Logano was lapped again at Lap 275 and didnt climb into the top 15 until a green-flag pit cycle on Lap 292 of the 400-lap event as others ahead of him pitted. Hamlin looks under him and takes 2nd away. Ross Chastain15. Obviously, I was speeding, but I was like there is no way. Just had unfortunate timing of that caution in the green flag pit stop cycle. Green flag on stage two, Larson is clear into turn one as Hamlin spins the tires on the inside. Next Gen racing is all about strategy, execution on pit road thats who wins. We need more fall-off, and we need a lot more horsepower.. The November 2015 Martinsville race had an average of 5.7 positions change per green flag lap. The NASCAR 2021 schedule release will surely get racing fanstalking there are more road races, two regular tracks gone fromthe schedule entirely and. ET. I was super happy when that happened and just as surprised as probably everybody.. A clash between Chase Elliott and Kevin Harvick helped Kyle Larson claim victory in Saturday night's NASCAR Cup Series playoff race at Bristol Motor Speedway. Tyler Reddick; 10. Lap 265, Ryan Blaney dives to the inside of Harvick. Its about being able to lean on that outside of the tire and not have it slip like its on ice. Just does not suit my driving style at all. James Davison34. 88 to go, Larson gets loose and Elliott works to his inside. I think were in the middle of an evolution of the tire, Chastain told NBC Sports. Chastains lead showed the challenge in passing. I cant wait for the next one to evolve as they continue to evolve with this new car. William Byron; 5. Its the biggest thing just like Richmond. Including start time, starting lineup, and TV channel for this weekend's 2022 Food City Dirt Race. Bristol Motor Speedway will play host to that dirt race on its ovalMarch 28. I think he challenges himself, but he challenges us all drivers and crew chiefs and engineers to think more differently.. But our NAPA Chevy, we struggled every run but the last one. Among a number of other changes detailed below, NASCAR has removed Chicagoland and Kentucky from the tracks it'll race on in 2021. Ryan Blaney, Matt DiBenedetto, William Byron and Cole Custer were all eliminated from the playoffs. The March 2015 Martinsville race had an average of 7.1 positions change per green flag lap. Truex, winner last week at Richmond, starts on pole position. I didnt think we could (speed in his pit box), to be honest with you, but I guess its my job to know that. Everyone on the No. 50 to go, Harvick remains all over the bumper of Elliott in the battle for the lead. Its unfortunate. He is among those who want changes to the tires. Men's Kevin Harvick Stewart-Haas Racing Team Collection Heather Gray 2023 #29 Busch Light Name & Number T . I thought we were arguably the best car the first part of the race and then we got a little bit behind as the track changed and the car changed a little bit. MARTINSVILLE, Va. Spotter Eddie DHondt echoed the feelings of Chase Elliott fans when he told the sports most popular driver welcome back, bud before Sundays Cup race at Martinsville Speedway. (since 2021) Race Type Starts Wins 2nds 3rds; Flat Turf: 22: 2: 3: 1: Total: 22: 2: 3: 1: Racing News. Advertisement. Kyle Busch22. The chicken or the egg? Copyright 2023 Sporting News Holdings Limited. I think he challenges himself, but he challenges us all drivers and crew chiefs and engineers to think more differently.. I pride myself on not making mistakes, so that was pretty brutal there, but, like Ive said, we have a fast race car and really felt like we could have probably swept the stages and ran top three or top five. NASCAR exec: Clash at L.A. Lap 56, Larson cant hold it on the bottom. Related: NASCAR drivers Chase Elliott, Kevin Harvick feud at Bristol (Video), 1. Lap 363, Quin Houff loses a tire and the caution is out. for the first time in the modern era, NASCAR will race on dirt. 10 to go, Harvick leads Larson by 0.8 seconds. Thats a long-term decision for sure.. Ryan Blaney5. Harvick gets loose, chases it up the banking and doors him. Kyle Larson wins stage two at Bristol Motor Speedway! So its a complicated question. William Byron Byron was considered a favorite entering the race but failed to show up near the front and finished 23rd. FULL SCHEDULE FOR BRISTOL MOTOR SPEEDWAY DIRT RACES CHANNEL FINDERHOW TO FIND FS1 REMIND MEADD TO CALENDAR Filter by Series: Wednesday, March 24 8:00 p.m. Byron gets shoved up the banking and nearly tags the wall but they all keep it rolling. View Bristol results for the NASCAR Cup Series below. Reviewing the Bristol Night Race and Bahrain Grand Prix. All four cars were really competitive. The question entering this race was how Elliott would feel after the event. It definitely didnt go unnoticed., Austin Dillon Finished 12th:What a battle today at Martinsville Speedway. Top 10 is nothing to be too upset about, Elliott said after the 400-lap race at the historic half-mile track. Yeah, very soon. Ive worked very hard to get better here. I think theyll have a tire that will better suit what were trying to do.. It felt like we were definitely the best weve been here in a long time, so were really happy with our day., Bubba Wallace Finished 9th: Yeah, for sure. I wish one of us would have won the race, but youll have that. Kevin Harvick; 7. Thats twice as many positions that changed than last falls race at Martinsville. Among a number of. Hamlin looked to Fridays Truck race as an example of how tire wear could be achievable. We made a great strategy call at the