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NASCAR Cup Series Food City 500 Entry List: Dates, Event Times At Bristol Motor Speedway

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NASCAR Cup Series driver Denny Hamlin used a Final Four metaphor to describe his second-straight win Sunday at Darlington Raceway. 

While not possessing the strongest machine, William Byron led from the pole through the first two stages, Hamlin remained patient to overcome early mistakes. Much like the Houston Cougars did to the Duke Blue Devils, rallying from a six-point deficit with 39.5 seconds remaining to secure the national semifinal win Saturday night. 

“Hang around long enough to capitalize when the other teams couldn’t close out,” Hamlin told Fox Sports. 

While the Cougars, who faced the Florida Gators in the men’s basketball final Monday night, displayed defensive prowess down the stretch versus Duke, Hamlin utilized a late caution period caused by Bubba Wallace taking out Kyle Larson with four laps remaining. It was the second time the 2021 Cup champion crashed Sunday. 

Hamlin’s pit crew then went to work in overtime, executing a four-tire change in 8.3 seconds. The No. 11 Toyota driver picked up his 56th career off the final restart and moved past Rusty Wallace for 11th all-time on the Cup victory list.  

Bubba Wallace Addresses Late-Race Kyle Larson Incident 

When asked about his version of the late-race accident with Larson that likely cost Ryan Blaney a trip to Victory Lane, Wallace blamed Larson for checking up too much. 

Larson didn’t speak to the media, but crew chief Cliff Daniels told the Atlantic: “(Larson) felt bad about being part of the last caution. They were trying to stay out of the way of the leaders and stay low, and Larson checked up early to make sure he didn’t get into (Tyler) Reddick, but Bubba didn’t know Larson was going to slow down that much.”

NASCAR National Series Weekend Schedule   

Here is a list of NASCAR National Series events this weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway (All Times ET):

Friday

  • 3:35 p.m.: Truck Series practice 
  • 4:40 p.m.: Truck Series qualifying 
  • 7 p.m.: Truck Series Weather Guard Truck Race

Saturday

  • 11:30 a.m.: Xfinity Series practice 
  • 12:35 p.m.: Xfinity Series qualifying 
  • 2 p.m.: Cup Series practice 
  • 3:05 p.m.: Cup Series qualifying 
  • 5 p.m.: Xfinity Series SciAps 300 race

Sunday

  • 3 p.m.: Cup Series Food City 500 race

NASCAR Cup Series Food City 500 Entry List  

Entry, Driver, Car No.  

  • 1, Corey LaJoie, No. 01 Ford 
  • 2, Ross Chastain, No. 1 Chevrolet   
  • 3, Austin Cindric No. 2 Ford   
  • 4, Austin Dillon, No. 3 Chevrolet   
  • 5, Noah Gragson, No. 4 Ford   
  • 6, Kyle Larson, No. 5 Chevrolet   
  • 7, Brad Keselowski, No. 6 Ford   
  • 8, Justin Haley, No. 7 Chevrolet   
  • 9, Kyle Busch, No. 8 Chevrolet   
  • 10, Chase Elliott, No. 9 Chevrolet   
  • 11, Ty Dillon, No. 10 Chevrolet   
  • 12, Denny Hamlin, No. 11 Toyota   
  • 13, Ryan Blaney, No. 12 Ford   
  • 14, AJ Allmendinger, No. 16 Chevrolet   
  • 15, Chris Buescher, No. 17 Ford   
  • 16, Chase Briscoe, No. 19, Toyota   
  • 17, Christopher Bell, No. 20 Toyota   
  • 18, Josh Berry, No. 21 Ford   
  • 19, Joey Logano, No. 22 Ford   
  • 20, Bubba Wallace, No. 23 Toyota   
  • 21, William Byron, No. 24 Chevrolet 
  • 22, Jesse Love, No. 33 Chevrolet 
  • 23, Todd Gilliland, No. 34 Ford   
  • 24, Riley Herbst, No. 35 Toyota   
  • 25, Zane Smith, No. 38 Ford   
  • 26, Cole Custer, No. 41 Ford   
  • 27, John Hunter Nemechek, No. 42 Toyota   
  • 28, Erik Jones, No. 43 Toyota   
  • 29, Tyler Reddick, No. 45 Toyota   
  • 30, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., No. 47 Ford   
  • 31, Alex Bowman, No. 48 Chevrolet   
  • 32, Cody Ware, No. 51 Ford   
  • 33, Ty Gibbs, No. 54 Toyota   
  • 34, Ryan Preece, No. 60 Ford 
  • 35, Josh Bilicki, No. 66 Ford 
  • 36, Michael McDowell, No. 71 Chevrolet   
  • 37, Carson Hocevar, No. 77 Chevrolet   
  • 38, Shane van Gisbergen, No. 88 Chevrolet   
  • 39, Daniel Suarez, No. 99 Chevrolet