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NASCAR Cup Series

Food City Dirt Race

Bristol Motor Speedway (Dirt)

March 28th, 2021

Race #7 of the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 250
- Extended to 253 laps
Miles Raced : 134.8
Time of Race : 02 Hours 43 minutes 53 seconds
Average Speed: 46.313 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.554 seconds
Cautions: 10
Caution Laps: 37
Lead Changes: 5

Joey Logano leads the field — Bristol, Tennessee - March 29th, 2021: Joey Logano, driver of the #22 Shell Pennzoil Ford, leads the field during the NASCAR Cup Series Food City Dirt Race at Bristol Motor Speedway on March 29, 2021 in Bristol, Tennessee. Photo by Jared C Tilton | Getty Images

Driver	ST	50%	10%	FIN	HI	LW	AVG	PC D	Pass	Passed	PS D	Q PASS	Fast	%T15	TOT Led	Laps	Rating	TOT PTS
Joey Logano	10	4	1	1	1	11	4.1	+9	26	22	+4	26	20	100.0%	61	253	128.5	55
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	13	15	7	2	2	19	10.8	+11	46	38	+8	39	11	85.4%	0	253	98.4	42
Denny Hamlin	2	5	2	3	1	7	4.1	-1	20	21	-1	20	29	100.0%	1	253	120.0	50
Daniel Suarez	18	2	4	4	1	18	4.3	+14	19	19	+0	19	21	100.0%	58	253	114.4	49
Ryan Newman	14	6	6	5	3	17	7.3	+9	25	16	+9	25	7	99.2%	0	253	104.8	41
William Byron	8	3	8	6	1	11	4.9	+2	26	27	-1	26	21	100.0%	0	253	110.3	40
Tyler Reddick	27	11	5	7	5	27	12.2	+20	52	38	+14	25	1	79.5%	0	253	89.8	32
Ryan Blaney	3	8	12	8	2	26	11.0	-5	41	37	+4	28	6	74.3%	0	253	95.7	35
Erik Jones	24	12	10	9	8	24	13.0	+15	34	30	+4	14	5	78.7%	0	253	84.6	31
Chase Elliott	26	10	9	10	5	26	9.7	+16	41	35	+6	33	1	97.6%	0	253	90.6	28
Brad Keselowski	20	20	13	11	11	26	17.9	+9	54	55	-1	14	1	39.1%	0	253	73.8	26
Michael McDowell	16	23	14	12	1	32	21.6	+4	58	42	+16	7	0	17.8%	0	253	67.8	25
Matt DiBenedetto	12	16	11	13	11	37	18.6	-1	45	32	+13	14	0	28.9%	0	253	74.2	24
Chris Buescher	11	9	15	14	6	24	12.7	-3	33	47	-14	28	1	87.4%	0	253	82.6	24
Kevin Harvick	6	19	16	15	5	29	15.1	-9	32	26	+6	13	4	44.7%	0	253	76.3	22
Kurt Busch	28	17	17	16	14	28	19.2	+12	33	38	-5	2	0	9.5%	0	253	65.5	21
Kyle Busch	4	13	18	17	1	39	21.1	-13	51	65	-14	10	6	22.1%	7	253	77.6	20
Ryan Preece	22	18	19	18	9	29	15.0	+4	40	29	+11	25	3	60.5%	0	253	79.6	19
Martin Truex Jr	5	1	3	19	1	19	2.3	-14	10	22	-12	10	39	99.2%	126	253	126.1	35
Chase Briscoe	25	21	21	20	12	28	22.5	+5	46	27	+19	2	0	3.6%	0	252	54.7	17
Austin Dillon	9	27	22	21	8	27	21.2	-12	37	63	-26	9	1	12.3%	0	252	60.3	16
Alex Bowman	7	14	20	22	2	25	14.8	-15	31	41	-10	22	5	54.6%	0	252	70.3	15
Stewart Friesen	32	25	23	23	19	32	23.0	+9	44	52	-8	0	0	0.0%	0	252	50.2	0
Cole Custer	21	24	25	24	16	26	22.2	-3	33	48	-15	0	0	0.0%	0	252	51.3	13
Quin Houff	33	26	26	25	24	39	28.1	+8	21	22	-1	0	0	0.0%	0	252	48.2	12
Ty Dillon	39	22	24	26	14	39	21.7	+13	52	53	-1	0	0	0.0%	0	252	53.2	0
Bubba Wallace	19	7	28	27	4	28	12.4	-8	32	44	-12	21	2	71.5%	0	251	84.2	18
JJ Yeley	34	28	29	28	21	34	28.6	+6	17	25	-8	0	0	0.0%	0	249	44.5	0
Kyle Larson	1	30	30	29	1	37	27.2	-28	42	12	+30	15	6	11.1%	0	248	59.2	8
Josh Bilicki	37	31	31	30	30	39	32.4	+7	7	7	+0	0	0	0.0%	0	247	33.2	7
Mike Marlar	38	29	27	31	27	39	30.0	+7	7	11	-4	0	0	0.0%	0	244	37.8	6
Cody Ware	31	32	32	32	29	39	32.9	-1	7	15	-8	0	0	0.0%	0	242	31.5	0
Chris Windom	36	33	33	33	26	36	32.4	+3	13	18	-5	0	0	0.0%	0	62	33.7	0
Christopher Bell	15	34	34	34	2	30	28.2	-19	21	11	+10	21	8	20.2%	0	54	64.2	3
Ross Chastain	17	35	35	35	11	24	31.7	-18	23	22	+1	3	0	3.2%	0	52	40.7	2
Aric Almirola	23	36	36	36	23	30	34.6	-13	17	20	-3	0	0	0.0%	0	39	35.3	1
Shane Golobic	35	37	37	37	30	37	36.4	-2	10	4	+6	0	1	0.0%	0	39	30.4	1
Corey Lajoie	30	38	38	38	27	34	37.1	-8	15	23	-8	0	0	0.0%	0	39	30.3	1
Anthony Alfredo	29	39	39	39	26	34	37.9	-10	17	21	-4	0	0	0.0%	0	39	27.8	1

