Richard Childress Racing in the NASCAR Cup Series at Bristol Motor Speedway… In 192 NASCAR Cup Series starts at Bristol Motor Speedway, drivers in Richard Childress Racing-prepared Chevrolets have earned nine wins, 35 top-five and 72 top-10 finishes, completed 93.5% of the laps contested (89,226 of 95,387) and led 3,685 laps entering Saturday’s Bass Pro Shops Night Race. Seven of those victories were scored by Dale Earnhardt: both races in 1985 and 1987, plus victories in 1988 (fall), 1994 (spring), and 1999 (spring). Kevin Harvick won the 2005 spring event while Jeff Burton won the spring race at Bristol Motor Speedway in 2008. In the Cup Series’ most recent appearance at Bristol Motor Speedway in April, Austin Dillon led the organization with a strong top-10 finish, and Kyle Busch finished 14th.

RCR in the NASCAR Xfinity Series at Bristol Motor Speedway… Richard Childress Racing has nine NASCAR Xfinity Series victories at Bristol Motor Speedway, led by Kevin Harvick’s four wins (2000, 2001, 2003, and 2005). Other drivers who have posted wins at the Tennessee short track include Jeff Green (2002), Clint Bowyer (2008), Elliott Sadler (2012), Austin Dillon (2016), and Tyler Reddick (2019). The storied organization has racked up 39 top-five and 66 top-10 finishes at the high-banked oval.

Did You Know? Richard Childress raced at Bristol Motor Speedway during the height of his driving career in the 1970s and early 1980s. While Childress didn’t win at Bristol, he did manage several top-10 finishes between 1977-1980 driving the famed No. 3, showing he could hold his own on the high-banked, bullring-style track.

Three Times the Fun… RCR will field three Cup Series teams this weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway. Austin Hill returns to the No. 33 United Rentals Chevrolet, led by crew chief Andy Street. Hill and Street have a winning combination with 10 wins together in the Xfinity Series (2022-2024).

The Cowboy Way… The Carolina Cowboys, a professional bull riding team in the PBR Teams league, an elite league featuring the world’s top bull riders competing in games throughout the country, return home on September 12-14 for their fourth annual Cowboy Days homestand at First Horizon Coliseum. Tickets for the event are on sale now, and start at $20, taxes and fees not included. They can be purchased online at TicketMaster.com and PBR.com, at the First Horizon Coliseum Box Office, or by calling PBR customer service at (800) 732-1727. For more information on Carolina Cowboys, and for updates on the upcoming PBR Cowboy Days, visit https://pbr.com/teams/carolina-cowboys, Carolina Cowboys on Facebook, @carolinacowboyspbr on Instagram, or @CARCowboysPBR on Twitter.

Friday Tune In… The Food City 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway will be televised live on Friday, September 12 beginning at 7:30 p.m. ET on The CW Network. NASCAR Xfinity Series practice (2 p.m. Friday) and qualifying (3:05 p.m. Friday) can be viewed on The CW App.

Catch the Action Saturday… The Bass Pro Shops Night Race will be televised live on Saturday, September 13 beginning at 7:30 p.m. ET on USA and will be broadcast live on the Performance Racing Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90. NASCAR Cup Series practice (4:30 p.m.) and qualifying (5:40 p.m.) on Friday will be broadcast on truTV. Ride shotgun all season long with live, in-car camera feeds and scanner audio with a paid subscription to Max as part of their NASCAR driver cam experience during the race.
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Austin Dillon and the No. 3 Bass Pro Shops/Winchester Chevrolet at Bristol Motor Speedway… Austin Dillon has one top-five and four top-10 finishes in 20 NASCAR Cup Series starts at Bristol Motor Speedway. The NASCAR Playoffs contender heads into the Last Great Coliseum with momentum on his side after finishing 10th at the track in his most recent appearance there in April. Dillon is a former winner in the NASCAR Xfinity Series at Bristol Motor Speedway (2016) and owns four top-five and five top-10 finishes in that series. He has also made two NASCAR Truck Series starts at the track.

