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Bristol Motor Speedway
7:30pm/et, Saturday, Sept. 16
TV: USA
Radio: PRN, SiriusXM
Stage Laps: 125/250/500
Practice/Qualifying: 4:35-6:30pm/et, Fri., Sept. 15. TV-USA
 
NASCAR weekend schedule: Bristol (ET)

(Thursday):
- 4:00 PM: Truck P (FS2)
- 4:35 PM: Truck Q (FS2)
- 9:00 PM: Truck Race (FS1)

(Friday):
- 2:35 PM: Xfinity P (USA Network)
- 3:10 PM: Xfinity Q (USA Network) - 4:35 PM: Cup P (USA Network)
- 5:20 PM: Cup Q (USA Network)
- 7:30 PM: Xfinity Race (USA Network)

(Saturday): - 7:30 PM: Cup Race (USA Network)
 
36 teams/drivers [for 40 spots] are listed.
Some of the drivers entered include: #15-J.J. Yeley, #42-Carson Hocevar, #51-Cole Custer, #78-B.J. McLeod.
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This race being in September still bugs me a ton. Hold it in August when families are off and you can take the time to travel in the RV.

Anyway, lows for the weekend are in the upper 40s!! Highs just in the mid 70s. Hopefully the track can rubber in and not just chunk up with it being that cold
 
This is one of the highlights for me as I love Bristol concrete as it is normally a great race. Let’s gooooo!!!
I sure hope we get an old school race. I just worry that with the lack of HP, these guys aren’t bumping enough to make a wild race
 
I sure hope we get an old school race. I just worry that with the lack of HP, these guys aren’t bumping enough to make a wild race
Hopefully the short track aero changes make it a bit better than last year’s race.

I expect this track to be a strength for Ford again.
 
what i thought was cool.standing in the infield in turn 3 -4, was i watched a car go by,then turned my head back to see the ne t one,dam it was the same one.missed the other 35 cars.they go by fast,also my friend asked if i had earplugs,i said.he said oh sh and ran back to the truck to get me some. great nite i will never forget.i was a guest steve parks team
 

Goodyear Fast Facts: Bristol​

NASCAR Cup Series — Race No. 29 – 500 laps / 266.5 miles
Bristol Motor Speedway (0.533-mile oval) – Bristol, Tenn.
Fast Facts for September 15-16, 2023

Tire: Goodyear Eagle 18-inch Speedway Radials

Set limits: Cup: 1 set for practice, 1 set for qualifying and 11 sets for the race (10 race sets plus 1 set transferred from qualifying)

Tire Codes: Left-side — D-5170; Right-side — D-5206

Tire Circumference: Left-side — 2,254 mm (88.74 in.); Right-side — 2,276 mm (89.61 in.)

Minimum Recommended Inflation: Left Front — 16 psi; Left Rear — 18 psi; Right Front — 46 psi; Right Rear — 44 psi

Storyline – Goodyear continues efforts to tune tires to Next Gen car: As NASCAR Cup Series teams continue to advance their car set-ups with the Next Gen car, Goodyear continues to fine tune its tire set-ups as we return to some race tracks for their second race. Goodyear held a successful tire test at Bristol Motor Speedway in June in preparation for this weekend’s race. The result is a change to the right-side tire, with both construction and compound changes compared to the 2022 race on the track’s concrete surface. The compound change is designed to introduce more tire wear and more lap-time fall-off, both of which will make tire management a bigger part of the race for drivers and promote more passing throughout the field.

“Getting tire wear on concrete track surfaces is always a difficult proposition,” said Greg Stucker, Goodyear’s director of racing. “The consistency and relative smoothness of concrete doesn’t promote a lot of wear, so that is something we are always working on at places like Bristol and Dover and Nashville. We had a great test at Bristol this year and we came out of that with a new right-side tire where we not only rolled in a construction update, but also changed the tread compound to wear and fall off more. That will help the racing that the fans see as drivers manage their tires throughout a run, with some guys going out hard and others that will be stronger at the end of a run.”

Notes – New right-side tire for Cup teams at Bristol: Being on 18-inch bead diameter tires, NASCAR Cup teams will run a different tire set-up than those in the Xfinity and Craftsman Truck Series at Bristol this week . . . this is the same left-side tire code Cup teams ran on the Bristol concrete last September . . . this is the first time these teams have run this right-side tire code . . . compared to last year’s race, this right-side features a construction update and a
Tire Circumference: Left-side — 2,254 mm (88.74 in.); Right-side — 2,276 mm (89.61 in.)

