NASCAR Cup Series Food City 500
Bristol Motor Speedway Track Length: 0.533 Mile Concrete Oval
Sunday, April 12 3 p.m. ET TV: FS1 & FOX Deportes, 2 p.m. ET Radio: PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR (Channel 90) Distance: 266.5 miles (500 Laps); Stage 1 (Ends on Lap 125), Stage 2 (Ends on Lap 250), Final Stage (Ends on Lap 500). The Purse: $11,233,037
NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series Suburban Propane 300
Bristol Motor Speedway Track Length: 0.533 Mile Concrete Oval
Saturday, April 11 7:30 p.m. ET TV: CW, 7 p.m. ET Radio: PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR (Channel 90)
Distance: 159.9 miles (300 Laps); Stage 1 (Ends on Lap 85), Stage 2 (Ends on Lap 170), Final Stage (Ends on Lap 300). The Purse: $1,753,590
NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Tennessee Army National Guard 250
Bristol Motor Speedway Track Length: 0.533 Mile Concrete Oval
Friday, April 10 7:30 p.m. ET TV: FS1, 7:30 p.m. ET Radio: NRN, SiriusXM NASCAR (Channel 90)
Distance: 133.25 miles (250 Laps); Stage 1 (Ends on Lap 65), Stage 2 (Ends on Lap 130), Final Stage (Ends on Lap 250) The Purse: $839,700
Where To Watch NASCAR (Live) This Week:
Friday, April 10
NCTS Practice & Kennametal Pole Qualifying (FS2 at 3:30 p.m. ET)
NCTS Race: Tennessee Army National Guard 250 (FS1, NRN, SiriusXM at 7:30 p.m. ET)
Saturday, April 11
NOAPS Practice & Kennametal Pole Qualifying (CW App at 2 p.m. ET)
NCS Practice & Busch Light Pole Qualifying (Prime, PRN, SiriusXM at 4:30 p.m. ET)
NOAPS Race: Suburban Propane 300 (CW, PRN, SiriusXM at 7:30 p.m. ET)
ARCA WEST Race: Tucson 150 (FloRacing at 10 p.m. ET)
Sunday, April 12
NCS Race: Food City 500 (FS1, FOX Deportes, PRN, SiriusXM at 3 p.m. ET)
NASCAR Cup Series
Kyle Larsen
Won two of the last 3 races
1762 Laps led at Bristol 9th all-time in only 19 starts
Finished Top 6 in 7 of last 8 Bristol starts
Denny Hamlin
Denny Hamlin (3) & Kyle Larsen (3) won 6 of the last 10 Bristol
Won 4 times at Bristol, 3 of the 4 times came at the last 10 races
Finished Top 10 in 6 of the last 7 races
Chistopher Bell
Chistopher Bell is the only to finish Top 10 in the 6 Bristol races in the Gen 7 car
Won the last race in Bristol September 2025
Running at the finish at all Bristol starts
NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series
Bristol Race History
This is the 84th NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series race at Bristol, the most of any track
Bristol hosted at least one O’Reilly Auto Parts Series race every year since the inaugural 1982 season
The last seven Bristol races were won by seven different drivers
Seven different drivers won the last seven Bristol
races:
New Winner
9/18/2020 Chase Briscoe
9/17/2021 AJ Allmendinger
9/16/2022 Noah Gragson
9/15/2023 Justin Allgaier
9/20/2024 Cole Custer
4/12/2025 Kyle Larson
9/12/2025 Aric Almirola
JUSTIN ALLGAIER’S HISTORIC DOMINANCE
Leads all drivers with 3 wins, 6 Top 5s and 6.6 avg finish in 2026
He and Corey Day lead all drivers with seven top-10 finishes in 2026
31 career wins are tied for 6th all-time with Jack Ingram
Only driver to score stage points in every stage this season
WILLIAM SAWALICH’S BREAKTHROUGH WIN
Coming off his first career win at Rockingham42nd career start
Youngest Rockingham winner – 19 y: 06 m: 01 d
First win for Joe Gibbs Racing’s #18 since March 2023 – Sammy Smith at Phoenix
First driver from Minnesota to win in Cup, O’Reilly or Trucks
DASH 4 CASH CHAMPIONSHIP
Bristol is the first of four Dash 4 Cash races
The highest-finishing of the four qualified drivers at Bristol will win $100,000 bonus
The Bristol Dash 4 Cash winner and the next three highest-finishing eligible drivers will qualify for D4C at Kansas
2026 is the 18th season of Dash 4 Cash in O’Reilly Auto Parts Series
