Couch Potato Tuesday: NBC Deals With Track Issues, While Knoxville Brings Kevin Swindell to the Booth
By today’s standards, last weekend was a rarity. You had a split weekend with the NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Series teams racing at Atlanta Motor Speedway, while the Camping World Truck Series was at Knoxville Raceway. The Cup race wasn’t all that unusual for Atlanta, just shorter, which I didn’t really welcome. The Truck race … oh boy. Stuff got a little ridiculous there.
Before we start, NBC Sports announced Friday that they will be airing a new special on Chase Elliott simply entitled
Bristol Dirt Motor Speedway Night 1 Of 2 Won By Gravel And Freisen
Tazewell UCRA Race To Big Mack McCarter Saturday, April 24, 2021 - by Steve Hixson
The World Racing Groups: World of Outlaws Sprint Cars and DirtCar Big Block Modified invaded Bristol Motor Speedway for the first of two nights of the Bristol Throwdown giving race fans down south a couple race nights of action seldom seen around the Volunteer state. It s been 20 years since the WoO s raced the Bristol dirt.
Most of Friday s WoO racers were kids in 2001, the last time the track was covered with clay. David Gravel (#2) of Connecticut made a clean sweep of things Friday, setting fast time out qualifying 28 other race teams, winning the first heat race, then the dash and finally the $10,000 feature.
Kyle Larson headlines field for World of Outlaws Bristol Throwdown
Published Friday, Apr. 23, 2021, 12:40 pm
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No driver has had more fun with the dirt-transformed Bristol Motor Speedway than Kyle Larson. The self-confessed dirt-obsessed racer is heading to Thunder Valley this weekend for the World of Outlaws Bristol Throwdown chasing another victory in the high-speed World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series, April 22-24.
Larson drove a Super Late Model to a pair of second place finishes in the Bristol Dirt Nationals in mid-March, then shifted gears by driving his No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevy in the historic Food City Dirt Race, the first time the NASCAR Cup Series had raced on dirt in more than 50 years. Larson also competed in the Pinty’s Truck Race on Dirt in a Chevy