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PRACTICE 1: RESULTS

Pos Car Driver From Lap To Lap Avg Speed
1 11 Denny Hamlin 14 23 125.657
2 18 Kyle Busch 48 57 125.429
3 42 Kyle Larson 1 10 125.176
4 5 Kasey Kahne 23 32 125.124
5 20 Matt Kenseth 35 44 124.665
6 1 Jamie McMurray 14 23 124.654
7 77 Erik Jones # 45 54 124.404
8 48 Jimmie Johnson 51 60 124.302
9 24 Chase Elliott 23 32 124.214
10 43 Aric Almirola 33 42 124.097
11 13 Ty Dillon # 44 53 123.905
12 41 Kurt Busch 31 40 123.609
13 27 Paul Menard 50 59 123.296
14 21 Ryan Blaney 32 41 123.296
15 47 AJ Allmendinger 39 48 123.112
16 95 Michael McDowell 12 21 123.081
17 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. 40 49 122.789
18 2 Brad Keselowski 48 57 122.780
19 19 Daniel Suarez # 49 58 122.162
20 34 Landon Cassill 1 10 122.077
21 3 Austin Dillon 3 12 121.914
22 38 David Ragan 56 65 121.680
23 32 Matt DiBenedetto 4 13 121.450
24 6 Trevor Bayne 1 10 121.416
25 37 Chris Buescher 25 34 121.238
26 72 Cole Whitt 1 10 119.029
27 83 * Corey LaJoie # 2 11 117.957
28 23 Gray Gaulding # 1 10 117.823


PRACTICE 2: RESULTS

Pos Car Driver From Lap To Lap Avg Speed
1 77 Erik Jones # 24 33 127.178
2 5 Kasey Kahne 48 57 126.863
3 24 Chase Elliott 51 60 126.442
4 27 Paul Menard 5 14 126.388
5 3 Austin Dillon 35 44 126.383
6 19 Daniel Suarez # 2 11 126.356
7 41 Kurt Busch 1 10 126.267
8 47 AJ Allmendinger 1 10 126.152
9 4 Kevin Harvick 15 24 126.085
10 1 Jamie McMurray 2 11 125.815
11 14 Clint Bowyer 39 48 125.793
12 78 Martin Truex Jr. 3 12 125.762
13 48 Jimmie Johnson 44 53 125.577
14 31 Ryan Newman 29 38 125.550
15 20 Matt Kenseth 15 24 125.482
16 11 Denny Hamlin 25 34 125.203
17 43 Aric Almirola 11 20 125.174
18 21 Ryan Blaney 34 43 124.992
19 34 Landon Cassill 42 51 124.484
20 13 Ty Dillon # 21 30 124.419
21 6 Trevor Bayne 25 34 124.364
22 32 Matt DiBenedetto 10 19 124.234
23 72 Cole Whitt 2 11 124.003
24 18 Kyle Busch 35 44 123.805
25 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. 7 16 123.387
26 37 Chris Buescher 1 10 122.818
27 38 David Ragan 33 42 122.585
28 95 Michael McDowell 37 46 122.137
29 42 Kyle Larson 35 44 121.907
30 15 Reed Sorenson 1 10 121.835
31 83 * Corey LaJoie # 4 13 120.834
32 23 Gray Gaulding # 43 52 120.569
33 33 Jeffrey Earnhardt 2 11 120.387
34 10 Danica Patrick 35 44 118.414


PRACTICE 3: RESULTS

Pos Car Driver From Lap To Lap Avg Speed
1 5 Kasey Kahne 4 13 127.482
2 14 Clint Bowyer 3 12 127.264
3 22 Joey Logano 3 12 127.253
4 18 Kyle Busch 9 18 127.156
5 77 Erik Jones # 2 11 127.142
6 19 Daniel Suarez # 3 12 126.856
7 48 Jimmie Johnson 2 11 126.847
8 21 Ryan Blaney 4 13 126.654
9 27 Paul Menard 9 18 126.638
10 24 Chase Elliott 39 48 126.538
11 31 Ryan Newman 1 10 126.457
12 78 Martin Truex Jr. 32 41 126.434
13 41 Kurt Busch 8 17 126.167
14 3 Austin Dillon 2 11 126.109
15 20 Matt Kenseth 9 18 126.100
16 42 Kyle Larson 1 10 126.061
17 2 Brad Keselowski 6 15 126.050
18 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. 8 17 125.904
19 47 AJ Allmendinger 38 47 125.730
20 13 Ty Dillon # 4 13 125.557
21 6 Trevor Bayne 8 17 125.444
22 1 Jamie McMurray 1 10 125.307
23 11 Denny Hamlin 33 42 125.126
24 4 Kevin Harvick 18 27 124.939
25 10 Danica Patrick 38 47 124.743
26 38 David Ragan 41 50 124.571
27 17 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 43 52 124.294
28 43 Aric Almirola 43 52 123.724
29 32 Matt DiBenedetto 39 48 123.505
30 83 * Corey LaJoie # 20 29 121.299
31 34 Landon Cassill 50 59 119.830

