Food City 500 Tickets - Gearing Up for a Celebrity/Legends Race by Brent Warnken
Bristol, Tennessee is raging and ready to go for the upcoming Food City 500 race this March, and this year's festivities for the Food City 500 weekend will feature something a little different than normal- a celebrity/legends race. Former all-star racecar drivers such as Darrell Waltrip, David Pearson, Junior Johnson, Harry Gant, Sterling Marlin, Jimmy Spencer and Phil Parsons are just a few of the many big names expected to make cameos in the first annual "Saturday Night Special" on March 21, and these NASCAR legends will pair up with national celebrities in a 50-lap race to benefit charity.
A yet-undisclosed roster of celebrities will take to the track at the Bristol Motor Speedway in the first portion of the celebrity/legends race this year, zooming their late model stock cars around the track for the first 15 laps of the race before handing off to NASCAR legends to finish off the final 35 laps, starting in the same order their celebrity counterparts finish. The winning team from the race will receive $25,000 to donate to a charity of its choice, and second place will get $10,000 for a similar cause.
This spring event at the Bristol Motor Speedway is one of NASCAR's premier events, and fans around the country are lining up to get Food City 500 tickets to see the racing league's heavyweights rush neck-and-neck with each other in this challenging event. Widely known as the fastest short track in the world, Bristol is a tight half-mile oval track and a complete test of skill where carefully maneuvering around other drivers is the ultimate key to success. The Bristol Motor Speedway opened in 1961 as the Bristol International Speedway, holding 18,000 spectators as the first of the NASCAR drivers on the Tennessee turf whizzed around the oval track in the inaugural event, the Volunteer 500.
It has been several years and many renovations since the speedway opened, but the Bristol Motor Speedway is still going strong. The Food City 500 began under its current name in 1992 and still features the best of NASCAR in the 500-lap race. Racing favorites like Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt, Rusty Wallace, Kurt Busch and Jeff Burton have all emerged victorious out of the highly-regarded Bristol race, and during last year's race it was Richard Childress Racing's No. 31 Jeff Burton who took home the honors of Food City 500 champion. The '08 race was a nail-biter and came down to the very last laps, finishing with Burton crossing the finish line first after his teammate Kevin Harvick (No. 29) took out Stewart-Haas Racing's No. 14 Tony Stewart.
This year's Food City 500 promises just as much action as any, and aside from the celebrity/legends race and the meat and potatoes portion of the weekend in the Food City 500, the weekend's festivities will also include the Scotts Turf Builder 300, a NASCAR Nationwide Series event set to commence on March 21, a day before the Food City 500 finals. To get tickets to this incredible weekend of NASCAR fun, check online and head down to Bristol, Tennessee.
This article is sponsored by StubHub.com and was written by Brent Warnken. StubHub is a leader in the business of selling Food City 500 tickets, sports tickets, concert tickets, theater tickets and special events tickets.
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Bristol, Tennessee is raging and ready to go for the upcoming Food City 500 race this March, and this year's festivities for the Food City 500 weekend will feature something a little different than normal- a celebrity/legends race. Former all-star racecar drivers such as Darrell Waltrip, David Pearson, Junior Johnson, Harry Gant, Sterling Marlin, Jimmy Spencer and Phil Parsons are just a few of the many big names expected to make cameos in the first annual "Saturday Night Special" on March 21, and these NASCAR legends will pair up with national celebrities in a 50-lap race to benefit charity.
A yet-undisclosed roster of celebrities will take to the track at the Bristol Motor Speedway in the first portion of the celebrity/legends race this year, zooming their late model stock cars around the track for the first 15 laps of the race before handing off to NASCAR legends to finish off the final 35 laps, starting in the same order their celebrity counterparts finish. The winning team from the race will receive $25,000 to donate to a charity of its choice, and second place will get $10,000 for a similar cause.
This spring event at the Bristol Motor Speedway is one of NASCAR's premier events, and fans around the country are lining up to get Food City 500 tickets to see the racing league's heavyweights rush neck-and-neck with each other in this challenging event. Widely known as the fastest short track in the world, Bristol is a tight half-mile oval track and a complete test of skill where carefully maneuvering around other drivers is the ultimate key to success. The Bristol Motor Speedway opened in 1961 as the Bristol International Speedway, holding 18,000 spectators as the first of the NASCAR drivers on the Tennessee turf whizzed around the oval track in the inaugural event, the Volunteer 500.
It has been several years and many renovations since the speedway opened, but the Bristol Motor Speedway is still going strong. The Food City 500 began under its current name in 1992 and still features the best of NASCAR in the 500-lap race. Racing favorites like Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt, Rusty Wallace, Kurt Busch and Jeff Burton have all emerged victorious out of the highly-regarded Bristol race, and during last year's race it was Richard Childress Racing's No. 31 Jeff Burton who took home the honors of Food City 500 champion. The '08 race was a nail-biter and came down to the very last laps, finishing with Burton crossing the finish line first after his teammate Kevin Harvick (No. 29) took out Stewart-Haas Racing's No. 14 Tony Stewart.
This year's Food City 500 promises just as much action as any, and aside from the celebrity/legends race and the meat and potatoes portion of the weekend in the Food City 500, the weekend's festivities will also include the Scotts Turf Builder 300, a NASCAR Nationwide Series event set to commence on March 21, a day before the Food City 500 finals. To get tickets to this incredible weekend of NASCAR fun, check online and head down to Bristol, Tennessee.
This article is sponsored by StubHub.com and was written by Brent Warnken. StubHub is a leader in the business of selling Food City 500 tickets, sports tickets, concert tickets, theater tickets and special events tickets.
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