Auto race held at Bristol, United States For other uses, see Food City. Motor race
Food City 500
NASCAR Cup Series
Venue
Bristol Motor Speedway
Location
Bristol, Tennessee, United States
Corporate sponsor
Food City Entertainment Industry Foundation
First race
1961 (1961)
Distance
266.5 miles (428.9 km)
Laps
500Stages 1/2: 125 eachFinal stage: 250
Previous names
Southeastern 500 (1961–1975, 1977–1979)Southeastern 400 (1976)Valleydale Southeastern 500 (1980)Valleydale 500 (1981–1986)Valleydale Meats 500 (1987–1991)Food City 500 (1992–2010, 2012–2014, 2016–2019, 2024–present)Jeff Byrd 500 presented by Food City (2011)Food City 500 In Support Of Steve Byrnes And Stand Up To Cancer (2015)Food City presents the Supermarket Heroes 500 (2020)Food City Dirt Race (2021–2023)
Hendrick Motorsports (9, paved surface)Joe Gibbs Racing (2, dirt surface)
Most wins (manufacturer)
Chevrolet (24, paved surface)Toyota (2, dirt surface)
Circuit information
Surface
Concrete
Length
0.533 mi (0.858 km)
Turns
4
The Food City 500 is an annual 500-lap, 266.5-mile (428.9 km) NASCAR Cup Series points race held at the Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee. This is one of two NASCAR races held at Bristol, the other being the Bass Pro Shops Night Race. It was the first venue of the 2007 NASCAR schedule to host the Car of Tomorrow race car, a race won by Kyle Busch. For much of its history, from 1961 to 1992 the race was run on the original asphalt surface, then on concrete from 1993 to 2020 after Bristol changed surfaces, but was moved to a dirt layout beginning in 2021, under the name Food City Dirt Race. Since 2024, the race returned the concrete oval.[1]
Kyle Larson is the defending race winner.
History
[edit]
In 2008, Bristol Motor Speedway President & General Manager Jeff Byrd requested that NASCAR move the spring race to a later Spring date, to avoid the problems with rain, snow, and sleet that hit the area in late winter and early spring. This was not carried out until 2015.[2] In 2015, the race moved from mid-March to April.[3] Though every race besides 2016 has had some sort of rain alter the race including moving the race to Monday in 2017 and 2018.
In 2011, title sponsor Food City announced it would honor former Speedway President and General Manager Jeff Byrd, who died in October 2010, by renaming the 2011 Spring race the Jeff Byrd 500 presented by Food City.[4]
In 2015, the race was renamed the Food City 500 In Support Of Steve Byrnes And Stand Up To Cancer to support NASCAR on Fox broadcaster Steve Byrnes in his battle with cancer, in association with the Entertainment Industry Foundation.[5]
The 2020 race was dubbed the Food City presents the Supermarket Heroes 500 to honor grocery store workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.[6]
Dirt Configuration
[edit]
In 2021, the race shifted to a dirt surface version of the track and was renamed the Food City Dirt Race.[7][8] The race's stage lengths were initially set at 75 each for the first two segments followed by 100 in the final stage,[9] but stages 1–2 were later adjusted to be 100 laps apiece following Friday practices.[10]
In 2022, the race became a night race, and was run on Easter Sunday. Part of the reason it was moved from daylight to nighttime is because of visibility issues that plagued the event in 2021 with sunlight reflecting off the dirt.
On September 15, 2023, Bristol announced that the Food City 500 would return to the concrete oval, beginning in 2024.[11]
Notable races
[edit]
1968: David Pearson won after a lengthy duel with Richard Petty and LeeRoy Yarbrough in a race prominently featured on the television series Car and Track.
1971: Pearson won after tagging James Hylton into the wall; Pearson edged Richard Petty after Petty erased a two-lap deficit.
1972: Mechanic (and later car owner) Junior Johnson saw the first of a plethora of Bristol wins over the ensuing two decades as Bobby Allison drove his Chevrolet to an easy win.
1973: Driving Junior's Chevy, Cale Yarborough led all 500 laps, a feat he duplicated at Nashville in 1978 and by Jeff Burton at New Hampshire International Speedway in 2000.
1974: Chevrolets swept the top ten finishing spots led by Yarborough.
1975: Richard Petty posted only his second career Bristol win.
1977: Cale led all but five laps in a race where five other drivers (including Janet Guthrie) needed relief help.
1979: After Cale crashed out with Buddy Baker, rookie Dale Earnhardt took his first win.