* Car must run 10 consecutive laps on the track to be included in the above chart.
# Indicates that the driver is a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series rookie.

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RELATED: NASCAR bolsters emergency response system

 

NASCAR again has upped its level of medical commitment and response, working in conjunction with American Medical Response to announce that Dr. Angela Fiege will serve as the newly appointed NASCAR/AMR Safety Team Medical Director.

 

The Indianapolis-based doctor has served as a physician medical consultant in NASCAR for the past two years, supporting both the infield care centers and on-track response at all NASCAR-sponsored race events. Her new role will include collaboration with NASCAR Medical Liaisons and NASCAR Consulting Physicians in addition to guiding the services provided by AMR.

 

In February, NASCAR announced it was partnering with AMR to expand its capabilities of medical support and enhance on-track incident response — Fiege’s new position is another component of that agreement. Drivers had previously asked for a physician who traveled to the majority of most race weekends as a way to develop familiarity.

 

A lifelong motorsports fan, Fiege said she is enthusiastic about developing her new role and enhancing the sport’s medical program. She has been trackside at Indianapolis Motor Speedway for a decade working with both NASCAR and open-wheel drivers.

 

She was awarded this year’s “Above and Beyond Award” for her work presenting lectures on driver and crew safety at NASCAR’s annual summits.

 

“The great thing about this job is that it is an open book waiting to be written,” Fiege told NASCAR.com. “I’ve had the good fortune to get to know a lot of good people along the way. And I think collectively, we’ll work to make this something I hope that people who do other forms of motorsport will look to NASCAR and say, ‘That was great, let’s implement some of their ideas in how we manage our drivers as well.’ ”

 

Fiege certainly brings a knowledgeable and diverse background to the position. She began her career as a paramedic and then became a nurse before serving 20 years as a flight nurse for Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital. She then got her medical doctor degree and has managed emergency care at the hospital for the past 12 years.

 

Part of Fiege’s impressive credentialing is that she is board certified in both emergency medicine and neuro critical care.

 

“I wouldn’t trade that for the world,” Fiege said of her incredibly diverse experience. “My pathway through life is kind of convoluted, but every step of the way you learn something not only medically, but also in interacting with people.

 

“The things I learned on the street as a medic translated into how I approached people as a nurse. And what I learned as a nurse has been a great background for me as I practice as a physician. I feel I’m very lucky and it’s been a great way to develop a career.”

 

Not only will Fiege oversee the at-track medical response, she also hopes to develop a broader health and fitness program for not only NASCAR’s star drivers, but their family members and teammates as well.

 

“One of the things we hope to accomplish is developing a state-of-the-art, type motorsports medical program,” she said. “Not only for the drivers but for the sport in general. There are some things we can do for drivers who spend a lot of time on the road to not only enhance their health, but also their families’ health. And there are some exciting things to think about moving forward.

 

“There are always things you need to do for a driver involved in an incident, of course, but also a lot of things that go on with drivers that are difficult to see. At most people’s forefront are concussions and head injuries and things like that. There are certain injury patterns that are peculiar to motorsports, and we want to investigate in terms of treatment and ways to prevent those injuries. The natural evolution of that is how it translates into safety equipment used in civilian life.”

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BRISTOL, Tenn. — It’s not that Kyle Larson isn’t a fan of the sticky substance put down on the racing surface at Bristol Motor Speedway.

 

The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series points leader understands the reasoning behind the application of an adhesive product to the lower portion of the track.

 

But the driver of the No. 42 Chevrolet for Chip Ganassi Racing said he believes the amount placed on the concrete could create a situation that lends itself to keeping drivers racing single-file around the steeply-banked .533-mile track for Monday’s Food City 500 (1 p.m. ET, FOX, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

 

Track officials applied the adhesive in the lower sections of the turns in an attempt to create an additional racing groove and promote passing on the often treacherous track.

