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Apr. 15, 2016
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What to Watch: Friday
by The Frontstretch Staff
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Following a break, the Sunday coverage began about 30 minutes into the broadcast. Laurens Vanthoor, who started the qualifying race on pole, was rather cheesed off at the debris caution that more or less cost him and teammate Frederic Vervisch the win. He tried his best to hide it, but that dude was ticked off.
The main race was pretty much presented as it happened. The Misano track is somewhat tight and twisty, so throwing 38 cars on-track means that you're going to get close competition. There was indeed side-by-side racing and some contact. Laurens Vanthoor's younger brother Dries made his series debut in Misano and was quite impressive...most of the time. He did dump Soulet on the first lap of the main race, resulting in a penalty.
The actual on-track action was pretty good. While there was quite a bit of focus toward the front of the field it was not exclusively there. There was a good amount of racing throughout the field and I felt that they did a decent job of covering the action further back. They did not do the best job of showing what happened to cause the drive-through penalties. Yes, we got replays of Dries Vanthoor spinning out Soulet, but for the other incidents (which there were quite a few, actually), we got bupkis.
Post-race coverage was again thin -- just like the qualifying race. We got interviews with the winners (Laurens Vanthoor and Vervisch) and a check of the results. There was also a recap of the event before the broadcast ended.
Records and facts
Last year, Jimmie Johnson passed Jamie McMurray with 15 laps to go and held off the pack to take his fifth career victory. Kevin Harvick continued his impressive run to start 2015 with another second-place finish. Dale Earnhardt, Jr. was third, followed by Team Penske teammates Joey Logano and Brad Keselowski. McMurray ended up in sixth.
Among active drivers, the Busch brothers (Kurt and Kyle) are the winningest drivers at Bristol, earning five victories apiece. In Kurt's case, he earned his first career win at Bristol in 2002, creating a feud with Jimmy Spencer in the process. Kyle's first Bristol win was the 2007 Food City 500, the race in which the CoT debuted (and which Kyle promptly put down during his Victory Lane interview). Matt Kenseth has four wins at Bristol while Carl Edwards has three.
All-time, Darrell Waltrip has the most Bristol wins with 12, including a stretch of seven in a row in the early 1980s. He won 11 races on asphalt and the 1992 Bud 500, which was the first Cup race run on concrete at Bristol. Rusty Wallace and Cale Yarborough have nine wins apiece, while Dale Earnhardt has eight.
Track Facts
Track / Race Length: .533 mile-oval, 500 laps (266.5 miles)
Banking: 24-30 degrees
Straightaways: 650 feet, banked 4-9 degrees
Grandstand Seating: 153,000
Pit Road Speed: 30 mph
Pace Car Speed: 35 mph
Opened: 1961
Website: http://www.bristolmotorspeedway.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bristolmotorspeedway
Twitter: http://twitter.com/BMSUpdates
Pre-Race Schedule:
Happy Hour: Saturday, April 16, 11 a.m. - 11:55 a.m. on FOX Sports 1
Say What?!
"Bristol has never been one of those places that you think about that much, to be honest with you. It just seems like all the action and everything happens for the night races there, for whatever reason. It's a fun place to race. It's been a place where we've had a lot of success. And, sometimes you go there and you have no success because you run into something. It's kind of feast or famine as you go there and that's kind of where we are at right now at this point in our season. We want to win races and, really, nothing else matters at this point except for wins. Hopefully, when we go back to Bristol, we will be on the right side of having some success." - Kevin Harvick
"I'm looking forward to Bristol this weekend. Bristol is one of my favorite tracks and we've had a lot of success there in the past. We struggled at Phoenix earlier this year, but we think we learned some things that will help us this weekend. The key to Bristol is being patient. Pit road is tricky as well but I feel if we can execute on pit road and keep dialing in our Zest Ford as the race progresses then we should be able to leave Bristol with another solid finish." - Ricky Stenhouse, Jr.
"I like racing at Bristol. It's cool because it's going to be our sponsor Snap Fitness' first run at Bristol. Anytime a friend or a sponsor asks, 'What's a race I should go to?', I always make them go to Bristol. Out of the group of races that Snap Fitness is sponsoring this year, Bristol is one that I actually picked out for them. You're one groove around the top of the racetrack. And if you want to pass someone, you've got to make a daring move to the bottom and get up in front of them in time to block them from getting around the outside of you. It makes it pretty entertaining, for sure." - Landon Cassill
"Bristol is just a special place and a track where I've loved watching races. It's a very fan-friendly racetrack and has always put on some really cool racing. I think the best way to describe it to a fan would be to go and watch for yourself because racing at Bristol is not like anywhere else that we go to -- it's special. The track definitely has a little bit of a different feel and is a unique spot being surrounded by fans in the stands and the Tennessee mountains. It's very small and tight, which produces great racing. I'm looking forward to getting there." - Chase Elliott
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by the Frontstretch Staff
Q: 1992 was a very expensive year for the then-Bristol International Raceway. In August, the track unveiled their original concrete surface. However, they had already spent a bunch of money prior to concreting the track. Why?
Thursday's Answer:
Q: Bill Elliott ended up winning the 1988 Valleydale Meats 500 at Bristol, the first of six wins during his championship season. What was notable about this victory?
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