Winner, Winner… Dillon has won at Bristol Motor Speedway on both the paved and dirt configurations. In addition to winning a NASCAR Xfinity Series race at the Tennessee track in August 2016 (paved), Dillon was among the first drivers to compete on the track’s dirt surface in 2021. The veteran racer won two features and a heat race in a 604 Crate Late Model for Corey Hedgecock Racing

Get to the Points… After punching his ticket into the 2025 post season with a dominating performance and win at Richmond Raceway on August 16, Dillon continues to vie for a spot in the next round of the NASCAR Playoffs, the Round of 12, which will be determined this weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway. Dillon is currently ranked 13th in the standings, just 11 points below the cut line, after salvaging an 18th-place finish at World Wide Technology Raceway despite facing handling issues all day.

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Cowboy Days… Dillon will be traveling back and forth between Bristol, Tenn. and Greensboro, N.C. this weekend to help support the Carolina Cowboys, who are hosting their fourth-annual homestand at the Greensboro Coliseum. Dillon serves as general manager of the team, which are currently ranked No. 6 in the league, with an 8-12 record. They are amid a two-game win streak, having most recently beaten the New York Mavericks and Kansas City Outlaws in consecutive days in Anaheim, California. When they compete at home, they will first play the No. 5 Missouri Thunder on Sept. 12, followed by the 2022 PBR Teams Champion and current No. 9 Nashville Stampede on Sept. 13, and the reigning PBR Teams Champion and current No. 2 Austin Gamblers on Sept. 14.

Meet Dillon… Dillon is scheduled to sign merchandise at the RCR Merch Trailer in the Bristol Motor Speedway Fan Midway on Saturday at 2:15 p.m. Local Time. Stop by to meet the driver of the No. 3 Bass Pro Shops/Winchester Chevrolet and get new RCR gear. Dillon is also scheduled to make a stop at the Bass Pro Shops display in the Fan Midway on Saturday at 3 p.m. Local Time.

AUSTIN DILLON QUOTES:

What’s night racing at Bristol Motor Speedway like?

“Night racing at Bristol Motor Speedway is special. No other crowd like that. The energy is electric going into the Last Great Coliseum. I can’t wait to get there and run all over that track. It’s a fun one. I think every time you walk inside that place you get goose bumps. You get excited. The adrenaline is always pumping. I love going to Bristol.”

Is there extra motivation to perform at Bristol Motor Speedway knowing it is the Bass Pro Shops Night Race and it means so much to Johnny Morris and all of the Bass Pro Shops Outfitters?

“I think going to the Bass Pro Shops Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway and looking at what it means to Bass Pro Shops and Johnny Morris, to win their race is always something that you’re trying to do. It would mean a lot to come back to Welcome, North Carolina with their trophy.”

Does anything transfer over from the Spring race to the Fall race at Bristol Motor Speedway? Or are they two different beasts?

“I think some things do transfer over. Similar temperatures, although I think this race may be a little bit cooler than the first race, but what we learned in the first race should apply.”

Busy weekend for you with both the Bristol night race and the Carolina Cowboys homestand taking place…

“We’ll be racing for our spot to transfer into the next round in the NASCAR Playoffs in Bristol, along with the Carolina Cowboys having their home event at First Horizon Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina, so it should be an exciting weekend for Welcome, North Carolina.”

Kyle Busch and the No. 8 Lucas Oil Chevrolet at Bristol Motor Speedway… Saturday’s Bass Pro Shops Night Race will mark Kyle Busch’s 38th career NASCAR Cup Series start on concrete at Bristol Motor Speedway. Earlier this season, Busch qualified 15th and finished 14th when the Cup Series visited the Tennessee track for the ninth race of 2025.

Busch leads all active drivers in multiple categories: most victories (eight) – 2007 (spring), 2009 (both races), 2010 (fall), 2011 (spring), 2017 (fall), 2018 (spring) and 2019 (spring), most top-five finishes (14) and most laps led (2,598). Busch’s eight wins on the track are fifth all-time. Additionally, the driver of the Lucas Oil Chevrolet has earned two Cup Series pole positions at the Tennessee short track – 2013 (spring) and 2018 (spring).