 

One of a handful of Monster Energy Cup drivers who also competed in Saturday’s Fitzgerald Glider Kits 300 XFINITY Series race, Larson said he "tried to work the top in" during Friday’s XFINITY Series practice at BMS.

 

"I feel like it would still be really fast up there, it’s just nobody is brave enough to go up there and work in the groove," said Larson, who won the pole for Saturday’s XFINITY Series race. 

 

"The VHT (substance) is wider than the width of our race cars now too, which makes it extremely easy to run around the bottom and not a lot of fun. 

 

"I don’t know, maybe some guys like it, but I think, yeah it looks like old Bristol because we are all running around the bottom, but I just don’t see how that is fun."

 

For years, Bristol was known as a one-groove track where drivers were forced to bump their way past competitors as they tried to advance through the field. That often led to ill tempers and altercations but tremendous fan turnout as well. The facility boasted a string of 55-consecutive sellouts between 1982 and 2010 during a time that seating capacity grew from approximately 30,000 to nearly 160,000.

 

Officials added progressive banking in 2007 in an effort to move away from the single-file racing for which the facility, which opened in 1961, had become known.

 

But the change created a reverse situation — the upper groove became the preferred line around the track, and after several races that featured few lead changes and contact, officials went back to the drawing boards

 

In 2012, the track was altered once again when officials milled the upper groove in an effort to create more side-by-side competition.

 

The results have been mixed, and the application of the adhesive is the latest move. Officials first applied the product prior to last year’s night race at BMS.

 

"I think it was like three or four feet wide," Larson, one of six race winners through this season’s first seven races, said of the initial application. "I thought that was a good width because you could get your left sides in it and you really had to be cautious of hitting your marks every corner. 

 

"Now it’s like you just fire off from the corner and it doesn’t really matter where you enter as long as your right sides are in the grip you are going to rip around the corner. (It) just makes it too easy for us and I don’t think that is good for racing."

 

Kyle Busch, a winner of five Monster Energy NASCAR races and 17 overall at BMS, said the early indication Friday was that "there’s a lot of bottom going on and not a whole lot of middle or top."

 

"I’m sure Larson’s thrilled and he’ll have to rubber in the top himself while the rest of us are rooting and gouging for the bottom," he said.

 

Seven-time series champion Jimmie Johnson commended Bristol officials for the effort, noting that it was something that had worked in the past.

 

"And in the Driver’s Council meeting after our fall race here, we were all eager to make sure it was back down," Johnson said, "and (we) thought that it did offer more options (for passing) than without it."

 

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Joining more than 1,500 local Comcast NBCUniversal employees and their families, friends and community partners to "make change happen" this weekend, the NASCAR industry and select NASCAR XFINITY Seriesu2122 drivers will be supporting the 16th annual Comcast Cares Day, the nation’s largest single-day corporate volunteer event. These volunteers will participate in 15 different projects across the Greater Knoxville area to celebrate the day, joining more than 100,000 volunteers at nearly 1,000 projects across the country.


Among the events in the area, Comcast volunteers helped assemble housing materials at a Habitat for Humanity "ReStore" Center for a local family in Johnson City on Friday. NASCAR XFINITY Series drivers who are racing in the Fitzgerald Glider Kits 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway joined the project to support Comcast’s efforts.


"The NASCAR family has been so welcoming to Comcast and programs like Comcast Cares Day that are important to us as a company, and the outpouring of support at this year’s events near Bristol Motor Speedway are no exception," explained Matt Lederer, Executive Director, Sports Brand Marketing, Comcast. "Participation from our drivers and support from NASCAR is a great addition to this project and represents the heart of everyone coming together to volunteer in the community."


Comcast and NASCAR volunteers are also donating their time to support the Appalachia Service Project on Saturday, April 22, through the "Race to Build" project at Bristol Motor Speedway. Volunteers will build homes that will serve families in the Bristol area. Select NASCAR drivers and Comcast employees joined the group on Saturday morning to "wave the green flag" on the start of the project and assist volunteers in the morning in the fan midway at the track.


Drivers Brennan Poole, Tyler Reddick, JJ Yeley, Garrett Smithley, Harrison Rhodes, Joey Gase, Ross Chastain, Justin Allgaier, Jordan Anderson and Quinn Houff participated in the weekend’s service projects. As a part of the NASCAR Race To Green initiative, NASCAR also donated trees to be planted at the family home.