1981: Darrell Waltrip drove Johnson's Buick and edged Ricky Rudd, who was driving Waltrip's former car, the DiGard Racing Oldsmobile. Joe Millikan got into a wreck with Benny Parsons and said, "I lost my cool," to which car owner Bud Moore vowed, "I'll straighten out Millikan's cool."
1984: Waltrip posted his seventh straight Bristol win and the eighth straight for Junior Johnson.
1986: Rusty Wallace posted his first career win.
1987: Dale Earnhardt was involved in several crashes en route to the win; Richard Petty finished second.
1989: Wallace survived a chaotic race with multiple crashes and a wildcard victory bid by Greg Sacks.
1990: A spirited event ended in a wild finish; Sterling Marlin was spun out by Ricky Rudd on the final lap while Davey Allison held off a last-lap charge from Mark Martin to win by inches.
1991: Grasping for a solution to pit road crashes emanating from numerous incidents in 1990 (and never considering revoking the pit closure rule that was the ultimate cause), NASCAR had banned tire changes under yellow; for Bristol, this was replaced with the staggering of pit stops based on qualifying line — all "odd" cars (qualified first, third, etc.) would pit first under yellow while "even" cars would pit a lap later; the cars were denoted "odd" and "even" with stickers on their windshields after qualifying; restarts would be double-file based on "odd" and "even" stickered cars. More "even" cars wound up in contention, and this created chaos. Rusty Wallace was able to pass cars under caution to move into his proper restart line, and this helped him come back from two laps down on two occasions. The lead changed 41 times, a short track record, as Wallace edged Ernie Irvan at the finish. Sterling Marlin suffered burns in a fiery melee and needed relief help in subsequent weeks from Charlie Glotzbach.
1992: Alan Kulwicki won the race; the last to be held at Bristol before the switch from asphalt to concrete pavement.
1993: Wallace dominated days after defending race winner, and defending Winston Cup champion Alan Kulwicki died in a plane crash.
1994: An ill-timed yellow trapped Geoff Bodine a lap down and put Dale Earnhardt into the lead en route to the win. Bodine had begun dominating the race in the car formerly owned by Kulwicki and running Hoosier Tires; with the Hoosiers Bodine was able to skip tire changes that Goodyear-shod cars had to make.
1995: Jeff Gordon took the win, his third in the season's first six races; the race saw notable performances resulting in top-five finishes for Darrell Waltrip and Bobby Hamilton.
1997: Gordon punted Rusty Wallace sideways on the final lap for the win.
1999: Wallace ran away at the end, while John Andretti rallied to finish fourth; Andretti's Petty Enterprises Pontiac was impounded after the race as NASCAR had a disagreement with the engine's compression ratio; the engine, though, cleared on reinspection.
2000: Rusty Wallace scores his 50th NASCAR Cup Series win.
2001: Elliott Sadler edged Andretti for his first win, and the first 1-2 finish for the Wood Brothers and Petty Enterprises since 1977.
2002: With NASCAR running high downforce on the cars via big rear spoiler and low airdam clearance, and running very hard tires, Kurt Busch pitted on Lap 325 and never visited the pits again. He bumped Jimmy Spencer for the lead and went on to claim his first Winston Cup win. The move was one of several incidents to occur between Busch and Spencer in what was becoming a heated feud. Rusty Wallace was incensed at the manner with which Busch won the race (by not pitting when others did and thus winning on old tires with no drop in speed) enough that he lobbied NASCAR to cut downforce and go to softer tires in later years to force pitstops.Dale Jarrett's team and fans honor Jarrett before the 2008 race.
2003: In what was the 2,000th race in NASCAR Cup Series history, Kurt Busch came back from a spin to win the race. Also during the race, Kyle Petty got clipped by Ward Burton in the left rear and turned him very abruptly and into the wall driver's side. Petty's crash was then the biggest crash recorded by the black box, recording 80 G's of force on Petty.
2004: The final race for Pontiac in the Cup Series as a whole, as Hermie Sadler No. 02 finished 31st.
2005: Slight contact between Bobby Hamilton Jr. and Ken Schrader on lap 332 triggered a 14-car wreck. While Kevin Harvick was the winner, 22nd-place Bobby Labonte finished 32 laps down, a rarity for the series over the previous 25 seasons.
2007: The fifth-generation NASCAR Cup Series chassis debuted. After Joe Gibbs Racing dominated the race, Kyle Busch drove a Hendrick Chevy to the win, then pointedly ripped the poor raceability of the Gen 5 in victory lane.
2008: Dale Jarrett's last race.
2010: Jimmie Johnson wins his 50th Sprint Cup Series win, but first at Bristol.
2011: After track president Jeff Byrd's death in late 2010, Food City and Bristol Motor Speedway agree to name the race in memory of Byrd in a one-year-only deal.
