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Breaking down the full field for the Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway:
1. Kevin Harvick, No. 4 Chevrolet, Stewart-Haas Racing. This says it all about Harvick's second win at Bristol: In 112 Cup races at the track, only four winners started farther back in the field than Harvick's 24th (Elliott Sadler, 38th, 2001; Dale Earnhardt Jr., 30th, 2004; Kurt Busch, 27th, 2002; Dale Earnhardt, 26th, 1999). Grade: A++
2. Ricky Stenhouse Jr., No. 17 Ford, Roush Fenway Racing. Stenhouse overcame a pit-road speeding penalty to tie his career-best finish, which also came at Bristol (2014). In fact, half of Stenhouse's six career top-five finishes have come at Bristol. Grade: A+
3. Denny Hamlin, No. 11 Toyota, Joe Gibbs Racing. It was a day of eighths for Hamlin: His eighth top five of the season and his eighth pit-road speeding penalty. He also had to make an unscheduled stop for a loose wheel that put him two laps down. Nice recovery, but he absolutely has to stick a fork in those pit-road speeding penalties before the Chase begins. Grade: A-
4. Austin Dillon, No. 3 Chevrolet, Richard Childress Racing. Dillon just avoided the big wreck on Lap 373 to post his first top five since Talladega in May. Also important: Dillon moved up two spots in the Chase standings to 13th, passing Ryan Newman and Chase Elliott. Grade: A
5. Chris Buescher, No. 34 Ford, Front Row Motorsports. Huge day for Buescher, who gets his second career top five -- both in the past three races -- and moves into the top 30 in points for the first time this season. Grade: A+
6. Carl Edwards, No. 19 Toyota, Joe Gibbs Racing. Debris piercing the right front of his car couldn't stop Edwards from getting his 14th top 10 of the season, one fewer than he had all of 2015. Grade: A
7. Jimmie Johnson, No. 48 Chevrolet, Hendrick Motorsports. Hard to believe, but Johnson's finish was only his second top 10 in the past 10 races. Grade: A
8. Jamie McMurray, No. 1 Chevrolet, Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates. McMurray's Chase radar is on max. He's 15th in the Chase standings after his fourth top 10 in the past six races. Grade: A
9. AJ Allmendinger, No. 47 Chevrolet, JTG Daugherty Racing. Allmendinger posts back-to-back top 10s for the second time this season, the first time he has had multiple back-to-back top-10 finishes in a season in his Sprint Cup career. Grade: A
10. Joey Logano, No. 22 Ford, Team Penske. We don't have the space to list all the issues Logano and the No. 22 had to overcome Sunday. This top 10 was hard earned and well deserved. Grade: A
11. Jeff Gordon, No. 88 Chevrolet, Hendrick Motorsports. In the 801st and possibly final start of his career, Gordon gets his best finish in his fourth race as Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s sub. Grade: B
12. Trevor Bayne, No. 6 Ford, Roush Fenway Racing. Bayne jumped over Kyle Larson in the standings and picked up ground on Ryan Newman, who leads Bayne by 35 points for the last spot in the Chase with three races to go before the field is set. Grade: B
13. Kasey Kahne, No. 5 Chevrolet, Hendrick Motorsports. With Chris Buescher entering the top 30, Kahne went from 11 points behind 16th place in the Chase standings to 39 points back. Grade: B
14. Aric Almirola, No. 43 Ford, Richard Petty Motorsports. Almirola posted his best finish of the season since finishing 13th in Week 4 at Phoenix. Grade: B
15. Chase Elliott, No. 24 Chevrolet, Hendrick Motorsports. Elliott's promising day took a hit when he was collected in the big wreck on Lap 373. On the flip side, he led 14 laps, his first laps led since Week 15 at Michigan. Grade: B
16. Greg Biffle, No. 16 Ford, Roush Fenway Racing. A miscommunication over the radio that resulted in an unscheduled green-flag pit stop didn't help matters. Grade: B-
17. Matt DiBenedetto, No. 83 Toyota, BK Racing. DiBenedetto posted the second-best finish of his young career despite being down three laps at one point because of a tire issue. His best finish? Sixth at Bristol in April. Grade: A
18. Brian Scott, No. 44 Ford, Richard Petty Motorsports. Scott turned in his second-best finish of the season (12th at Fontana in Week 5). Grade: A
19. Michael McDowell, No. 95 Chevrolet, Circle Sport-Leavine Family Racing. McDowell finishes in the top 20 in consecutive races for the first time in his 201-race Cup career. Grade: A
20. Landon Cassill, No. 38 Ford, Front Row Motorsports. Cassill finished 22nd in April to tie his best finish at Bristol. Sunday, he topped that. Grade: A
