Food City 500 Explained

Race Title:	Food City 500
Series Long:	NASCAR Cup Series
Venue:	Bristol Motor Speedway
Location:	Bristol, Tennessee, United States
Sponsor:	Food City Entertainment Industry Foundation
Distance:	266.5miles
Laps:	500 Stages 1/2: 125 each Final stage: 250
Previous Names:	Southeastern 500 (1961–1975, 1977–1979) Southeastern 400 (1976) Valleydale Southeastern 500 (1980) Valleydale 500 (1981–1986) Valleydale Meats 500 (1987–1991) Food City 500 (1992–2010, 2012–2014, 2016–2019, 2024-present) Jeff Byrd 500 presented by Food City (2011) Food City 500 In Support Of Steve Byrnes And Stand Up To Cancer (2015) Food City presents the Supermarket Heroes 500 (2020) Food City Dirt Race (2021-2023)
Most Wins Driver:	Rusty Wallace (6, paved surface) Joey Logano Kyle Busch Christopher Bell (1, dirt surface)
Most Wins Team:	Hendrick Motorsports (8, paved surface) Joe Gibbs Racing (2, dirt surface)
Most Wins Manufacturer:	Chevrolet (23, paved surface) Toyota (2, dirt surface)
Surface:	Concrete
Length Mi:	0.533
Turns:	4

The Food City 500 is an annual 500-lap, 266.5miles NASCAR Cup Series points race held at the Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee. This is one of two NASCAR races held at Bristol, the other being the Bass Pro Shops Night Race. It was the first venue of the 2007 NASCAR schedule to host the fifth-generation NASCAR premiership race car, a race won by Kyle Busch. For much of its history, from 1961 to 1992 the race was run on the original asphalt surface, then on concrete from 1993 to 2020 after Bristol changed surfaces, but was moved to a dirt layout beginning in 2021, under the name Food City Dirt Race. Beginning in 2024, the race was held on the concrete oval.^[1]

Denny Hamlin is the defending race winner.

History

In 2008, Bristol Motor Speedway President & General Manager Jeff Byrd requested that NASCAR move the spring race to a later Spring date, to avoid the problems with rain, snow, and sleet that hit the area in late winter and early spring. This was not carried out until 2015.^[2] In 2015, the race moved from mid-March to April.^[3] Though every race besides 2016 has had some sort of rain alter the race including moving the race to Monday in 2017 and 2018.

In 2011, title sponsor Food City announced it would honor former Speedway President and General Manager Jeff Byrd, who died in October 2010, by renaming the 2011 Spring race the Jeff Byrd 500 presented by Food City.^[4]

In 2015, the race was renamed the Food City 500 In Support Of Steve Byrnes And Stand Up To Cancer to support NASCAR on Fox broadcaster Steve Byrnes in his battle with cancer, in association with the Entertainment Industry Foundation.^[5]

The 2020 race was dubbed the Food City presents the Supermarket Heroes 500 to honor grocery store workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.^[6]

Dirt Configuration

In 2021, the race shifted to a dirt surface version of the track and was renamed the Food City Dirt Race.^{[7] [8]} The race's stage lengths were initially set at 75 each for the first two segments followed by 100 in the final stage,^[9] but stages 1–2 were later adjusted to be 100 laps apiece following Friday practices.^[10]

In 2022, the race became a night race, and was run on Easter Sunday. Part of the reason it was moved from daylight to nighttime is because of visibility issues that plagued the event in 2021 with sunlight reflecting off the dirt.