2013: Kyle Busch won the pole with a then-new track qualifying record at 14.813 seconds (129.535 mph). Kasey Kahne won his first Bristol race. The race also marked the start of a feud between Denny Hamlin and Joey Logano, after Hamlin spun Logano during the race.
Matt Kenseth celebrates after winning the 2015 race which was delayed due to weather.2014: Denny Hamlin started on pole with a new track record, his first pole of the season. The race was delayed twice, just like the Daytona 500, for rain. Matt Kenseth was involved in a wreck at lap 163 when Timmy Hill rear-ended into him after caution was called for a spin by Cole Whitt. Carl Edwards was leading with a few laps left when a mysterious caution was out. During an attempt for a green–white–checkered finish finish, the rain started falling and the race was unable to be restarted and would end under caution.
2015: The race was scheduled to begin at noon ET and be televised by Fox, but rain delayed the start for 79 minutes. A crash between teammates Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano brought out the caution on lap 19. During the caution, rain began to fall again. The rain was delayed until night and because Fox had another programming, aired on Fox Sports 1. The race resumed at approximately 6:30 p.m. ET, almost 5 hours after the 1st green flag. Although rain threatened to end the race twice, the race was run to completion. Matt Kenseth won, breaking a 51 race winless streak.
2018: Rain and four red flags plagued the race on Sunday only getting in 204 laps with the race continuing and concluding on Monday. It tied the record for most red flags in a single NASCAR race with the 2015 Quicken Loans 400, also red-flagged four times. All four red flags in that event were due to weather. Kyle Larson led the most laps for the second straight year (200) but got spun by the lapped car of Ryan Newman at lap 325. Larson was back in the lead with less than 100 laps to go; he was heading for victory until pole-sitter Kyle Busch performed the "Bump n' Run" on Larson with 6 laps to go to steal the win, his 7th at Bristol.
2021: The NASCAR Cup Series ran its first race on dirt since 1970 (51 years). After multiple accidents took out several of the pre race favorites, Joey Logano survived an overtime restart to become the first Cup Series driver to win on dirt in the modern era.
2022: On the last lap, Tyler Reddick and Chase Briscoe battled for the win with Reddick in position for his first career Cup Series win. In Turn 3, Briscoe sent it in hard to pass Reddick and the two ended up making contact sending both of them spinning around. Reddick got back going but was passed just before the start-finish line by the 3rd place car in Kyle Busch and Busch took home the win with Reddick in 2nd.
2024: The race featured a record high 54 lead changes with an early March date and cooler temperatures creating a situation with tire wear issues that was later found to have been caused by cooler ambient and surface temperatures. Denny Hamlin would end up winning the race, but was penalized when Toyota Racing Development disassembled the engine before NASCAR could inspect the engine.
Past winners
[edit]
Year
Date
No.
Driver
Team
Manufacturer
Race distance
Race time
Average speed(mph)
Report
Ref
Laps
Miles (km)
Asphalt surface
1961
October 22
8
Joe Weatherly
Bud Moore Engineering
Pontiac
500
250 (402.336)
3:27:02
72.452
Report
[12]
1962
July 29
42
Jim Paschal
Petty Enterprises
Plymouth
500
250 (402.336)
3:19:16
75.276
Report
[13]
1963
March 31
22
Fireball Roberts
Holman-Moody
Ford
500
250 (402.336)
