Bet Food City 500 - Bristol Motor Speedway
When: March 18, 2012
Where: Bristol Motor Speedway - Bristol, TN
Time: 1:00 pm On FOX
Defending champion: Jimmie Johnson
As March Madness basketball gets on its way, NASCAR prepares for its own version as they head to the world's fastest half-mile track, Bristol Motor Speedway, for the Food City 500 this weekend. It's time for some good ole' short track racing with some banking thrown in to make things interesting. Part of NASCAR's Sprint Cup series, the Bristol Food City 500 is a 500-lap race held at the Bristol Motor Speedway track in Bristol, Tennessee. This is one of two NASCAR races held at Bristol, the other being the Sharpie 500, and is considered one of NASCAR's best races.
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Food City 500 Racing History
Despite its small size, Bristol is among the most popular tracks in NASCAR due to its distinct features that include extraordinarily steep banking, an all concrete surface, two pit roads and amphitheater-like seating. With the fast speeds and the short track, things can happen quickly and this Sunday's 500 laps can become more a race of survival than a race filled with strategy. Egos are bruised and friends lost over this race.
Having been a constant on the NASCAR calendar since 1961, the Food City 500 is not only one of the top events of the season, but also one of the proudest to be held on the half-mile oval at the legendary Bristol Motor Speedway. Because of its extreme banking and short length, the Food City 500 and Sharpie 500 are less races of pure speed than ones of strategy. Drivers are forced to think ahead rather than react with their foot. You'll also see a lot of bump and run at Bristol, leading to epic battles for a prime spot in front. Previous Food City 500 winners include Jeff Gordon, Jeff Burton and Kyle Busch.
After racing at Bristol the drivers of the Sprint Cup Series will finish off their March schedule in the Goody's Fast Relief 500 at Martinsville Speedway at the end of March and April will then feature NASCAR events at Texas, Phoenix, and Talladega.
2011 Food City 500 Results
 Kyle Busch needed to bounce back from a difficult "home event" at Las Vegas two weeks ago - which saw his championship position take a battering after an early accident and exit from the race. And he couldn't have asked for a better place to recover at than Bristol Motor Speedway, one of his favourite and most successful venues.
Kyle took the lead after pit stops on lap 429 and proceeded to hold off Carl Edwards and Jimmie Johnson to win his second weekend sweep of NASCAR series events in a row at Bristol. It's Kyle's 20th Sprint Cup career win and his first of the 2011 season, and gives his Sprint Cup standing an eight place rebound back up to 6th spot, while his brother Kurt takes over the early lead for the Chase.
2010 Food City 500 at Bristol results
 Jimmie Johnson came into the 2010 Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway having never won on the fast Bristol high-banks. Johnson finally knocked Bristol off his to-do list, plowing from sixth to first in just three laps Sunday to grab his first career victory at the revered Tennessee track. Jimmie Johnson, racing for the Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet, car No. 48, survived the 13-car wreckage with 157 laps to go. Johnson drove a smart race and went on to picked up the 50th win of his Sprint Cup career and his first at Bristol Food City 500. Johnson led the race early but Kurt Busch dominated most of the day, when the caution came out with 18 laps to go Busch and Johnson came to pit road and took four tires, but Greg Biffle, Matt Kenseth, Carl Edwards and Tony Stewart took only two. Johnson was able to get past Busch and the rest of the field on his way to Victory Lane in Thunder Valley.
2009 Food City 500 Winner
 In 2009, Kyle Busch cruised to the comfortable win at the Food City 500. Kyle Busch seized control on Sunday's Food City 500, leading 378 laps in this Snicker's Toyota to capture his second win of 2009. Busch held off Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Denny Hamlin by .391 seconds in a green-white checkered flag finish that took the race to 503 laps, three beyond the scheduled distance. The win was Busch's 14th in the Cup Series and his 10th since joing Joe Gibbs Racing.
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