The NASCAR Hat Trick, Twice… In 2010, Busch made history at Bristol, becoming the first driver to win all three NASCAR national series races in the same weekend. Seven years later, in 2017, Busch repeated the accomplishment – again at the Last Great Colosseum – when he secured victories in the Truck, Xfinity, and Cup Series races.

A Place of Firsts… Busch’s first win at Bristol came on March 25, 2007, a date forever etched in NASCAR history. Driving the No. 5 Chevrolet, Busch earned the honor of becoming the first winner in “The Car of Tomorrow.” He was able to hold off RCR’s Jeff Burton in a side-by-side overtime finish. The victory also secured his place as the youngest winner in Bristol history at the age of 21 years, 10 months, and 23 days old.

Wins Not Limited to Concrete… Busch won the 2022 dirt race at Bristol Motor Speedway from a distant third place when, in the late stages, second-place Chase Briscoe slid up the high-banked dirt track and into the Chevrolet of leader Tyler Reddick in the final corner, getting both cars out of shape. Busch’s momentum coming off Turn 4 carried him past Reddick by 0.330 seconds to claim victory.

Checkered Flags Galore… Along with his eight Cup Series wins on concrete, and his premier series victory on the dirt surface in 2022 in Bristol, Busch has nine NASCAR Xfinity Series wins and five NASCAR Truck Series victories, marking 23 checkered flags at The World’s Fastest Half-Mile” across all three NASCAR national series and surface configurations.

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Meet Busch… Busch will first visit the fan zone on Friday, September 12 for a Q&A at the Food City Fan Zone stage at 3:30 p.m. local time. He is then scheduled to sign merchandise at the RCR Merch Trailer in the Bristol Motor Speedway Fan Midway on Saturday, September 13 at 3:40 p.m. Stop by to meet the driver of the No. 8 Lucas Oil Chevrolet and get new RCR gear. Busch is also scheduled to make a stop at the Tennessee Army National Guard display in the Fan Midway later that afternoon at 4:45 p.m.

KYLE BUSCH QUOTES:

What is it like to race at Bristol?

“Bristol’s one of my favorite tracks, if not my favorite. I love going there, it’s obviously a great place. It reminds me of the local short track atmosphere that you get on Saturday nights, growing up racing late models and things like that. It’s a lot of fun, I love the banking, I love the concrete and just the nature of that place. It’s gotten a little bit tougher over the years to be as good as I once was there. Everybody’s kind of picked up on it. It’s definitely one of the coolest tracks that we get a chance to go run on. And obviously, the speed that you carry there and the close nature to action, whether you run the bottom or whether you run the top, there’s just a lot of options.”

What is it like having to navigate the top and the bottom? Selecting a line multiple times, you may run the top, you may run the bottom, each lap. What’s it like to just navigate through all of that, every lap at that track?

“Yeah, every scenario is different at Bristol. The biggest thing is restarts. You’ve got to be ready to get down to the bottom. It seems like the bottom really fires off and takes off early. And then as the pace progresses and falls off, then you’ve got to get to the top. You want to be one of the first ones up to the top so that people don’t get up in front of you and block you and not allow you through traffic. It’s just really a challenging race. It’s more of a chess game a lot of times, too, rather than just trying to figure out all raw speeds.”

What are the differences for a day race there versus a night race? Are there any differences with the concrete?

“I really don’t notice much difference with day race or night race at Bristol. Honestly, it’s just whether you’re wearing a tinted visor or a clear visor, the racetrack being concrete surface and the temperature of the surface doesn’t really change as much as asphalt does. So, it lends itself to being more similar.”

Pit road there can be tricky. Green flag stops only going down once or yellow flag stops you’re going through the whole pit road. What is it like managing your lights there with the multi-speed zones in that pit road?

“Yeah, Bristol’s really tough with pit road speeds. You’re up and down on your speeds and managing your lights and things like that as you go through the turns and on the straights. We’ve kind of found over the years the hot sections of the sections that read a little bit faster than you think you’re going. You try to pick in those to eliminate those and knock them out. But also for me, the multiple pit lane thing, getting confused on which one to come in. I always like picking on the back stretch so that it’s just always enter off of turn two. And whether you have to run the full pit road under yellow or you just can exit into turn three on green flag scenario, it just makes it so much simpler.”

