Jeb Burton and Jimmie Johnson made contact, starting pileup
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Kevin Harvick‘s No. 4 Stewart-Haas Chevrolet was fast Sunday as he led 184 laps in the rain-delayed Food City 500 in Support of Steve Byrnes and Stand Up to Cancer, but a wreck on Lap 311 sent him behind the wall.
Jimmie Johnson‘s No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet drifted up into Jeb Burton‘s No. 26 BK Racing Toyota, sparking the wreck that also ruined David Ragan‘s day in the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota.
“When you race back there with the squirrels, sometimes you find the nut,” Ragan said. “As soon as my spotter said, ‘They’re wrecking,’ I was all into the No. 48.”
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series points leader Harvick was going for his eighth top-10 finish of the season. The only race he has finished outside the top-2 was at Martinsville, where the No. 4 came in eighth. He would return to the track 43 laps down and finished 38th.
“The No. 48 got into us a little bit,” Burton said after the accident in his first start at rough-and-tumble Bristol Motor Speedway. “There’s just not a lot of room.”
After the incident, Johnson voiced displeasure over his radio at how others had been racing him, but the six-time premier series champion rallied for a second-place finish.
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