Bristol Motor Speedway qualifying results, TV schedule and race info for the NASCAR Cup Series event on April 12th, 2026<\/p>\n
NASCAR Cup Series drivers will take the green flag in Bristol, Tennessee on Sunday afternoon. This is the race info page for the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n
View the NASCAR starting lineup and TV schedule for Bristol Motor Speedway below. <\/p>\n
Stages:
125\/250\/500 2026<\/p>\n
Purse:
$11,233,037<\/p>\n
Bristol Motor Speedway
TV Schedule<\/p>\n
The following includes all on-track action:<\/p>\n
Sunday
April 12, 2026<\/p>\n
1:30pm ET
NASCAR.com
Press Pass<\/p>\n
3:00pm ET
FS1 | FOX One | HBO Max | PRN
NASCAR Cup Series
Race<\/p>\n
NASCAR.com
Press Pass: Post NCS Race<\/p>\n
Bristol Motor Speedway
Qualifying Results
April 2026
NASCAR Cup Series<\/p>\n
Pos | Driver | Best Time<\/p>\n
1. Ryan Blaney
15.101<\/p>\n
2. Tyler Reddick
15.124<\/p>\n
3. Chase Briscoe
15.135<\/p>\n
4. Riley Herbst
15.147<\/p>\n
5. Ty Gibbs
15.164<\/p>\n
6. Ross Chastain
15.175<\/p>\n
7. Chris Buescher
15.190<\/p>\n
8. Kyle Larson
15.192<\/p>\n
9. Austin Cindric
15.200<\/p>\n
10. Carson Hocevar
15.201<\/p>\n
11. Denny Hamlin
15.225<\/p>\n
12. Bubba Wallace
15.231<\/p>\n
13. Daniel Suarez
15.233<\/p>\n
14. Christopher Bell
15.261<\/p>\n
15. Zane Smith
15.277<\/p>\n
16. Noah Gragson
15.279<\/p>\n
17. Ryan Preece
15.282<\/p>\n
18. Chase Elliott
15.285<\/p>\n
19. Michael McDowell
15.291<\/p>\n
20. Joey Logano
15.311<\/p>\n
21. Brad Keselowski
15.312<\/p>\n
22. AJ Allmendinger
15.323<\/p>\n
23. Ricky Stenhouse Jr
15.331<\/p>\n
24. Austin Dillon
15.344<\/p>\n
25. Josh Berry
15.364<\/p>\n
26. Connor Zilisch
15.368<\/p>\n
27. Alex Bowman
15.368<\/p>\n
28. Erik Jones
15.378<\/p>\n
29. Kyle Busch
15.389<\/p>\n
30. Cole Custer
15.404<\/p>\n
31. John Hunter Nemechek
15.467<\/p>\n
32. Ty Dillon
15.498<\/p>\n
33. Shane van Gisbergen
15.514<\/p>\n
34. William Byron
15.554<\/p>\n
35. Todd Gilliland
15.593<\/p>\n
36. Cody Ware
15.613<\/p>\n
37. Chad Finchum
15.711<\/p>\n
Click here to view practice results<\/a><\/p>\n NASCAR Cup Series Ahead of: Bristol<\/p>\n Pos | Driver | Points<\/p>\n 1. Tyler Reddick 2. Ryan Blaney 3. Denny Hamlin 4. Chase Elliott 5. William Byron 6. Ty Gibbs 7. Christopher Bell 8. Brad Keselowski 9. Kyle Larson 10. Chris Buescher 11. Bubba Wallace 12. Joey Logano 13. Ryan Preece 14. Shane van Gisbergen 15. Carson Hocevar 16. Daniel Suarez \u2014 Playoff Cutline \u2014<\/p>\n 17. Michael McDowell 18. Austin Cindric 19. Ross Chastain 20. AJ Allmendinger Links<\/p>\n Bristol Motor Speedway<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0NASCAR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bristol Motor Speedway qualifying results, TV schedule and race info for the NASCAR Cup Series event on April…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[33064,29779,73158,73159,49,48,3140,7069,634,3628,8354,10031,34983,7577,15224,10032,82,7071,7072,1788,1445,348,10033],"class_list":{"0":"post-598210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-bristol-motor-speedway","10":"tag-bristol-tennessee","11":"tag-bristol-tn","12":"tag-ca","13":"tag-canada","14":"tag-cup-series","15":"tag-lineup","16":"tag-nascar","17":"tag-nascar-cup","18":"tag-nascar-cup-series","19":"tag-ncs","20":"tag-practice","21":"tag-qualifying","22":"tag-ryan-blaney","23":"tag-schedule","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-starting-grid","26":"tag-starting-lineup","27":"tag-television","28":"tag-tennessee","29":"tag-tv","30":"tag-tv-schedule"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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