{"id":28672,"date":"2023-04-10T09:32:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T13:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/?p=28672"},"modified":"2023-04-10T09:32:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T13:32:22","slug":"food-city-dirt-race-at-bristol-extended-highlights-from-bristol-motor-speedway-nascar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/2023\/04\/food-city-dirt-race-at-bristol-extended-highlights-from-bristol-motor-speedway-nascar\/","title":{"rendered":"Food City Dirt Race at Bristol | Extended highlights from Bristol Motor Speedway | NASCAR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Food City Dirt Race at Bristol | Extended highlights from Bristol Motor Speedway | NASCAR\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c71aoFCiz2o?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>CHASE BRISCOE, No. 14 Magical Vacation Planner Ford Mustang<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 \u201cI thought the track was awesome.&nbsp;I thought that was the most realistic dirt race you\u2019re gonna get with real dirt cars.&nbsp;I felt like we finally saw the dirt guys shine for that same reason, so I had a lot of fun running the top like that.&nbsp;It actually built a little bit of a cushion.&nbsp;It\u2019s still not much, but it was just a lot of fun.&nbsp;I hope the fans enjoyed it.&nbsp;Hopefully, we can do it again in the future.&nbsp;I\u2019m not really sure what the future of this race is, but I thought it was an awesome race from my vantage point and hopefully it was for everybody else, too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>FOR AS GOOD AS TONIGHT WAS WOULD IT BE OK IF THIS RACE WENT BACK TO CONCRETE?&nbsp;<\/strong>\u201cI would love to see this race on a non-Easter weekend just to see the turnout.&nbsp;I feel like we don\u2019t get a true read about what the fan base thinks about it.&nbsp;We have to have a dirt race, I think, at least one.&nbsp;Now, if it\u2019s here or not, it really doesn\u2019t make a difference to me, but I do think after tonight, even last year, but especially after tonight, I think it\u2019s shown that it can put on really good racing.&nbsp;It\u2019s just a matter of the track prep and all those things that go along with it. I would be fine if we move it, we just have to be smart about it and where you run it because it\u2019s gonna be hard to just go and replicate something like this or replicate and Eldora.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>YOU MAY NOT NEED SURGERY NOW ON YOUR HAND?<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cYeah, they said today that I\u2019ll do my x-ray first thing in the morning and depending on what it looks like I may not have to have surgery, so I don\u2019t know what to think.&nbsp;As of now, I have absolutely zero pain.&nbsp;There were times I got a little behind, but it was literally the bulkiness of how big this thing is compared to what my normal hand would be that it kind of messed me up, but, from a pain standpoint, I feel 100 percent fine.&nbsp;I never had pain once in the race, so we\u2019ll see how the x-ray goes tomorrow and go from there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>DID IT IMPACT ANY OF YOUR MOVES?<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cI maybe got me a touch behind sometimes, like when I would get really far out of shape and turning it back quick the other direction, just due to the sheer fact of how bulky it is, but you\u2019re not gonna have that anywhere else.&nbsp;When we\u2019re at Martinsville, I\u2019m never gonna go full lock left, full lock right, back and forth, so I think I\u2019ll be fine going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>YOU LOST SOME SPOT THAT ONE TIME LATE.&nbsp;<\/strong>\u201cThe 45 kept trying to slide me and I probably should have lifted and I tried stay in wide-open and trying to drive back around him and I got it in the fence.&nbsp;Then I started overdriving.&nbsp;I was in such a rhythm behind the 20 and when I got out of that rhythm I just started running a foot off the top and started making mistakes and got in the wall a second time and that was just me not doing a very good job.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>WHAT HAPPENED ON THE FINAL RESTART?<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cThat last restart, especially being on the inside, you just try to shove the guy in front of you as hard as you can.&nbsp;I didn\u2019t get a great launch and shove down the front straightaway to him and then going into one I just tried to run as low as I possibly could and when I went in there I hit those big dirt turtle things after my spotter had warned me about it five times.&nbsp;As soon as I hit it, it just bottomed the nose out super hard and my car just shot right and hit Blaney in the left rear.&nbsp;I absolutely ruined his day.&nbsp;He\u2019d done a really good job and was running third and honestly thought he had a shot to win it if I could give him the right push, and I just completely ruined it for him.&nbsp;It wasn\u2019t a very good decision on my part.&nbsp;I just got in there and hit the turtle and it bottomed me out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>MICHAEL MCDOWELL, No. 34 Love\u2019s Travel Stops Ford Mustang<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 \u201cI don\u2019t know how you could do that.&nbsp;I literally had two 360\u2019s without hitting anything.&nbsp;The first one was on my own.&nbsp;I just went full lock and ran out of steering to the right and I just stayed in it and it was straight and I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh, man.&nbsp;I only lost two spots.\u2019&nbsp;And then on the last one I\u2019m not sure.&nbsp;I think there was probably some contact below me.&nbsp;I think it was maybe the 16 and the 38 and I saw one just turn right like he got knocked off into me and spun around and didn\u2019t hit anything again.&nbsp;That is a very fortunate night when you can do two 360s and not get clobbered by the field.&nbsp;But we lost track position with that, so we had to stay out there on tires after that and not quite good enough at the end.&nbsp;We just lacked drive, but coming away with a top 10 after two 360s is OK.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>TODD GILLILAND, No. 38 Speedy Cash Ford Mustang<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 \u201cI think our car was good when it was really tacky.&nbsp;I got in that very first wreck and when I was a lap down it was so fun.&nbsp;I passed like 10 to 15 cars, so I think we were more just set up for when it was tackier.&nbsp;We didn\u2019t really have the entry grip or the exit grip we needed when it got really slick.&nbsp;That\u2019s how this place goes, though.&nbsp;It goes through such a big swing.&nbsp;I feel like for a majority of the race we were OK.&nbsp;Frustrating because I thought we could have got a better finish, but that\u2019s racing sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>WERE YOU JUST HOLDING ON AT THE END?<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cYeah.&nbsp;I was absolutely hanging on.&nbsp;I thought I was gonna spin out on entry and exit.&nbsp;It was pretty bad at the end, but I\u2019m happy we came away with a decent finish.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>RYAN PREECE, No. 41 United Rentals Ford Mustang \u2013 WAS IT HARD TO FIND A RHYTHM TONIGHT?&nbsp;<\/strong>\u201cI think if we could have kept track position, we had I feel like a top 10 car, but when it got slick like that I don\u2019t know how many people were actually moving forward, but it was just try to hold on.&nbsp;Those last 75 laps or so, I mean, once you lose track position after Stage 1, man, you guys saw it, guys stayed out and they maintained it.&nbsp;What are you gonna do at that point?&nbsp;I don\u2019t care if Chad had a magic wand and I had a special set of tires that were staggered special, it wouldn\u2019t have mattered.&nbsp;You just can\u2019t do anything.&nbsp;There\u2019s no grip anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ARE YOU UP AGAINST A PERFORMANCE CHALLENGE OR JUST BETTER LUCK THIS YEAR?<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cThat\u2019s the third week in a row we\u2019ve run top 10.&nbsp;It starts with, I\u2019ve always said this, it starts with running there to winning races and we\u2019ve showed speed, so that\u2019s something.&nbsp;You\u2019ve got speed, but ultimately it\u2019s certainly frustrating when you\u2019re not getting the results of where you\u2019re running and not really due to something that you can really control.&nbsp;But at the end of the day the clock resets at midnight.&nbsp;We\u2019re moving forward and we\u2019re gonna go to Martinsville with every bullet loaded, so we\u2019ll be 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