Race Preview courtesy of Jayski.com TRACK: Bristol Motor Speedway NASCAR Sprint Cup Race No. 4 of 36 for the 2014 season Race: Sunday, March 16, 2014 in Bristol, TN Title Sponsor: Food City Scheduled Green Flag: 1:13pm/et ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Television Coverage/Re-air/Team: NASCAR Pre-Race: FOX - 12:00pm/et Television Race Coverage: FOX - 1:00pm/et In the Booth: Mike Joy, Darrell Waltrip, Larry McReynolds Pit Reporters: Steve Byrnes, Matt Yocum, Krista Voda Hollywood Hotel: Chris Myers and Michael Waltrip Virtual Garage: Jeff Hammond FoxSports1's NASCAR Raceday Pre-Race Show: TBA with John Roberts, Kyle Petty & Kenny Wallace Scheduled Race Re-Air Dates/Times: Friday, March 21 at 12:00pm/et on FS1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Radio Coverage This Week: Performance Racing Network Sirius XM Satellite Radio Channel 90 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Practices: Friday, March 14, 12:00 - 1:30 pm/et, TV-FS1 Saturday, March 15, 9:00 - 9:50 am/et, TV-FS1 Happy Hour 'Final' practice: Saturday, March 15, 12:00 - 1:00 pm/et, TV-FS2 Qualifying: groups for positions 1-36, Friday, March 14 at 4:35 pm/et, TV-FS1, no re-air scheduled. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track Specifications: Track Length: 0.533-mile concrete oval Race Length: 500 laps, 266.5 miles Degree of banking in corners: 24 to 30 degrees Degree of banking in straights: 4 to 9 degrees Straightaways: 650 feet long. Concrete racing surface: 43 feet wide. Seating capacity: 160,000 Bristol has two pits roads: 22 pit stalls on the front stretch and 21 on the back stretch Pit Stall Size: 25.5 feet long, 15.5 feet wide Pit Road Speed: 30 mph Pace Car Track Speed: 35mph Track Opened: 1960 First Cup race: 1961 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bristol Pit Rules: Bristol Motor Speedway operates under a plan where one-pit road will be used during pit stops under caution. Currently, Bristol remains the only track in the Sprint Cup Series that utilizes two pit roads with 22 pit stalls on the front stretch and 21 on the backstretch. Teams that pit on the backstretch used to be at a competitive disadvantage. Since the spring 2002 race at Bristol, teams will enter pit road in Turn 2 (the current backstretch pit entrance) drive around down the backstretch and around Turns 3 and 4 and exit in Turn 1. Under green-flag conditions teams will enter and exit pit road under the current two-pit-road scheme.
Food City 500 Starting Lineup courtesy of Jayski.com Pos Car Driver Sponsor Make Speed Time 1 11 Denny Hamlin FedEx Freight Toyota 129.991 14.761 2 2 Brad Keselowski Miller Lite Ford 129.965 14.764 3 20 Matt Kenseth Home Depot / Husky Toyota 129.073 14.866 4 22 Joey Logano Shell Pennzoil Ford 128.830 14.894 5 9 Marcos Ambrose STANLEY Ford 128.727 14.906 6 24 Jeff Gordon Axalta Chevrolet 128.245 14.962 7 18 Kyle Busch Skittles Toyota 128.159 14.972 8 16 Greg Biffle Meguiar's Ford 127.946 14.997 9 31 Ryan Newman Quicken Loans Chevrolet 127.801 15.014 10 5 Kasey Kahne Farmers Insurance Chevrolet 127.690 15.027 11 48 Jimmie Johnson Kobalt Tools Chevrolet 127.385 15.063 12 99 Carl Edwards Kellogg's / Frosted Flakes Ford 127.073 15.100 13 41 Kurt Busch Haas Automation Chevrolet 128.322 14.953 14 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. National Guard Chevrolet 128.271 14.959 15 15 Clint Bowyer 5-hour Energy Toyota 128.245 14.962 16 38 David Gilliland Long John Silver's Ford 128.236 14.963 17 1 Jamie McMurray McDonald's Chevrolet 128.168 14.971 18 26 Cole Whitt* GEAR Speed Stick Toyota 127.929 14.999 19 34 David Ragan Dockside Logistics Ford 127.903 15.002 20 42 Kyle Larson* Target Chevrolet 127.792 15.015 21 17 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Nationwide Insurance Ford 127.682 15.028 22 47 A.J. Allmendinger