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NASCAR Cup Series

Food City Dirt Race

Bristol Motor Speedway (Dirt)

April 17th, 2022

Race #9 of the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 250
Miles Raced : 133.3
Time of Race : 00 Hours 00 minutes 00 seconds
Average Speed: 0.000 mph
Margin of Victory : Under caution
Cautions: 0
Caution Laps: 0
Lead Changes: 0

Kyle Busch drives at Bristol Motor Speedway — Bristol, Tennessee - April 17th, 2022: Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 Mars Crunchy Cookie Toyota, drives during the NASCAR Cup Series Food City Dirt Race at Bristol Motor Speedway. Photo by Logan Riely | 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
Kyle Busch	11	5	2	1	1	26	4.7	+10	57	44	+13	56	13	99.6%	1	250	131.2	52
Tyler Reddick	3	10	1	2	1	17	5.4	+1	42	44	-2	42	27	99.6%	99	250	132.3	39
Joey Logano	10	8	4	3	2	12	6.3	+7	34	37	-3	34	4	100.0%	0	250	116.2	42
Kyle Larson	5	3	7	4	1	24	6.6	+1	48	29	+19	31	27	86.8%	27	250	136.0	48
Ryan Blaney	25	11	5	5	3	25	10.3	+20	75	58	+17	57	2	81.6%	0	250	94.6	36
Alex Bowman	8	28	8	6	2	32	13.5	+2	76	62	+14	39	1	76.4%	0	250	102.1	36
Christopher Bell	2	2	6	7	1	19	6.1	-5	49	38	+11	46	14	98.0%	0	250	125.8	47
Chase Elliott	9	7	15	8	3	26	14.0	+1	92	72	+20	51	3	59.6%	0	250	102.7	36
Michael McDowell	17	12	11	9	6	23	13.2	+8	85	74	+11	55	0	64.4%	0	250	73.7	31
Ty Dillon	7	9	12	10	2	25	9.6	-3	80	66	+14	58	7	85.2%	0	250	118.0	36
Brad Keselowski	18	21	9	11	2	33	14.9	+7	110	99	+11	48	5	54.4%	0	250	81.5	26
Daniel Suarez	21	1	17	12	1	26	14.2	+9	75	70	+5	18	7	39.2%	64	250	88.0	33
Cole Custer	1	22	18	13	1	36	24.7	-12	90	101	-11	13	0	13.6%	0	250	47.3	24
Justin Haley	6	18	16	14	5	21	13.8	-8	96	111	-15	50	0	62.0%	0	250	87.0	23
Chris Buescher	15	16	10	15	6	30	13.4	+0	73	90	-17	44	0	74.0%	0	250	77.3	22
Austin Cindric	20	27	14	16	8	32	21.6	+4	103	116	-13	7	0	10.0%	0	250	58.2	21
Todd Gilliland	23	17	21	17	12	31	20.9	+6	121	111	+10	23	0	7.2%	0	250	62.7	20
William Byron	19	20	13	18	5	23	16.7	+1	78	79	-1	23	0	32.8%	0	250	64.7	19
Corey Lajoie	26	25	22	19	19	32	25.2	+7	85	80	+5	0	0	0.0%	0	250	54.7	18
Harrison Burton	24	23	20	20	13	32	23.4	+4	111	112	-1	1	0	1.6%	0	250	50.8	17
Martin Truex Jr	30	24	26	21	9	31	26.8	+9	87	80	+7	0	1	0.4%	0	250	54.6	16
Chase Briscoe	4	4	3	22	1	33	6.9	-18	61	43	+18	55	31	89.2%	59	250	95.3	25
Aric Almirola	31	31	25	23	12	35	27.0	+8	86	101	-15	10	0	7.2%	0	250	40.7	14
Erik Jones	14	32	19	24	13	31	21.8	-10	221	261	-40	2	0	9.6%	0	250	57.5	13
Josh Williams	36	30	23	25	22	36	29.9	+11	53	55	-2	0	0	0.0%	0	250	40.0	0
Cody Ware	35	29	24	26	18	36	30.5	+9	49	52	-3	0	0	0.0%	0	250	35.8	11
Noah Gragson	28	33	27	27	21	34	30.8	+1	32	32	+0	0	0	0.0%	0	248	40.0	0
Bubba Wallace	22	19	29	28	10	31	18.8	-6	87	83	+4	19	0	40.0%	0	245	63.5	9
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	16	13	30	29	8	32	18.8	-13	80	75	+5	41	6	47.2%	0	240	80.8	9
JJ Yeley	29	26	28	30	1	30	23.3	-1	103	105	-2	5	0	7.2%	0	221	57.0	0
Austin Dillon	12	14	31	31	2	24	11.3	-19	47	63	-16	46	3	84.0%	0	211	84.0	13
Kurt Busch	13	15	32	32	7	29	19.5	-19	96	104	-8	14	0	38.0%	0	211	73.3	5
Ross Chastain	33	6	33	33	1	33	23.1	+0	42	44	-2	13	2	30.8%	0	150	48.8	4
Kevin Harvick	32	34	34	34	23	36	33.7	-2	22	17	+5	0	0	0.0%	0	100	26.0	3
Denny Hamlin	34	35	35	35	15	34	32.0	-1	30	26	+4	0	0	0.4%	0	91	33.5	2
Justin Allgaier	27	36	36	36	25	33	33.5	-9	27	35	-8	0	0	0.0%	0	74	32.3	0