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Race Fast Facts

Bristol Motor Speedway Dirt
61st Annual Food City Dirt Race
Race Winner: Joey Logano
Age: 30
Team : No. 22 - Shell Pennzoil Ford
Owner: Team Penske
Crew Chief: Paul Wolfe
Joey Logano won the 61st Annual Food City Dirt Race, his 27th victory in 442 NASCAR Cup Series races.
This is his first victory and fourth top-10 finish in 2021.
This is his first victory and first top-10 finish in his series debut at Bristol Motor Speedway Dirt. Logano is the 77th different driver to win on a dirt track in the NASCAR Cup Series.
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (second) posted his first top-10 finish in his series debut at Bristol Motor Speedway Dirt. It is his first top-10 finish in 2021.
Denny Hamlin (third) posted his first top-10 finish in his series debut at Bristol Motor Speedway Dirt. It is also his sixth top-five finish this season.
Chase Briscoe (20th) was the highest finishing rookie.
The 2021 season is the fifth different season in the NASCAR Cup Series Modern Era (1972-Present) to start with seven different winners in the first seven races; joining 2014, 2003, 2000 and 1991.

Race Recap

Joey Logano leads final 61 laps to win NASCAR’s dramatic return to dirt racing

March 29th, 2021

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

Joey Logano made history on Monday afternoon.

Leading the final 61 laps in the face of a determined charge by Denny Hamlin, Logano won the rain-delayed Food City Dirt Race at Bristol Motor Speedway, the first dirt-track race for the NASCAR Cup Series since 1970.

But there won’t be that long a gap in the future, given that BMS executive and general manager Jerry Caldwell announced during the race that NASCAR will return to the Bristol dirt in 2022.

Logano grabbed the lead from Daniel Suarez on Lap 193 of a scheduled 250 and held it the rest of the way through a caution for the second stage break and a late yellow that sent the race three laps beyond the prescribed distance.

On the final restart on Lap 252, Logano pulled away, as Hamlin tried and failed to find grip in the outside lane and fell to third behind runner-up Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Logano’s winning margin over Stenhouse was .554 seconds.

Logano is the seventh consecutive different winner in seven races this season.

"Man, it’s incredible," said Logano, who won the second straight race for Team Penske and the 27th of his career, extending his streak of at least one victory per year to 10 years. "How about Bristol on dirt? This is an incredible, unbelievable race track—great job by everyone that prepped the track. Obviously, a lot of work over here the last few days (because of rain that forced postponement from Sunday). We did a lot of work in the dirt department here the last few weeks…

"Great car, obviously, to be able to execute the race that we did and get a win. I was getting nervous. There were so many first-time winners and different winners than there has typically been. I said, ‘We’ve got to get a win to make sure we get in the Playoffs,’ so it’s amazing to get this Shell/Pennzoil Mustang into Victory Lane at Bristol. There’s nothing like winning at Bristol, but putting dirt on it and being the first to do it is really special."

Despite late brushes with the outside wall as he chased Logano, Hamlin now has three third-place finishes and six top fives this season.

"I really couldn’t see a whole lot," referring to the dusty conditions late in the race. "I was kind of guessing. I thought I could, on that last restart, run the top in hard, but they didn’t prep it in-between cautions the way they did before. It was just marbles up there.

"Man, I thought I had a shot there. I cut the 22 (Logano) too many breaks there when he was cutting us off. They had a little better car, it looked like, there in the long run. Proud of this whole team—we’re third-best again."

Suarez held fourth place, followed by Ryan Newman. William Byron, Tyler Reddick, Ryan Blaney, Erik Jones and reigning series champion Chase Elliott completed the top 10.

Two of the experienced dirt drivers expected to battle for the victory were eliminated from contention in one dramatic wreck two laps after the restart that followed the first competition caution.

Running second on Lap 53, Christopher Bell spun in the top lane in Turn 2. Kyle Larson, running the top lane behind Bell, plowed into his chief dirt-track rival in a wreck that also involved Kevin Harvick and Ross Chastain.

"Way to go, Bell—way to go," Larson said sarcastically on his team radio after the wreck. Larson, at least, was able to continue but lost two laps during repairs. Bell and Chastain fell out of the race in 34th and 35th place, respectively. Larson finished 29th, five laps down.

"I was just trying to run the water in under yellow," Bell said after a visit to the infield care center. "I knew it was a little bit slick, but I felt like I could go up there and make some time, and I kind of entered shallow underneath of it and tried to pick it up on exit, and it was just really greasy up there.

"That was a lot of fun, being able to be out there for that first run was really cool and hate it that I can’t be out there longer."

An earlier wreck had given Martin Truex Jr. a fright during his quest to win both a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race and NASCAR Cup event on the same day (Truex had won the Truck race that started at noon). Aric Almirola spun on Lap 41 as part of a five-car incident that unfolded in front of Truex, who was leading at the time. Truex barely managed to dodge the crash.

"Holy crap—that was close!" a relieved Truex said on his team radio. But Truex’s luck didn’t hold. After winning the first stage leading a race-high 126 laps, he cut a tire while running third on the final lap of overtime and finished 19th.