On September 15, 2023, Bristol announced that the Food City 500 would return to the concrete oval, beginning in 2024.^[11]

Notable races

• 1968: David Pearson won after a lengthy duel with Richard Petty and LeeRoy Yarbrough in a race prominently featured on the television series Car and Track.
• 1971: Pearson won after tagging James Hylton into the wall; Pearson edged Richard Petty after Petty erased a two-lap deficit.
• 1972: Mechanic (and later car owner) Junior Johnson saw the first of a plethora of Bristol wins over the ensuing two decades as Bobby Allison drove his Chevrolet to an easy win.
• 1973: Driving Junior's Chevy, Cale Yarborough led all 500 laps, a feat he duplicated at Nashville in 1978 and by Jeff Burton at New Hampshire International Speedway in 2000.
• 1974: Chevrolets swept the top ten finishing spots led by Yarborough.
• 1975: Richard Petty posted only his second career Bristol win.
• 1977: Cale led all but five laps in a race where five other drivers (including Janet Guthrie) needed relief help.
• 1979: After Cale crashed out with Buddy Baker, rookie Dale Earnhardt took his first win.
• 1981: Darrell Waltrip drove Johnson's Buick and edged Ricky Rudd, who was driving Waltrip's former car, the DiGard Racing Oldsmobile. Joe Millikan got into a wreck with Benny Parsons and said, "I lost my cool," to which car owner Bud Moore vowed, "I'll straighten out Millikan's cool."
• 1984: Waltrip posted his seventh straight Bristol win and the eighth straight for Junior Johnson.
• 1986: Rusty Wallace posted his first career win.
• 1987: Dale Earnhardt was involved in several crashes en route to the win; Richard Petty finished second.
• 1989: Wallace survived a chaotic race with multiple crashes and a wildcard victory bid by Greg Sacks.
• 1990: A spirited event ended in a wild finish; Sterling Marlin was spun out by Ricky Rudd on the final lap while Davey Allison held off a last-lap charge from Mark Martin to win by inches.
• 1991: Grasping for a solution to pit road crashes emanating from numerous incidents in 1990 (and never considering revoking the pit closure rule that was the ultimate cause), NASCAR had banned tire changes under yellow; for Bristol, this was replaced with the staggering of pit stops based on qualifying line — all "odd" cars (qualified first, third, etc.) would pit first under yellow while "even" cars would pit a lap later; the cars were denoted "odd" and "even" with stickers on their windshields after qualifying; restarts would be double-file based on "odd" and "even" stickered cars. More "even" cars wound up in contention, and this created chaos. Rusty Wallace was able to pass cars under caution to move into his proper restart line, and this helped him come back from two laps down on two occasions. The lead changed 41 times, a short track record, as Wallace edged Ernie Irvan at the finish. Sterling Marlin suffered burns in a fiery melee and needed relief help in subsequent weeks from Charlie Glotzbach.
• 1992: Alan Kulwicki won the race; the last to be held at Bristol before the switch from asphalt to concrete pavement.
• 1993: Wallace dominated days after defending race winner, and defending Winston Cup champion Alan Kulwicki died in a plane crash.
• 1994: An ill-timed yellow trapped Geoff Bodine a lap down and put Dale Earnhardt into the lead en route to the win. Bodine had begun dominating the race in the car formerly owned by Kulwicki and running Hoosier Tires; with the Hoosiers Bodine was able to skip tire changes that Goodyear-shod cars had to make.
• 1995: Jeff Gordon took the win, his third in the season's first six races; the race saw notable performances resulting in top-five finishes for Darrell Waltrip and Bobby Hamilton.
• 1997: Gordon punted Rusty Wallace sideways on the final lap for the win.
• 1999: Wallace ran away at the end, while John Andretti rallied to finish fourth; Andretti's Petty Enterprises Pontiac was impounded after the race as NASCAR had a disagreement with the engine's compression ratio; the engine, though, cleared on reinspection.
• 2000: Rusty Wallace scores his 50th NASCAR Cup Series win.
• 2001: Elliott Sadler edged Andretti for his first win, and the first 1-2 finish for the Wood Brothers and Petty Enterprises since 1977.
