It’s time for Cup Series racing, short track style! Engines have been fired up for the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway!
Food City 500; Stage One
Brad Keselowski and Aric Almirola are on the front row.
On lap 8, caution is out for Ryan Newman who has spun out.
The competition caution is out and at the restart Keselowski leads.
While Keselowski leads, second is Aric Almirola while Joey Logano and Kyle Busch follow.
The second and final competition caution of the race is out.
Kyle Busch has been caught for speeding on pit road so he must restart from the rear of the field. Matt DiBenedetto and Keselowski are leading the field back to green. DiBenedetto took the lead early but Keselowski takes it away.
Ryan Blaney has now moved to the top spot.
With only 20 laps to go, Chase Elliott is now the leader.
Elliott holds on to win stage one!
Stage Two
Ryan Blaney had the lead at the start of stage two, but Keselowski is back in the lead!
On lap 75 of stage two, the caution is back out. Blaney got loose on the backstretch coming out of turn two and spun sideways. Ty Dillon, with nowhere to go, came across the front of Blaney’s #12 Ford Mustang,
Only minutes after the green flag is back out, there’s another caution for Joey Gase.
The green flag returns…but not for long. The seventh caution of the day is out as Bayley Currey has stalled on the track.
Let’s try this again!
Elliott and Logano are going at it for the lead! Elliott pulls away!
Jimmie Johnson gets into the back of Stenhouse. This sends him into the inside wall, then up the track collecting others.
Here’s another look at the contact between @StenhouseJr and @JimmieJohnson which caused a big crash in Stage 2. (?: @FS1) pic.twitter.com/VYAVwyIYdz
— NASCAR (@NASCAR) May 31, 2020
Stenhouse, Kurt Busch, Tyler Reddick, Matt DiBenedetto, Ryan Preece, and Cole Custer are involved. The red flag is out.
Elliott leads, but the yellow flag is flying again as Ryan Preece is into the wall.
At the restart, Chase Elliott leads again. He holds on for the remaining laps and wins stage two!
Stage Three
Not long into the third stage, the caution is out.
As they get back underway, Denny Hamlin leads.
Austin Dillon is in the wall and the 12th caution of the day is out. Kyle Busch is the new leader.
Another caution is out. Ryan Newman has spun out. Hamlin is now back in the lead.
There’s no under 100 laps to go!
Busch retakes the lead and Johnson and Hamlin follow close behind.
Kevin Harvick spins and the 14th caution of the day is out.
On the restart, Hamlin, Elliott and Johnson are your top three. There is now 50 laps to go!
Just as Elliott attempts to take the top spot from Hamlin, the caution is back out. Gray Gaulding in the #27 Ford Mustang for Rick Ware Racing has hit the wall.
Shortly after the green flag, there’s a big wreck. Several are involved.
Denny Hamlin is the leader…at least he was. He gets too high on track allowing Logano and Elliott to easily go around. Logano pulls up in front of Hamlin. As Elliott takes the lead, Hamlin barely makes contact with Logano, gets loose, and spins.
At the green flag, Elliott leads.
The Final Three – Food City 500
ICYMI: The final three laps from @BMSupdates. ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/vl1nrkm5c3
— NASCAR (@NASCAR) June 1, 2020
With only three laps to go, Logano and Elliott are battling for the lead.
Elliott gets too high and loose in turn four and goes up the track taking Logano with him against the wall.
Keselowski passes by for the lead!
Brad Keselowski wins the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway!
Here is the top-ten results:
1. Brad Keselowski
2. Clint Bowyer
3. Jimmie Johnson
4. Kyle Busch
5. Erik Jones
6. Austin Dillon
7. Kurt Busch
8. William Byron
9. Christopher Bell
10. Bubba Wallace
Chase Debates; My Thoughts
No matter what Chase Elliott does he always seems to be caught up in some trouble with someone. Just two weeks ago at Darlington with less than 30 laps to go, Kyle Busch tried to slide back in line, but in the process caught the back of Chase Elliott and sent him hard into the inside wall. Before Elliott climbed into the ambulance for the mandatory trip to the infield care center, he waited for Busch to circle around and gave him the middle finger. In a post-race interview, Busch said he “made a mistake and just misjudged the gap”. But as always, social media warriors took to the keyboard to express their frustration with some even saying that Elliott needs to retaliate against Busch.
Ok, so Kyle Busch makes a mistake and wrecks Chase Elliott and admits it was his fault and everyone goes crazy!
But, when Chase Elliott makes a mistake and wrecks Joey Logano and admits fault there are still people mad at Logano.
Really?#NASCAR pic.twitter.com/hqM4rPmw0X
— Wingman Sports (@WingmanSprtz) June 1, 2020
In Sunday night’s race at Bristol Motor Speedway, Elliott was battling Joey Logano for the lead with only a few laps to go. He got loose in turn four and Logano, unfortunately, ended up just being in the wrong place at the wrong time. As Elliott got loose, he went up the track taking Logano with him against the wall. After they parked on pit road, they had a conversation with each other. Logano seemed to want an apology, but apparently Elliott didn’t say what Logano wanted. Joey Logano, this is part of racing. You shouldn’t expect an apology every time another driver makes contact with you and you don’t get the result you wanted.
Welcome to racing, the greatest sport there is. Welcome to the world where nobody is perfect, mistakes are made, and don’t always expect an apology.
Stay tuned for the race recap of Monday night’s Xfinity Series Cheddar’s 300.
