Saturday, August 25, 2012

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series IRWIN Tools Night Race from the Bristol Motor Speedway Pre Race Report



Track: Bristol Motor Speedway
Track Specifications: 0.533-mile concrete oval
Laps: 500
Miles: 266.5 Miles
Scheduled Green Flag: 7:43 p.m. EDT
Weather: 77 degrees and partly cloudy
Defending Winner: Brad Keselowski
Television: ABC
Radio: PRN
The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series caps off this festive weekend at the Bristol Motor Speedway with a 500- lap race around the 0.533 Short-track Saturday night.
This will be the first race on the newly reconfigured Bristol Motor Speedway for the Cup guys, nobody really know what's is going to happen Saturday night but if the NASCAR Nationwide Series race is a precursor, we are in for some action this evening.
It looked like old Bristol a night ago, beating and banging everywhere and even tempers getting a little heated after the race as we had some heated confrontations, I sure hope that boils over to tonight's race.
Brad Keselowski will be going for his third win in a row at the speedway.
ABC will have the call on television this afternoon, they will come on-air at 7:00 p.m. EDT with the green flag to be waved at 7:43 p.m. EDT.  Allen Bestwick, Dale Jarrett, Andy Petree will have the call in the booth with Dave Burns, Mike Massaro, Dr. Jerry Punch, Vince Welch on pit-road.
There have been 39 different drivers that have won at Bristol, led By Darrel Waltrip with twelve.
The deepest in the field that a race winner has starter from was 38th, by Elliott Sadler in 2001.
82 of 1o3 races have been won from a top-ten starting position.
We will have updates and stories after the race on the website. Everybody enjoy their night and the race.
Qualifying was rained out on Sunday so the starting field has been set by Friday's first practice times.
Starting Lineup 
1. #13 Casey Mears
2. #2 Brad Keselowski
3. #16 Greg Biffle
4. #20 Joey Logano
5. #43 Aric Almirola
6. #31 Jeff Burton
7. #27 Paul Menard
8. #11 Denny Hamlin
9. #9 Marcos Ambrose
10. #18 Kyle Busch
11. #24 Jeff Gordon
12. #5 Kasey Kahne
13. #29 Kevin Harvick
14. #78 Regan Smith
15. #56 Martin Truex Jr.
16. #88 dale Earnhardt Jr.
17. #17 Matt Kenseth
18. #38 David Gilliland
19. #39 Ryan Newman
20. #51 Kurt Busch
21. #14 Tony Stewart
22. #55 Brian Vickers
23. #15 Clint Bowyer
24. #34 David Ragan
25. #36 Dave Blaney
26. #1 Jamie McMurray
27. #99 Carl Edwards
28. #42 Juan Pablo Montoya
29. #22 Sam Hornish Jr.
30 #98 Michael McDowell
31. #30 David Stremme
32. #26 Josh Wise
33. #83 Landon Cassil
34. #19 Mike Bliss
35. #23 Scott Riggs
36. #47 bobby Labonte
37 #48 Jimmie Johnson
38. #33 Stephen Leicht
39. #49 Jason Leffler
40. #87 Joe Nemechek
41. #93Travis Kvapil
42. #32 Ken Schrader
43 #10 Danica Patrick

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