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NASCAR Cup Series

Food City Dirt Race

Bristol Motor Speedway (Dirt)

April 9th, 2023

Race #8 of the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 250
Miles Raced : 133.3
Time of Race : 02 Hours 40 minutes 40 seconds
Average Speed: 46.680 mph
Cautions: 14
Caution Laps: 71
Lead Changes: 4

Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Erik Jones, and Ty Gibbs race — Bristol, Tennessee - April 9th, 2023: Ricky Stenhouse Jr., driver of the #47 Kroger/Irish Spring Chevrolet, Erik Jones, driver of the #43 Club Wyndham Chevrolet, and Ty Gibbs, driver of the #54 Interstate Batteries Toyota, race during the NASCAR Cup Series Food City Dirt Race at Bristol Motor Speedway. Photo by James Gilbert | 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
Christopher Bell	4	5	1	1	1	12	4.0	+3	50	44	+6	47	30	100.0%	100	250	139.6	52
Tyler Reddick	6	1	2	2	1	16	4.8	+4	66	59	+7	64	35	100.0%	69	250	122.7	48
Austin Dillon	2	3	3	3	1	11	4.3	-1	64	54	+10	62	24	100.0%	0	250	121.1	52
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	22	14	7	4	3	22	13.3	+18	137	119	+18	94	0	58.8%	0	250	90.2	33
Chase Briscoe	14	8	5	5	1	15	6.6	+9	56	55	+1	53	8	100.0%	0	250	107.2	41
Justin Haley	25	11	12	6	4	28	14.1	+19	170	145	+25	129	0	75.6%	0	250	86.8	35
Martin Truex Jr	27	6	10	7	2	30	13.1	+20	115	104	+11	73	2	68.0%	0	250	84.2	34
Todd Gilliland	15	18	6	8	1	37	16.4	+7	76	58	+18	18	1	50.0%	0	250	90.8	29
Kevin Harvick	26	26	17	9	9	35	24.6	+17	119	107	+12	11	1	8.0%	0	250	59.8	28
Ty Gibbs	23	15	18	10	10	27	19.8	+13	137	136	+1	15	0	12.0%	0	250	70.7	27
Michael McDowell	13	24	13	11	5	30	14.5	+2	107	115	-8	71	0	67.6%	0	250	75.8	26
Bubba Wallace	11	17	15	12	2	22	13.1	-1	86	89	-3	53	1	59.6%	0	250	78.8	25
William Byron	10	12	16	13	5	18	11.6	-3	119	139	-20	102	0	92.8%	0	250	87.5	25
Erik Jones	18	19	22	14	13	36	23.9	+4	119	119	+0	6	0	3.2%	0	250	58.2	23
Harrison Burton	20	25	19	15	15	33	23.6	+5	111	118	-7	4	0	3.2%	0	250	57.5	22
AJ Allmendinger	29	35	24	16	15	35	29.6	+13	88	83	+5	1	0	0.4%	0	250	42.0	21
Brad Keselowski	33	33	21	17	17	36	29.0	+16	103	93	+10	0	0	0.0%	0	250	42.7	20
Chris Buescher	28	20	14	18	11	37	23.3	+10	116	114	+2	16	0	15.2%	0	250	57.5	19
Austin Cindric	7	22	26	19	5	34	20.1	-12	112	123	-11	16	0	28.4%	0	250	60.0	18
JJ Yeley	3	32	30	20	3	32	23.9	-17	113	132	-19	8	0	18.0%	0	250	46.8	0
Ty Dillon	32	13	23	21	4	37	19.6	+11	107	112	-5	21	0	30.0%	0	250	58.5	16
Denny Hamlin	30	23	28	22	6	35	25.5	+8	142	149	-7	8	0	7.6%	0	250	42.8	15
Ryan Blaney	9	7	4	23	2	29	8.3	-14	108	108	+0	97	3	96.8%	0	250	89.2	23
Ryan Preece	8	34	20	24	3	35	17.6	-16	75	69	+6	22	1	40.8%	0	250	69.1	20
Daniel Suarez	34	30	27	25	17	36	28.5	+9	121	118	+3	0	0	0.0%	0	250	37.0	12
BJ McLeod	37	31	29	26	25	37	32.3	+11	60	55	+5	0	0	0.0%	0	250	31.8	11
Josh Berry	31	29	9	27	3	35	19.6	+4	130	133	-3	44	2	37.2%	0	250	61.6	0
Ross Chastain	16	21	25	28	5	31	21.6	-12	111	147	-36	23	0	14.0%	0	249	46.8	9
Alex Bowman	17	9	8	29	7	29	12.5	-12	102	104	-2	90	0	84.4%	0	248	75.7	8
Corey Lajoie	35	36	31	30	18	37	32.4	+5	37	40	-3	0	0	0.0%	0	247	38.7	7
Aric Almirola	19	10	32	31	1	32	15.7	-12	87	85	+2	61	4	52.0%	0	240	77.0	7
Kyle Busch	5	2	11	32	1	32	7.8	-27	81	90	-9	77	20	90.8%	6	236	87.2	19
Noah Gragson	36	16	33	33	10	36	22.5	+3	141	133	+8	35	0	18.4%	0	205	58.3	4
Matt Crafton	24	27	34	34	18	37	29.4	-10	103	111	-8	0	0	0.0%	0	185	34.0	0
Kyle Larson	1	4	35	35	1	34	15.1	-34	53	53	+0	37	32	61.6%	75	177	105.5	20
Jonathan Davenport	21	28	36	36	19	35	29.2	-15	107	119	-12	0	0	0.0%	0	176	41.2	1
Joey Logano	12	37	37	37	9	37	32.3	-25	70	64	+6	10	0	5.6%	0	96	33.3	1