A lot of strategy goes into selection of pit stalls there. Is pitting on the back stretch versus the front stretch, is there an advantage to one or the other? You just mentioned you like to pit on the back stretch. What do you see in that that really helps you there?

“Obviously, the four corner spots are probably the most advantageous spots. Whether it’s spot number one, I think it’s 15, 16, and then 43. Those are the ones that you want. Everything in between, there’s no openings there. It’s really tough to have any sort of advantage besides those four. It really doesn’t make a whole lot of difference at Bristol on pit road. It’s just how you navigate your sections.”

And sometimes people say the first time you go there, you kind of forget to breathe for a couple of laps. What are the G-loads and the forces like going into those corners with such steep banking?

“Bristol is tough when you get there for practice. First time you get there and you’re in practice, it’s kind of like a cardio session. You’re trying to breathe and you’re trying to work through your breathing and everything, but you kind of hold your breath a little so you become out of breath. But it’s just a cool place. Being able to go somewhere like that that gives you those G-loads and that feeling is cool.”

Austin Hill and the No. 33 United Rentals Chevrolet at Bristol Motor Speedway… Austin Hill will make his first NASCAR Cup Series start at Bristol Motor Speedway this Saturday. Hill has driven in four career NASCAR Xfinity Series races at the Tennessee short track, capturing a best finish of third in 2022. The Winston, Georgia native has also competed in six NASCAR Truck Series events (best finish of 10th) and three ARCA Menards Series East races (best finish of fifth) at the World’s Fastest Half Mile.

Two to Go in 2025… This weekend will mark Hill’s fourth of five starts behind the wheel of the No. 33 United Rentals Chevrolet during the 2025 Cup Series season. The final race of the limited schedule will take place at Talladega Superspeedway on October 19. Hill earned his first career Cup Series top-10 result at the Chicago Street Race in July.

First Cup Series Short Track Start… Saturday’s Bass Pro Shops Night Race will mark Hill’s inaugural Cup Series start on a short track – the last style of circuit for the racer to compete at. Through 13 career premier series events, Hill has raced on at least one superspeedway, intermediate oval, and road/street course.

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Meet Hill… On Saturday, September 13 at 5:05 p.m. Local Time, Hill is scheduled to sign autographs and greet fans at the RCR Merchandise Hauler in the Fan Zone at Bristol Motor Speedway. Stop by to meet the 31-year-old and purchase gear before the green flag waves.

AUSTIN HILL QUOTE:

What are you expecting from the new tire compound and making your first Cup Series short track start?

“To run under the lights in a Cup car at Bristol (Motor Speedway) is something I’ve been excited about. I have never run a Cup car on any short track, but the goal is to complete 500 laps and learn as much as possible. I hope the new right-side tire still has falloff and that we are slipping and sliding around while having to manage your stuff. I could see us being able to move around the track – run on bottom or the top. The racing should be good, but until we get on the track in practice and see how the tire reacts, time will tell. Overall, I’m looking forward to the race in our United Rentals Chevrolet and ready for a double duty weekend.”

Jesse Love and the No. 2 Whelen Chevrolet at Bristol Motor Speedway… Jesse Love has made two career NASCAR Xfinity Series starts at Bristol Motor Speedway, earning a fourth-place result in 2024 and a sixth-place result earlier this year while piloting the No. 2 Whelen Chevrolet. The Menlo Park, California native has also competed in three career ARCA Menards Series events (2021-2023) at the Last Great Colosseum, where Love started inside the top-five for all three races and recorded a best finish of second-place in 2023.

Let the Playoffs Begin… This weekend’s Food City 300 will mark the first weekend of the NASCAR Xfinity Series Playoffs as the Round of 12 gets underway. Love begins his second career Playoffs ranked fourth in the standings, trailing leader Connor Zilisch by 51 points. With two races remaining before the first elimination on Oct. 4 after the Charlotte Roval, Love is eight points ahead of the cutline. During the regular season, Love led the Xfinity Series in top-10 finishes with 18, while also thrice qualifying on the pole and racing to a win at the season-opener in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Rearview Mirror… Last weekend at World Wide Technology Raceway, Love began the race eighteenth. Piloting one of the fastest cars on the track, Love raced the No. 2 Whelen Chevrolet to the front of the field, earning his eighth top-five finish of the season, finishing the race fifth.