"The NASCAR community is so strong and they’re willing to lend a helping hand at any time," Poole said. "So for me to be a part of this, and do cool things like this thanks to Comcast’s partnership with the XFINITY Series is really special."


"It’s great that through XFINITY’s partnership we can come out on a race day and participate in Comcast Cares Day," said Allgaier. "Being a part of the XFINITY Series allows us to be involved in so many different events and projects we wouldn’t normally have the opportunity to, including what we’re doing here today, helping out some local Bristol families through the Appalachia Service Project."


Comcast Cares Day is more than just a day — it’s the culmination of Comcast NBCUniversal’s commitment to volunteerism that began when the company was founded more than 50 years ago.  From using technology to create positive change, such as wiring community centers and libraries and teaching digital literacy skills, to mentoring youth, to beautifying parks, Comcast NBCUniversal employees volunteer on this day, and throughout the year, to make a lasting impact. This year, the Company expects more than 100,000 volunteers to participate in approximately 900 projects across the country and around the world. To date, volunteers have contributed nearly 5 million volunteer hours at 7,700 projects since Comcast Cares Day began in 2001. 


"We are proud to team up with so many incredible organizations this year as we celebrate our 16th annual Comcast Cares Day," said Doug Guthrie, Regional Senior Vice President, Comcast. "We are thankful for the participants who are stepping up and helping to make a difference in our community."


The Comcast Foundation will also provide grants to local community partner organizations across the country on behalf of everyone who volunteers on Comcast Cares Day. The grants will help Comcast’s community partners continue their mission of serving the community throughout the year. To date, the Comcast Foundation has awarded more than $20 million in grants to local non-profit organizations who have served as partners on Comcast Cares Day.

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At a Glance 

What: Food City 500

Where: Bristol Motor Speedway, a .533-mile oval in Bristol, Tenn.
When: Monday, April 24

Green flag: 1:07:30 p.m. ET

TV/Radio: FOX, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio 

Forecast: Showers likely, rain could be heavy at time. Cloudy, with a high near 67. East wind between 5 and 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60 percent. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.

National anthem: Todd Smith, Recording Artist and lead singer of Selah

Grand Marshal: Kelley Earnhardt Miller, Kerry Earnhardt

Honorary Starter: Steve Smith, Food City President/CEO

Race distance: 500 laps, 266.5 miles

Pit road speed: 30 mph 

Caution car speed: 35 mph

Competition caution: Lap 60
Stage lengths: Stage 1 ends on Lap 125. Stage 2 ends on Lap 250. Final stage is scheduled to end on Lap 500

 

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The XFINITY Series Fitzgerald Glider Kits 300 went back to green after a lengthy red flag induced by rain at Bristol Motor Speedway. The action was put to a halt on Lap 150 with a yellow flag, followed by a red flag on Lap 162. The time of the red flag officially lasted one hour, 38 minutes and 52 seconds.


Prior to this, NASCAR briefly lifted the red flag only to return to red-flag conditions minutes later with more rain hitting the .5333-mile track. 


As the leaders pitted, Daniel Hemric, Blake Koch, Brandon Jones, Brendan Gaughan and Elliott Sadler stayed out to hold down the top five spots, and lead the field back to green on Lap 168. 

The event originally got underway at 1:03 p.m. ET with Larson and Austin Dillon starting on the front row after scoring the top-two fastest qualifying lap times Saturday morning.


Larson topped Stage 1, which ended under yellow after Ryan Reed brought out the caution in its waning laps after clipping the wall and losing a tire. Reed briefly wheeled his No. 16 Ford to pit road, but ultimately brought it to the garage with heavy damage, done for the day.


RELATED: Watch: Reed spins to bring out the yellow at Bristol


The XFINITY Series Bristol race marks the second Dash 4 Cash event of 2017. JR Motorsports teammates Justin Allgaier and Cole Custer are eligible for the $100,000 bonus after scoring the top-two spots among XFINITY Series regulars at the end of Stage 1 as well as Hemric and Gaughan after finishing first and third (the two highest-placing XFINITY regulars), respectively, in Stage 2. Hemric earned a playoff bonus point with his Stage win, should he qualify for the 12-driver playoff field.


Allgaier won the first Dash 4 Cash race at Phoenix Raceway. The final two legs will be at Richmond (April 29) and Dover (June 3).

