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SMI chairman Bruton Smith hopes track grinding will transform Bristol
By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service – As promised, Bristol Motor Speedway is getting a facelift — or perhaps more accurately, a close shave — in hopes of persuading fans to return to the 160,000-seat, .533-mile Taj Mahal of short track racing. Bruton Smith, chairman of Speedway Motorsports Inc., the parent company that owns Bristol and seven other Sprint Cup racetracks, announced Wednesday at the speedway that, by the time the Cup series returns for the Aug. 25 Irwin Tools Night Race, the variable banking incorporated during a 2007 resurfacing of the track will be gone. A half-empty grandstand greeted the Cup series for the fourth race of the season in March, prompting Smith announce immediately that he would make changes to the track based on feedback from fans. The 2007 project created … Read entire article »
Filed under: NASCAR
Cool-Down Lap: Bristol faces challenge in rebuilding its fan base
By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service On Friday afternoon, track owner Bruton Smith promised that Sunday’s Food City 500 Sprint Cup race at Bristol Motor Speedway would draw a large crowd. Not a sellout, mind you, but a large crowd. It was a large crowd, but not for Bristol. In the box score distributed after the event, attendance was listed at 102,000. That’s an estimate — not turnstile count — and a cosmetic estimate at that. Most of us … Read entire article »
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Brad Keselowski keeps cool, scores repeat Bristol win
By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service BRISTOL, Tenn. — NASCAR racing has a new Ice Man. As he completed the final lap of his victory in Sunday’s Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway, Brad Keseloswki needled Paul Wolfe, his crew chief. “Paul, are you nervous?” Keselowski radioed to Wolfe, his voice exuding of confidence. As he crossed the finish line six car-lengths in front of runner-up Matt Kenseth, Keselowski allowed himself an excited whoop. The driver of the … Read entire article »
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Sadler parlays strategic call into Nationwide win at Bristol
By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service BRISTOL, Tenn. – Elliott Sadler wasn’t sure about the decisive call in Saturday’s Ford EcoBoost 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway — until crew chief Luke Lambert gave him a history lesson. Lambert’s astute call to keep Sadler on the racetrack under the final caution gave Elliott Sadler the boost he needed to win his second Nationwide Series race of the season, two weeks after he broke a 14-year drought in the series … Read entire article »
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Greg Biffle edges Allmendinger for Bristol pole by .001 seconds
By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service BRISTOL, Tenn. — By the thinnest of margins, Greg Biffle won the pole for Sunday’s Food City 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Bristol Motor Speedway. Biffle posted a lap at 125.215 mph (15.324 seconds) in Friday’s time trials and watched as the 10 drivers who succeeded him in the qualifying order tried to knock him out of the top spot. AJ Allmendinger came closest but fell .001 seconds short, as … Read entire article »
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Kyle Busch aims to rebound, bolster Bristol results
NASCAR Wire Service The high potential for pitfalls may not make Bristol Motor Speedway a welcome sight for everyone. But not everyone has navigated past peril there quite as well as Kyle Busch. Over the past three years, no NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver has been as dominant as Busch at the high-speed .533-mile track. He enters Sunday’s Food City 500 having won four of the last six races at Bristol and is tied for most victories … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
Brian Vickers To Drive The No. 55 In Six Races in 2012
CORNELIUS, N.C. – Michael Waltrip Racing announced today that Brian Vickers will drive the team’s No. 55 Toyota Camry in six NASCAR Sprint Cup races in 2012 beginning at Bristol Motor Speedway on March 18. Vickers will also race the No. 55 at the August Bristol event as well as each of the two races at Martinsville Speedway and New Hampshire Motor Speedway this season. “I am thrilled to get back behind the wheel of not just … Read entire article »
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White Hot Keselowski Wins Third Of 2011
BRISTOL, Tenn.—Brad Keselowski’s phoenix-like rise from the ashes continued Saturday, with an improbable victory in the Irwin Tools Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway—his third win of the season and his second since breaking his left ankle Aug. 3 in a crash during testing at Road Atlanta. Keselowski grabbed the lead on a restart with 80 laps left in the 500-lap Sprint Cup race and held on to win for the fourth time in his career. … Read entire article »
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Brad Keselowski amazes again in Bristol night race
By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service BRISTOL, Tenn.—Brad Keselowski’s phoenix-like rise from the ashes continued Saturday, with an improbable victory in the Irwin Tools Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway—his third win of the season and his second since breaking his left ankle Aug. 3 in a crash during testing at Road Atlanta. Keselowski grabbed the lead on a restart with 80 laps left in the 500-lap Sprint Cup race and held on to win for … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
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