Minimum Recommended Inflation: Left Front — 16 psi; Left Rear — 18 psi; Right Front — 46 psi; Right Rear — 44 psi
this tire set-up came out of a Goodyear test at Bristol on June 20-21 . . . teams (drivers) participating in that test were the No. 1 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet (Ross Chastain), No. 12 Penske Racing Ford (Ryan Blaney) and No. 54 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota (Ty Gibbs) . . . with this 18-inch tire, and its lower profile sidewall, NASCAR Cup cars do not run inner liners in any of their tires.
 
Man, it’s always something for me and trying to get to the Bristol night race. We were trying to put together a trip there earlier, and schedules for all didn’t line up. Just as well. We ended up moving, just lost our dear 15 year old dog last week, wife wanted another one, so now we’re acclimating a sweet 10 week old mini poodle puppy into our family.

Pup will be right beside us Saturday night watching the big screen!
 
Increasing threat of rain Saturday night. Makes me wonder... what was the last Bristol night race that was ran on Sunday due to rain? I've been watching since 2007 and I can't remember a single one.
 
Increasing threat of rain Saturday night. Makes me wonder... what was the last Bristol night race that was ran on Sunday due to rain? I've been watching since 2007 and I can't remember a single one.
Not sure but definitely hasn’t been that long because I had it happen to one I was at a few years ago. I think it was the night race, but it’s possible it could have been the spring race And I just remember night time because of them trying to get the race started during the ran. The bridge out by the parking places behind the track were flooded and some of the roads on the way back home. Harvick won that year on the day after the rain but we had to come back home the night before.

It was a pretty wild experience though being at a Bristol race with the happenings in the stands etc during the delays tbh, other than a downpour causing all of my cigarettes to drop out or my pocket and into a drain. :(. lol


I think it was the same weekend I met Chase and Jr in the Mt Dew hospitality tent. My tickets were also for the Budweiser suite over turns 3/4, so I definitely had had a few.
 
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Not sure but definitely hasn’t been that long because I had it happen to one I was at a few years ago. I think it was the night race, but it’s possible it could have been the spring race And I just remember night time because of them trying to get the race started during the ran. The bridge out by the parking places behind the track were flooded and some of the roads on the way back home. Harvick won that year on the day after the rain but we had to come back home the night before.

It was a pretty wild experience though being at a Bristol race with the happenings in the stands etc during the delays tbh, other than a downpour causing all of my cigarettes to drop out or my pocket and into a drain. :(. lol


I think it was the same weekend I met Chase and Jr in the Mt Dew hospitality tent. My tickets were also for the Budweiser suite over turns 3/4, so I definitely had had a few.

Also, thinking about the “Old Bristol”, I only watched the end of the truck race but I believe it was Mikey said it was the “Old Bristol”.

We hear this all the time. “Is it the old Bristol? Is it the new Bristol”? “They are going to change this or that at Bristol”. “They are bringing the old Bristol back.”

I have thought about this. I think new and Old Bristol is kind of like a crazy cute wife. She may be cute. You may love her. You may hate her at times. She probably has seven personalities, and you don’t always know which one you’re going to get.

The thing is the Old Bristol is still there. It’s just all of those other personalities, you never know which one you’re going to get. You may get Old Bristol entirely one year where they may run the bottom all race.

But the next race (or even on the same weekend at times), you will get a full 3 groove track (multiple personalities. The next time you may get a single file train but then next time they beat and bang and move the hell out of each other to use that one groove. Then the next race they may do the same even with 3 grooves.

You just never know which “personality” you’re going to get at Bristol, but it’s always beautiful. Sometimes you still get the “old Bristol” kind of races, just sometimes it has even more extra flavor. The beauty of it is that you never really know which one you’re going to get, but it does exist.

Also at least for fans in attendance I’d argue that no matter how good the racing is (it will never be bad there anyway), it’s really the atmosphere and just the overall experience of Bristol that matters. There’s truly nothing like it and I hope I one day get to go back again.
 
Personally I love this newer version, it's like a 500 lap sprint car race anymore. The problem for years was less bumping due to the fragility of the old cars. It was just far too easy to cut down a tire. It's why I don't fully understand why we haven't seen a return of that physical racing, these cars can take an absolute beating
 
Personally I love this newer version, it's like a 500 lap sprint car race anymore. The problem for years was less bumping due to the fragility of the old cars. It was just far too easy to cut down a tire. It's why I don't fully understand why we haven't seen a return of that physical racing, these cars can take an absolute beating
Because old Bristol was a 1 groove track like Martinsville.

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I think we'll get a night race... on Sunday. Things are definitely trending bad for Saturday night. Everything I see calls for 30-50% chance of rain starting at 6pm and getting worse as the night progresses. Sunday looks bad too til 5pm or so.
 
Bristol night race at 3:30 my time is really going to mess with me lol
 
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