• 2002: With NASCAR running high downforce on the cars via big rear spoiler and low airdam clearance, and running very hard tires, Kurt Busch pitted on Lap 325 and never visited the pits again. He bumped Jimmy Spencer for the lead and went on to claim his first Winston Cup win. The move was one of several incidents to occur between Busch and Spencer in what was becoming a heated feud. Rusty Wallace was incensed at the manner with which Busch won the race (by not pitting when others did and thus winning on old tires with no drop in speed) enough that he lobbied NASCAR to cut downforce and go to softer tires in later years to force pitstops.
• 2003: In what was the 2,000th race in NASCAR Cup Series history, Kurt Busch came back from a spin to win the race. Also during the race, Kyle Petty got clipped by Ward Burton in the left rear and turned him very abruptly and into the wall driver's side. Petty's crash was then the biggest crash recorded by the black box, recording 80 G's of force on Petty.
• 2004: The final race for Pontiac in the Cup Series as a whole, as Hermie Sadler No. 02 finished 31st.
• 2005: Slight contact between Bobby Hamilton Jr. and Ken Schrader on lap 332 triggered a 14-car wreck. While Kevin Harvick was the winner, 22nd-place Bobby Labonte finished 32 laps down, a rarity for the series over the previous 25 seasons.
• 2007: The Car of Tomorrow debuted. After Joe Gibbs Racing dominated the race, Kyle Busch drove a Hendrick Chevy to the win, then pointedly ripped the poor raceability of the COT in victory lane.
• 2008: Dale Jarrett's last race.
• 2010: Jimmie Johnson had never won at Bristol until this race; it was his 50th Sprint Cup Series win.
• 2011: After track president Jeff Byrd's death in late 2010, Food City and Bristol Motor Speedway agree to name the race in memory of Byrd in a one-year-only deal.
• 2013: Kyle Busch won the pole with a then-new track qualifying record at 14.813 seconds (129.535 mph). Kasey Kahne won his first Bristol race. The race also marked the start of a feud between Denny Hamlin and Joey Logano, after Hamlin spun Logano during the race.
• 2014: Denny Hamlin started on pole with a new track record, his first pole of the season. The race was delayed twice, just like the Daytona 500, for rain. Matt Kenseth was involved in a wreck at lap 163 when Timmy Hill rear-ended into him after caution was called for a spin by Cole Whitt. Carl Edwards was leading with a few laps left when a mysterious caution was out. During an attempt for a Green-white-checkered finish, the rain started falling and the race was unable to be restarted and would end under caution.
• 2015: The race was scheduled to begin at noon ET and be televised by Fox, but rain delayed the start for 79 minutes. A crash between teammates Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano brought out the caution on lap 19. During the caution, rain began to fall again. The rain was delayed until night and because Fox had another programming, aired on Fox Sports 1. The race resumed at approximately 6:30 p.m. ET, almost 5 hours after the 1st green flag. Although rain threatened to end the race twice, the race was run to completion. Matt Kenseth won, breaking a 51 race winless streak.
• 2018: Rain and four red flags plagued the race on Sunday only getting in 204 laps with the race continuing and concluding on Monday. It tied the record for most red flags in a single NASCAR race with the 2015 Quicken Loans 400, also red-flagged four times. All four red flags in that event were due to weather. Kyle Larson led the most laps for the second straight year (200) but got spun by the lapped car of Ryan Newman at lap 325. Larson was back in the lead with less than 100 laps to go; he was heading for victory until pole-sitter Kyle Busch performed the "Bump n' Run" on Larson with 6 laps to go to steal the win, his 7th at Bristol.
• 2021 The NASCAR Cup Series ran its first race on dirt since 1970 (51 years). After multiple accidents took out several of the pre race favorites, Joey Logano survived an overtime restart to become the first Cup Series driver to win on dirt in the modern era.
• 2022 On the last lap, Tyler Reddick and Chase Briscoe battled for the win with Reddick in position for his first career Cup Series win. In Turn 3, Briscoe sent it in hard to pass Reddick and the two ended up making contact sending both of them spinning around. Reddick got back going but was passed just before the start-finish line by the 3rd place car in Kyle Busch and Busch took home the win with Reddick in 2nd.

