Food City Dirt Race at Bristol Motor Speedway (⏰ 7 p.m. ET | 📺 FOX, FOX Sports App | 📻 PRN, SiriusXM)
Everything you need to know for Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series race in Tennessee, the eighth regular-season race of the 2023 Cup Series campaign.
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🚨 Alert: Friday's on-track sessions canceled due to weather 📍 Location: Bristol, Tennessee 📐 Track length: 0.533 miles 🎟️ Buy tickets: Find seats for Sunday 💰 Cup Series race purse: $7,808,640 📏 Race distance: 250 laps | 125.5 miles 🔢 Stages: 75 | 150 | 250 -- 🚪 Entry list: Dirt maven Jonathan Davenport among regular stars 📋 Starting lineup: Where drivers will start on Sunday | Heat race recaps 🚗 Pit stall assignments: See where drivers will pit 📦 Rules package: New rules for short tracks, road courses 🏆 Most recent winner: Kyle BuschKey things to watch 🔑 Top story line Once again, it's the dirt-track aces vs. the field. Kyle Larson heads into the weekend as Racing Insights' projected winner of the race, and it's unsurprising given his storied dirt-racing background. Along with Larson, Chase Briscoe, Christopher Bell, Alex Bowman, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and a handful of others, including professional dirt racer Jonathan Davenport, catch the initial eye of the public when talking about who should win this race. But as you'll see below, this race has a history of unpredictable finishes and drivers with almost zero dirt-track experience prevailing for historic wins. Sunday night's showdown will be a battle between experience and earnest effort. 🎥 YOUTUBE EXCLUSIVE: Learn how Bristol transformed from asphalt to dirt History tells us... Sunday's race is anybody's to win. Racing on dirt for the first and only time this season, Sunday's competition under the lights presents drivers with a unique opportunity to will their way into a win. Last season, Kyle Busch never led a single lap until Tyler Reddick and Chase Briscoe went spinning on the final lap of the race. In 2021, no one predicted Joey Logano beating the stacked field's dirt-track aces -- but he did. Both races on Bristol Dirt have had unprecedented finishes, and the trend suggests we will see that again this weekend. Getting off to a fast start and maintaining track position throughout the race should be the difference in who has a chance to fight for the trophy in the closing laps. He may not be the betting favorite to win, but watch out for... Daniel Suárez. Opening at 18-1 odds, Suárez sits around Tier 3 when discussing the opening favorites to win the race. So, while not entirely a long shot, he is positioned perfectly to soar into the race as an underdog. But Suárez has had more success on the Bristol Dirt than most, leading 122 laps across both starts (over 58 laps led in each) and has a fourth-place finish and 12th-place result to boast. So even then, his finishes are not indicative of how strong he's usually been working his way around the daunting dirt track. If he can put together a complete race, he could be first on the board in the win column for Trackhouse Racing this season. Saturday's sessions Heat races. Four heat races at 15 laps each wasn't enough to tell which drivers could be falling down the board before Sunday's race, but it was enough to tell who had the early handle on the daunting Bristol dirt track. To no one's surprise, Kyle Larson showed his prowess with a stellar move in Heat 3 and set the tone for Sunday's showdown, landing on the Busch Light Pole. Perhaps the biggest surprise of the afternoon was Austin Dillon, who controlled his heat race from start to finish and will roll off alongside Larson from the outside row. More on the heat races and passing points.