RELATED: Learn more about the Dash 4 Cash program


Friday’s on-track schedule, too, got a shake-up due to soggy weather with Monster Energy Series qualifying and the second XFINITY Series practice canceled.


The weekend’s main event, the Monster Energy Series’ Food City 500, is slated for Sunday at 2 p.m. ET (FOX, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).


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BRISTOL, Tenn. — Erik Jones found the ideal way to atone from a mistake in Saturday’s Fitzgerald Glider Kits 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway, but it took a bump-and-run for Jones to complete his comeback at the .533-mile short track.


Recovering from a Lap 230 pit road speeding penalty that sent him to the back of the field, Jones worked his way to the front through a series of quick cautions and muscled Ryan Blaney out of the way to take the lead on Lap 280 of 300.


Jones held the top spot the rest of the way, through a caution that slowed the race after William Byron, Justin Allgaier, Brennan Poole and Austin Dillon were involved in a Turn 4 wreck on Lap 291. The race restarted on Lap 298, but Blaney couldn’t get to Jones’ bumper to return the favor before the checkered flag waved.


"It was just hard racing," said Jones, who won his second straight NASCAR XFINITY Series race of the season, his second at Bristol and the eighth of his career. "We ended up racing hard and getting by him. To come back from a pit road penalty like that, it’s a race I won’t forget for a long time — just an awesome day."


Blaney led the field to a restart on Lap 278, but Jones had superior speed on the short runs and quickly pulled up to Blaney’s bumper. As they raced hard into Turn 1, Jones applied the bumper of his No. 20 Toyota, sent Blaney’s No. 22 Ford up the track and made the decisive pass.


"He was so much better than us on the short runs," Blaney said. "He wasn’t going to back out, and I wasn’t going to back out either. … I knew I pushed the issue with him. I knew he was close, and I don’t blame him for not backing out at that time.


"You can’t do that, so I took a chance, and we had some contact. Fortunately, we were able to get a restart in fourth (on Lap 298) and get to second and just couldn’t quite get close to make a run at him."


To Jones, the bump was justified by late-race urgency and the relative speed of his car.


"At that point in the race I think there was less than 20 (laps) to go, and you have to do all you can to try to get to the lead," he said. "I knew clean air was important, and we were quite a bit faster than the 22 just to fire off, and I guess just the track cooled down and we got some speed back in the car.


"We were able to get around him and get the lead, and from there, I think everyone was stuck on the bottom, and we were able to hold them off."


It was a race of radically changing fortunes, and not just for Jones. Polesitter Kyle Larson led 180 laps, but cut a tire after contact with Brandon Jones’ Chevrolet on lap 261 — an incident that started a chain-reaction wreck that eliminated Cole Custer, Darrell Wallace Jr. and Garrett Smithley.


Larson compounded his issues with a penalty for a commitment line violation but came from the rear of the field in the final 30 laps to finish seventh.


Sunoco rookie Daniel Hemric came from a lap down to win the $100,000 Dash 4 cash bonus after the three other qualifiers for the XFINITY-sponsored prize — Custer, Allgaier and Brendan Gaughan — all were involved in accidents.


Hemric finished fifth behind Daniel Suarez in third and series leader Elliott Sadler in fourth.


Notes: Blaney finished second in the No. 22 Team Penske Mustang for the third time this season. All told, the 22 car has five runner-up results without a win this year. However, the No. 22 was found to be too low in the left front post race. Any potential penalty will be announced early next week … The action-filled race featured nine cautions for 85 laps.

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RELATED: Race results | How Dash 4 Cash works

BRISTOL, Tenn. — Daniel Hemric didn’t have a lot of time to consider winning the $100,000 NASCAR XFINITY Series Dash 4 Cash bonus Saturday.

Because for a few moments in the final laps of the Fitzgerald Glider Kits 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway, the Richard Childress Racing driver was more concerned about a potential win.

"In all honesty, in the back of my mind we haven’t put ourselves in positon to run for a win this year," Hemric said after his series-best fifth-place finish earned him the D4C bonus. "I felt like we were doing that (today) as the stages went by and as the laps went by.

"The Dash 4 Cash is always lingering there but it’s not something that crosses your mind."

Competing for Sunoco Rookie of the Year honors in the XFINITY Series, Hemric had finished ninth at Atlanta and seventh at Phoenix before Saturday’s top five.

