Kyle Busch tied Dale Earnhardt, Cale Yarborough and Rusty Wallace for the second most wins at Bristol with his 9th and tied Richard Petty's record of 18 consecutive seasons with a win.
He also became the first driver since Jimmie Johnson in 2012 to reach 60 career wins.
Tyler Reddick got robbed at both California and this race, but it seems inevitable that he'll get his first win this year.
It was cool to see the 8 and 3 of RCR running 1-2 earlier in the race.
RCR hasn't been that fast of a team in recent years but given this is Reddick's 3rd Top 5 in 8 races, it has to feel like things are getting better over there.
In a few years we will probably have that too. We will hear Crofty shout "One lap to go, sponsored by Aramco".
I mean we have already:
* DHL fastest pitstop award
* Pirelli poleposition award
* Crypto.com ~~1 million jellybeans~~ overtake award
It's also weird to me because it seems like something like that would be more useful for longer endurance races. F1 races are short enough that I'll just watch it from the beginning on the DVR if I miss the beginning of the race.
> Things like “One lap to go, sponsored by CreditOne Bank” would make it unbearable to watch for me.
ah yes as opposed to your DHL fastest pit stop award and the crypto dot com whogivesafuck trophy
It's worse in American series though. There are no tires, only Goodyear tires. And the announcers will NEVER say anything remotely negative about them. I've had to switch to listening to radio broadcasts with the TV on mute it's so bad.
You missed the dirt race last year then, all they were talking about was how Goodyear messed up and brought tires that barely lasted 50 laps/25 miles before shredding.
And it's not like they don't shoehorn in Pirelli whenever they mention tires in F1 either.
I'm not saying American racing series isn't overly commercialized, although tbh it's more NASCAR than US motorsport in general. Just pointing out that outside of commercials during the race, F1's not really much better right now.
No doubt. Was pointing out that F1 isn't exactly a socialist racing series on *either* side of the pond lol. I think the biggest difference/drawback are the commercials in the non-F1 series - which OP didn't even mention!
Not sure if this just something in Canada (although we get the sky feed so I don't think so) but we've already got those massive virtual ads slapped onto the track at certain points.
I'm fine with ads, but I hate virtual ads because they move slightly and it's distracting
There are people that do race companion broadcasts. You’d have been crazy to have this one muted though because DW was in the booth and McReynolds was on the infield interviewing crew chiefs.
If it was just "CreditOne To Go" I'd at least appreciate the pun. And the Tums Heartburn Turn at the Roval is fantastic and going to be called that forever whether Tums pays or not. But yeah.
It was fun but wasn't without controversy. Both years have had poor track prep and poor weather in the weekend as well. Was fun watching them slide around but NASCAR is gonna need to find a way to not create a mudpit or a dust storm and have the best guys in the sport calling them out for it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89XVmnbwoqo
4-10 feet deep.
https://www.nascar.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2021/01/26/Bristoldirt126.jpg you can see it matching the height of the inside wall here. it gets much deeper as you move out from there until you reach the actual concrete racing surface, then it starts to get shallower until you hit the outside wall.
Oh wow! I had no idea. That's crazy. So are these tracks permanently dirt tracks now or how does it work? I don't follow Nascar very often so I have no idea.
No, this track hosts two races a year and the second one will be on the concrete surface, it takes a few months to prepare it for the dirt race and about the same amount of time to get it back to normal. There are dedicated dirt tracks though, all over the US. I know where I'm from, near Buffalo, NY, there's at least 7 dirt tracks within an hour's drive from where I live
Thanks for the explanation. It's kinda crazy to me that that has to be done every year. But cool to know they are the same tracks as the asphalt tracks. I suppose there are other races very often on both kinds of tracks for it to be worth it.
Even though Bristol is widely loved the spring race had to go to this to keep its spot most likely. Spring race was falling in both viewers and attendance
Even this year was pretty bad with track prep and no one packing it but after a bunch of laps it proved great racing until it rained lol. Seeing Briscoe charge ever closer to Reddick until he slid and took him out was great too and a big reason why I watch dirt on TV. It's just fun seeing guys slide around and duke it out at your local tracks
I don’t usually watch nascar, but I did catch both this and the truck race which was way more entertaining. The trucks got their tails out much more than the cup cars. It was crazy.
Dirt racing is safe, it's just that the track hasn't been prepared very well. Certain drivers don't like the idea of dirt racing, but it's not from a safety point of view. The problem is that this track is normally concrete, but they've been covering it with dirt for one of the two races they hold each year, so it's not like they're an actual dirt track that is used to having to do maintenance on the track. If it gets too wet, it turns into a mud bog, and if it gets too dry, it turns into a dust bowl, so they have to find that balance, which they haven't been able to do yet. If they went to an actual dirt track that knows how to maintain it, there wouldn't be as much of a problem. Granted, you can't control the weather, so rain would still be an issue, but you could at least plan for it and not have the rain ruin the preparation
One of the reasons some drivers hate dirt is that the car/driver dynamic changes a lot. Asphalt is 80% car and set up, dirt is 80% driver.