Past winners

Year	Date		Driver	Team	Sponsor	Manufacturer	Race distance		Race time	Average speed (mph)	Report	Ref
							Laps	Miles (km)
Asphalt surface
1961	October 22	8	Joe Weatherly	Bud Moore Engineering	N/A	Pontiac	500	250 (402.336)	3:27:02	72.452	Report	^[12]
1962	July 29	42	Jim Paschal	Petty Enterprises	N/A	Plymouth	500	250 (402.336)	3:19:16	75.276	Report	^[13]
1963	March 31	22	Fireball Roberts	Holman-Moody	Southeastern Ford Dealers	Ford	500	250 (402.336)	3:15:02	76.91	Report	^[14]
1964	March 22	28	Fred Lorenzen	Holman-Moody	LaFayette	Ford	500	250 (402.336)	3:27:46	72.196	Report	^[15]
1965	May 2	26	Junior Johnson	Junior Johnson & Associates	Holly Farms Poultry	Ford	500	250 (402.336)	3:20:10	74.937	Report	^[16]
1966	March 20	29	Dick Hutcherson		East Tennessee Motor Company	Ford	500	250 (402.336)	3:34:26	69.952	Report	^[17]
1967	March 19	6	David Pearson	Cotton Owens	N/A	Dodge	500	250 (402.336)	3:17:32	75.937	Report	^[18]
1968	March 17	17			East Tennessee Motor Company	Ford	500	250 (402.336)	3:14:11	77.247	Report	^[19]
1969	March 23	22	Bobby Allison	Mario Rossi	Teddor Dodge	Dodge	500	250 (402.336)	3:04:09	81.455	Report	^[20]
1970	April 5	27	Donnie Allison	Banjo Matthews	Sunny King Ford	Ford	500	266.5 (428.89)	3:02:42	87.543	Report	^[21]
1971	March 28	17			Purolator Special	Ford	500	266.5 (428.89)	2:52:23	91.704	Report	^[22]
1972	April 9	12		Richard Howard	Coca-Cola	Chevrolet	500	266.5 (428.89)	2:50:18	92.826	Report	^[23]
1973	March 11/25*	11	Cale Yarborough		Kar-Kare	Chevrolet	500	266.5 (428.89)	2:57:43	88.952	Report	^[24]
1974	March 17	11		Richard Howard	Kar-Kare	Chevrolet	450*	239.85 (386.001)	3:42:50	64.533	Report	^[25]
1975	March 16	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	STP	Dodge	500	266.5 (428.89)	2:43:53	97.053	Report	^[26]
1976	March 14	11			Holly Farms	Chevrolet	400	213.2 (343.112)	2:25:24	87.377	Report	^[27]
1977	April 17	11		Junior Johnson & Associates	Holly Farms	Chevrolet	500	266.5 (428.89)	2:38:20	100.989	Report	^[28]
1978	April 2	88	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports	Gatorade	Chevrolet	500	266.5 (428.89)	2:53:03	92.401	Report	^[29]
1979	April 1	2	Dale Earnhardt	Rod Osterlund Racing	N/A	Chevrolet	500	266.5 (428.89)	2:55:39	91.033	Report	^[30]
1980	March 30	2			Mike Curb/Hodgdon	Chevrolet	500	266.5 (428.89)	2:44:53	96.977	Report	^[31]
1981	March 29	11		Junior Johnson & Associates	Mountain Dew	Buick	500	266.5 (428.89)	2:58:36	89.53	Report	^[32]
1982	March 14	11	Darrell Waltrip	Junior Johnson & Associates	Mountain Dew	Buick	500	266.5 (428.89)	2:49:52	94.025	Report	^[33]
1983	May 21	11		Junior Johnson & Associates	Pepsi Challenger	Chevrolet	500	266.5 (428.89)	2:51:07	93.445	Report	^[34]
1984	April 1	11		Junior Johnson & Associates	Budweiser	Chevrolet	500	266.5 (428.89)	2:50:10	93.967	Report	^[35]
1985	April 6*	3		Richard Childress Racing	Wrangler Jeans	Chevrolet	500	266.5 (428.89)	3:15:42	81.79	Report	^[36]
1986	April 6	27	Rusty Wallace	Blue Max Racing	Alugard	Pontiac	500	266.5 (428.89)	2:58:14	89.747	Report	^[37]
1987	April 12	3			Wrangler Jeans	Chevrolet	500	266.5 (428.89)	3:31:27	75.621	Report	^[38]
1988	April 10	9	Bill Elliott	Melling Racing	Coors	Ford	500	266.5 (428.89)	3:12:23	83.115	Report	^[39]
1989	April 9	27			Kodiak	Pontiac	500	266.5 (428.89)	3:30:18	76.034	Report	^[40]
1990	April 8	28	Davey Allison	Robert Yates Racing	Havoline	Ford	500	266.5 (428.89)	3:03:15	87.258	Report	^[41]
1991	April 14	2		Penske Racing	Miller Genuine Draft	Pontiac	500	266.5 (428.89)	3:39:37	72.809	Report	^[42]
