Food City 500
The Food City 500 was held April 13 at Bristol Motor Speedway. Rusty Wallace won the pole. the race had 20 cautions for 132 laps to set a Bristol record for the first time since 1989. The race was broadcast on ESPN.
Top Ten Results
- 24-Jeff Gordon
- 2-Rusty Wallace
- 5-Terry Labonte
- 88-Dale Jarrett
- 6-Mark Martin
- 3-Dale Earnhardt
- 94-Bill Elliott
- 97-Chad Little
- 37-Jeremy Mayfield
- 11-Brett Bodine
Failed to qualify: 20-Greg Sacks, 77-Bobby Hillin, Jr., 78-Billy Standridge, 91-Mike Wallace
- This race had 20 cautions for 132 laps. The 20 cautions at the time tied a record for most cautions with the 1989 spring event at Bristol. However, this race had an additional 34 laps run under caution compared to the 1989 event.
- On the last lap, Jeff Gordon rooted Rusty Wallace out of the way in Turn 4 to win the race. Wallace barely was able to hold off Terry Labonte for 2nd.
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