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| EVENT NAME | DATE/TIME | VENUE/CITY |
| NASCAR Sprint Cup Series: Food City 500 |
Sun. Mar 21, 2010
1:00 PM |
Bristol Motor Speedway
Bristol , TN |
The Food City is a Nextel Cup stock car race of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) held at Bristol Motor Speedway (Bristol, Tennessee). As far as the venue is concerned, Bristol Motor Speedway is a NASCAR short track that was built in 1960. The first NASCAR race took place there in July of 1961. The geographical coordinates of the track are 36.516172° N 82.256945° W. The Food City is the corporate sponsor of the Food City 500. The distance the cars have to run is 267 miles (429 km), with the number of laps- 500. The previous names of the Food City 500 are Southeastern 500, Southeastern 400, Valleydale Southeastern, Valleydale Southeastern 500, Valleydale 500 and Valleydale Meats 500.
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