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Race Fast Facts

Bristol Motor Speedway Dirt
Food City Dirt Race
Race Winner: Christopher Bell
Age: 28
Team : No. 20 - DeWalt Power Stack Toyota
Owner: Joe Gibbs
Crew Chief: Adam Stevens
Christopher Bell won the Food City Dirt Race, his fifth victory in 116 Cup Series races.
This is his first victory and sixth top-10 finish in 2023.
This is his first victory and second top-10 finish in three races at Bristol Motor Speedway Dirt.
Tyler Reddick (second) posted his third top-10 finish in three races at Bristol Motor Speedway Dirt. It is his fourth top-10 finish in 2023.
Austin Dillon (third) posted his first top-10 finish in three races at Bristol Motor Speedway Dirt.
Ty Gibbs (10th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Christopher Bell leads the point standings by 13 points over Ross Chastain.

Race Recap

"Dirt guy" Christopher Bell wins intense NASCAR Cup race on Bristol dirt

April 9th, 2023

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

Before Sunday night's Food City Dirt Race at Bristol Motor Speedway, Christopher Bell lamented that a "dirt guy" hadn't won the NASCAR Cup Series' only race on the red clay in Thunder Valley.

Bell fixed the problem—in a race that also saw hard feelings between pole winner Kyle Larson and Ryan Preece boil over.

Holding off charging Tyler Reddick in the final stage of the 250-lap race, Bell held a slim lead over Reddick when NASCAR called the 14^thcaution with 200 yards left in the final circuit.

A dirt-track aficionado who won three straight Chili Bowl Midget Nationals from 2017-2019, Bell collected his first victory of the season and the fifth of his career.

"Man, let me tell you, these are some of the longest laps of my entire life," Bell said of the lates stages of the race. "This place is so much fun, whether it's dirt or concrete. Whenever the cushion got up there on the top, it was very tough, because you couldn't drive it super hard. Otherwise, you'd get sucked in.

"If you got your right front into it, you'd push a little bit. If you got your right rear into it, you'd slide. It was a lot of fun."

Bell used his experience on dirt to negotiate the two ends of the half-mile track, which featured markedly different racing characteristics.

"(Turns) 3 and 4, that was the scary corner for me, because if you got into it too far, you lost all your momentum," the driver of the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota explained. (Turns) 1 and 2, I think I kept hitting the wall a couple times.

"Seems like there was a little bit more moisture up there—it would hold me better. I'm like, ‘OK, I can really attack 1 and 2.' But 3 and 4, I had to be careful… Definitely the track tonight favored experience."

Staying out on old tires after the end of Stage 2, Bell led the last 100 laps. Reddick, on the other hand, forewent a pit stop after Stage 1 and won Stage 2, but paid the price with a pit stop at the second break and rested 12^thon Lap 151.

It wasn't until Lap 223 that Reddick passed eventual fifth-place finisher Chase Briscoe for the second position, as Briscoe scraped the outside wall in Turn 4. Reddick began his pursuit of Bell, but the final caution foiled any opportunity he might have had.

"Yeah, towards the end there definitely feel like I had a little bit more," Reddick said. "I thought I had the edge, but I wasn't quite there in the last couple laps. Definitely found it.

"Just hate it for everybody on this (No. 45 23XI Racing) Toyota. Just needed to be a little bit closer than I was. I think with two (laps) to go, it would have been really bold to try to make that move work.Obviously, on the white flag coming into (Turns) 3 and 4, I was going to see. We'll never know if it (would have) worked."

Larson won 75-lap Stage 1 wire-to-wire, but he angered Preece with a move that forced the Stewart-Haas Racing driver into the outside wall. On Lap 175, 20 circuits after Larson spun and fell to the rear of the field, Preece returned the favor in Turn 4. Larson's No. 5 Chevrolet then shot to the inside into the door of Preece's No. 41 Ford before spinning into the outside wall.

"Yeah, I'm guessing he was paying me back for whatever I did earlier," said Larson, who exited the race with suspension damage to his car. "He ran me straight into the fence, and my car was broke and we crashed.

"It sucks, but I should just be mad at myself for spinning out earlier and putting myself back there. Just sucks."

Austin Dillon ran third, followed by Daytona 500 winner Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Briscoe and Justin Haley, as drivers with dirt-track backgrounds claimed the top six finishing positions. Martin Truex Jr., Todd Gilliland, Kevin Harvick and Ty Gibbs completed the top 10.

"I just have to thank (Speedway Motorsports Inc.) for all of the hard work they've done with this dirt racing," Dillon said. "I don't care what anybody says, that was an amazing show throughout the field. I felt like it was some great racing."