2021 Food City Dirt Race

2021 Food City Dirt Race
Race details[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
Race 7 of 36 in the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series
Date March 29, 2021 (2021-03-29)
Location Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee
Course Permanent racing facility
0.533 mi (0.858 km)
Distance 253 laps, 134.849 mi (217.018 km)
Scheduled Distance 250 laps, 133.25 mi (214.445 km)
Average speed 46.313 miles per hour (74.534 km/h)
Pole position
Driver
Hendrick Motorsports
Most laps led
Driver Martin Truex Jr. Joe Gibbs Racing
Laps 122
Winner
No. 22 Joey Logano Team Penske
Television in the United States
Network Fox
Announcers Mike Joy, Jeff Gordon and Clint Bowyer
Nielsen Ratings 3.114 million[9]
Radio in the United States
Radio PRN
Booth Announcers Doug Rice and Mark Garrow
Turn Announcers Rob Albright (Backstretch)

The 2021 Food City Dirt Race was a NASCAR Cup Series race held on March 29, 2021, at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee. Contested over 250 laps on the 0.533 miles (0.858 km) short track, it was the seventh race of the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series season. The normal concrete racing surface at Bristol was covered with 2,300 truckloads of red clay, reducing the banking from 28 to 19 degrees, and making for the Cup Series' first race on dirt since 1970.[10]

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