With a handful of laps remaining in Sunday night’s NASCAR race at Bristol Dirt, Chase Briscoe was trying to gain on Tyler Reddick. Behind them sat the No. 18 car of Kyle Busch.
On the final turn, however, it was Busch taking the lead as Briscoe’s slide-job took himself and Reddick for a spin.
KYLE BUSCH JUST WON!!!!!!!!!!#NASCAR pic.twitter.com/Lr7vtnJWto
— Mr Matthew CFB 🇺🇦 (@MrMatthewCFB) April 18, 2022
Busch backed into the victory, but at the end of the day, that won’t be noted in the history books.
The win being Busch’s first of the season means he will likely qualify for the NASCAR Playoffs, but he becomes the eighth different winner in the series this year.
Briscoe apologized to Reddick in a post-race exchange:
Here's the post-race conversation between Chase Briscoe and Tyler Reddick:
🎥 @NASCARONFOX pic.twitter.com/HjoAcSQte1
— Always Race Day (@AlwaysRaceDay) April 18, 2022
We’ll have more on Bristol Dirt in the coming moments, as well as the post-race episode of the ARD podcast shortly.
NASCAR will return to the track next week for its second superspeedway race of the season, at Talladega. The Cup Series event on Sunday – the GEICO 500 – is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. CT on FOX.
NASCAR Cup Series Results
Food City Dirt Race – Bristol Dirt
Sun. April 17 – Bristol, Tenn.
1. Kyle Busch
2. Tyler Reddick
3. Joey Logano
4. Kyle Larson
5. Ryan Blaney
6. Alex Bowman
7. Christopher Bell
8. Chase Elliott
9. Michael McDowell
10. Ty Dillon
11. Brad Keselowski
12. Daniel Suarez
13. Cole Custer
14. Justin Haley
15. Chris Buescher
16. Austin Cindric
17. Todd Gilliland
18. William Byron
19. Corey LaJoie
20. Harrison Burton
21. Martin Truex Jr
22. Chase Briscoe
23. Aric Almriola
24. Erik Jones
25. Josh Williams
26. Cody Ware
27. Noah Gragson
28. Bubba Wallace
29. Ricky Stenhouse Jr
30. JJ Yeley
31. Austin Dillon
32. Kurt Busch
33. Ross Chastain
34. Kevin Harvick
35. Denny Hamlin
36. Justin Allgaier
