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Food City 500

[pre-race]

1. ] LOCATION: our Bristol Motor Speedway(BMS) track page
1. ] details on the track, ] address, ] map, ] links to LVMS site, ] tickets, ] ... 
2. ] 2013-03-07 - Driver Handicaps(aka the Best Pool Picks) for the Food City 500 at BMS
1. ] by Mark Garrow @ espn.com REPORT on Bristol -  48, 2, 11, 18, 20
2. ] by Jeff Wackerlin @ mrn.com - REPORT on Bristol - 18, 24, 20, 2, 16   
3. ] @ Vegas Insider - (48)(11,18,2)(5, ... ) 
4. ] @ Bovada - 18, 2, 48, 11, 20 
5. ] @ world sports - 18,2,48,20,11 
3. ] 2013-03-15 who's fast - CUP 
1. ] practice-1 - 2, 20, 18, 15, 11, 31, 43, 5, 55, 22 - fast lap time = 14.869, spread between top 10 fastest (.135)
4. ] 2013-03-15 - NASCAR - CUP - QUALIFYING RESULTS
1. ] Starting Lineup -  
5. ] 2013-03-16 who's fast - CUP 
1. ] Practice 1 - 18, 20, 11, 31, 5, 29, 24, 1, 78, 10
2. ] Practice 2(final) - 18, 5, 38, 20, 11, 2, 9, 55, 48, 27

[race] links - go to video highlight clips

1. ] LAP# 1 - Start
1. ] Kyle Busch has the pole and takes off to an early lead
2. ] LAP# # - Caution 1
1. ] Tony Stewart - cuts down left rear tire, spins and hits wall, damages, single car
3. ] LAP# # - Restart 1
1. ] Kurt Busch & Montoya battling hard for 15th place
4. ] LAP# 54 - Caution 2
1. ] Jeff Burton - gets into back of  42 as 99 gets into back of Jeff, Jeff hits the wall, damages, multiple cars
2. ] several cars sustaining damage including (99,42,9,13,87)
3. ] leader Kyle Busch penalized for speeding on pit road, Kyle caught speeding in multiple segments
5. ] LAP# # - Restart 2
1. ] Kahne on pole
6. ] LAP# 71 - Caution# 3
1. ] Jamie McMurray - gets loose, spins, contacts wall, some damage, single car
7. ] LAP# 75 - Restart# 3
1. ] hamlin , kahne, kurt busch, gordon, harvick, UP FRONT,
2. ] kyle in 24th for restart
3. ] Kurt Busch running strong in 2nd, running the bottom groove of the track while most are staying in the top groove.
4. ] Kyle Busch moving up thu pack
5. ] Brad Keselowski dropping back
6. ] #150 - Kahne passes Hamlin for lead 
8. ] LAP# 150 - Caution# 4
1. ] David Gilliland into wall, was running 17th after qualifying well and running up front to this point, minor damage, single car
2. ] everyone pitting 
3. ] kyle busch only takes 2, moves up from 13th to 2nd position on pit out
9. ] LAP# 159 - Restart# 5
1. ] 11, 18, 5, 48, 24, 78, UP FRONT
2. ] kahne takes lead from hamlin, hamlin suspects loose wheel
3. ] kurt busch pits early under green, drops back to p 28 
4. ] #203 leaders get bottled up behine Danica / Ragan racing for position, 2 laps off the pace 
10. ] LAP# 236 - Caution# 5
1. ] landon cassill hits the wall 
2. ] everyone pitting 
11. ] LAP# # Restart# 5
1. ]
12. ] LAP# 250 - Caution# 6
1. ] aric almirola spun and crashed in t4, single car, damaged 
2. ] kurt busch takes wavearound to get back track position
13. ] LAP# # - Restart# 6
1. ] kenseth has lead, 11, 5, 29, 22, 2 UP FRONT
2. ] long green flag run 
14. ] LAP# 325 - Caution# 7
1. ] Dave Blaney - running in 15th on lead lap, tire goes down, hits wall, single car only
2. ] some cars only taking 2 tires for track position(24, )
15. ] LAP# 330 - Restart# 7
1. ] 24, 22, 5, 29,11,48, 20, 13-kurt
2. ] 24 + 22 battle for lead
3. ] hamlin wrecks logano battling for 2nd 
16. ] LAP# 336 - Caution# 8
1. ] Logano taps wall after getting hit by Hamlin
17. ] LAP# # - Restart# 8
1. ] 24, 11, 20, 5, 48, 16, 78, 29, 2
2. ] hamlin dropping back, (good view from johnsons bumper cam)
3. ] kurt busch fought back into top 10 
18. ] LAP# # - Caution# 9
1. ] 24 blows tire, goes into wall, Kenseth caught up in wreck, cars running P1 and P2 out 
2. ] not all cars pitting
19. ] LAP# 402 - Restart# 9
1. ] 2, 27, 5, 17, 11, 48, 2, 29, 18
2. ] hamlin looks to be overheating 
3. ] logano up to 8th
4. ] kahne battles keselowski for lead, pack is closing in on leaders
5. ] kahne gets by , kes get p1 back, big slide from kahne
20. ] LAP# # - Caution# 10
1. ] 48 blows tire, into wall 
21. ] LAP# # - Restart# 10
1. ] 2, 5, 11, 18,
2. ] kes spins tires, stacks up outside line
3. ] #470 - 5, 18, 2, 15 UP FRONT  
4. ] 5 pulling away, 18,2,15 battling for 2nd, 78, 11, 88, 39,
5. ] kurt busch catching battle for 2nd
6. ] #493 hamlin into wall, car keeps sliding into wall, slowing, 
7. ] 2+18 side by side 
22. ] LAP# 500 - Kasey Kahne wins
1. ]  captures his first victory at Bristol.