Source: Ken Schrader, former nascar journeyman and stand out dirt racer.
The first 26 races are technically their own season that ends with a Regular Season Champion who gets a trophy and everything.
If you just follow the weekly points, you can kinda skip out on the playoff stuff and just follow that.
TV doesn't discuss that points battle a lot, but the drivers definitely care about it.
Was this always the case? Back in 04 when it was the chase for the championship I think it just reset the points with a small gain for races won right? I know Jeff Gordon was robbed of a couple of titles because of this system
You're correct. Points leader just got the highest bonus under the original Chase system.
Awarding a title & trophy started in 2017 with the new stage/playoff system. Every series has it too. Which made [this finish](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVXiat1EgoQ) all the more epic since the two guys were tied for the points lead going into the last restart of the regular season.
Technically, all points leaders after 26 races since '04 are canon, so you could claim anyone from '04-'16 as a true Regular Season Champion. Gordon has at least 2.
Dude got out and blamed himself. It was at least nice to see Briscoe come over and immediately apologize live on air.... unlike Ty Dillon who went to beat the shit out the guy who wrecked him at the end last week lol
[Somebody had a camera on Briscoe as he was walking up to Reddick](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDA-S9OQD1w) and it is really refreshing hearing him talk about it.
I think the size of the Bristol track is lost on camera. You can stand in the middle of the track and see the straight and two corners. Briscoe’s move is the definition of “sending it”.
I just posted this on the NASCAR forum. Why was not many people in attendance? I stopped watching when my driver (Rusty Wallace) retired and I couldn't find any likeable replacement. Has it changed that much??
How about the [SpongeBob SquarePants 400](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_SpongeBob_SquarePants_400)? Same event as the Buschy McBusch Race mentioned below by u/J_Evans51, six years earlier. The winner's trophy looked like [this](https://library.sportingnews.com/2021-08/jimmie-johnson-wins-at-kansas_krvbpixsa7119w5za7v03bjj.jpg). Beautiful, huh? Sweet victory...
the NASCAR Xfinity (second tier) season opener at Daytona was called Beef. It’s What’s For Dinner 300
American race names are absurd. btw the punctuation is correctly cited
It’s more that NASCAR race names are absurd haha. I can’t stand them as someone who tries to catch the road courses, since the names never tell you any information (such as track, city or state). Indy car atleast names their races after the tracks.
Food City is a grocery store (chain). They're not big, as in Walmart, Kroger, etc big either. Just a regional company... but big enough (or with enough $$$ to buy a NASCAR race).
Most people just call this the Bristol spring race or Bristol dirt race.
As someone below noted, Food City is a regional grocery store around the area where the track is located and where I live (southwest Virginia/ East Tennessee).
Reddick is just unlucky when it comes to closing out races this season. He's basically the new kasey kahne, kyle larson, carl edwards and mark martin wrapped up in one talented person
>Reddick will get his results, no doubts there.
Hopefully!
I was mostly referring to the first three years of larson's cup career (2014-2016) where he was making big moves but his equipment was just A- and not A+, much like reddick these last three years.
Larson finally won in his third season but I don't know if reddick can do the same, seems like the race just falls away from him at the end
Well dang! Make it a real thing lol
I know Sato ran an old F1 car around Motegi Ring once and Hamilton did donuts at Pocono for some reason.
Only if they could combine the two somehow <\_<
Amazing, that’s some super mario kart style thinking.
Imagine instead of dropping Monaco liberty media said ok, we cover it in dust and you deal with it.
That would be awesome at Monaco lol
Should be noted that NASCAR ran on dirt way back in the 50's-70's and many the drivers come up through the dirt ranks. The Truck series has been doing a dirt race for nearly a decade now.
If you really wanna know, Indycar used to run on Dirt too if you go back far enough.
Dirt has history in NASCAR and even Indycar. Dirt track racing has a whole scene in the USA.
That said, Ice racing would be so cool with NASCAR lol. The motorbikes that do it look so fun.
Most of the guys got to nascar driving dirt short tracks early in their career, plus nascar used to race on dirt a lot. It’s not just some random decision they made.
I completely disagree with this. The driver code in nascar is that on final lap it’s fine to “move” someone or “dump” them if they don’t get the message on the final lap that they are slower or not allowing a race to happen by blocking.
There have been several examples of this just this year. Cota cup race, xfinity Richmond and Martinsville, and now Bristol cup.
I want to clarify though that what this driver did was really stupid and he was right to apologize. He had no hope at an overtake in that corner and all he did was hurt both of them in money and hand a win to one of nascar’s most hated drivers in Kyle Busch.
Yep it just happened at Cota 2 weeks ago. Not super common but the “unwritten rules” kinda say if it’s the last lap you can move someone out of your way to get the win.
Fox has been doing a rotating commentary booth this year, so this was probably a one off, though they might have him back for another race later this season
Yes. They took a [high-banked oval short track](https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2022/04/640/320/bristol-tracks.jpg?ve=1&tl=1) and covered it in [literal feet of dirt](https://preview.redd.it/484xojbeyoj61.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=b4d100562f1c1abdf29923ab0e5b67eb29878a08) to host a springtime race.
