2014 NASCAR at Bristol II: Preview, Prediction of Irwin Tools Night Race

It’s back to Bristol, baby! Year after year, voted by the fans as the most sought-after ticket on the entire NASCAR Sprint Cup schedule, the late-summer Saturday night race at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee, is often the most rambunctious, most talked-about event of the regular season. Short-track racing means short fuses and hot tempers as the action gets up close and personal on the Speedway’s all-concrete, high-banked half-mile. Saturday night short-track racing is what defined many of the drivers in the current Cup field. They love to come here. “It reminds me of the movie Gladiator,” said Clint Bowyer, who sits two seats next to the Chase cutoff. “You know someone’s going to agitate you...

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