Each year, the Food City 500 rolls into Tennessee, providing a taste of NASCAR action at the Bristol Motor Speedway – one of the most popular sites on the Sprint Cup calendar. The Food City 500 is one of two Sprint Cup races held each year at the famed Bristol Motor Speedway, with the other being the Sharpie 500. The 500-lap race is also considered to be one of NASCAR’s best, having been won by the likes of such legends as Fireball Roberts, Cale Yarborough, and Richard Petty, as well as modern-day stars like Jeff Gordon, Jeff Burton, and Kyle Busch, to name a few.

Having had its date on the NASCAR calendar since 1961, the Food City 500 is not only one of the top events of each season, but also one of the proudest ever to be held on the half-mile oval at the historic Bristol Motor Speedway. In 2007, the Food City 500 was the first ever NASCAR event in which the new Car of Tomorrow was used, which ended with Kyle Busch taking the checkered flag behind the wheel of the stock car’s newest vehicle.

In the eighteen years since officially being recognized as the Food City 500 in 1992, this NASCAR spectacle has had four multi-race winners, accounting for 13 of the 18 victories over that period, and with three of those drivers having chalked up victories in consecutive years. Leading the list is Jeff Gordon with four consecutive wins (1995-1998), followed by Kurt Busch with four wins (2002-2004, 2006), Rusty Wallace with three wins (1993, 1999-2000), and Kyle Busch with two wins (2007, 2009).

Bristol is also known as the “world’s fastest half mile”, and every true Sprint Cup fan should make it a point to experience a race there. Bristol Motor Speedway is a track which always provides some of the most thrilling NASCAR action of the season, which makes the next Food City 500 as good a place as any for fans to begin that experience.

If you have the desire to see "racin' the way it ought'a be” at one of NASCAR’s favorite venues, make sure to order tickets and be there when the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series returns to Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee on March 21, 2010, for this year’s Food City 500.