21. David Ragan, No. 23 Toyota, BK Racing. Ragan avoided disaster with a great evasive maneuver down low to avoid a spinning Kyle Busch on Lap 358. Grade: B
22. Danica Patrick, No. 10 Chevrolet, Stewart-Haas Racing. Patrick finished 22nd for the third time in the past four races. Her other finish in that stretch: 21st two weeks ago at Watkins Glen. Grade: C
23. Martin Truex Jr., No. 78 Toyota, Furniture Row Racing. Bad luck found Truex again. He was running third on Lap 358 when he was collected in a wreck caused by Kyle Bush's spin and the No. 78 suffered heavy damage. His average running position of 9.6 was fifth best. Grade: A-
24. Kyle Larson, No. 42 Chevrolet, Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates. Larson had an eventful day, and that’s not code for a great day. A pit-road speeding penalty, cut oil line, three on-track incidents (neither his fault) and untimely tire rub totally erased the benefit of having a super-fast car. Grade: B-
25. Casey Mears, No. 13 Chevrolet, Germain Racing. Mears has one top 10 in 28 starts at Bristol giving him the lowest top-10 percentage among active drivers with at least 15 Cup starts at the track. Grade: C
26. Regan Smith, No. 7 Chevrolet, Tommy Baldwin Racing. Smith brought out the third caution when he got into the wall on Lap 157; attrition enabled him to post a top-30 finish. Grade: C-
27. Reed Sorenson, No. 55 Chevrolet, Premium Motorsports. Sorenson tied Regan Smith for the fewest green-flag passes with six. Grade: C-
28. Ryan Newman, No. 31 Chevrolet, Richard Childress Racing. Pit-road penalties and tire problems carried (dropped?) the day. Still, Newman is 16th in the Chase standings with a 35-point cushion over Trevor Bayne with three races to go. Grade: D
29. Jeffrey Earnhardt, No. 32, Go Fas Racing Ford. Earnhardt improved three spots from his debut at Bristol in April. Grade: C-
30. Tony Stewart, No. 14 Chevrolet, Stewart-Haas Racing. We'll let Tony sum up his final start at Bristol: "We had a wheel that was loose, and that messed our whole day up." Perhaps, but owner Tony got a win and was part of a double burnout with winner Kevin Harvick. Grade: D
31. Clint Bowyer, No. 15 Chevrolet, HScott Motorsports. A broken brake rotor put Bowyer into the wall on Lap 416. Grade D
32. Paul Menard, No. 27 Chevrolet, Richard Childress Racing. Menard was running in the top 10 when he got caught up in the aftermath of Kurt Busch's spin and his car sustained a punctured radiator when he ran into Chase Elliott. That's Bristol. Grade: C-
33. Brad Keselowski, No. 2 Ford, Team Penske. Keselowski was running third when Kurt Busch got loose in front of him, turned and Keselowski hit him hard. Keselowski had run among the leaders until the accident on Lap 373. Grade: C
34. Cole Whitt, No. 98 Chevrolet, Premium Motorsports. The No. 98 spent time in the garage, and Whitt finished 58 laps off the pace. Grade: D
35. Ryan Blaney, No. 21 Ford, Wood Brothers Racing. Blaney was caught up in the Kurt Busch wreck. As cars checked up, Blaney slammed into Matt Kenseth, who had been turned by Chase Elliott. Blaney returned to the track, but when the day ended he had little to show for a top-five starting spot. Grade: C
36. Josh Wise, No. 30 Chevrolet, The Motorsports Group. Wise completed 416 laps, his fewest at Bristol since 2012, his rookie season. Grade: F
37. Matt Kenseth, No. 20 Toyota, Joe Gibbs Racing. A so-so day at Bristol became a no-no day when Kenseth was collected in the Kurt Busch wreck. Since a four-race run of 1st, 13th, 3rd and 1st, Kenseth has now gone 42nd, 36th and 37th. That's Bristol, too. Grade: C
38. Kurt Busch, No. 41 Chevrolet, Stewart-Haas Racing. Finally we come to the driver who miscalculated his move "by a few inches"and ignited the wreck on Lap 373 that collected 10 other cars. Busch later tweeted, "Tasted the checkers, pushed too hard too soon." No argument here. Busch had completed every lap run this season until Sunday. Grade: F
39. Kyle Busch, No. 18 Toyota, Joe Gibbs Racing. Busch led a race-high 256 laps and owned the day until something broke in his car (his team will hear about that on Tuesday, he said). The No. 18 went into a soft spin, but it was met with a hard hit by Justin Allgaier that left Busch with his third DNF in his past four races at Bristol, all for crashes. Grade: C-
40. Justin Allgaier, No. 46 Chevrolet, HScott Motorsports. Subbing for Michael Annett (flu-like symptoms), Allgaier made his first Sprint Cup start of the season one day after finishing second in the XFINITY Series race at Bristol. Two days later he earned the wrath of Kyle Busch for plowing into him when Busch spun out on Lap 358. That's the high and lows of Bristol. Grade: F