 

[post-race]

1. ] Driver Reports
1. ] nascar.com - driver reports page for Bristol - where they stand, who's up, who's down
2. ] What happened to ... 
1. ] Kasey Kahne - captures his first Bristol victory!
1. ] and his first victory of the season at Bristol. 
2. ] @kaseykahne - Bristol Baby! What a great feeling walking out of Thunder Valley with the W! Thanks to the entire team
3. ] Three of the four Hendricks cars were running UP FRONT all afternoon with Gordon and Johnson both sucumbing to tire failures that led to crashes. Gordon felt bad about taking out Matt Kenseth who was also strong up to that point in the race. 
2. ] Kyle Busch - finishes 2nd, still NOT happy, 
1. ] one of the favorites to win at Bristol, funny how he appears somewhat po'd after finishing 2nd. 
3. ] Brad Keselowski 
1. ] strong run all day long and one of the best in the FORD camp. Brad's post race report 
4. x] Kurt Busch @ Furniture Row Motorsports
1. x] Tom Jensen @fox /speed tv writes on the impressive run, finished the day in 4th spot and moved up to 16th in points (from 29th). Strong all day, Kurt was often found running the bottom groove of the track while most ran up in the higher groove. Pitting for a loose wheel  had him down 2 laps at 1 point in the race but he battled back and was one of the strongest cars at the end of the day. The top 5 finish was only the 4th in the 205 cup race history of the Denver, CO based single car team 
5. ] Clint Bowyer - 
1. ] best of the MWR efforts today, teamates Vickers and Truex Jr both 
6. ] Dale Earnhardt Jr 
1. ] Dustin Long @ si.com (sports illustrated0 - talks how Dale has been good but must get better if he wants to contend for the championship, article includes his weekly power ratings
2. ] @nascar.com - Dale has a top 10 streak of 4 races going in this his best season start ever. Finished 6th @ Bristol but is currently 2nd in points.
7. ] Ryan Newman
1. ] Was the best in the SHR camp today and wound up with a much needed top 10 finish. SHR teamate Danica Patrick was well back in 28th postion x laps off the pace. She did finish the event. An early tire problem ended up with Tony Stewart spinning into the wall and then having to be behind the wall repairing a damaged brake line and putting him out of contention for the day. He came back on track and battled to a 31st place finish.
8. ] Brian Vickers
1. ] First CUP race of the year for Vickers and a solid performance.Do you remember last year where Brian started 8 races and had 5 top 10 finishes. Keep an eye on this guy.
9. ] Paul Menard - 
1. ] Another good run for Paul securing his second Top 10 of the early season and making him the best of the RCR cars today and holder of 50% of the teams top 10s. Paul was in approx. the same position last season at this time and after a poor result at California, slowly slid back out of the top 10 and chase contention
10. ] Jamie McMurray 
1. ] QUOTE Good finish for our @fly_cessna team today. I am in the drive thru @McDonalds getting dinner to take home to the family.
2. ] EGR - post race report
11. ] Best of the Rest - 
1. ] Joey Logano & Denny Hamlin - were involved in a post race dustup after Hamlin spun Logano out sending him into the wall. 
