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2026 Food City 500 practice 1 results Select a practice session: 1Summary Previous race results / Next race results                     Previous at this track     Post NASCAR Cup Series race number 8 of 36 Sunday, April 12, 2026 at Bristol Motor Speedway, Bristol, TN 500 laps* on a 0.533 mile paved track (266.500 miles) Time of race: 3:01:50 Average speed: 88.817 mph Pole speed: 127.064 mph Cautions: 9 for 72 laps Margin of victory: .055 sec Attendance: n/a Lead changes: 12 Green flag passes: 2,266 (5.2 per green flag lap) (Source: NASCAR loop data) Glossary    2026 NASCAR Cup Series results   /   2026 standings

Practice 1 results for this race: Rank Driver Nbr Car Time Diff Speed # Laps Best Lap 1 Ricky Stenhouse Jr 47 Chevrolet 15.403     124.573   50 5 2 Noah Gragson 4 Ford 15.439   0.036   124.283   43 6 3 Austin Cindric 2 Ford 15.451   0.048   124.186   71 25 4 Erik Jones 43 Toyota 15.453   0.050   124.170   60 7 5 Bubba Wallace 23 Toyota 15.459   0.056   124.122   66 4 6 Michael McDowell 71 Chevrolet 15.462   0.059   124.098   67 6 7 Connor Zilisch 88 Chevrolet 15.470   0.067   124.034   46 8 8 Ty Gibbs 54 Toyota 15.470   0.067   124.034   63 15 9 A.J. Allmendinger 16 Chevrolet 15.474   0.071   124.002   50 17 10 Kyle Larson 5 Chevrolet 15.476   0.073   123.986   65 18 11 Riley Herbst 35 Toyota 15.478   0.075   123.970   72 8 12 John H. Nemechek 42 Toyota 15.479   0.076   123.961   40 5 13 Zane Smith 38 Ford 15.491   0.088   123.865   56 14 14 Ryan Preece 60 Ford 15.494   0.091   123.841   62 11 15 Ryan Blaney 12 Ford 15.496   0.093   123.826   77 20 16 Alex Bowman 48 Chevrolet 15.497   0.094   123.818   44 5 17 Kyle Busch 8 Chevrolet 15.497   0.094   123.818   56 17 18 Todd Gilliland 34 Ford 15.503   0.100   123.770   42 13 19 Carson Hocevar 77 Chevrolet 15.504   0.101   123.762   58 11 20 Joey Logano 22 Ford 15.521   0.118   123.626   76 15 21 Tyler Reddick 45 Toyota 15.525   0.122   123.594   72 18 22 William Byron 24 Chevrolet 15.529   0.126   123.562   68 12 23 Christopher Bell 20 Toyota 15.535   0.132   123.515   61 10 24 Denny Hamlin 11 Toyota 15.535   0.132   123.515   75 23 25 Cody Ware 51 Chevrolet 15.549   0.146   123.403   49 7 26 Austin Dillon 3 Chevrolet 15.554   0.151   123.364   48 11 27 Chase Briscoe 19 Toyota 15.562   0.159   123.300   68 21 28 Chase Elliott 9 Chevrolet 15.571   0.168   123.229   57 21 29 Brad Keselowski 6 Ford 15.575   0.172   123.197   33 31 30 Ty Dillon 10 Chevrolet 15.579   0.176   123.166   43 7 31 Ross Chastain 1 Chevrolet 15.582   0.179   123.142   47 11 32 Cole Custer 41 Chevrolet 15.586   0.183   123.110   58 9 33 Josh Berry 21 Ford 15.622   0.219   122.827   61 19 34 Shane Van Gisbergen 97 Chevrolet 15.634   0.231   122.733   43 14 35 Daniel Suarez 7 Chevrolet 15.635   0.232   122.725   40 9 36 Chris Buescher 17 Ford 15.673   0.270   122.427   57 19 37 Chad Finchum 66 Ford 15.746   0.343   121.860   41 8