Motor Racing Digest

Written By: Brian Eberly, @beberly18 March 19, 2013 Winners Kasey Kahne – Fresh off a second place finish in Vegas, Kahne took the checkered flag first in Sunday’s Food City 500.  Starting from the outside pole, the driver of the No. 5 Great Clips Chevrolet led six times for 109 laps en-route to his 15th [...]

Posted: March 19th, 2013
Categories: Featured, Nascar Sprint Cup Series.
Tags: Bristol Motor Speedway, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Food City 500, Jeff Gordon, kasey kahne, Kurt Busch, Matt Kenseth, Tony Stewart
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  Posted by: Dave Thompson, follow @phillyfan17 March 17, 2013 Kasey Kahne qualified second on Friday, but did one better on Sunday to win the 53rd Annual Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway.  The win was Kahne’s first of the season and first at Bristol. The win marks the 15th victory for Kahne in [...]

Posted: March 17th, 2013
Categories: Featured, Nascar Sprint Cup Series, Results.
Tags: Brad Keselowski, Brian Vickers, Bristol Motor Speedway, Clint Bowyer, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Denny Hamlin, Food City 500, Jeff Gordon, Joey Logano, kasey kahne, Kurt Busch, Kyle Busch, Matt Kenseth, Paul Menard
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Posted By: David Morgan – Follow at @damorgan86  March 17, 2013 Bristol Motor Speedway provides a unique atmosphere for driver introductions unlike any other on the Sprint Cup circuit. Drivers are able to pick whichever song they want to be introduced to and these are the songs that the drivers chose for today’s running of [...]

Posted: March 17th, 2013
Categories: Nascar Sprint Cup Series.
Tags: Bristol Motor Speedway, Food City 500, Nascar Sprint Cup Series
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  Posted by: Dave Thompson, follow @phillyfan17 March 16, 2013 The reigning K&N Pro Series West champion Dylan Kwasniewski prevailed in Saturday’s DRIVE4COPD 125 in his first race at Bristol Motor Speedway. Early in the week, Kwasniewski said, “I am really ready to hit the track at Bristol”. And indeed he was ready, as Kwasniewski [...]

Posted: March 16th, 2013
Categories: Track News.
Tags: Ben Kennedy, Ben Rhodes, Brett Moffitt, Bristol Motor Speedway, Dylan Kwasniewski, Eddie MacDonald, Gray Gaulding, Jimmy Weller, Michael McGuire, NASCAR K&N Pro Series East, Ryan Gifford
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Written By: David Morgan – Follow at @damorgan86  March 16, 2013 Bristol Motor Speedway provided yet another great finish today in the Jeff Foxworthy’s Grit Chips 300 with Kyle Busch winning over Kyle Larson by a margin of .023 seconds to take his No. 54 Monster Energy Toyota to Victory Lane. The finish between Busch [...]

Posted: March 16th, 2013
Categories: Featured, Nascar Nationwide Series, Results.
Tags: Brian Vickers, Bristol Motor Speedway, Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch, Kyle Larson, Nascar Nationwide Series, Sam Hornish Jr.
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Written By: David Morgan – Follow at @damorgan86  March 16, 2013 Kyle Busch, who won the pole on Friday for the Food City 500, backed up his record-breaking qualifying run during the two practice sessions for the Food City 500 on Saturday. Busch led both practices and finished up final practice with a lap of [...]

Posted: March 16th, 2013
Categories: Featured, Nascar Sprint Cup Series.
Tags: Brad Keselowski, Bristol Motor Speedway, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Danica Patrick, David Gilliland, Denny Hamlin, kasey kahne, Kyle Busch, Matt Kenseth, Nascar Sprint Cup Series
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  Posted by: Dave Thompson, follow @phillyfan17 March 16, 2013 Justin Allgaier won the Coors Light Pole Award for the 31st Annual Jeff Foxworthy’s Grit Chips 300 with a lap of 15.380 seconds at 124.759 mph. The pole is Allgaier’s first at Bristol and first of the season.  It is his fourth pole in 145 NASCAR Nationwide Series races. Austin Dillon, who will start second, posted his fourth top-10 start of 2013 and his third in three races.  [...]

Posted: March 16th, 2013
Categories: Featured, Nascar Nationwide Series.
Tags: Austin Dillon, Brian Scott, Bristol Motor Speedway, Jeff Foxworthy's Grit Chips 300, Justin Allgaier, Kevin Harvick, Regan Smith, Sam Hornish Jr.
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  Posted by: Dave Thompson, follow @phillyfan17 March 15, 2013 Kyle Busch set a new NASCAR Sprint Cup series qualifying record at Bristol with a speed of 129.535 mph in 14.813 seconds. The previous record was held by Ryan Newman at a speed of 128.709 mph in 14.908 seconds back in March of 2003. This [...]

Posted: March 15th, 2013
Categories: Featured, Nascar Sprint Cup Series.
Tags: Brad Keselowski, Brian Vickers.Paul Menard, Bristol Motor Speedway, Casey Mears, Dale Earnhardt Jr., David Gilliland, David Stremme, Denny Hamlin, Food City 500, Jamie McMurray, Joey Logano, kasey kahne, Kyle Busch, Martin Truex Jr., Ryan Newman, Tony Stewart
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  Posted by: Dave Thompson, follow @phillyfan17 March 15, 2013 Not long ago, Jimmie Johnson never looked forward to race weekend at Bristol.  The five-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion had struggled at the “World’s Fastest Half-Mile” from 2005 thru 2008 with just two top-10 finishes in eight races.  Over that same stretch, Johnson recorded three [...]

Posted: March 15th, 2013
Categories: Featured, Nascar Sprint Cup Series.
Tags: Bristol Motor Speedway, Daytona 500, Hendrick Motorsports, Jimmie Johnson, Lowe's Chevrolet
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    Written By: David Morgan – Follow at @damorgan86  March 13, 2013 The fourth race of the season finds the Sprint Cup Series and Nationwide Series heading to East Tennessee to take on the half-mile bullring that is Bristol Motor Speedway. After taking on a superspeedway in Daytona, a flat track in Phoenix, and [...]

Posted: March 13th, 2013
Categories: Featured, Nascar Nationwide Series, Nascar Sprint Cup Series.
Tags: Austin Dillion, Brad Keselowski, Bristol Motor Speedway, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jeff Gordon, Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch, Matt Kenseth, Nascar Nationwide Series, Nascar Sprint Cup Series, Parker Kligerman
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