$6,325,000 awarded since the start of the program in 2009
Justin Allgaier leads all drivers with seven bonus money wins
The four Dash 4 Cash races in 2026 are Bristol, Kansas, Talladega and Texas
JR MOTORSPORTS’ INCREDIBLE SUCCESS
JR Motorsports had at least one car finish in the Top 10 in 65 consecutive races, the second-longest streak all-time
Through eight races, JR Motorsports is ahead of their 2025 pace in wins, Top 2s, Top 5s, Top 10s, stage wins and average finish
CONNOR ZILISCH RETURNS
Returns to JR Motorsports #1
Finished 7th at Las Vegas in last start, 21st at COTA after contact with Corey Day
Rookie-record 10 wins in 2025
Series-record 18 consecutive Top 5s in 2025
Youngest driver to win four straight races
Youngest driver to reach 11 career wins
Holds track record as youngest O’Reilly Auto Parts Series winner on 10 different tracks
Won O’Reilly Auto Parts Series debut at Watkins Glen in Sept. 2024
NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series
Triple Truck Challenge Finale
BRISTOL TRACK AND RACE DETAILS
This is the 31st race at Bristol
Stages at Bristol: 65/130/250
Tires for Bristol: 4 sets for the weekend, 1 practice, 1 qualifying to start race, 2 stickers sets for race
This is the fourth 250 lap race at Bristol, both Truck races in 2025 were 250 laps
2026 is the third season to have two Bristol races (2024, 2025)
Bristol is the first of six short track races in 2026 and the only short track race until July
Bristol is the first track this season that the Trucks will return to in the Chase (Bristol & Charlotte)
Bristol is the last of the three Triple Truck Challenge races in 2026
Bristol Race Trends
The stage 2 winner at Bristol hasn’t won since 2019 (8 races)
Last fall’s Bristol race had the longest green flag run to end a Truck race in track history ( 109 laps )
The Bristol winner has only stopped one time in five of the last six Bristol races; Layne Riggs won last September changing
tires three times, first after a lap 1 spin and on both stage breaks
The driver who led the most laps won three of the last four Bristol races, after failing to win in the previous six Bristol races
Ford drivers won the last three Bristol races after going winless in the nine previous races
Bristol has not gone to overtime since 2017 (10 races), tied for the third longest streak among active tracks
COREY HEIM’S HISTORIC TRIPLE TRUCK CHALLENGE OPPORTUNITY
First driver in Triple Truck Challenge history eligible to win the $500,000 bonus by winning the first two races
Became the second driver to win two of the three Triple Truck Challenge events, joining Sheldon Creed who won races 1 and 3
in 2020 to win the $150,000 bonus
Won at Darlington (March 20th) and Rockingham (April 3rd), earning $150,000 so far
Must win at Bristol to claim the $350,000 bonus and $500,000 total prize money
Won at Bristol in September 2023
COREY HEIM’S DOMINANCE AND RECORD-SETTING PERFORMANCE
Became the youngest driver to reach 25 Truck Series wins and is now 5th in all time wins
Needs three more wins to tie him for third all-time at 28 with Mike Skinner and Jack Sprague
Swept the stages at Rockingham, his Truck record 13th sweep
Became the first driver in any series to score 76 max points in a race in 2026 at Rockingham, sweeping both stages setting fastest lap and winning the race
Win at Rockingham gave Toyota their 250th Truck Series win
Attempting to win three straight races for the second time in his career, August 2025 (Watkins Glen, Richmond, Darlington)
CUP REGULARS AT BRISTOL
Seven Full-Time Cup Drivers Entered
Seven Full time NCS drivers are entered for Bristol: #4 Stenhouse Jr, #5 Briscoe, #7 Busch, #45 Chastain, #62 Bell, #71 Suarez, #77 Hocevar
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