2018 Food City 500

2018 Food City 500
Race details[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
Race 8 of 36 in the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series
2018 Food City 500 program cover, featuring "Young Guns" Ryan Blaney, Bubba Wallace, Chase Elliott, and William Byron, and "Veterans" Kyle Busch, Kevin Harvick, Jimmie Johnson, and Martin Truex Jr.
2018 Food City 500 program cover, featuring "Young Guns" Ryan Blaney, Bubba Wallace, Chase Elliott, and William Byron, and "Veterans" Kyle Busch, Kevin Harvick, Jimmie Johnson, and Martin Truex Jr.
Date April 15–16, 2018
Location Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee
Course Permanent racing facility
0.533 mi (0.858 km)
Distance 500 laps, 266.5 mi (429 km)
Average speed 77.465 miles per hour (124.668 km/h)
Pole position
Driver
Joe Gibbs Racing
Time 14.895
Most laps led
Driver Kyle Larson Chip Ganassi Racing
Laps 200
Winner
No. 18 Kyle Busch Joe Gibbs Racing
Television in the United States
Network Fox
Announcers Mike Joy, Jeff Gordon and Darrell Waltrip
Nielsen Ratings 1.4 (Overnight)[11]
Radio in the United States
Radio PRN
Booth Announcers Doug Rice, Mark Garrow and Wendy Venturini
Turn Announcers Rob Albright (Backstretch)

The 2018 Food City 500 was a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race held on April 15 and 16, 2018, at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee. The second half of the race was postponed to April 16 due to rain. Contested over 500 laps on the 0.533 miles (0.858 km) concrete short track, it was the eighth race of the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season.

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