Overview

• Saturday’s 500-lap Cup race at Bristol starts at 7:30 p.m. ET with stage breaks at laps 125 and 250.
• A 39-car preliminary entry list means no team will fail to qualify under the 40-car start limit.
• Denny Hamlin returns in the No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota with King’s Hawaiian sponsorship after winning at World Wide Technology Raceway.
• Corey Heim is slated to run the No. 67 23XI Racing Toyota with Robinhood, and Austin Hill will drive the No. 33 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet for his fourth Cup start of the season.
• RFK fields Brad Keselowski (No. 6), Chris Buescher (No. 17), and Ryan Preece (No. 60), with Buescher 17th, Preece 18th, and Keselowski 22nd in points despite the organization’s 12 historical Cup wins at Bristol.