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The Bristol night race in 2013. The track's fall NASCAR race was first run at night in 1978, and has since become an annual tradition. Bristol Motor Speedway hosts two annual NASCAR weekends: The NASCAR Cup Series with the Food City 500 and the Bass Pro Shops Night Race. [110] The Food City 500 was first held on October 22, 1961. [111]
“It has such a special place in motorsports and in this city,” Jerry Caldwell, the president of Bristol Mot Nashville, Bristol working to give NASCAR a historic racing option in Music City ...
All three cities are located in Northeast Tennessee, while Bristol has a twin city of the same name in Virginia. The Tri-Cities region was formerly a single Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA); due to the U.S. Census Bureau 's revised definitions of urban areas in the early 2000s, it is now a Combined Statistical Area (CSA) with two ...
1972: Mechanic (and later car owner) Junior Johnson saw the first of a plethora of Bristol wins over the ensuing two decades as Bobby Allison drove his Chevrolet to an easy win. 1973: Driving Junior's Chevy, Cale Yarborough led all 500 laps, a feat he duplicated at Nashville in 1978 and by Jeff Burton at New Hampshire International Speedway in ...
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The First National Bank of Bristol (1905), US Post Office-Shelby Street Station (1900), and Paramount Theatre and Office Building (1929-1930) are separately listed. [3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003, and was slightly increased in size in 2017. [1]
U.S. Route 421 (US 421) is a north–south United States highway that runs for 43.4 miles (69.8 km) in East Tennessee, connecting the cities of Mountain City and Bristol. The entire route is overlapped with SR 34 , save for approximately a half mile between US 11E / US 19 and the Virginia State Line.
US 31/US 41/US 41A/US 431/SR 6/SR 11 in Nashville: US 41A at the Kentucky state line in Clarksville: 1923: current SR 13: 153.01: 246.25 SR 17 at the Alabama state line in Wayne County: US 79 at the Kentucky state line in Montgomery County: 1923: current SR 14: 57.9: 93.2 US 61 at the Mississippi state line in Memphis: SR 54 in Tipton County