Bristol Motor Speedway And Food City Continue Successful In-Store Ticketing Program For June NHRA Weekend And America’s Night Race

Food City Also Celebrating Its 25th Year of Sponsoring The August NASCAR XFINITY Race

Highlights:
•    Special tickets have been reserved in Food City stores for the June NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals weekend and August’s Food City 300 and Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race
•    NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals tickets will be available in-store until Tuesday, June 13 for $40 each day for adults and $10 for kids (12-and-under)
•    August’s Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race tickets are $60 for adults, $10 for kids (12-and-under) while Food City 300 tickets are $30 for adults and free for kids (12-and-under) up until Tuesday, Aug. 16
•    All tickets will be reserved seating selected by BMS’ knowledgeable ticket office
•    A special race logo has been created to celebrate Food City’s 25th anniversary of sponsoring the August NASCAR XFINITY Series race

In continuing to celebrate its long-term partnership, Bristol Motor Speedway and Food City are extending the special in-store ticket program to June’s NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals and two of August’s Night Races.

Beginning tomorrow, all Food City locations will offer tickets to two of the most popular weekends in racing. Tickets for the NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals will be available at $40 for each day of racing with kids (12-and-under) at $10. Each ticket will serve as a pit pass to the event, allowing fans unparalleled access to watching teams work on their cars between rounds and giving them an opportunity to secure autographs from their favorite drivers.
Tickets are $60 for the Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race on Aug. 19 and $30 for the Aug. 18 Food City 300 XFINITY Series race. Kids’ tickets (kids 12-and-under) will be sold at $10 for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race and free for the NASCAR XFINITY Series event.

“Food City is an incredible community partner and we’re fortunate to have their support not only at the race track, but now in their stores by selling BMS tickets,” said Jerry Caldwell, executive vice president and general manager for Bristol Motor Speedway. “The debut of the 25th anniversary spring ticket offer was a great success and we’re looking forward to expanding the program to include the NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals, the 25th anniversary of the Food City 300 and the Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race.”  

All tickets will feature reserved seats selected by knowledgeable members of the BMS ticket office. Tickets will be sold at the front office of each Food City location. The tickets will then be emailed a few days following the purchase. The final day to purchase race tickets in-store will be Tuesday, June 12 for the NHRA weekend and Tuesday, Aug. 16 for America’s Night Race.

In addition, Food City will celebrate its 25th anniversary of sponsoring the August NASCAR XFINITY Series race, which comes just a few months after the company celebrated the same milestone with the Food City 500, April’s MENCS event. To honor this occasion, BMS has created a special edition logo for the Food City 300.

“We would like to thank our loyal customers and associates for their support in making the past 25 years possible,” said Steven C. Smith, President and CEO of Food City. “Bristol Motor Speedway is a strong pillar of our community and we’re proud to partner with them to make the Food City 300 weekend a highlight for our region.”

For more information, see the front office at your neighborhood Food City or visit www.BristolMotorSpeedway.com.

About Food City
Food City is Bristol Motor Speedway’s longest running sponsor and the second longest in NASCAR.  Headquartered in Abingdon, Virginia, K-VA-T Food Stores (Food City’s parent company) operates 135 retail outlets throughout southeast Kentucky, southwest Virginia, east Tennessee, Chattanooga and north Georgia. 

About Bristol Motor Speedway
Forged amid the scenic mountains of Northeast Tennessee near the Virginia state line, Bristol Motor Speedway is The Last Great Colosseum, a versatile multi-use venue that hosts major auto races, football games, concerts and many other captivating events. The facility features a 0.533-mile concrete oval race track with 28-degree corner banking and 650-feet straightaways that offers racing in several NASCAR touring series, highlighted by two major Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series weekends. While at the track, fans are offered a unique viewing experience courtesy of Colossus, the world’s largest outdoor center-hung four-sided video screen with a 540,000-watt audio system. The adjacent quarter-mile dragstrip, Bristol Dragway, offers more than 70 events annually, including the marquee NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals. Three football games have kicked-off inside the oval, most notably the 2016 Pilot Flying J Battle at Bristol, where border rivals the University of Tennessee and Virginia Tech met before an NCAA-record crowd of 156,990. In existence since 1961, Bristol Motor Speedway was purchased in 1996 by Speedway Motorsports, Inc., a publicly traded company that is a leading marketer and promoter of motorsports entertainment in the United States. For more information, please visit www.bristolmotorspeedway.com.