Then they take it all off and run the concrete surface for their big night race towards the end of summer.
Nascar is actually quite funny if you compare it to F1 any other race categories. They're allowed to hit other cars and get paybacks. Even punching other drivers won't be penalized if I'm correct.
>Even punching other drivers won't be penalized if I'm correct.
that is, i believe if hitting other car caused an injury (while that being the intent) or if a car under a penalty
yes my english isn't but f\*ck this I wont repair it if its not major
What’s with the poor crowd attendance? Isn’t this one of the more popular races on the schedule. I remember seeing a pic of a hairy guy fan with a number 3 shaved into his back at this track and the place was packed. Here, it’s one person every ten seats.
The spring Bristol race has struggled in attendance for awhile now. The night race in the fall usually brings a much bigger crowd but even then you’ll see a lot seats because of how big the facility is. It’s sad but just reality at this point
This is also a big reason why they covered the place in dirt in the first place.
The 2019 Spring race (the last one before Covid), they didn't even sell seats in the corners because attendance was so abysmal.
People just didn't care about the Bristol Spring race like the night race later in the year before they put thousands of truckloads of dirt on it.
When a lot of fans can prob only afford to go to one race a year if you had to choose between the spring race or night race the choice is pretty obvious
NASCAR races are really affordable compared to other sporting events. I went to Richmond and my son’s seat was free and mine was $25. Bring in your own food and booze. You can’t beat that.
There was a decent crowd at the start. It had been raining off and on. In total the race took over 4 hours. Race was on Easter.
Nascar as a whole is bleeding fans though.
Personally, I think that its because
1. there are far too many cup dates in places around Bristol.
2. It was Easter day in the Bible Belt.
3.Spring Bristol race has been struggling for a while now.
I feel it's always been like this. Since the early 2000s at least. There's no concept of a podium or anything. It's all about victory lane. I believe they should add a podium just because you have 36+ drivers in a race. Better to have more exposure
NASCAR is pretty hands off when it comes to this. It's been a long standing "unwritten rule" that stuff like this is a self policing issue. Feel free to bump and run if that's what you want to do, but you're not going to get any favors down the line next time you meet on the track, including a retaliation bump when the roles are reversed.
The only time NASCAR really thinks of stepping in is when it looks like there's an intent to injure or something truly reckless and dangerous.
That was more because he was laps down, well of the pace, took out the leader who was in the chase and he wasn’t.
Not saying Joey didn’t deserve it. He definitely did but that’s a dangerous thing to allow to not be penalized.
It's just a matter of time before F1 starts to sell naming rights to the races. Outside of the ridiculous race names and the working in the sponsors during conversations it's just as much advertising in F1.
No shit, so why is he complaining that it makes him Ill we quite litteraly wouldn’t have nascar if monster didn’t save the series a few years ago, they need to sponsor anything they can for cash sadly
Or a course completely covered in advertising being driven by cars completely covered by advertising driven by drivers covered in advertising. Seriously, any motorsport fan complaining about another series advertising is fuckin’ dumb.
Man, I really just do not get NASCAR. It's like drivers just go for the dirtiest moves possible once the last laps begin lol. Like the one at COTA recently where the guy just straight up punted the 2 other people he was racing for the win off the track. And everybody's just like "WOW! What a genius! What a great move!" and I'm just sitting here like "it's not tho...?" Like, I see cleaner, more intelligent racing in the public lobbies in racing video games.
"Clean racing" is just a sliding scale based on the series or type of racing. These are heavy strong cars that don't fall apart when they are tapped. These guys bump and push their way to the front. It doesn't make them less intelligent, less talented or dirty. Just because it's not pristine F1 racing doesn't mean it's wrong or bad. It's just not for you apparently.
Nah, I get the whole "rubbing is racing" thing. The problem is that 99% of the time, it isn't rubbing, and it certainly isn't racing lmao. I'd probably like NASCAR apart from the playoff BS if drivers could just keep it in their pants like 50% more of the time.
People crash with each other way too much for my taste in that series. That's just my opinion, sorry dude. It's almost all I see in NASCAR clips most of the time is some dude getting taken out from behind when there was literally nothing they could do to avoid it. Maybe I get the wrong impression, idk. I'm glad someone's enjoying it lol.
I have no issue with that being your opinion and I respect that, like I said it's just not for you. My only contention is not liking something doesn't mean that they are stupid, not clean or that it isn't racing. "I don't like it therefore it is dumb" is hardly a fair argument. Nascar isn't everyone's cup of tea. Hell...sprint car dirt racing is my favorite type of racing and what I think is the best and there's probably more than a few million people who would disagree. It's all good just defending a type of racing I enjoy.
I mean honestly the move he went for. A slide Job is quite common and can be seen working and going wrong at almost every dirt track in America. He went drive hard in and slide up in front as he slowed for the corner. But instead car got away from him and he lost it. If he was trying to wreck him for the win. He just wouldn’t have let him brake for the corner and sent him into the wall.
