Food City 300 Tag

By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service BRISTOL, Tenn. – No one else had a chance. Other NASCAR XFINITY Series competitors in Saturday night’s 36th Annual Food City 300 might have brought fast race cars—runner-up Daniel Suarez certainly did. But polesitter Kyle Busch had a checkered-flag-seeking missile, and after a restart with eight of 300 laps left, he crossed the finish line 1.181 seconds ahead of Suarez, notching his record 91st victory in the series, his fifth in nine starts this season and his ninth in 25 events at Bristol. The race’s secondRead More

By David Morgan, NASCAR Editor Brendan Gaughan is fed up, and he’s just not going to take it anymore. After a late race wreck took him out of contention for at least a top-10 finish for the second week in a row, Gaughan called his shot for next week’s race at Road America, proclaiming that he was going to go out and win the whole damn thing. Last weekend at Mid-Ohio, Gaughan got ran off course late by eventual race winner Sam Hornish, but was able to rebound to finishRead More

By David Morgan, NASCAR Editor While Kyle Busch was running away with the win in Friday night’s NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway, the fight was on behind him to see which of the series regulars would be able to come out on top. Leading the way were the two JR Motorsports teammates, Elliott Sadler and Justin Allgaier, as they came home third and fifth behind the two Cup Series regulars of Busch and Daniel Suarez. Throughout the night the JRM duo and the Joe Gibbs Racing carsRead More

By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer For Cole Custer, a 10th-place finish in the Food City 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway is a welcome change from last weekend. Compared to last weekend, Custer ran inside the top-15 all night long. Bristol was a quiet race for the driver of the No. 00 Haas / One Cure Ford Mustang. Custer hovered around 10th for much of the night. As Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series drivers surged forward, he fell in line behind them. This can be seen in Custer’s stage finishes, 11thRead More

By David Morgan, NASCAR Editor Kyle Busch’s quest for the weekend three-peat at Bristol just got a little easier. Driving his No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota, Busch streaked to the pole during the rain-shortened 20-minute qualifying session for Friday night’s Food City 300 with a lap of 15.090 seconds, 127.157 mph, for his sixth NASCAR Xfinity Series pole of the season in his ninth start. The pole also marks the 63rd time that Busch will start at the top of the board in the Xfinity Series. “It’s just aRead More

By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer Heading into Friday night’s Food City 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway, Dakota Armstrong is looking to reverse his past struggles at “The World’s Fastest Half-Mile.” Armstrong is coming off a top-10 finish at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. In seven career NASCAR Xfinity Series starts at Bristol, Armstrong has yet to score a finish better than 18th. Earlier this season, he finished 19th in the No. 28 WinField United Toyota Camry for JGL Racing. Armstrong also has two career NASCAR Camping World Truck Series starts atRead More

By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer 21 races into the NASCAR Xfinity Series season, only three of the NASCAR Xfinity Series regulars (Justin Allgaier, Ryan Reed, and William Byron three times) have scored victories during the 2017 season. This weekend the NASCAR Xfinity Series travels to Bristol Motor Speedway for the Food City 300, the 22nd race of the season. Sadler continues to lead the Championship Point standings, despite not scoring a win. He leads with 81 points over his JR Motorsports teammate, Byron. The last time the Xfinity Series visitedRead More

By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service BRISTOL, Tenn. – A remarkable chain of circumstances gave Austin Dillon the chance to win Friday night’s Food City 300 NASCAR XFINITY Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway. Dillon took full advantage, completing two harrowing overtime laps to edge surprise runner-up Justin Allgaier in a race that went eight laps beyond the scheduled distance at the ultra-fast .533-mile concrete short track. Dillon didn’t take the top spot until Lap 305 of 308, when Brad Keselowski’s No. 22 Ford ran out of fuel while leadingRead More

By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer The last time the NASCAR Xfinity Series visited the Bristol Motor Speedway, Erik Jones took home the victory in thrilling fashion as he made a late race move to pass teammate Kyle Busch, and competitor Kyle Larson. Jones won by just under half a second of Busch. That race was also the first Xfinity Dash 4 Cash race of the season, and the first with heat races. This weekend’s race will not have heat races. Several past winners will be in the field, including championshipRead More

BRISTOL, Tenn.  – When Chris Buescher’s Ford faltered on a green-white-checkered restart on Friday night at Bristol Motor Speedway, Kyle Busch took full advantage, as is his custom. In a Food City 300 that went to two laps of overtime at the .533-mile short track, Busch finished .427 seconds ahead of Kyle Larson, as Buescher faded to 11th after his car failed to pick up fuel off Turn 2 of the next-to-last lap. The victory was Busch’s third of the season in the NASCAR XFINITY Series, his eighth at BristolRead More