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Food City 500

1999 Top Ten Place  Driver  Car #  Speed  1  Rusty Wallace  2  Ford  2  Mark Martin  6  Ford  3  Dale Jarrett  88  Ford  4  John Andretti  43  Chevrolet  5  Jeff Burton  99  Ford  6  Jeff Gordon  24  Chevrolet  7  Ted Musgrave  75  Ford  8  Kyle Petty  44  Pontiac  9  Ward Burton  22  Pontiac  10  Dale Earnhardt  3  Chevrolet

When: Sunday

Where: Bristol Motor Speedway; Bristol, Tenn.

Series: Race 6 of 34 on Winston Cup circuit

TV: ESPN, 1p.m. EST

Laps: 500

Track length: .533 miles

Race length: 267 miles

Qualifying record: Rusty Wallace, 125.142 mph, 1999

Race record: Cale Yarborough, 100.989 mph, 1977

Track record: Charlie Glotzbach, 101.074 mph, 1971

Darrell Waltrip leads all drivers with 12 wins at Bristol. Dale Earnhardt is tied for second with nine. ... Earnhardt made the biggest comeback in history at Bristol, starting 28th in his 1999 victory at the Goody's Headache Powder 500. ... Jeff Gordon has won four of the last five spring races at Bristol. ... Gordon has gone 10 races without a top-five finish. That is the longest streak of his Winston Cup career. ... Charlie Glotzbach's qualifying record of 101.074 mph set in 1971 was the longest-standing mark on the circuit until Wallace's 125.142 mph broke it last year.

Jeff Burton -- Had finishes of fourth and fifth in the last two Food City 500s; won the rain-shortened race at Las Vegas and was second in the Daytona 500; comes off a fifth-place score at Darlington, which moved him up four positions to ninth in the standings.

Ward Burton -- Led 188 laps at Darlington to win just his second Winston Cup race in 185 starts; became the fifth different winner this season; his last win was in October 1995 at North Carolina Speedway; was ninth in both races at Bristol last season.

Dale Earnhardt -- Won the Food City 500 five times -- the first in 1979, the last in 1994; also won the fall race four times including last season; is the last driver to win both races at Bristol back in 1987; has 18 top-five finishes in 40 career starts at Bristol; won at Atlanta, was second in Las Vegas and third at Darlington last week for top results; the seven-time Winston Cup champion has 75 career wins in his stellar career.

Bill Elliott -- One of only five active drivers to win this race -- did it in 1988; has 40 career victories, the last at Darlington in 1994; good start this season with two top-five finishes.

Jeff Gordon -- Had a four-year win streak at this race stopped by Rusty Wallace last year; was involved in a seven-car pileup; never won the night race at Bristol; has gone 10 races without a top-five finish although the eight place at Darlington was the highest this season; this is the longest streak without a top-five finish in his 228-race Winston Cup career.

Dale Jarrett -- Defending Winston Cup champion is fifth in the standings after five races, 73 points off the pace; finished third in the Food City 500 two years running; won at Bristol in the fall of 1997 for his first career short-track triumph; won Daytona 500 to start season.

Matt Kenseth -- Picked up his second Winston Cup top-10 finish this year; his sixth-place finish at Darlington marks the second time in five races he was the highest-finishing rookie; leads the rookie standings by four points over Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Bobby Labonte -- Leads the Winston Cup points standings with 794, nine ahead of Mark Martin; strong start this season with a victory at North Carolina Speedway, a runner-up to Dale Earnhardt at Atlanta, a fifth- and sixth-place result; streak of top-eight finishes in 14 consecutive races came to an end at Darlington last week when he was 13th.

Terry Labonte -- Won two races at Bristol, in the fall of 1995 and 1984; has 31 top-10s in 43 starts at Bristol; was 13th in this event and eighth in the Goody's 500; only top 10 this season was seventh at the Daytona 500.

Mark Martin -- Has finished in the top nine in all five races so far this season; is just nine points behind leader Bobby Labonte in the standings; was the runner-up in this race in 1999 and won in the fall of 1998; one of the best short-track drivers on the circuit.

Tony Stewart -- The 1999 NASCAR Rookie of the Year has three top-five finishes in five races; was second in Las Vegas and fourth at North Carolina and Darlington; placed 15th in this race last year, but improved to fifth place in the Goody's 500 in August; won three races in his rookie year and finished fourth in the 1999 points standings.

Rusty Wallace -- The short-track superstar is the defending champion at the 'World's Fastest Half-Mile'; won the last three poles in this race; dominated last year, leading 425 of the 500 laps; it was his 21st top-10 finish in 31 races at Bristol; has just one top five in five races this year.

Darrell Waltrip -- The Tennesse resident is arguably the best ever at Bristol; leads all drivers with 12 wins at the famed short-track; between spring of 1981 and 1984, he won seven straight races at Bristol; has 26 top-fives and 32 top-10s in 50 career starts at Bristol; five of the wins came in the Food City 500.

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