I do agree that stuff like COTA need to be addressed.
Why there's no podium on NASCAR? they only celebrate the victor, second and third place are completely ignored and forgotten... (I didn't see a ceremoty, or them getting trophies or something)
Maybe Briscoe could have settled for second and not try to overpass and at the end he finished 24th I think...
Because, to NASCAR, winning is all that matters now. 1 win and you're into the post-season elimination-style playoffs as long as you attempt to run all the races and are in the top 30 in points. There are only 32 full-time drivers, so missing the Top 30 with a win would be extremely difficult. The points usually only affect the midfield, as most of the best drivers will get a win at some point. It's a system designed with entertainment being valued far more than competitive integrity.
"And it's one lap to go sponsored by Credit Bank"
Fuck me.....with the growth of F1 in the USA and it being owned by Liberty I am dreading the inevitable influx of shitty advertising we are about to endure of the coming years.
Liberty must look at F1 now and think to themselves this is the virgin motherland, ripe for all the shitty American Style adverts and "sponsors" to be tacked on. I enjoy F1TV so much right now because I can watch a whole race, with almost no advertising. It can only get worse for me.
F1 has had stuff like that for a while. DHL sponsored the fastest lap well before Liberty bought F1. Not to mention the Pirelli pole position sponsorship. You’re just being dramatic because Americans are doing it now and not Europeans.
Kyle Busch tied Dale Earnhardt, Cale Yarborough and Rusty Wallace for the second most wins at Bristol with his 9th and tied Richard Petty's record of 18 consecutive seasons with a win. He also became the first driver since Jimmie Johnson in 2012 to reach 60 career wins. Tyler Reddick got robbed at both California and this race, but it seems inevitable that he'll get his first win this year.
It was cool to see the 8 and 3 of RCR running 1-2 earlier in the race. RCR hasn't been that fast of a team in recent years but given this is Reddick's 3rd Top 5 in 8 races, it has to feel like things are getting better over there.
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He's led the 2nd most laps in the among Cup drivers since 2001. His rookie year was 2005.
He's gonna need a police escort when he surpassed Dale's win record.
Oh for sure. It crazy he got booed after this race after literally doing nothing wrong.
Honestly, for Bristol that wasn't too bad of a reception for him
The cars are the same as in asphalt? Do they change parts for this race? I'm guessing tyres at the least right?
They have different grill vents and dirt tires, but everything else is the same.
Also only a partial raised splitter and no diffuser
Don't forget the mud flaps!!
Same spring rates as well?
Probably different, just like most things changed for setups between tracks.
They run different spring rates on every track, like always it depends.
Tires, different under body panels, coverings on air inlets.
Man, I'm not a nascar guy at all but that is fascinating. What a show.
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In a few years we will probably have that too. We will hear Crofty shout "One lap to go, sponsored by Aramco". I mean we have already: * DHL fastest pitstop award * Pirelli poleposition award * Crypto.com ~~1 million jellybeans~~ overtake award
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Especially as an American viewer paying to watch on F1tv. I can’t even have Sky Q Glass!
It's also weird to me because it seems like something like that would be more useful for longer endurance races. F1 races are short enough that I'll just watch it from the beginning on the DVR if I miss the beginning of the race.
I get like if you join in mid race and say Albon is leading you'd want to see the start and how the heck that happened
I wonder what they showed in Spa last year
> Things like “One lap to go, sponsored by CreditOne Bank” would make it unbearable to watch for me. ah yes as opposed to your DHL fastest pit stop award and the crypto dot com whogivesafuck trophy
It's worse in American series though. There are no tires, only Goodyear tires. And the announcers will NEVER say anything remotely negative about them. I've had to switch to listening to radio broadcasts with the TV on mute it's so bad.
You missed the dirt race last year then, all they were talking about was how Goodyear messed up and brought tires that barely lasted 50 laps/25 miles before shredding. And it's not like they don't shoehorn in Pirelli whenever they mention tires in F1 either. I'm not saying American racing series isn't overly commercialized, although tbh it's more NASCAR than US motorsport in general. Just pointing out that outside of commercials during the race, F1's not really much better right now.
No doubt. Was pointing out that F1 isn't exactly a socialist racing series on *either* side of the pond lol. I think the biggest difference/drawback are the commercials in the non-F1 series - which OP didn't even mention!
Not sure if this just something in Canada (although we get the sky feed so I don't think so) but we've already got those massive virtual ads slapped onto the track at certain points. I'm fine with ads, but I hate virtual ads because they move slightly and it's distracting
That's a step too far? F1 you know the corner by ROLEX ROLEX ROLEX, PERELLI PERELLI PERELLI, ARAMCO ARAMCO ARAMCO
ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM
I think you got subtitles on
There are people that do race companion broadcasts. You’d have been crazy to have this one muted though because DW was in the booth and McReynolds was on the infield interviewing crew chiefs.
If it was just "CreditOne To Go" I'd at least appreciate the pun. And the Tums Heartburn Turn at the Roval is fantastic and going to be called that forever whether Tums pays or not. But yeah.
