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NASCAR Food City "500" @ Bristol


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Why do they call the Food City 500 race a 500 when it's 250 miles?

500 laps around a .5 mile course.

 

Don't all race numbers equal the total miles ran not lap totals?

Found this rather odd and nothing on the NASCAR site about it's name.

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Sometimes it's miles.

Or laps, or in IRL, kilometers even.

Been like this for as long as I can remember.

At TMS for the Samsung 500, we had to figger out how many laps on a 1.5 mile track when it's kilometers.

They installed a lap counter on top of the scoring towers that counts down laps now.

Much easier, especially if you're enjoying libations.

jb

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