3:15:02
76.91
Report
[14]
1964
March 22
28
Fred Lorenzen
Holman-Moody
Ford
500
250 (402.336)
3:27:46
72.196
Report
[15]
1965
May 2
26
Junior Johnson
Junior Johnson & Associates
Ford
500
250 (402.336)
3:20:10
74.937
Report
[16]
1966
March 20
29
Dick Hutcherson
Holman-Moody
Ford
500
250 (402.336)
3:34:26
69.952
Report
[17]
1967
March 19
6
David Pearson
Cotton Owens
Dodge
500
250 (402.336)
3:17:32
75.937
Report
[18]
1968
March 17
17
David Pearson
Holman-Moody
Ford
500
250 (402.336)
3:14:11
77.247
Report
[19]
1969
March 23
22
Bobby Allison
Mario Rossi
Dodge
500
250 (402.336)
3:04:09
81.455
Report
[20]
1970
April 5
27
Donnie Allison
Banjo Matthews
Ford
500
266.5 (428.89)
3:02:42
87.543
Report
[21]
1971
March 28
17
David Pearson
Holman-Moody
Ford
500
266.5 (428.89)
2:52:23
91.704
Report
[22]
1972
April 9
12
Bobby Allison
Richard Howard
Chevrolet
500
266.5 (428.89)
2:50:18
92.826
Report
[23]
1973
March 11/25*
11
Cale Yarborough
Richard Howard
Chevrolet
500
266.5 (428.89)
2:57:43
88.952
Report
[24]
1974
March 17
11
Cale Yarborough
Richard Howard
Chevrolet
450*
239.85 (386.001)
3:42:50
64.533
Report
[25]
1975
March 16
43
Richard Petty
Petty Enterprises
Dodge
500
266.5 (428.89)
2:43:53
97.053
Report
[26]
1976
March 14
11
Cale Yarborough
Junior Johnson & Associates
Chevrolet
400
213.2 (343.112)
2:25:24
87.377
Report
[27]
1977
April 17
11
Cale Yarborough
Junior Johnson & Associates
Chevrolet
500
266.5 (428.89)
2:38:20
100.989
Report
[28]
1978
April 2
88
Darrell Waltrip
DiGard Motorsports
Chevrolet
500
266.5 (428.89)
2:53:03
92.401
Report
[29]
1979
April 1
2
Dale Earnhardt
Rod Osterlund Racing
Chevrolet
500
266.5 (428.89)
2:55:39
91.033
Report
[30]
1980
March 30
2
Dale Earnhardt
Rod Osterlund Racing
Chevrolet
500
266.5 (428.89)
2:44:53
96.977
Report
[31]
1981
March 29
11
Darrell Waltrip
Junior Johnson & Associates
Buick
500
266.5 (428.89)
2:58:36
89.53
Report
[32]
1982
March 14
11
Darrell Waltrip
Junior Johnson & Associates
Buick
500
266.5 (428.89)
2:49:52
94.025
Report
[33]
1983
May 21
11
Darrell Waltrip
Junior Johnson & Associates
Chevrolet
500
266.5 (428.89)
2:51:07
93.445
Report
[34]
1984
April 1
11
Darrell Waltrip
Junior Johnson & Associates
Chevrolet
500
266.5 (428.89)
2:50:10
93.967
Report
[35]
1985
April 6*
3
Dale Earnhardt
Richard Childress Racing
Chevrolet
500
266.5 (428.89)
3:15:42
81.79
Report
[36]
1986
April 6
27
Rusty Wallace
Blue Max Racing
Pontiac
500
266.5 (428.89)
2:58:14
89.747
Report
[37]
1987
April 12
3
Dale Earnhardt
Richard Childress Racing
Chevrolet
500
266.5 (428.89)
3:31:27
75.621
Report
[38]
1988
April 10
9
Bill Elliott
Melling Racing
Ford
500
266.5 (428.89)
3:12:23
83.115
Report
[39]
1989
April 9
27
Rusty Wallace
Blue Max Racing
Pontiac
500
266.5 (428.89)
3:30:18
76.034
Report
[40]
1990
April 8
28
Davey Allison
Robert Yates Racing
Ford
500
266.5 (428.89)
3:03:15
87.258
Report
[41]
1991
April 14
2
Rusty Wallace
Penske Racing
Pontiac
500
266.5 (428.89)
3:39:37
72.809
Report
[42]
1992
April 5
7
Alan Kulwicki
AK Racing
Ford
500
266.5 (428.89)
3:05:15
86.316
Report
[43]
Concrete surface
1993
April 4
2
Rusty Wallace
Penske Racing
Pontiac
500
266.5 (428.89)
3:08:43
84.73
Report
[44]
1994
April 10
3
Dale Earnhardt
Richard Childress Racing
Chevrolet
500
266.5 (428.89)
2:58:22
89.647
Report
[45]
1995
April 2
24
Jeff Gordon
Hendrick Motorsports
Chevrolet
500
266.5 (428.89)
2:53:47
92.011
Report
[46]
1996
March 31
24
Jeff Gordon
Hendrick Motorsports
Chevrolet
342*
182.286 (293.36)
1:59:47
91.308
Report
[47]
1997
April 13
24
Jeff Gordon
Hendrick Motorsports
Chevrolet
500
266.5 (428.89)
3:33:06
75.035
Report
[48]
1998
March 29
24