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Race Fast Facts

Bristol Motor Speedway Dirt
62nd Annual Food City Dirt Race
Race Winner: Kyle Busch
Age: 36
Team : No. 18 - Mars Crunchy Cookie Toyota
Owner: Joe Gibbs Racing
Crew Chief: Ben Beshore
Kyle Busch won the 62nd Annual Food City Dirt Race, his 60th victory in 615 NASCAR Cup Series races - Busch is ranked ninth all-time in Cup wins.
This is his first victory and sixth top-10 finish in 2022.
This is his first victory and first top-10 finish in two races at Bristol Motor Speedway Dirt.
Tyler Reddick (second) posted his second top-10 finish in two races at Bristol Motor Speedway Dirt. It is his fourth top-10 finish in 2022.
Joey Logano (third) posted his second top-10 finish in two races at Bristol Motor Speedway Dirt.
Austin Cindric (16th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Kyle Busch (2005-2022) has tied NASCAR Hall of Famer Richard Petty (1960-1977) with 18 consecutive seasons with a victory, an all-time record in the NASCAR Cup Series.

Race Recap

Kyle Busch steals a milestone victory in wild race on Bristol Dirt

April 17th, 2022

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

Kyle Busch has a special fondness for Bristol Motor Speedway, but the driver of the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota needed a huge stroke of luck on Sunday night to rekindle his love affair with the half-mile track.

Busch won the Food City Dirt Race from a distant third place after the Ford of second-place Chase Briscoe slid up the high-banked dirt track into the Chevrolet of leader Tyler Reddick in the final corner, turning both cars sideways.

Reddick righted his Camaro and steered toward the finish line, but Busch's momentum off Turn 4 carried his No. 18 Camry past the flag stand .330 second ahead of Reddick, who was denied his first NASCAR Cup Series victory.

Busch, on the other hand, notched his 60th career victory, ninth-most all-time and most among active drivers. With his first win of the season, he matched Richard Petty's series record streak of 18 years with at least one trip to Victory Lane.

An eight-time winner on Bristol's traditional concrete surface—again, most among active drivers—Busch won the second NASCAR Cup Series dirt race since 1970 and the first featuring the new Next Gen race car.

"Yeah, we got one," Busch said with a wry smile. "Doesn't matter how you get ‘em. It's all about getting ‘em. Can't say enough. I mean, man, I feel like Dale Earnhardt Sr. right now (as the crowd booed his unexpected victory). This is awesome. I didn't do anything."

After the second of two rain delays, Busch restarted second on Lap 227, but he fell back as Briscoe passed him on Lap 232 of 250 and began to chase Reddick for the lead.

"I don't know why, we couldn't fire off after it rained, both times," Busch said. "It just would not fire. Took it about 20 laps to get going.

"Overall, just really pumped to be back. Real pumped to get a win. This one means a lot. I can win on any surface here at Bristol. Bring it on, baby."

A chagrined Briscoe took full responsibility for the accident that handed Busch the win.

"I was running Tyler down and tried throwing a slider and didn't expect him to drive in there on me, and I got loose," Briscoe said. "I was spinning either way. I feel terrible. I didn't want to wreck him. That was my fault 100 percent. I hate it for Tyler. He's a good friend of mine."

Reddick took the disappointment with consummate grace.

"I don't think I did everything right, to be honest with you," Reddick said. "Briscoe was able to run me back down there. Just looking at it, I should have done a little bit better job of just… I don't know. I shouldn't have let him get that close. He ran me back down. Worked really hard to do that.

"I mean, you're racing on dirt, going for the move on the final corner. It's everything that, as a driver, you hope to battle for in his situation. Made it really exciting for the fans, so… It does suck, but we were able to finish second still. I'm being honest. I should have done a better job and pulled away so he wasn't in range to try to make that move. That's how I look at it."

Reddick took control of the race after a restart on Lap 151 to begin the final stage. With a ferocious run through Turns 1 and 2, he shot between the cars of Kyle Busch on the top and Joey Logano on the bottom to take the lead for the first time.

He held the top spot for the next 99 laps, through five cautions and the second rain delay. The final lap was the only one Busch led.

Briscoe was credited with a 22nd-place finish after running second into the final set of corners.

Joey Logano came home third, 4.004 seconds behind the race winner. Kyle Larson was fourth, followed by Ryan Blaney, Alex Bowman, Christopher Bell, Chase Elliott, Michael McDowell and Ty Dillon.