1992	April 5	7	Alan Kulwicki	AK Racing	Hooters	Ford	500	266.5 (428.89)	3:05:15	86.316	Report	^[43]
Concrete surface
1993	April 4	2			Miller Genuine Draft	Pontiac	500	266.5 (428.89)	3:08:43	84.73	Report	^[44]
1994	April 10	3		Richard Childress Racing		Chevrolet	500	266.5 (428.89)	2:58:22	89.647	Report	^[45]
1995	April 2	24	Jeff Gordon	Hendrick Motorsports	DuPont/Food City	Chevrolet	500	266.5 (428.89)	2:53:47	92.011	Report	^[46]
1996	March 31	24		Hendrick Motorsports	DuPont	Chevrolet	342*	182.286 (293.36)	1:59:47	91.308	Report	^[47]
1997	April 13	24			DuPont	Chevrolet	500	266.5 (428.89)	3:33:06	75.035	Report	^[48]
1998	March 29	24			DuPont	Chevrolet	500	266.5 (428.89)	3:13:00	82.85	Report	^[49]
1999	April 11	2			Miller Lite	Ford	500	266.5 (428.89)	2:51:16	93.363	Report	^[50]
2000	March 26	2			Miller Lite	Ford	500	266.5 (428.89)	3:01:40	88.018	Report	^[51]
2001	March 25	21	Elliott Sadler	Wood Brothers Racing	Motorcraft	Ford	500	266.5 (428.89)	3:03:54	86.949	Report	^[52]
2002	March 24	97	Kurt Busch	Roush Racing	Sharpie/Rubbermaid/Win $1,000,000	Ford	500	266.5 (428.89)	3:14:20	82.281	Report	^[53]
2003	March 23	97			Metallic Silver Sharpie/Rubbermaid	Ford	500	266.5 (428.89)	3:29:53	76.185	Report	^[54]
2004	March 28	97			Sharpie/Irwin Industrial Tools	Ford	500	266.5 (428.89)	3:13:34	82.607	Report	^[55]
2005	April 3	29	Kevin Harvick		GM Goodwrench	Chevrolet	500	266.5 (428.89)	3:26:20	77.496	Report	^[56]
2006	March 26	2			Miller Lite	Dodge	500	266.5 (428.89)	3:21:19	79.427	Report	^[57]
2007	March 25	5	Kyle Busch		CarQuest/Kellogg's	Chevrolet	504*	268.632 (432.321)	3:16:38	81.969	Report	^[58]
2008	March 16	31	Jeff Burton		AT&T	Chevrolet	506*	269.698 (434.036)	3:00:15	89.775	Report	^[59]
2009	March 22	18		Joe Gibbs Racing	Snickers	Toyota	503*	268.099 (431.463)	2:54:35	92.139	Report	^[60]
2010	March 21	48	Jimmie Johnson		Lowe's	Chevrolet	500	266.5 (428.89)	3:20:50	79.618	Report	^[61]
2011	March 20	18			M&M's	Toyota	500	266.5 (428.89)	2:53:55	91.941	Report	^[62]
2012	March 18	2	Brad Keselowski		Miller Lite	Dodge	500	266.5 (428.89)	2:51:52	93.037	Report	^[63]
2013	March 17	5	Kasey Kahne		Great Clips	Chevrolet	500	266.5 (428.89)	2:53:25	92.206	Report	^[64]
2014	March 16	99	Carl Edwards		Kellogg's Frosted Flakes/Cheez-It	Ford	503*	268.099 (431.463)	3:11:23	84.051	Report	^[65]
2015	April 19	20	Matt Kenseth		Dollar General	Toyota	511*	272.363 (438.325)	3:37:54	74.997	Report	^[66]
2016	April 17	19			Comcast Business	Toyota	500	266.5 (428.89)	3:15:52	81.637	Report	^[67]
2017	April 24*	48	Jimmie Johnson		Lowe's/A.O. Smith	Chevrolet	500	266.5 (428.89)	3:04:29	86.674	Report	^[68]
2018	April 15/16*	18	Kyle Busch	Joe Gibbs Racing	Skittles	Toyota	500	266.5 (428.89)	3:26:25	77.465	Report	^[69]
2019	April 7	18	Kyle Busch	Joe Gibbs Racing	Skittles	Toyota	500	266.5 (428.89)	2:56:38	90.527	Report	^[70]
2020	May 31*	2	Brad Keselowski	Team Penske	Discount Tire	Ford	500	266.5 (428.89)	3:19:02	80.338	Report	^[71]
Dirt surface
2021	March 29*	22	Joey Logano	Team Penske	Shell/Pennzoil	Ford	253*	134.849 (217.018)	2:43:53	46.313	Report	^[72]
2022	April 17	18	Kyle Busch	Joe Gibbs Racing	M&M's Crunchy Cookie	Toyota	250	133.25 (214.445)	3:34:27	34.973	Report	^[73]
2023	April 9	20	Christopher Bell	Joe Gibbs Racing	DeWalt/Power Stack	Toyota	250	133.25 (214.445)	2:40:40	46.68	Report
Concrete surface
2024	March 17	11	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing	Express Oil Change	Toyota	500	266.5 (428.89)	3:20:41	79.678	Report	^[74]

