NASCAR driver Kyle Busch won the 31st Annual Jeff Foxworthy’s Grit Chips 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway. The NASCAR race was typical for Bristol Motor Speedway. Justin Allgaier started the race on the pole then lead the first 62 laps, then Trevor Bayne took over the lead for 13 laps. While they were racing up [...]
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Kyle Busch finished inside the top-five for the first time of the 2013 season last week in Las Vegas; that momentum has seemingly carried into one of his best race tracks — Bristol Motor Speedway.
Friday in Coors Light Pole Qualifying, Busch recorded a lap of 129.535 mph. He completed...
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Kyle Busch has made his way back to a track he has dominated before. Going into the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race on Sunday he will have the advantage. On Friday Busch won the pole for the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway when he made a qualifying lap of 129.535 mph in 14.813. [...]
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Kyle Busch won the pole for Sunday’s race, the Food City 500, at Bristol Motor Speedway. The race is NASCAR’s fourth of the 2013 season.
Busch broke Bristol’s record with a best time of 14.81 seconds. (Lap speed of 129.535) Kasey Kahne scored the outside pole position and will start alongside him. It is Busch’s 11th career pole, first at Bristol.
Scott Riggs, driving for...
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Kyle Busch Motorsports has signed 16-year-old Snowball Derby winner Erik Jones. Jones will compete in five races in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driving the No. 51 Toyota.
Jones beat Busch to win the 45th annual Snowball Derby. Last year he competed in the ARCA Racing Series runing 10 races and scoring four top-five finishes.
“I’ve been around Erik a few times running...
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Kyle Busch won his first career pole at Bristol Motor Speedway with a track record qualifying lap.
Busch turned a lap at 129.535 mph in his Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota to take the top starting spot for Sunday's race. It beat the record of 128.709 set by Ryan Newman in 2003, which had been the first sub-15 second lap at Bristol.
Busch's lap was 14.813 seconds, besting Newman...
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Across the board, drivers marveled at the speed of NASCAR's Generation-6 cars during qualifying for Sunday's Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway.
None more than Kyle Busch, the fastest of nine drivers to break the 15-second mark on their qualifying lap. Prior to Friday, only three drivers (Ryan Newman, Carl Edwards, Jeff Gordon) had turned a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series...
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DENVER, Colo. – When it comes to a confidence and fondness level for a racetrack, Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway is at the top of the list for Furniture Row Racing driver Kurt Busch.
The all-concrete bullring, known as the world’s fastest half-mile, has been the site of five Sprint Cup victories for the 34-year-old Busch, including his first career win on March 24, 2002.
He went...
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Kyle Busch lead 156 laps en route to his victory in Saturday’s Jeff Foxworthy’s Grit Chips 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway. This was Busch’s his fifth win and 14th top ten finish in 18 starts at the speedway.
Busch battled Kevin Harvick for the lead over a 35 lap period. On many occasions the two were side by side and sometimes three wide with lapped traffic. Rookie Kyle Larson...
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In the end, it was the veteran versus the rookie. On Saturday afternoon, Bristol Motor Speedway became The Kyle Show, with Kyle Busch fighting to hold off newcomer Kyle Larson for the win.
They fought to the line. Larson bounced off the wall coming off the last turn, they wobbled and bounced. And, in the end, Busch held off Larson. But not by much.
Most days, there's just no...
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Kyle Busch won the Jeff Foxworthy Grit Chips 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway on Saturday finishing ahead of Kyle Larson in a thrilling door banging finish at the line.
Justin Allgaier sat on the pole for the 300 lap race around the .533 mile track.
Sam Hornish led the field to the green. The 2012 winner of the event, Elliott Sadler lost speed on lap 68 while complaining of an engine...
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Welcome to the inaugural season of the Start ‘N’ Park Blog Pick ‘Em Challenge. This will take place all year long and will feature our esteemed panel of experts who will pick a winner in the series running that weekend. For this weekend at Bristol it will be just Nationwide and Sprint Cup Series in action. Points will be given based on how close to first the pick finishes and...
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The Gen-6 program, NASCAR’s most comprehensive overhaul since 2007, took a giant step toward meeting program goals on Friday at Bristol Motor Speedway. The goals of the Generation 6 program were “to re-establish brand identity among automotive manufacturers, and to provide competitive upgrades in an effort to improve competition in NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series.”
Only three...
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Kyle Busch led the way with a lap of 15.249 seconds in the second practice for the Food City 500 from Bristol. Rounding out the top five was Matt Kenseth, Denny Hamlin, Jeff Burton, and Kasey Kahne.
Pos
#
Driver
Team
Time
Behind
1
18
Kyle Busch
M&M’s Toyota
15.249
Leader
2
20
Matt Kenseth
Home Depot/Husky Toyota
15.259
-0.010
3
11
Denny Hamlin
FedEx Freight...
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Kyle Busch won the Jeff Foxworthy Grit Chips 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway.
Sam Hornish led the series’ point standings entering the day with a 19 point lead over a trio of drivers, he leaves with a 22 point lead over Justin Allgaier.
RK
DRIVER
POINTS
BEHIND
WINS
POLES
TOP 5
TOP 10
1
Sam Hornish Jr.
167
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1
0
3
4
2
Justin Allgaier
145
-22
0
1
1
3
3
Brian Scott...
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The first three races of the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season have taken the drivers to the 2.5-mile superspeedway of Daytona International Speedway, the relatively flat one-mile Phoenix International Raceway and the 1.5-mile fast intermediate Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Each configuration has presented the drivers with a unique challenge, setting each race experience apart from...
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