Jeff Gordon
Hendrick Motorsports
Chevrolet
500
266.5 (428.89)
3:13:00
82.85
Report
[49]
1999
April 11
2
Rusty Wallace
Penske Racing
Ford
500
266.5 (428.89)
2:51:16
93.363
Report
[50]
2000
March 26
2
Rusty Wallace
Penske Racing
Ford
500
266.5 (428.89)
3:01:40
88.018
Report
[51]
2001
March 25
21
Elliott Sadler
Wood Brothers Racing
Ford
500
266.5 (428.89)
3:03:54
86.949
Report
[52]
2002
March 24
97
Kurt Busch
Roush Racing
Ford
500
266.5 (428.89)
3:14:20
82.281
Report
[53]
2003
March 23
97
Kurt Busch
Roush Racing
Ford
500
266.5 (428.89)
3:29:53
76.185
Report
[54]
2004
March 28
97
Kurt Busch
Roush Racing
Ford
500
266.5 (428.89)
3:13:34
82.607
Report
[55]
2005
April 3
29
Kevin Harvick
Richard Childress Racing
Chevrolet
500
266.5 (428.89)
3:26:20
77.496
Report
[56]
2006
March 26
2
Kurt Busch
Penske Racing
Dodge
500
266.5 (428.89)
3:21:19
79.427
Report
[57]
2007
March 25
5
Kyle Busch
Hendrick Motorsports
Chevrolet
504*
268.632 (432.321)
3:16:38
81.969
Report
[58]
2008
March 16
31
Jeff Burton
Richard Childress Racing
Chevrolet
506*
269.698 (434.036)
3:00:15
89.775
Report
[59]
2009
March 22
18
Kyle Busch
Joe Gibbs Racing
Toyota
503*
268.099 (431.463)
2:54:35
92.139
Report
[60]
2010
March 21
48
Jimmie Johnson
Hendrick Motorsports
Chevrolet
500
266.5 (428.89)
3:20:50
79.618
Report
[61]
2011
March 20
18
Kyle Busch
Joe Gibbs Racing
Toyota
500
266.5 (428.89)
2:53:55
91.941
Report
[62]
2012
March 18
2
Brad Keselowski
Penske Racing
Dodge
500
266.5 (428.89)
2:51:52
93.037
Report
[63]
2013
March 17
5
Kasey Kahne
Hendrick Motorsports
Chevrolet
500
266.5 (428.89)
2:53:25
92.206
Report
[64]
2014
March 16
99
Carl Edwards
Roush Fenway Racing
Ford
503*
268.099 (431.463)
3:11:23
84.051
Report
[65]
2015
April 19
20
Matt Kenseth
Joe Gibbs Racing
Toyota
511*
272.363 (438.325)
3:37:54
74.997
Report
[66]
2016
April 17
19
Carl Edwards
Joe Gibbs Racing
Toyota
500
266.5 (428.89)
3:15:52
81.637
Report
[67]
2017
April 24*
48
Jimmie Johnson
Hendrick Motorsports
Chevrolet
500
266.5 (428.89)
3:04:29
86.674
Report
[68]
2018
April 15/16*
18
Kyle Busch
Joe Gibbs Racing
Toyota
500
266.5 (428.89)
3:26:25
77.465
Report
[69]
2019
April 7
18
Kyle Busch
Joe Gibbs Racing
Toyota
500
266.5 (428.89)
2:56:38
90.527
Report
[70]
2020
May 31*
2
Brad Keselowski
Team Penske
Ford
500
266.5 (428.89)
3:19:02
80.338
Report
[71]
Dirt surface
2021
March 29*
22
Joey Logano
Team Penske
Ford
253*
134.849 (217.018)
2:43:53
46.313
Report
[72]
2022
April 17
18
Kyle Busch
Joe Gibbs Racing
Toyota
250
133.25 (214.445)
3:34:27
34.973
Report
[73]
2023
April 9
20
Christopher Bell
Joe Gibbs Racing
Toyota
250
133.25 (214.445)
2:40:40
46.68
Report
[73]
Concrete surface
2024
March 17
11
Denny Hamlin
Joe Gibbs Racing
Toyota
500
266.5 (428.89)
3:20:41
79.678
Report
[74]
2025
April 13
5
Kyle Larson
Hendrick Motorsports
Chevrolet
500
265.5 (428.89)
2:38:43
100.746
Report
[75]
2026
April 12
Report
1973: Race started on March 11 but suspended until March 25 after 52 laps due to rain.
1974: Race shortened due to energy crisis.
1985: Race postponed from March 31 due to rain.
1996: Race shortened due to rain.
2007–09, 2015 and 2021: Races extended due to NASCAR overtime.
2014: Race extended due to NASCAR overtime, but overtime restart was aborted and race called due to rain.[76]
2017: Race postponed from Sunday to Monday due to rain.[77]
2018: Race suspended until Monday due to rain.[78]
2020: Race postponed from April 5 to May 31 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[79]
2021: Race postponed from Sunday to Monday due to heavy rain and flash flooding.[80]
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