• 1973: Race started on March 11 but suspended until March 25 after 52 laps due to rain.
• 1974: Race shortened due to energy crisis.
• 1985: Race postponed from March 31 due to rain.
• 1996: Race shortened due to rain.
• 2007–09, 2015 and 2021: Races extended due to NASCAR overtime.
• 2014: Race extended due to NASCAR overtime, but overtime restart was aborted and race called due to rain.^[75]
• 2017: Race postponed from Sunday to Monday due to rain.^[76]
• 2018: Race suspended until Monday due to rain.^[77]
• 2020: Race postponed from April 5 to May 31 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[78]
• 2021: Race postponed from Sunday to Monday due to heavy rain and flash flooding.^[79]

Track length notes

• 1961–1969: 0.5 mile course
• Since 1970: 0.533 mile course

Multiple winners (drivers)

Asphalt/concrete surface
Wins	Driver	Years won
6	Rusty Wallace	1986, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1999–2000
5	Darrell Waltrip	1978, 1981–1984
	Dale Earnhardt	1979–1980, 1985, 1987, 1994
	Kyle Busch	2007, 2009, 2011, 2018–2019
4	Cale Yarborough	1973–1974, 1976–1977
	Jeff Gordon	1995–1998
	Kurt Busch	2002–2004, 2006
3	David Pearson	1967–1968, 1971
2	Bobby Allison	1969, 1972
	Carl Edwards	2014, 2016
	Jimmie Johnson	2010, 2017
	Brad Keselowski	2012, 2020

