Food City 500 Tickets

When talked about by a competitor; as Jimmy was Sunday at Bristol Motor Speedway at the Food City 500 Tickets are avilable by Kurt Busch -- Jimmy Spencer makes it clear that he has a long memory. "I never forget," he says. He uttered that very point of view yet again Sunday after Busch tapped his rear end with 55 laps remaining to regain the lead he'd lost just one lap prior, a lead that Busch ultimately converted into victory in the Food City 500. But Busch, whose win Sunday marked the first of his NASCAR Winston Cup Series career, didn't quite see it that way. Not only did he questioned Spencer's memory, he flat out said he forgot a former altercation. "Jimmy Spencer forgot about what he did to me last year at Phoenix," said an overjoyed Busch in Victory Lane. "I'm not going to say I don't forget things, I just didn't think I should give up the lead that easily." One year following Elliott Sadler prolonged his final set of tires 162 laps to earn his first career win here, Busch rode the same set of rubber 157 circuits to a similar outcome.

He was running second to Dale Earnhardt Jr. on lap 409 when the warning flew. Earnhardt Jr. pitted, cycling Busch into the lead. He stayed out front until Spencer got by him in lapped traffic 34 laps later. The following lap, Busch tapped the back end of Spencer's Dodge to recover the lead, an advantage he never relinquished, earning win number one in his 48th career start. Spencer was irritated following the Food City 500 Tickets available race, and offered Busch a bit of advice. Spencer said of the love tap, "I never touched him, never laid a tire on him,". "He just hit me in the back bumper. When you're up in the top-five, you better respect your competitors, 'cause it'll come back to haunt you. I didn't do anything to him, he shouldn't have done it to me." Following the love tap, Busch made his lead bigger by more than a second when Hermie Sadler slammed the wall with 20 laps to go, bringing out the day's 14th and final caution. Despite the damaged tires, Busch got an excellent restart when the Food City 500 race resumed with 15 laps remaining, than stretched his lead over Spencer with each passing lap. "I saw Elliott Sadler do it last year," said Busch, a Las Vegas native, of the long tire run. "These tires last forever. The line in Vegas, 50 to 1, 10 to 1, I don't know. My mom always puts money on me. I tell her not to, but I'm glad she did today."

Spencer's second-place finish is by far his best of the season, but having nearly won after an eight-year drought, that offered little solace. "Busch just smashed right into me," Spencer said on the radio as he exited his machine. "I never forget. Only thing is, when I smash back, he won't finish." Ricky Rudd earned his best finish of the year with a third-place effort, while Earnhardt Jr. rolled home fourth. Earnhardt Jr. led a race-high 181 laps before the last tire stop - one he says did not cost him the Food City 500 race. "I didn't think we were good enough to win," Earnhardt Jr. said. "People might think we gave up the win, but no, we'd have given it up eventually, anyway." Earnhardt Jr. was involved in some post-race fireworks, as well. As the final laps wound down, he engaged in heated battled with Robby Gordon, a lapped car. Gordon said Earnhardt Jr. had turned his Chevrolet sideways earlier in the event. After restarting 10th following the last tire stop, Earnhardt Jr. made up six positions lost on the stop before reaching Gordon. Unable to pass Gordon, he was unable to ascend any higher than fourth in the final rundown.