Bristol Recap

Welcome back everyone to Captain Josh's Pit Stop! I hope all of you had a great Easter break. But now it's time to get back to business. This week we recap the action at Bristol Motor Speedway. As you can see from the second picture above, mother nature was the main topic of the weekend. The Cup race would be rained out on Sunday and was run on today which is Monday. The Xfinity race did run Saturday however with an hour of a rain delay. Erik Jones would win the race and rookie Daniel Hemric in the #21 Richard Childress Chevy took home the $100,000 Dash For Cash. The Dash For Cash is a 4-race deal where the top 4 Xfinity drivers of each race can earn a bit more money in there pockets. Now on to the Monday Cup Race.

The 25th Anniversary of the Food City 500 ran on Monday. Qualifying was rained out on Friday, giving points leader Kyle Larson the pole with Chase Elliott alongside on the front row. The first and second stages consisted of 125 laps, with the third and final stage making up the final 250 laps to complete the 500 lap race. Photo courtesy of Google images.

The races first caution came out when Kurt Busch spun off of turn 2 and hit the inside wall. Chris Buescher would also suffer damage after hitting another car from behind while trying to avoid Busch. That would cause a brief red flag to clean up fluid from Buescher's car. Busch would continue on but Buescher was out of the race. Photo courtesy of Google images.

Pole sitter Kyle Larson would take home Stage 1 after dominating the whole stage. Photo courtesy of Google images.

Marin Truex Jr would win Stage 2 after leading for most of the stage. Photo courtesy of Google images.

The race would not work out for Jr nation as Dale Jr hit the wall in turn 3 after getting oil on his tires from an issue with his car. Jr would fall out of the race with 33 to go in stage 2. Photo courtesy of Google images.

Danica Patrick would also have a bad day as she would make contact with David Ragan off of turn 2. They both crashed and were out of the race. Photo courtesy of Google images.

Continuing the theme of bad days, Kyle Busch also had a rough time at thunder valley. He would hit the wall twice during the race and would eventually fall out of the race with 113 laps to go with a mechanical failure. Photo courtesy of Google images.

The final caution of the day would come out as a good run was cut short for rookie Erik Jones. He cut a tire going into turn 3 and AJ Allmendinger would hit him from behind trying to avoid Jones. Jones would also fall out of the race. Photo courtesy of Google images.

At the end of the day, Jimmie Johnson held off Clint Bowyer to win back to back after winning at Texas. Johnson claimed his 82nd career win. He might get more wins than Jeff Gordon at this point. The man who brought Johnson into the sport. That's amazing not to mention if he wins 8 championships. Anyways I hope you enjoyed the blog. Tune in next week as I recap Richmond. Yes another short track. Can't wait. See ya there. Photo courtesy of Google images.