Bristol Motor Speedway Tag

By David Morgan, Associate Editor BRISTOL, Tenn. – Speeding penalties, handling issues, and mechanical problems. The four drivers that saw their NASCAR Cup Series Playoff hopes dashed Saturday night at Bristol Motor Speedway had it all. Ty Gibbs was the first driver to end the night on the outside looking in, having watched his six-point advantage that he came into the weekend with erased early on with a pit road speeding penalty on Lap 133. The penalty dropped him to the tail end of the field and with track position beingRead More

By David Morgan, Associate Editor BRISTOL, Tenn. – Just Kyle Larson doing Kyle Larson things. It was just utter dominance for the driver of the No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet Saturday night at Bristol Motor Speedway as he led an astounding 462 of 500 laps en route to his fifth win of the 2024 season and second overall on the high-banked half-mile. Larson rolled off from second-place to start the night behind his Hendrick Motorsports teammate Alex Bowman, but on lap 33, he vaulted to the lead and the rest isRead More

By David Morgan, Associate Editor BRISTOL, Tenn. – It wasn’t the cleanest of nights, but Dale Earnhardt, Jr. certainly had fun in his return to the NASCAR Xfinity Series on Friday night at Bristol Motor Speedway. After starting in 13th, the problems started almost immediately for the two-time Xfinity Series champion and NASCAR Hall of Famer when issues with the radio system in his helmet cropped up, forcing him to pit road under the first caution for his No. 88 JR Motorsports team to try and swap the helmet out toRead More

By David Morgan, Associate Editor BRISTOL, Tenn. – One driver’s misfortune was another’s gain. Coming into Friday night’s Food City 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway to close out the NASCAR Xfinity Series season, it appeared to be Justin Allgaier’s points lead to lose with a healthy lead over Cole Custer and others in the points standings. It was going to take some misfortune on Allgaier’s part for Custer and the others to be in position to strike and that’s exactly what happened. After leading the opening 60 laps, Allgaier found himselfRead More

By David Morgan, Associate Editor BRISTOL, Tenn. – Day one of NASCAR Cup Series action at Bristol Motor Speedway is complete, with drivers and teams getting a full practice session to dial in their cars before setting the field for Saturday night’s Bass Pro Night Race. Alex Bowman will lead the field to green after posting the fast time of 15.142 seconds (126.720 mph) around the half-mile bullring to snag his first pole of the season at the most opportune time in the first elimination race of the Playoffs. “I thoughtRead More

By David Morgan, Associate Editor BRISTOL, Tenn. – Junior’s last ride, at least for now. Since retiring from full-time NASCAR Cup Series competition at the end of the 2017 season, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. has made it a habit of running at least one NASCAR Xfinity race each year since and once again, he’s back behind the wheel of the No. 88 JR Motorsports Chevrolet this weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway for Friday night’s running of the Food City 300. A year after contending for the win before a small fire inRead More

By David Morgan, Associate Editor BRISTOL, Tenn. – Trades are synonymous with nearly every major sport there is and now NASCAR is getting in on the action. On Friday at Bristol Motor Speedway, Spire Motorsports and Rick Ware Racing announced that Saturday night’s Bass Pro Night Race will be the final race for their respective drivers, Corey LaJoie and Justin Haley, with the two drivers swapping rides for the remainder of the season starting next week at Kansas. It will be a homecoming for Haley, who started his Cup Series careerRead More

By David Morgan, Associate Editor BRISTOL, Tenn. – The Layne Train keeps rolling on. For the second race in a row, Layne Riggs played spoiler in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Playoffs, bringing home the win in Thursday night’s UNOH 200 at Bristol Motor Speedway. Piloting the No. 38 Front Row Motorsports Ford, Riggs rolled off from 18th in the 200-lap event, but didn’t stay there for long, advancing up to eighth by the end of the first stage and fourth at the end of the second. Riggs would continue hisRead More

By David Morgan, Associate Editor BRISTOL, Tenn. – Elimination weekend is upon us. The NASCAR Cup Series rolls into Bristol Motor Speedway for a Saturday night under the lights in the Bass Pro Shops Night Race which will see the current 16-driver Playoff field cut to 12 when the checkered flag falls on the night. Racing at Bristol is always intense, but when the lights go down for the night race, the intensity gets cranked to 11. The aggressiveness that the drivers will show on the high-banked bullring that is calledRead More

By David Morgan, Associate Editor The chase for the NASCAR Cup Series regular season championship will have one less driver in the mix after a penalty handed down by the sanctioning body on Thursday. Denny Hamlin and the No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing team, who have won three races on the year (Bristol, Richmond, and Dover) were among a four-some of drivers vying for the crucial 15 Playoff points that go to the driver that finishes Race No. 26 at the top of the standings. However, Hamlin now finds himself effectivelyRead More