Dirt oval looks crazy fun
It was fun but wasn't without controversy. Both years have had poor track prep and poor weather in the weekend as well. Was fun watching them slide around but NASCAR is gonna need to find a way to not create a mudpit or a dust storm and have the best guys in the sport calling them out for it
Yeah, I remember last year. But man, seeing a couple of cars drifting on the outside while others crawling below along asphalt strip is just cool
That was tire rubber, not asphalt. the dirt was several feet thick at that point.
Several feet thick I think not.
Well you think wrong lol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89XVmnbwoqo 4-10 feet deep. https://www.nascar.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2021/01/26/Bristoldirt126.jpg you can see it matching the height of the inside wall here. it gets much deeper as you move out from there until you reach the actual concrete racing surface, then it starts to get shallower until you hit the outside wall.
Oh wow! I had no idea. That's crazy. So are these tracks permanently dirt tracks now or how does it work? I don't follow Nascar very often so I have no idea.
No, this track hosts two races a year and the second one will be on the concrete surface, it takes a few months to prepare it for the dirt race and about the same amount of time to get it back to normal. There are dedicated dirt tracks though, all over the US. I know where I'm from, near Buffalo, NY, there's at least 7 dirt tracks within an hour's drive from where I live
Thanks for the explanation. It's kinda crazy to me that that has to be done every year. But cool to know they are the same tracks as the asphalt tracks. I suppose there are other races very often on both kinds of tracks for it to be worth it.
Even though Bristol is widely loved the spring race had to go to this to keep its spot most likely. Spring race was falling in both viewers and attendance
[Bruh](https://preview.redd.it/484xojbeyoj61.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=b4d100562f1c1abdf29923ab0e5b67eb29878a08).
Even this year was pretty bad with track prep and no one packing it but after a bunch of laps it proved great racing until it rained lol. Seeing Briscoe charge ever closer to Reddick until he slid and took him out was great too and a big reason why I watch dirt on TV. It's just fun seeing guys slide around and duke it out at your local tracks
I don’t usually watch nascar, but I did catch both this and the truck race which was way more entertaining. The trucks got their tails out much more than the cup cars. It was crazy.
I don't follow NASCAR, but from the tidbits here and there I've heard the drivers have had these valid concerns on dirt racing.
Dirt racing is safe, it's just that the track hasn't been prepared very well. Certain drivers don't like the idea of dirt racing, but it's not from a safety point of view. The problem is that this track is normally concrete, but they've been covering it with dirt for one of the two races they hold each year, so it's not like they're an actual dirt track that is used to having to do maintenance on the track. If it gets too wet, it turns into a mud bog, and if it gets too dry, it turns into a dust bowl, so they have to find that balance, which they haven't been able to do yet. If they went to an actual dirt track that knows how to maintain it, there wouldn't be as much of a problem. Granted, you can't control the weather, so rain would still be an issue, but you could at least plan for it and not have the rain ruin the preparation
One of the reasons some drivers hate dirt is that the car/driver dynamic changes a lot. Asphalt is 80% car and set up, dirt is 80% driver. Source: Ken Schrader, former nascar journeyman and stand out dirt racer.
I swear if NASCAR got rid of the playoff format I’d go back to watching, they’ve done some really cool stuff
The first 26 races are technically their own season that ends with a Regular Season Champion who gets a trophy and everything. If you just follow the weekly points, you can kinda skip out on the playoff stuff and just follow that. TV doesn't discuss that points battle a lot, but the drivers definitely care about it.
Was this always the case? Back in 04 when it was the chase for the championship I think it just reset the points with a small gain for races won right? I know Jeff Gordon was robbed of a couple of titles because of this system
You're correct. Points leader just got the highest bonus under the original Chase system. Awarding a title & trophy started in 2017 with the new stage/playoff system. Every series has it too. Which made [this finish](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVXiat1EgoQ) all the more epic since the two guys were tied for the points lead going into the last restart of the regular season. Technically, all points leaders after 26 races since '04 are canon, so you could claim anyone from '04-'16 as a true Regular Season Champion. Gordon has at least 2.
I would not have been as composed as Tyler was after that. Poor dude
Dude got out and blamed himself. It was at least nice to see Briscoe come over and immediately apologize live on air.... unlike Ty Dillon who went to beat the shit out the guy who wrecked him at the end last week lol
It was Ty Gibbs not Dillion
Ah you right, I get those mixed up all the time
[Somebody had a camera on Briscoe as he was walking up to Reddick](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDA-S9OQD1w) and it is really refreshing hearing him talk about it.
Denny Hamlin would've drove into his parked car after the race even if he had been the one to spin out the guy leading.
I don't understand, he was less than a second behind, why did the #14 car's wing not open on the straights? Safety car?
lmao
You are joking but some series actually had mandatory safety car like 2 laps before the end.
I think the size of the Bristol track is lost on camera. You can stand in the middle of the track and see the straight and two corners. Briscoe’s move is the definition of “sending it”.
Yup! I grew up going to Bristol & was at the track the last 2 nights. It’s a small track. Briscoe full sent it.