end to get positions back. 2021 NASCAR Bristol Results What a chaotic finish to the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway. Follow your favorite team and driver's progress with daily updates #NASCAR #NASCARPlayoffs #BristolMotorSpeedway #BristolNightRace. It was the only shot I had, and I did everything I could, but it wasnt enough. They felt like if we stayed out, our lap times would come back around and wed be able to hang on. The start times, TV channels, radio stations and more information will be added when the schedule is released by NASCAR. Chastain took the lead on Lap 136 by staying out when the rest of the field pitted. Pre-race. Kevin Harvick finished second after being unable to get past the lapped car of Chase Elliott following their late-race skirmish on the track. Larson was already locked into the next round based on points prior. We got better and better, and then we caught that caution. Kyle Busch; Larson leads the field to the pit lane. Hes in the wall, caution. Race stage lengths announced for 2021 NASCAR races at Bristol Motor Speedway Monday, January 25, 2021 NASCAR officials announced the stage lengths for all three of its major touring series today, including each of the 2021 races scheduled at Bristol Motor Speedway. I knew I was going to get bumped. I like to roll momentum, and thats just not what this place is like. Larson works to his inside and pins him behind the lap car, Larson to the lead. After being rumored for weeks, NASCAR's Wednesday schedule release made the dirt race official. Sometimes you make the wrong one, but its hard when youre in the lead because everybody normally does the opposite of you. Were going to have track position racing, single-file, follow-the-leader, nobody can pass.. ET TV: NBCSN.. Austin Dillon; 9. Ryan Preece18. Everybody knows what happened here so long ago, and I think everybody you know, thats on everybodys minds every time they come to Martinsville, so wish Rick was here (and) Linda, but weve got Jeff Gordon here. The two Martinsville races last year combined had 1,907 such passes 1,233 in the spring race and 674 in last falls playoff race. Chase Elliott; 5. We win and lose as a team. Rarely does the car that dominates or the best car win, simply because you cant control the race when you need to at least we couldnt. He leans on his rear bumper but cant get by. Andrews used to oversee the Hendrick engine program. BRISTOL, Tenn. - It is not a stretch of the imagination to recognize that Christopher Bell's stock is on the rise in the NASCAR Cup Series. Ive been sitting on the couch for six weeks, so I think that probably hurt me more than anything., Elliott said the main issue with his leg after the race was it being super stiff. I personally do not disagree with you that more power would be something to take a look at some day. I think when you can accomplish something that you dont see possible, when you do accomplish it, it moves up the ladder pretty high. Theres not much fall-off. It was pretty bad. Really nice to be back and appreciate the warm welcome this weekend by everybody, so I appreciate that. We were just so loose all day long, and then finally at the end we got it a whole lot better. Kyle Larson will be on the pole when the green flag drops at Bristol Motor Speedway on Sunday night for the Food City Dirt Race, but it doesn't mean he's ecstatic about participating in the event. Green, Elliott leads Larson off turn two. The chicken or the egg? William Byron; Pit Penalty: Chase Elliott will go to the tail after speeding on the pit lane. Today is not one of those. But thanks to Cliff Daniels and everybody for making me feel like I know what Im doing sometimes around here. March 29, 2021 The Bristol Motor Speedway dirt track hosts the NASCAR Cup Series; The first dirt race since 1970 is in the books! Man, you want to see passes for the lead and were just not really seeing any of that right now.. Have you had it up to here? Our No. Hamlin runs wide and rubs Larson off the corner. Chase Elliott26. Because depending on the parts and pieces, some things, as I said, are easily six months to a year out from a planning perspective. Christopher Bell; 2. I'm not here to save you. Chase Briscoe14. He hits the pit lane under green. Larson, who had already advanced to the Round of 12 in the playoffs prior to Saturday, earned his sixth win this season. Those tires were on for about 30 laps and in that period, lap times slowed significantly through the run. I like to charge the center. Next Gen racing is all about strategy, execution on pit road thats who wins. Our Chevy was really loose in traffic with the nose down. I thought inside the car we were maybe slipping and sliding around maybe 10 percent more. Its not like you have to have it super straight, so that was good.. Daniel Suarez23. Its a lot easier to say you should have stayed out, but we didnt. Ready To Ship. Thats part of it, and you just move on. Still, there was evidence of how tough it was to pass. Kevin Harvick; 7. NASCAR has added new road-course races at both Circuit of the Americas (May 23) in Austin, Texas, and at Road America (July 4) in Plymouth, Wisconsin. Brad Keselowski; 4. This is one of my favorite tracks and we come here and run sixth-to-ninth every time. Bristol Motor Speedway's spring race will take place with its oval covered in dirt on March 28, the first dirt race in NASCAR's modern era (dating back to 1972). We need more fall-off, and we need a lot more horsepower.. It was warm. Brad Keselowski7. Im 95 percent