No. 12 Brad Keselowski 2
No. 13 Kevin Harvick 4
No. 14 Alex Bowman 88
No. 15 Austin Dillon 3
No. 16 Kyle Larson 42
No. 17 Kyle Busch 17
No. 18 Michael McDowell 34
No. 19 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 17
No. 20 Daniel Suarez 41
No. 21 Matt DiBenedetto 95
No. 22 David Ragan 38
No. 23 Martin Truex Jr. 19
No. 24 Ty Dillon 13
No. 25 Chris Buescher 37
No. 26 Daniel Hemric 8
No. 27 Kurt Busch 1
No. 28 Darrell "Bubba" Wallace Jr. 43
No. 29 Matt Tifft 36
No. 30 Ryan Preece 47
No. 31 Landon Cassill 00
No. 32 Corey Lajoie 32
No. 33 Gray Gaulding 51
No. 34 Bayley Currey 52
No. 35 Timmy Hill 66
No. 36 Quin Houff 77
No. 37 Ross Chastain 15

Chase Elliott will start up front at the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway on Sunday after the 23-year-old won his first pole of the season.

As good as Elliott was, it was Ryan Blaney who had the fastest car for much of the day Friday as he set the track record in Round 2 with a 14.528-second run.

Blaney has been very good as of late finishing with three top-fives in his last four races and will once again be in good position to come away with a great placing.

William Byron will start second.

The second round of qualifying was a bad one for some of the favorites this week as Kevin Harvick (13th), Kyle Larson (16), Kyle Busch (17) and Martin Truex Jr. (22) all failed to make it to the third round.

Kurt Busch, who is the defending champion at Bristol, had a tough day as a wiggle resulted in him failing to qualify for the second round. He will start 27th.

Chase Elliott
Ryan Blaney***
Denny Hamlin
Kyle Busch

Chase Elliott
Kyle Busch***
Brad Keselowski
Denny Hamlin