Bush's Grillin' Beans Chevrolet 127.648 15.032 23 43 Aric Almirola Smithfield Ford 127.605 15.037 24 95 Michael McDowell K-Love Ford 127.605 15.037 25 13 Casey Mears GEICO Chevrolet 127.597 15.038 26 3 Austin Dillon* Bad Boy Buggies / Realtree Chevrolet 127.529 15.046 27 4 Kevin Harvick Budweiser Chevrolet 127.444 15.056 28 27 Paul Menard Richmond / Menards Chevrolet 127.436 15.057 29 78 Martin Truex Jr. Furniture Row Chevrolet 127.351 15.067 30 51 Justin Allgaier* SEM Products Chevrolet 127.343 15.068 31 40 Landon Cassill(i) CRC Brakleen Chevrolet 127.182 15.087 32 98 Josh Wise Phil Parsons Racing Chevrolet 127.174 15.088 33 23 Alex Bowman* Dr Pepper Toyota 127.165 15.089 34 7 Michael Annett* Pilot / Flying J Chevrolet 126.896 15.121 35 36 Reed Sorenson Unsponsored Chevrolet 126.645 15.151 36 10 Danica Patrick GoDaddy - Get Found Chevrolet 126.628 15.153 37 14 Tony Stewart Bass Pro Shops / Mobil 1 Chevrolet 126.545 15.163 38 55 Brian Vickers Aaron's Dream Machine Toyota 126.445 15.175 39 32 Travis Kvapil AskMore-GetMore.com Ford 126.303 15.192 40 83 Ryan Truex* Borla Exhaust Toyota 125.363 15.306 41 30 Parker Kligerman* Swan Energy Toyota 124.460 15.417 42 66 Joe Nemechek (i) Land Castle Title Toyota 122.537 15.659 43 33 Timmy Hill LittleJoesAutos.com Chevrolet 122.084 15.717 DNQ 35 David Reutimann MDS Transport Ford 126.620 15.154 DNQ 77 Dave Blaney Unsponsored Ford 125.166 15.330 * Sunoco Rookie of the Year candidate (i) = Driver not running for 2014 Sprint Cup Series Championship Drivers Points
Food City 500 Results courtesy of ESPN.com POS DRIVER MANUFACTURER LAPS EARNINGS START LED PTS BONUS PENALTY 1 Carl Edwards Ford 503 $234,225 12 78 47 4 0 2 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Ford 503 $166,400 21 0 42 0 0 3 Aric Almirola Ford 503 $160,161 23 0 41 0 0 4 Tony Stewart Chevrolet 503 $148,083 37 0 40 0 0 5 Marcos Ambrose Ford 503 $136,545 5 0 39 0 0 6 Denny Hamlin Toyota 503 $116,865 1 4 39 1 0 7 Jeff Gordon Chevrolet 503 $143,051 6 0 37 0 0 8 Kasey Kahne Chevrolet 503 $114,965 10 16 37 1 0 9 Brian Vickers Toyota 503 $131,440 38 0 35 0 0 10 Kyle Larson Chevrolet 503 $128,160 20 0 34 0 0 11 Austin Dillon Chevrolet 503 $143,176 26 0 33 0 0 12 Greg Biffle Ford 503 $139,240 8 0 32 0 0 13 Matt Kenseth Toyota 503 $153,826 3 165 33 2 0 14 Brad Keselowski Ford 503 $139,398 2 40 31 1 0 15 Clint Bowyer Toyota 503 $133,531 15 5 30 1 0 16 Ryan Newman Chevrolet 503 $104,865 9 0 28 0 0 17 Justin Allgaier Chevrolet 502 $123,273 30 0 27 0 0 18 Danica Patrick Chevrolet 502 $104,340 36 0 26 0 0 19 Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet 501 $146,551 11 44 26 1 0 20 Joey Logano Ford 500 $138,231 4 12 25 1 0 21 Paul Menard Chevrolet 500 $123,629 28 0 23 0 0 22 David Gilliland Ford 500 $119,598 16 0 22 0 0 23 Josh Wise Chevrolet 499 $91,865 32 0 21 0 0 24 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Chevrolet 499 $102,990 14 0 20 0 0 25 AJ Allmendinger Chevrolet 498 $109,448 22 0 19 0 0 26 Michael Annett Chevrolet 497 $106,123 34 0 18 0 0 27 Casey Mears Chevrolet 497 $111,762 25 0 17 0 0 28 Reed Sorenson Chevrolet 497 $94,065 35 0 16 0 0 29 Kyle Busch Toyota 496 $138,806 7 73 16 1 0 30 Landon Cassill Chevrolet 496 $92,115 31 0 0 0 0 31 David Ragan Ford 495 $100,315 19 0 13 0 0 32 Alex Bowman Toyota 493 $89,740 33 0 12 0 0 33 Travis Kvapil Ford 491 $89,690 39 0 11 0 0 34 Parker Kligerman Toyota 487 $89,640 41 0 10 0 0 35 Kurt Busch Chevrolet 473 $89,590 13 28 10 1 0 36 Martin Truex Jr. Chevrolet 471 $117,448 29 0 8 0 0 37 Michael McDowell Ford 469 $89,479 24 0 7 0 0 38 Jamie McMurray Chevrolet 453 $121,894 17 10 7 1 0 39 Kevin Harvick Chevrolet 450 $121,713 27 28 6 1 0 40 Cole Whitt Toyota 430 $76,680 18 0 4 0 0 41 Joe Nemechek Toyota 322 $80,680 42 0 0 0 0 42 Ryan Truex Toyota 271 $68,680 40 0 2 0 0 43 Timmy Hill Chevrolet 160 $65,180 43 0 1 0 0