sure I was good. GET A 3 DAY COMBO TICKET Friday Tickets Saturday Tickets Sunday Tickets 866-415-4158 Tickets Friday See Nitro Qualifying under the Lights followed by a Fireworks show for the whole family! That is a 15.9% decrease in green flag passes from that March 2015 race to Sundays race. We'll be happy to assist you! Really nice that it went green there. NASCAR went to a dirt surface beginning with the 2021 race. That was the only way he was going to go by me was he was going to have to get physical. We had a really fast race car, so once we got in the back it was so hard to do anything, so thats on me. Bristol Race Results (Stage 1) : 1. Of those three, only one came with the top two drivers on the same tire strategy when Hamlin passed Chase Briscoe for the lead on Lap 257. Ryan Blaney; 8. One thing that you need to realize is that all these engine companies have ordered parts and pieces for really the remainder of 2023, and to start to change that architecture around, it gets very, very complicated very quickly. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota entry in 2021, Bell has five wins, 24 top fives, 42 top-10s, four poles and 827 laps led in his [] I was just so slow right in the center, and I couldnt make any passes for that reason, so I was trapped back there. Thats just what weve got., Chase Briscoe Finished 5th: It would have been more of a statement if we won the race, obviously. Then after that, we got the car really good. We made it a little bit better. Really nice that it went green there. I thought we were arguably the best car the first part of the race and then we got a little bit behind as the track changed and the car changed a little bit. ET. We had pitted and we had to take the wave-around, and we ended up at the very back. I just needed to stay in the lead. The full Cup schedule is set to be released at 3:30 p.m. With a little bit of them moving each other for second, I was able to get away (from the field) and I never thought Id be able to do that. Ryan Blaney and Alex Bowman completed the top five finishers. At one point in the race I would have been just happy to finish on a lead lap. Obviously, I was speeding, but I was like there is no way. After being rumored for weeks, NASCAR's Wednesday schedule release madethe dirt race official. Larson wiggles but he holds the lead! Bristol Menu: NASCARTV Schedule|Entries|ARCA Practice|ARCA Race|Truck Lineup|Truck Race|Xfinity Lineup|Xfinity Race|Cup Lineup| Cup Race, Martin Truex Jr and Denny Hamlin line up on the front row. You would collect $350, which includes your win and stake ($100). We finally got it going there at the end, and I was able to make some passes and do things that I didnt really think Id be capable of doing, or at least of us fixing it to that degree here at the race track. We went down a lap twice, two times. At the time, I thought that was gonna be OK with the amount of laps we still had to go, but track position was obviously super important. Sundays race had 1,305 positions change in 350 laps of green flag racing (out of 400 total laps). Elliott returned to racing six weeks after he broke his left tibia in a snowboarding accident and finished 10th. RESULTS: Where everybody finished at Bristol. The Food City Dirt Race at Bristol will be broadcast on Fox at 4PM ET today, as well as on Fox Sports. Obviously that was a tough race on him, tough race on any driver. He has been outside the top 20 in his last three races, but this is the perfect time . I couldnt do that. I was teared up the whole last lap. Elliott is back on track but three laps down. Thats any time a car gets ahead of another car on the track whether the car being passed is on the same lap. I think were in the middle of an evolution of the tire, Chastain told NBC Sports. Thinkin' Out Loud: 2021 Bass Pro Shops Night Race at Bristol When NASCAR released the 2022 Cup schedule earlier this week, it confirmed previous assurances that Bristol's spring event will. Cars that I was lapping 10 laps before, we caught a caution, and I couldnt pass them for second. Truex delivered a dominating . Its unfortunate. We made it a little bit better. Anyway, it is good to just stay in it, mentally for myself and the team and pull that strategy there. Hamlin has a flat right front into turn one. I feel like Cliff (Daniels) and everybody did a great job all day on pit road making the right calls, having great pit stops, and then it all kind of worked out for me there at the end. It's probably too late to turn back now anyway. Lap 336, Larson has climbed to the bumper of Harvick in the battle for the lead. Updated September 19, 2021 9:21 AM Chase Elliott waves to fans as he is introduced before a NASCAR Cup Series auto race at Bristol Motor Speedway Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021, in Bristol,. A look at winners and losers from Sundays NASCAR Cup Series race at Martinsville Speedway: Kyle Larson Larson took advantage of a late-race caution flag and excellent pit strategy to score a convincing four-second victory, his second win of the year. Tyler Reddick13. It felt like we were definitely the best weve been here in a long time, so were really happy with our day., Bubba Wallace Finished 9th: Yeah, for sure. Since Sundays race had 400 laps and most Martinsville races have 500 laps, another way to compare races is to look at the average number of position changes per lap. Sundays race had an average of 3.7 positions changing per green flag lap. 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