After crossing the line ninth Saturday in the opening stage that saw Cole Custer (Stewart-Haas Racing) and Justin Allgaier (JR Motorsports) earn two of the four qualifying berths for the D4C, Hemric and crew chief Danny Stockman opted to stay out under caution for rain as the second stage was nearing completion.

Following a 98-minute red-flag period, those in front of him opted to pit, putting Hemric in the lead with just two laps remaining to complete the stage. He held on for the stage win, then pitted for adjustments under the yellow during the stage break, and those changes, he said, "really gave us a shot at the end of the race."

"I honestly didn’t think everybody would come down in front of us, so obviously we were given a golden ticket there to go try to win some points," he said.

Teammate Brendan Gaughan was third in the stage to earn the final qualifying berth for the bonus.

But one by one, Gaughan, Custer and Allgaier (who won the D4C bonus at Phoenix earlier this year), fell out of contention in the final stage of the race.

Gaughan crashed after contact from Darrell Wallace Jr. on Lap 244; Custer, who had run as high as third, went behind the wall on Lap 261 after contact with Brandon Jones while Allgaier was caught up in an incident with William Byron.

"When the 00 (Custer) and the 7 (Allgaier) fell back there and the 62 (Gaughan) had his problems it put us in a really good spot," Hemric said. "At that point, it was being aware the situation I was in but obviously we were running second, third there at times, and had a shot to win the race.

"And I can promise you, if you win the race, you’ll definitely win the Dash 4 Cash and that’s what our ultimate goal was."

Hemric closed on race leader Ryan Blaney before a late-race restart saw Erik Jones shoot from fourth place into the lead, bumping Blaney out of the way in the process on the way to the win.

"I hate we came up short of that (win) but the 20 (Jones) had an incredible run from his (speeding) penalty to come back and win," Hemric said. "He had a ton of speed. When he and (Blaney) got into it I thought we were going to have an opportunity, or an opportunity to lose it all at the same time when we all stacked up in (Turns) 1 and 2. But luckily it worked out."

Blaney, Daniel Suarez, Elliott Sadler and Hemric completed the top five.

The $600,000 bonus that goes to any driver who is the highest finishing eligible Dash 4 Cash driver in all four races, and wins the fourth race outright, is off the table with Hemric’s victory.

The two remaining D4C races are scheduled for Richmond (April 29) and Dover (June 3).

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BRISTOL, Tenn. — The No. 22 Team Penske Ford of driver Ryan Blaney failed post-race technical inspection following Saturday’s Fitzgerald Glider Kits 300 NASCAR XFINITY Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway.


The car measured too low in the left front, according to a NASCAR spokesperson. Any penalties arising from the failure will likely be determined and announced Tuesday.



Blaney led four times for 61 laps. As a full-time competitor in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Blaney is not awarded points for his results in the XFINITY Series, however the No. 22 team is competing for the owner’s title.


MORE: Saturday’s race results



The race winning entry of Erik Jones (Joe Gibbs Racing) passed post-race at-track inspection, as did the entries of Daniel Hemric (Richard Childress Racing) and Justin Allgaier (JR Motorsports).


The Hemric and Allgaier entries finished highest among those competing for the XFINITY Series Dash 4 Cash bonus and will be taken back to the NASCAR Research & Development Center in Concord, North Carolina for further evaluation.

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RELATED: Full race results


BRISTOL, Tenn. — Two NASCAR XFINITY Series drivers made a post-race visit to meet with officials following Saturday’s Fitzgerald Glider Kits 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway.
 
Ross Chastain and Jeremy Clements, along with crew chiefs Evan Snider and Tony Clements, were called to the NASCAR hauler after the two drivers had an altercation on pit road during a red-flag delay. The incident occurred after the two drivers made contact on the race track.
 
According to reports, Clements approached Chastain shortly after drivers had exited their cars to wait out the rain delay. Clements told reporters he placed his hand "on his back and turned (Chastain) around" when Chastain struck him.
 
"I had no intention of fighting the guy," Clements told NBC Sports.
 

 

"Hope he realizes now that he can talk, we can talk, but you can’t grab someone by the shoulders," Chastain told FS1. "That happened before and I said right then I wouldn’t let it happen again. What’s done is done."


Clements, who was struck in the eye, made a quick trip to the infield care center following the confrontation.
 
Both drivers returned to their cars once the race, which had been halted due to rain, resumed.
 
Clements finished 17th and Chastain 31st.
 
According to Chastain, the two drivers talked out their differences after meeting with NASCAR officials and consider the matter closed.