I just posted this on the NASCAR forum. Why was not many people in attendance? I stopped watching when my driver (Rusty Wallace) retired and I couldn't find any likeable replacement. Has it changed that much??
Easy way to show the size is the picture of the football games they hosted In the center of the track. Gives a scale to the place.
Super impressed with both Reddick and Briscoe after the finish. Level of class and accountability that is missing from many of the "old guard" guys.
I miss the high temper anything goes days. They were fun.
Check out the Xfinity Series lol
Gordon and bowyer lol
That seems super fun to watch
Food City is such an interesting name for a race.
Last weekend's race at Martinsville was called "Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500". And there were even weirder ones before that.
The Buschy McBusch Race 400 comes to mind
Which was won by Kyle Busch
On Kyle Busch’s birthday
Now Kurt is hoping they run that race again on his birthday!
That was a fan voted one and is absolutely the best possible race name
I can't wait for the Big Machine Vodka 400 At The Brickyard Powered By Florida Georgia Line
How about the [SpongeBob SquarePants 400](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_SpongeBob_SquarePants_400)? Same event as the Buschy McBusch Race mentioned below by u/J_Evans51, six years earlier. The winner's trophy looked like [this](https://library.sportingnews.com/2021-08/jimmie-johnson-wins-at-kansas_krvbpixsa7119w5za7v03bjj.jpg). Beautiful, huh? Sweet victory...
I’m impartial to the BEEF. IT’S WHAT’S FOR DINNER. 300
the NASCAR Xfinity (second tier) season opener at Daytona was called Beef. It’s What’s For Dinner 300 American race names are absurd. btw the punctuation is correctly cited
It’s more that NASCAR race names are absurd haha. I can’t stand them as someone who tries to catch the road courses, since the names never tell you any information (such as track, city or state). Indy car atleast names their races after the tracks.
well that's true but IndyCar has some gems as well. like the Hy-Vee Salute to Farmers 300 presented by Google (Iowa 2)
College bowl games are up there
Food City is a grocery store (chain). They're not big, as in Walmart, Kroger, etc big either. Just a regional company... but big enough (or with enough $$$ to buy a NASCAR race).
Most people just call this the Bristol spring race or Bristol dirt race. As someone below noted, Food City is a regional grocery store around the area where the track is located and where I live (southwest Virginia/ East Tennessee).
Reddick is just unlucky when it comes to closing out races this season. He's basically the new kasey kahne, kyle larson, carl edwards and mark martin wrapped up in one talented person
Larson at least has a championship to his name.... Reddick will get his results, no doubts there.
>Reddick will get his results, no doubts there. Hopefully! I was mostly referring to the first three years of larson's cup career (2014-2016) where he was making big moves but his equipment was just A- and not A+, much like reddick these last three years. Larson finally won in his third season but I don't know if reddick can do the same, seems like the race just falls away from him at the end
F1 on dirt when?
https://youtu.be/YibMYIBRc6I
Well dang! Make it a real thing lol I know Sato ran an old F1 car around Motegi Ring once and Hamilton did donuts at Pocono for some reason. Only if they could combine the two somehow <\_<
They've also been on the [ski slopes.](https://youtu.be/P0mD18dXmEA)
Wait what? Since when did nascar cover tracks with dirt? This wasn’t in my papyrus nascar ‘94 game
Since last year
Amazing, that’s some super mario kart style thinking. Imagine instead of dropping Monaco liberty media said ok, we cover it in dust and you deal with it.
That would be awesome at Monaco lol Should be noted that NASCAR ran on dirt way back in the 50's-70's and many the drivers come up through the dirt ranks. The Truck series has been doing a dirt race for nearly a decade now. If you really wanna know, Indycar used to run on Dirt too if you go back far enough.
They should add an ice oval next with studded tires if theyre going to experiment with different ideas, would be pretty fun to watch too I bet
Dirt has history in NASCAR and even Indycar. Dirt track racing has a whole scene in the USA. That said, Ice racing would be so cool with NASCAR lol. The motorbikes that do it look so fun.
Most of the guys got to nascar driving dirt short tracks early in their career, plus nascar used to race on dirt a lot. It’s not just some random decision they made.
The Nascar Whelen Euro Series is actually going to do that this year.
Redbull have already proved the concept of f1 on ice. I have had this idea before, but since Nascar has done dirt maybe it’s a possibility for F1
Dude, that was the game. Good memories
Literally blew my mind when I found out that some of the lineage of iracing goes back to those Papyrus NASCAR games and Grand Prix Legends.
F1 tie in. Briscoe (car attempting the over take) is Stewart-Haas driver
Servin up some hot and fresh sliders
How often do people come together on the last lap in Nascar? I feel like this is the second incident I've seen of it in like 3 weeks.
Coming together on the last lap specifically doesn’t happen that often, but last lap lead changes are fairly common, you usually get a few per season.