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Meet Love… Love is scheduled to make an appearance at the RCR Merchandise Hauler in the Bristol Motor Speedway Fan Midway on Friday, September 12 at 4:40 p.m. Local Time. Stop by to meet the driver of the No. 2 Whelen Chevrolet and purchase gear for race day. Later that afternoon, Love will visit the Chevy Display for a Q&A beginning at 5:00 p.m. Local Time.

JESSE LOVE QUOTE:

What are your thoughts heading into Bristol Motor Speedway?

“I’m looking forward to going to Bristol, it should be a pretty dynamic race. It’s my favorite race the year, so I’m looking forward to it. Bristol is my favorite short track on the schedule and a place I’ve had a lot of close success at in the past. I’ve never had a chance to win there, yet, but have been pretty close on multiple occasions. I know in the spring we were just a little bit behind some of the JRM guys. But I feel like we’ve closed the gap a little bit since then, we’ve been working really hard as a team, as a company, so I think we’ll have a really good shot at it this week So hopefully it’s a good run for us. We’ve got to have our car turning good in Bristol, and be able to run the top and the bottom.”

Austin Hill and the No. 21 Bennett Transportation & Logistics Chevrolet at Bristol Motor Speedway… Austin Hill has made four career NASCAR Xfinity Series starts at Bristol Motor Speedway, claiming a best finish of third in 2022 while driving the No. 21 Bennett Transportation & Logistics Chevrolet. The Winston, Georgia native has also driven in six NASCAR Truck Series events (best finish of 10th) and three ARCA Menards Series East races (best finish of fifth) at the Last Great Colosseum.

Regular Season Rewind… In 25 Xfinity Series regular season events, Hill has tallied three wins, 11 top-five and 14 top-10 finishes. The championship contender has led a total of 306 laps and completed 94.4 percent of laps competed (3543 of 3752).

Let the Playoffs Begin… Hill enters the Xfinity Series Playoffs as the 12th seed, five points behind the eighth-place cutline. Despite starting the postseason with zero Playoff points, the veteran racer is only 13 points out of the fourth position. The first round consists of three races at three different styles of tracks – short track at Bristol Motor Speedway, intermediate oval at Kansas Speedway, and road course at the Charlotte Motor Speedway ROVAL.

Playoff History… Last season, Hill earned his first career Xfinity Series Championship 4 berth. Coming off a dominating victory at Homestead-Miami Speedway in the Round of 8, the 31-year-old clinched his spot in the final four – marking his inaugural championship race appearance in any NASCAR series.

Double Duty… This weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway, Hill will climb aboard the No. 33 United Rentals Chevrolet to make the fourth of five NASCAR Cup Series starts in the 2025 season.

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AUSTIN HILL QUOTES:

What is the mindset heading to Bristol Motor Speedway?

“Out of all the tracks we go to in the Playoffs, Bristol (Motor Speedway) is probably my least favorite. The main reason why is we have had some success there, but we have also run really bad there. It’s a case of mixed emotions. We don’t have to go out, set the world on fire, and win the race. I would love to win the race on Friday, but if we can have a strong top-10 showing, that will help us going into the next two races to advance to the Round of 8. If we can get through this weekend, I feel good about everywhere else.”

With not having any Playoff points to start the round, does your approach change?

“No, not for me. Every Playoff that I’ve been in, especially last year, my number one focus is to try and win the race. If we can’t win the race or don’t have a car capable of it, then we want to finish second. If we can’t finish second, we want to finish third, and so on. So, I don’t look at this Playoff any differently even though we don’t have any extra points to start with on the driver’s side. Starting five points back from the cutline, I personally don’t think we are at a huge deficient to start the round. We, as the No. 21 team, just have to go out there and do our jobs.”

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