Penalties Johnny Allen, who was the relief driver for Jack, finished the race but Jack was credited with the win since he started the race. "I think if we can find that-and we’ve had glimmers of that every once in a while… we just need to do that more consistently, and I think that’s in the details of the truck, the setup and the notes that we’re building. Let's look at race distance. The Bass Pro Shops Night Race is 266 miles, equating to 428.08 kilometres. Since 500 laps equal 500 miles then that must be the answer. Nope, sorry. First, we need to know how to measure a race track.

Todd Gilliland and Tyler Ankrum checked the first box in last weekend’s return to Richmond Raceway. At Darlington, Blaney’s car failed inspection and started from the rear after the team left extra ballast on the car. ET I parked across the street in private parking lot for $20. } We’ve kind of been hit-and-miss. Bristol Motor Speedway is located outside Bristol in northern Tennessee. The Supermarket Heroes 500 will be at 3:30 PM ET. The same can’t be said of Brandon Brown, who enters the cutoff race with a comfortable 49-point lead over Jeremy Clements for the last of 12 spots in the Xfinity Series Playoff-if anything about Bristol can be said to be comfortable. The Bass Pro Shops Night Race start time is 7:30 p.m. Noah Gragson, who took the checkered flag June 1, and JR Motorsports teammate Justin Allgaier are the only two Bristol winners in the field for Friday’s race. else The track first opened in 1960, the Cup Series held its inaugural race in 61′ and Jack Smith won. In the fall of 2002, students from Sullivan East High School in Bluff City, Tennessee attended the skyboxes at the Speedway as temporary school facilities, due to an outbreak of black mold that closed the school for nearly 6 weeks. Gilliland and Ankrum face an uphill fight to avoid being the two casualties. Because of the slower speeds of the short track it works out that 500 laps make the best race distance. NASCAR® and its marks are trademarks of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC. Neither driver has won a NASCAR Cup Series race at the .533-mile, high-banked concrete track, and that could be a problem with the first cutoff race in the Playoff set to run on Saturday night. return decodeURIComponent(results[1].replace(/\+/g, " ")); ET Saturday on NBCSN, PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) to advance to the Round of 12.

The gate was also a pleasant experience. Brown simply needs to avoid calamity to clinch the final berth-assuming none of the drivers below him in the standings manages to pull off an unlikely victory. … The youngest series race winner at Bristol is Erik Jones (04/16/2016) at the age of 19 years, 9 months, 17 days and the oldest is Harry Gant (04/04/1992) at the age of 52 years, 2 months, 25 days. Driver Appearances The number at the end of the race name could be talking about laps, miles, or even kilometers. 7 team is hitting its stride at just the right time," said Allgaier, who is tied with Cindric for most stage wins this season with 10. Together, the only two full-time Ford drivers in the series have dominated the action for most of the season, winning a combined 11 of the 25 races so far. Stage 2 (Ends on Lap 110), Final Stage (Ends on Lap 200) Attractions near Bristol Motor Speedway: (0.12 mi) Bristol Dragway (0.16 mi) Richard Petty Driving Experience (6.79 mi) Tri-Cities Escape Game (7.92 mi) Off the Grid Mountain Adventures (6.93 mi) The Birthplace of Country Music Museum; View all attractions near Bristol Motor Speedway on Tripadvisor $ What To Watch For: The 2020 season marks the first time the NASCAR Cup Series Playoff’s third race has been held at Bristol Motor Speedway and the first Cup postseason event at the 0.533-mile track. Steve McCormick has written about NASCAR racing and has appeared as a car racing expert on ESPN Radio, Sirius Satellite Radio, and Fox Sports Radio. "Last weekend at Richmond was incredible and gives us some great momentum heading to one of my favorite tracks on the circuit. "I think people have noted the speed-we’ve been getting better and better," Gilliland said during a video conference with reporters on Monday. Stage 2 (Ends on Lap 250), Final Stage (Ends on Lap 500)

Lights were really good, crowded, long wait but traffic moved fast once we went to one line. XFINITY HEADS TO BRISTOL WITH PLAYOFF SPOTS UP FOR GRABS.

The first Xfinity Series race at Bristol was won by former driver turned car owner/ FOX Sports 1 analyst Phil Parsons driving for car owner Johnny Hayes in a Pontiac. NASCAR Contests They typically run 90 laps on the 2.45 mile "short course" at The Glen which makes the total race distance 220.5 miles or 355.005 kilometers. As the NASCAR Xfinity Series heads to its Playoff cutoff race at Bristol Motor Speedway, many questions already have answers. … Kyle Busch leads the series at Bristol in poles (four), wins (five) and top fives (seven). Every fall they run the Checker Auto Parts 500 on the 1-mile oval. This means that at many tracks the drivers are traveling a shorter distance than advertised (but not by much). NASCAR Next Gen Car 2020 Cup Results & Points … The 22 Gander Truck races at Bristol have produced 17 different pole winners and 17 different race winners. Obviously, if you run up around the outside wall you are traveling significantly farther than if you are down at the bottom of the turn. ET Currently sixth in the standings, Allgaier has won three of the last six Xfinity races (including the last two in a weekend sweep at Richmond) and doubtless will move up when the Playoff field is reseeded on Friday night. The Dodge/Save Mart 350 at Infineon Raceway on the 1.99-mile road course comes out to 110 laps and they actually travel 352.3 kilometers.

There are some exceptions but you'd mostly be right with this rule. A night race and had I not had friends who go every year I would have been lost.... What a great facility. Road racing is a whole different ballgame. if(getParameterByName("holiday")=="yes"){ Next Race: Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race The showdown over the final 15 laps at Bristol Motor Speedway earlier this year involved two of the best-ever racers at the .533-mile short track -- brothers Kyle Busch and Kurt Busch. Bristol Motor Speedway is located in Bristol, but not in United Kingdom, but in the United States of America. Read on to see the list of drivers with at last four wins in Thunder Valley. The Time: 7:30 p.m. Though it’s mathematically possible for both Blaney and DiBenedetto to earn a ticket into the Round of 12 on points, DiBenedetto already has adopted a must-win mind-set. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.Copyright © 2020 NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. With the All-Star Race being held at Bristol this year, Saturday night’s race will be the second night race of the season at “The Last Great Colosseum”. After self-inflicted wounds by the No. Elliott’s average finish of 12.7 is best among drivers who have multiple starts at the track. There are some weeks, like Gateway, where we were the dominant truck.

Darrell Waltrip holds the record for most Bristol victories, with 12 wins total. And finally, Greg Biffle was ranked 14th in points when he won the 2007 Kansas Playoff race. NASCAR Cup Series 2020 Cup Schedule At Talladega if the race were 187 laps long they would only have covered 497.42 miles while 188 laps are 500.08 miles so which do they use? NASCAR® and its marks are trademarks of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC.