Fresh off of a top-five run in Michigan, Trevor Bayne returns to his home track of Bristol Motor Speedway this weekend looking to use the famed half-mile short track as the catalyst for a playoff push.
Bayne makes his seventh career Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) start at Bristol Motor Speedway on Saturday night. Bayne earned his best finish of fifth in the spring 2016 event at the half-mile oval after starting from the 10th position.
Stenhouse has nine Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) starts at Bristol Motor Speedway, with an average starting position of 22.9 and average finishing position of 10.4.
Ryan Reed blew a right-front tire in his No. 16 Lilly Diabetes Ford Mustang Saturday afternoon at Bristol Motor Speedway, ending his day early. Reed took the green flag from the rear of the pack due to a penalty in pre-race technical inspection, but was making progress working his way through the field when the right-front tire blew on lap 79, resulting in a 38th-place finish.
In 164 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series starts at Bristol Motor Speedway, Richard Childress Racing boasts nine wins - seven with Dale Earnhardt, one with Kevin Harvick and one with Jeff Burton - three pole awards, 34 top-five and 67 top-10 finishes.
“I can’t wait to get to Bristol,” said Bell. “I’ve definitely had this one circled on my calendar. Bristol is one of my favorite tracks that we race at. I think we will have a truck capable of contending this weekend, so I’m really looking forward to getting back to a short track.”
“I can’t wait to get to Bristol,” said Bell. “I’ve definitely had this one circled on my calendar. Bristol is one of my favorite tracks that we race at. I think we will have a truck capable of contending this weekend, so I’m really looking forward to getting back to a short track.”
The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series heads to Bristol Motor Speedway for a rare mid-week event. It will be the 14th race of the 2017 season with three races remaining before the playoffs begin. For some drivers, Bristol could be the place to score their first win of the season, but there could also be a repeat 2017 winner.
Kyle Busch has the most laps led in the MENCS at Bristol among active drivers –and the ninth most in Cup history - with 1,960 circuits led. The next closest active competitor is Matt Kenseth with 1,572 laps. Busch and his brother Kurt Busch are tied for the most Cup wins at Bristol among active drivers with five.
Heading into Bristol Truex leads the NASCAR Cup Series in the following categories: race wins (4), top-10 finishes (16), driver points (933), playoff bonus points (35), stage wins (15), stage points (312), laps led (1372), miles led (1970), fastest laps (825), average starting position (7.3), average finishing position (10.7), average running position (7.8) and driver ranking (114.4).
Sarah Cornett-Ching is one of the most determined and focused racecar drivers from Canada. In fact, she has been racing from a young age and it's all because of her father, who got her interested.
Ford won its first Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway on March 31, 1963 when Fireball Roberts won the Southeastern 500. What made the win so noteworthy is that it marked the debut of Roberts with Ford as a teammate of Fred Lorenzen’s at Holman-Moody.
21 year-old Landon Huffman is set to make his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) debut in the UNOH 200 at Bristol Motor Speedway on August 16th. He will drive MB Motorsports’ #63 Mittler Brothers Machine & Tool Chevy.
The No. 21 team will utilize GMS chassis no. 118 at Bristol Motor Speedway. Sauter has raced this chassis eight times over the last two seasons. In those eight races, he has finished no worse than seventh and has earned two wins (Texas-2 2016 and Dover 2017) and 7 top-five finishes.
1. Martin Truex Jr.: Truex won Stage 2, his 15th stage win of the season, and finished second at Michigan, passed on the final restart by a bold move from Kyle Larson. Truex leads the Monster Energy Cup points standings, and also leads with 35 playoff points.
Michigan, where winning was everything. Okay, points might have mattered for the likes of Chase Elliott, Jamie McMurray, Matt Kenseth, and Clint Bowyer, but for everyone else winning was the goal.
1. Darrell Wallace Jr. - The last time Wallace Jr. made a Truck Series start was over three years ago at the season finale in Homestead. But that didn't show from Wallace Jr. as he picked up right where he left off.
Three races remain until the playoffs - Three races, three wildcards until the 2017 playoffs begin at Loudon in September. This week the drivers will head to Bristol, then to Canada after a couple of weeks off with the final race at Chicago before the playoffs start.
Kasey Kahne and Daniel Suarez's day ended on Lap 140 of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Pure Michigan 400 when the two collided in Turn 2 at Michigan International Speedway.