2. ] David Gilliland -  Had a good qualifying effort and strong start to the race running up at the front before hitting the wall and eventually finishing in 24th position. 
3. ] Aric Almirola - 
3. x] Television(TV) coverage and Ratings 
1. ] This site has full stats for the TV broadcast on FOX, which indicated that 138 minutes of the total 191 minutes of the TV broadcast was RACE COVERAGE (72.25%) and the balance COMMERCIALS(27.75). 
2. ] The race averaged a 4.3/10 in the overnight ratings. That's up +8% over last year's 4.0/10 for the same race. 
3. ] So far this year, 3/4 races on FOX have posted a year-to-year increase. While yesterday's race was edged out by the NCAA SELECTION show on CBS (4.4/10) as the most watched sporting event, final projections may still place the race as the top event. In 4 races this season NASCAR ratings are up 13%.
4. ] UPDATE a 4.6 final rating and 7.5 million viewers, up 5% in ratings and 3% in viewership from last year (4.4, 7.3M), and up 7% and 4%, respectively, from 2011 (4.3, 7.2M). This marks the highest rated and most-viewed edition of the spring Bristol race since 2008 (5.5, 8.9M). Sunday's race was also the first since 2008 to avoid competition with the NCAA Tournament. Though up from last year, the 4.6 rating ranks as the fifth-lowest for the race since 2000 (13 telecasts). The race earned at least a 5.0 rating each year from 2001 to 2008, peaking with a 6.3 in 2005. The Bristol race also ranks as the first Sprint Cup telecast since the Daytona 500 to have an increase in ratings. The March 3 Phoenix race was flat in ratings, and the March 10 Las Vegas race had a double-digit decline.( Sports Media Watch), see past races for 2013 and 5-year comparison chart on the
4. ] Attendance - although NASCAR no longer provides guess estimated attendance figures, 
1. ] the grandstands at the BMS race were noticebly nowhere near capacity, with some people guess estimating the crowd at about 50% of the 160K seat speedway capacity.Last years announced attendance at this race was something like 105k. 
5. ] NOW lets talk about "the racing" at Bristol
1. ] ARTICLE: Bristol Rear View Mirror BY Pete Pistone @ mrn.com ] Pistone shares some thoughts on this weekends racing at BMS 
2. ] ARTICLE: nate ryan at usatoday - on racing at Bristol and other tracks and what can be done to improve the tracks/racing, with thoughts from Jimmie Johnson, Dale JR and Brad Keselowski
3. ] VIDEO: Espn's Ricky Craven and some drivers share ...] some thoughts about the state of racing at Bristol, remember Ricky was a driver when during the so called "glory days" of Bristol racing.
4. ] ARTICLE Rich Allen @ Racin with Rich - Rich has an unscientific survey where fans on his social media accounts are grading the races and so far Bristol has recieved the best marks this season

Details

ID: 1490

NAME: NASCAR-CUP-race-04-Bristol-Food-City-500

DESCRIPTION: RACE RECAP - ] Starting line up, ] race summary ] finishing results ] hilights for the NASCAR sprint cup Series Race 3 @ Bristol won by Kasey Kahne 2)Kyle Busch 3)Keselowski 4)Kurt Busch 5)Bowyer ,

START DATE TIME: 2013-03-17 00:00:00

EST DURATION: 04:00:00

END DATE TIME: 2013-03-17 04:00:00

STATUS: Completed

PRIORITY: -5

OWNER ID: 1

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