NASCAR Sprint Cup - Bristol & The Food City 500 on FoX , Sunday , March 18 , 2012 - 1230 PM ET

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[NormsRevenge]

Welcome to this week's 2012 Nascar at FR race thread!

This Week it's The Food City 500 at Bristol!

March 18, 2012



Click for Nascar race & news threads at FR

NASCAR Broadcast Schedule

BROADCAST	DATE	TIME	EVENT
			03|16|12	10:30 a.m.	Ford EcoBoost 300 practice
			03|16|12	Noon	Food City 500 practice
			03|16|12	2 p.m.	Ford EcoBoost 300 final practice
			03|16|12	3:30 p.m.	Food City 500 qualifying
			03|17|12	9:30 a.m.	Food City 500 practice
			03|17|12	10:30 a.m.	Ford EcoBoost 300 qualifying
			03|17|12	Noon	Food City 500 final practice
			03|17|12	1 p.m.	Ford EcoBoost 300
			03|18|12	12:30 p.m.	Food City 500

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Bristol Motor Speedway
Week-end Broadcast Schedule

Bristol Motor Speedway web site

The land upon which Bristol Motor Speedway is built used to be a dairy farm.

Larry Carrier and Carl Moore traveled to Charlotte Motor Speedway in 1960 to watch a race and it was then that they decided to build a speedway in Northeast Tennessee. However, they wanted a smaller model of the Charlotte track, something with a more intimate setting and opted to erect a half-mile facility instead of mirroring the 1.5-mile track.

Work began on what was then called Bristol International Speedway in 1960 and it took approximately one year to finish. Officials scratched many ideas for the track on envelopes and brown paper bags.

The land on which BMS now sits, as well as construction of the track, cost approximately $600,000. The entire layout for BMS covered 100 acres and provided parking for more than 12,000 cars. The track itself was a perfect half-mile, measuring 60 feet wide on the straightaways, 75 feet wide in the turns and the turns were banked at 22 degrees.

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FRFL'ers - Deadline to select your drivers is Aug 20 2:00am PDT

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God Bless Our Troops and Their Families

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The FR Canteen
24 by 7

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FRFLers -Deadline to select your drivers is Mar 16 2:00am PDT

Welcome to this week's 2012 Nascar at FR race thread!

This Week it's The Food City 500 at Bristol!

March 18, 2012



Click for Nascar race & news threads at FR

NASCAR Broadcast Schedule

BROADCAST	DATE	TIME	EVENT
			03|16|12	10:30 a.m.	Ford EcoBoost 300 practice
			03|16|12	Noon	Food City 500 practice
			03|16|12	2 p.m.	Ford EcoBoost 300 final practice
			03|16|12	3:30 p.m.	Food City 500 qualifying
			03|17|12	9:30 a.m.	Food City 500 practice
			03|17|12	10:30 a.m.	Ford EcoBoost 300 qualifying
			03|17|12	Noon	Food City 500 final practice
			03|17|12	1 p.m.	Ford EcoBoost 300
			03|18|12	12:30 p.m.	Food City 500

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Bristol Motor Speedway
Week-end Broadcast Schedule

Bristol Motor Speedway web site

The land upon which Bristol Motor Speedway is built used to be a dairy farm.

Larry Carrier and Carl Moore traveled to Charlotte Motor Speedway in 1960 to watch a race and it was then that they decided to build a speedway in Northeast Tennessee. However, they wanted a smaller model of the Charlotte track, something with a more intimate setting and opted to erect a half-mile facility instead of mirroring the 1.5-mile track.

Work began on what was then called Bristol International Speedway in 1960 and it took approximately one year to finish. Officials scratched many ideas for the track on envelopes and brown paper bags.

The land on which BMS now sits, as well as construction of the track, cost approximately $600,000. The entire layout for BMS covered 100 acres and provided parking for more than 12,000 cars. The track itself was a perfect half-mile, measuring 60 feet wide on the straightaways, 75 feet wide in the turns and the turns were banked at 22 degrees.

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FRFL'ers - Deadline to select your drivers is Aug 20 2:00am PDT

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God Bless Our Troops and Their Families

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The FR Canteen
24 by 7

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FRFLers -Deadline to select your drivers is Mar 16 2:00am PDT

[NormsRevenge]

Bristol race thread Ping!!!

[NYTexan]

wOOhOO! & YeeHaw!

[MtnClimber]

How many Chevy Volts are entered?

[nascarnation]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxKQ8xGBOSg

[saganite]

Forecast says slight chance of a thunderstorm. The race should finish up Sunday even if it gets a bit wet.

[FlingWingFlyer]

We’ve supposed to be getting a big storm here in northern Arizona this weekend too. Looks like we won’t be watching much NASCAR judging from the weather forecast for Bristol.

[umgud]

Yeah baby..... bring it on. Gotta luv Bristol.

[AGreatPer]

My best friend was at Bristol last year. Had a great time.
Said, "This is what the Romans had in mind when they had the chariots."

[tubebender]

10th!!!!!

[vox_freedom]

Thanks for the thread & ping, NormsRevenge!

[vox_freedom]

beat me by less than 1.5 minutes.

[tubebender]

Now I feel bad...

[vox_freedom]

... or F-15's racing around a high school gym.

[eyedigress]

May God Bless the Food City 500!

[vox_freedom]

wOOhOO! & YeeHaw!

[NYTexan]

LOL

[happydogx2]

Thank you for your continued work on the threads, Norm. Here are a few photos from last weeks race. View from our room at the Bellagio - Hauler parade on Thursday - Michael spoke at the hospitality breakfast and the wife and I were amazed that he was so small - 6-0 - seems bigger on TV. Mark Martin & other drivers going to drivers meeting. Mark is tiny but was most fan friendly. It was our first time on pit-road and it was a fantastic,. Two years ago at LVMS there were only a couple hundred folks in the Neon garage. This year there were several thousand.

[happydogx2]

Forgive the jumbled photos. First time using iPhoto & am still learning. They looked fine in “preview”. :)

[SouthTexas]

I think they look just fine. Got more? :)