NASCAR at Bristol: Odds, TV times, entry lists, results and more

BRISTOL, Tenn. — The concrete colosseum will come alive again this weekend as the first Bristol weekend will run on the concrete after three years on dirt.

NASCAR Cup Series Food City 500

• 3:30 p.m. Sunday, March 17 (all times Eastern)
• FOX, PRN affiliates, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90
• 500 laps (Stages End on Laps: 125/250/500)

May 31, 2020. That was the last time the NASCAR Cup Series had a daytime race on the concrete high banks of Bristol.

Brad Keselowski took the checkered flag that day. He won three more times in the next 37 races before going winless for 102 races – and counting.

The RFK Racing owner-driver says he isn’t feeling the burn of not winning in almost three years. However, a win would feel nice and could come at Bristol.

Keselowski has led double-digit laps in seven of the last nine concrete Bristol races. That includes his May 2020 win. It doesn’t include the last trip to Bristol in September when he finished eighth.

Chris Buescher, his teammate, has been stellar. Buescher, Bell and Larson are the only drivers with a top-5 finish in each Gen 7-era race on the concrete.

Bell sticks out as he doesn’t have a win on the concrete yet. Teammate Denny Hamlin is the most recent winner (September 2023) and is one of six past winners in the field this Sunday.

NASCAR Cup Series at Bristol Odds from BetTennessee:

Getting into the odds, two-time winner Joey Logano is the only one not among the favorites. At +1800, however, he isn’t too far off.

• Kyle Larson (1 Bristol win): +400
• Denny Hamlin (3 Bristol wins): +500
• Christopher Bell: +500
• William Byron: +1100
• Ryan Blaney +1100
• Chris Buescher (1 win): +1100
• Brad Keselowski (3 wins): +1200
• Tyler Reddick: +1300
• Ty Gibbs: +1300
• Kyle Busch (8 wins): +1600

Chase Elliott is at +2000. Elliott, Bell, Larson, Buescher, Byron and Hamlin are the only drivers with a top-10 finish in each concrete Bristol race with the Gen 7 car.

Top-10 in 2023: Hamlin (led 142 laps), Larson (led 20 laps), Bell (led 187 laps, won both stages), Buescher (led 1 lap), Gibbs (led 102 laps), Michael McDowell, Elliott, Keselowski, Byron, Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

Corey LaJoie led 48 laps and placed second in stage one, thanks to a strategy call.

NASCAR Cup Series at Bristol Starting Lineup and Practice Results

Qualifying is important. In 123 Cup Series races at Bristol, a winner has started outside of the top 20 just six times:

April 1994 (Dale Earnhardt, started 24th), August 1999 (Earnhardt, 26th), March 2001 and ’02 (Elliott Sadler, 38th; Kurt Busch, 27th), August 2004 (Dale Earnhardt Jr., 30th) and August 2016 (Kevin Harvick, 24th).

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series WeatherGuard Truck Race

• 8 p.m. Saturday, March 16
• FS1, MRN affiliates, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90
• 250 laps (Stages End on Laps: 65/130/250)

After two weeks of 32-truck entry lists, 36 trucks are entered for this weekend’s NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Bristol. It marks the first full field for the series since the season opener a month ago at Daytona.

Trey Hutchens (No. 14 Trey Hutchens Racing Chevrolet) and Justin Carroll (No. 90 Terry Carroll Motorsports Toyota) are each making their first appearances this season.

Stefan Parsons (No. 75 Henderson Motorsports Chevrolet) and Mason Maggio (No. 21 Floridian Motorsports Toyota) are back for the first time since Daytona and Atlanta, respectively.

Kaden Honeycutt will get his second drive in the No. 45 Niece Motorsports entry. In his maiden voyage at Atlanta, he finished sixth – a career-best finish.

Also returning to the Truck Series are William Sawalich (No. 1 TRICON Garage Toyota), Kyle Busch (No. 7 Spire Chevrolet), Zane Smith (No. 91 McAnally-Hilgemann Racing Chevrolet).

Busch is entering his first Truck Series race at Bristol since August 2017. He led 109 of 203 laps and earned his fifth Truck win at Bristol, kicking off a weekend sweep of all three series that year – a feat he also accomplished in August 2010.

Ty Majeski and Corey Heim are the only other past Bristol winners entered in the field for Saturday night. Majeski won at Bristol in September 2022 to lock into the Championship Four – a year before Heim did that.

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series at Bristol Odds from DraftKings:

• Kyle Busch: +140
• Corey Heim: +600
• Christian Eckes: +600
• Ty Majeski: +800
• Zane Smith: +1000
• Tyler Ankrum: +1200
• Grant Enfinger: +1200
• Rajah Caruth: +1600
• Layne Riggs: +2000
• Taylor Gray/Nick Sanchez: +2500

Ben Rhodes, who won the WeatherGuard Truck Race when it was on dirt last year, is at +3500.

William Sawalich, who showed out with three top-10 finishes in six starts last year, isn’t even listed on the odds. If you’re betting and your sportsbook lists the 17-year-old Minnesota native, you may want to lay a few bucks on him.

Top-10 in 2023: Heim (led 6 laps), Eckes (led 150 laps, won both stages), Enfinger, Carson Hocevar, Taylor Gray, Caruth, Rhodes, Chase Purdy (led 1 lap), Sanchez, Matt DiBenedetto

Zane Smith also led 43 laps but finished 24th after a miscue on pit road.

Truck Practice Results

NASCAR Cup Series Points

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Points