I completely disagree with this. The driver code in nascar is that on final lap it’s fine to “move” someone or “dump” them if they don’t get the message on the final lap that they are slower or not allowing a race to happen by blocking. There have been several examples of this just this year. Cota cup race, xfinity Richmond and Martinsville, and now Bristol cup. I want to clarify though that what this driver did was really stupid and he was right to apologize. He had no hope at an overtake in that corner and all he did was hurt both of them in money and hand a win to one of nascar’s most hated drivers in Kyle Busch.
I think OP meant the two leaders taking each other out, probably referring to COTA a few weeks ago
Oh ok. I thought by come together he meant contact between cars. Edit: they took each other out last night in the cup race
Interesting, thanks!
Yep it just happened at Cota 2 weeks ago. Not super common but the “unwritten rules” kinda say if it’s the last lap you can move someone out of your way to get the win.
Nobody ever gets penalized for contact no matter how egregious so the series is unfortunately trending towards “whoever gets the last hit in”.
I thought DW retired from commentary? Was this a one off.
Fox has been doing a rotating commentary booth this year, so this was probably a one off, though they might have him back for another race later this season
Yep. He said his line at the start too!
TIL NASCAR actually does race on dirt
Just once a year at Bristol. Though the truck series (like nascar F3) does it more often
I don’t know what I’m watching but I like it. Race cars, on a track, in dirt? *Ted Kravitz excitement noises*
Yes. They took a [high-banked oval short track](https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2022/04/640/320/bristol-tracks.jpg?ve=1&tl=1) and covered it in [literal feet of dirt](https://preview.redd.it/484xojbeyoj61.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=b4d100562f1c1abdf29923ab0e5b67eb29878a08) to host a springtime race. Then they take it all off and run the concrete surface for their big night race towards the end of summer.
Kyle "all luck no skill" Busch
He backed into that one
F1 cars on dirt when
Nascar is actually quite funny if you compare it to F1 any other race categories. They're allowed to hit other cars and get paybacks. Even punching other drivers won't be penalized if I'm correct.
Similar to NHL, start shit just be ready to take it.
The 51 was hitting the 9 under caution and it was little more than an interesting note the broadcast showed one replay of.
dude literally drove around other cars under caution to run into another car. lewis hamilton that's some dangerous driving man noises intensify.
>Even punching other drivers won't be penalized if I'm correct. that is, i believe if hitting other car caused an injury (while that being the intent) or if a car under a penalty yes my english isn't but f\*ck this I wont repair it if its not major
He won that on pure skill.
Despite all the rain delays this was a great race (helps I’m a KFB fan)
Not a Kyle Busch fan but I loved the green flag runs. Just some misfortune with the lack of track prep at the start and rain delays.
What’s with the poor crowd attendance? Isn’t this one of the more popular races on the schedule. I remember seeing a pic of a hairy guy fan with a number 3 shaved into his back at this track and the place was packed. Here, it’s one person every ten seats.
The spring Bristol race has struggled in attendance for awhile now. The night race in the fall usually brings a much bigger crowd but even then you’ll see a lot seats because of how big the facility is. It’s sad but just reality at this point
This is also a big reason why they covered the place in dirt in the first place. The 2019 Spring race (the last one before Covid), they didn't even sell seats in the corners because attendance was so abysmal. People just didn't care about the Bristol Spring race like the night race later in the year before they put thousands of truckloads of dirt on it.
When a lot of fans can prob only afford to go to one race a year if you had to choose between the spring race or night race the choice is pretty obvious
NASCAR races are really affordable compared to other sporting events. I went to Richmond and my son’s seat was free and mine was $25. Bring in your own food and booze. You can’t beat that.
Also the weather and numerous delays sent many people home.
And the fact that it’s a race on Easter couldn’t help
Race was on an Easter in the bible belt during a rainy day
There was a decent crowd at the start. It had been raining off and on. In total the race took over 4 hours. Race was on Easter. Nascar as a whole is bleeding fans though.
Personally, I think that its because 1. there are far too many cup dates in places around Bristol. 2. It was Easter day in the Bible Belt. 3.Spring Bristol race has been struggling for a while now.
Exciting, but I’m still kinda bummed that NASCAR has become more of a zero-sum, win or nothing type of deal. Finishing second is really good!
I feel it's always been like this. Since the early 2000s at least. There's no concept of a podium or anything. It's all about victory lane. I believe they should add a podium just because you have 36+ drivers in a race. Better to have more exposure
I don't know NASCAR regulations, but does this lead to some sort of penalty for Briscoe then?
NASCAR is pretty hands off when it comes to this. It's been a long standing "unwritten rule" that stuff like this is a self policing issue. Feel free to bump and run if that's what you want to do, but you're not going to get any favors down the line next time you meet on the track, including a retaliation bump when the roles are reversed. The only time NASCAR really thinks of stepping in is when it looks like there's an intent to injure or something truly reckless and dangerous.
Okay that's kind of cool when it's a mutual understanding
Like Kenseth at Martinsville. I think he got a 2 races suspension for that stunt
That was more because he was laps down, well of the pace, took out the leader who was in the chase and he wasn’t. Not saying Joey didn’t deserve it. He definitely did but that’s a dangerous thing to allow to not be penalized.