Dirt surface
Wins	Driver	Years won
1	Joey Logano	2021
	Kyle Busch	2022
	Christopher Bell	2023

Multiple winners (teams)

Asphalt/concrete surface
Wins	Team	Years won
8	Hendrick Motorsports	1995–1998, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2017
7	Junior Johnson & Associates	1965, 1976–1977, 1981–1984
	Team Penske	1991, 1993, 1999–2000, 2006, 2012, 2020
	Joe Gibbs Racing	2009, 2011, 2015–2016, 2018–2019, 2024
5	Holman-Moody	1963–1964, 1966, 1968, 1971
	Richard Childress Racing	1985, 1987, 1994, 2005, 2008
4	Roush Fenway Racing	2002–2004, 2014
3	Richard Howard	1972–1974
2	Petty Enterprises	1962, 1975
	Rod Osterlund Racing	1979–1980
	Blue Max Racing	1986, 1989

Dirt surface
Wins	Team	Years won
2	Joe Gibbs Racing	2022–2023
1	Team Penske	2021

Manufacturer wins

Asphalt/concrete surface
Wins	Manufacturer	Years won
23	Chevrolet	1972–1974, 1976–1980, 1983–1985, 1987, 1994–1998, 2005, 2007–2008, 2010, 2013, 2017
18	Ford	1963–1966, 1968, 1970–1971, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1999, 2000–2004, 2014, 2020
7	Toyota	2009, 2011, 2015–2016, 2018–2019, 2024
5	Pontiac	1961, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
	Dodge	1967, 1969, 1975, 2006, 2012
2	Buick	1981–1982
1	Plymouth	1962

Dirt surface
Wins	Manufacturer	Years won
2	Toyota	2022–2023
1	Ford	2021

Notes and References

1. Web site: Concrete to replace dirt for Bristol's springtime schedule in 2024 . 15 September 2023 .
2. Web site: Jayski's Silly Season Site – Bristol Motor Speedway News . 2008-06-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20051221172954/http://www.jayski.com/pages/tracks/bristol.htm . 2005-12-21 . dead .
3. News: NASCAR reveals 2015 schedules for national series . . August 26, 2014 . August 26, 2014 . August 27, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140827080712/http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-media/articles/2014/8/26/2015-nascar-schedule-release-sprint-cup-series-darlington-bristol.html . dead .
4. Web site: Bristol Sprint Cup race renamed to honor Jeff Byrd . 2011-02-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180118122502/http://www2.tricities.com/news/2011/feb/15/spring-nascar-race-be-jeff-byrd-500-ar-844947/ . 2018-01-18 . dead .
5. Web site: April 19 Bristol race renamed to honor FOX Sports' Steve Byrnes. Pennell. Jay. Fox Sports Interactive Media, LLC.. April 10, 2015. FoxSports.com. April 10, 2015.
6. News: Sunday's BMS NASCAR Cup Series race named Food City presents Supermarket Heroes 500 to honor grocery store front-line workers. Bristol Motor Speedway. May 26, 2020. May 26, 2020.
7. Web site: 2020-09-30. NASCAR Cup Series to go dirt trackin' at Bristol in 2021 - NBC Sports. 2020-09-30. NASCAR Talk NBC Sports. en-US.
8. News: NASCAR announces 2021 networks and start times headlined by historic Food City Dirt Race at Bristol Motor Speedway. Bristol Motor Speedway. December 10, 2020. January 2, 2021.
9. News: Stage lengths for 2021 NASCAR season. NASCAR. January 25, 2021. January 31, 2021.
10. News: NASCAR makes competition adjustments for Bristol Dirt Race. NASCAR. March 27, 2021. March 28, 2021.
11. Web site: Concrete to replace dirt for Bristol's races next spring | NASCAR.
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