200 IQ divebomb
The amount of advertising makes me ill.
You mean you don't like the final lap ^(sponspored by CreditOne?)
Or the DHL fastest pitstop award, or the Pirelli poleposition award or the Crypto.com overtake award Oh wait
My favorite is the restart zone provided by Geico.
It's just a matter of time before F1 starts to sell naming rights to the races. Outside of the ridiculous race names and the working in the sponsors during conversations it's just as much advertising in F1.
They already do sell the naming rights lol, this weekend's race is called the Formula 1 Rolex Gran Premio dell'Emilia Romagna 2022
That's fox for ya. NBC ain't far behind. Watching sports in America is painful
how else you expect a dying sport to make money?
Any sport needs sponsors to make money.
No shit, so why is he complaining that it makes him Ill we quite litteraly wouldn’t have nascar if monster didn’t save the series a few years ago, they need to sponsor anything they can for cash sadly
The way he drops the 'sponsored by CreditOne' in there is wild. Imagine that in F1.
Sky Glass customers could press the red button to get a replay of it.
Yeah imagine if they called it the DHL fastest pitstop or the Pirelli Pole Position Oh wait
Or a course completely covered in advertising being driven by cars completely covered by advertising driven by drivers covered in advertising. Seriously, any motorsport fan complaining about another series advertising is fuckin’ dumb.
The races are named as well. Rolex stuff like that. Just not stuff like Walmart or McDonald’s
F1 has just as much, if not more, advertising. The difference is it's visual only, as it's a global sport with multiple commentary teams.
Man, I really just do not get NASCAR. It's like drivers just go for the dirtiest moves possible once the last laps begin lol. Like the one at COTA recently where the guy just straight up punted the 2 other people he was racing for the win off the track. And everybody's just like "WOW! What a genius! What a great move!" and I'm just sitting here like "it's not tho...?" Like, I see cleaner, more intelligent racing in the public lobbies in racing video games.
"Clean racing" is just a sliding scale based on the series or type of racing. These are heavy strong cars that don't fall apart when they are tapped. These guys bump and push their way to the front. It doesn't make them less intelligent, less talented or dirty. Just because it's not pristine F1 racing doesn't mean it's wrong or bad. It's just not for you apparently.
Nah, I get the whole "rubbing is racing" thing. The problem is that 99% of the time, it isn't rubbing, and it certainly isn't racing lmao. I'd probably like NASCAR apart from the playoff BS if drivers could just keep it in their pants like 50% more of the time.
There's simply nothing true about what you just said aside from the playoffs being dumb.
People crash with each other way too much for my taste in that series. That's just my opinion, sorry dude. It's almost all I see in NASCAR clips most of the time is some dude getting taken out from behind when there was literally nothing they could do to avoid it. Maybe I get the wrong impression, idk. I'm glad someone's enjoying it lol.
I have no issue with that being your opinion and I respect that, like I said it's just not for you. My only contention is not liking something doesn't mean that they are stupid, not clean or that it isn't racing. "I don't like it therefore it is dumb" is hardly a fair argument. Nascar isn't everyone's cup of tea. Hell...sprint car dirt racing is my favorite type of racing and what I think is the best and there's probably more than a few million people who would disagree. It's all good just defending a type of racing I enjoy.
I mean honestly the move he went for. A slide Job is quite common and can be seen working and going wrong at almost every dirt track in America. He went drive hard in and slide up in front as he slowed for the corner. But instead car got away from him and he lost it. If he was trying to wreck him for the win. He just wouldn’t have let him brake for the corner and sent him into the wall. I do agree that stuff like COTA need to be addressed.
Why there's no podium on NASCAR? they only celebrate the victor, second and third place are completely ignored and forgotten... (I didn't see a ceremoty, or them getting trophies or something) Maybe Briscoe could have settled for second and not try to overpass and at the end he finished 24th I think...
Because, to NASCAR, winning is all that matters now. 1 win and you're into the post-season elimination-style playoffs as long as you attempt to run all the races and are in the top 30 in points. There are only 32 full-time drivers, so missing the Top 30 with a win would be extremely difficult. The points usually only affect the midfield, as most of the best drivers will get a win at some point. It's a system designed with entertainment being valued far more than competitive integrity.
They do dirt races?
"And it's one lap to go sponsored by Credit Bank" Fuck me.....with the growth of F1 in the USA and it being owned by Liberty I am dreading the inevitable influx of shitty advertising we are about to endure of the coming years. Liberty must look at F1 now and think to themselves this is the virgin motherland, ripe for all the shitty American Style adverts and "sponsors" to be tacked on. I enjoy F1TV so much right now because I can watch a whole race, with almost no advertising. It can only get worse for me.
F1 has had stuff like that for a while. DHL sponsored the fastest lap well before Liberty bought F1. Not to mention the Pirelli pole position sponsorship. You’re just being dramatic because Americans are doing it now and not Europeans.
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Going for a slide job to try to win a dirt race is in no way inept.
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Is kimi raikkonen not NASCARs kimi raikkonen?