2025 Food City 500

The 2025 Food City 500 was a NASCAR Cup Series race that was held on April 13, 2025, at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee. Contested over 500 laps on the 0.533 miles (0.858 km) short track, it was the 9th race of the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season.

Kyle Larson won the race. Denny Hamlin finished 2nd, and Ty Gibbs finished 3rd. Chase Briscoe and Ryan Blaney rounded out the top five, and William Byron, Ross Chastain, Christopher Bell, A. J. Allmendinger, and Austin Dillon rounded out the top ten.

Bristol Motor Speedway, the track where the race was held.

Bristol Motor Speedway, formerly known as Bristol International Raceway and Bristol Raceway, is a NASCAR short track venue located in Bristol, Tennessee. Constructed in 1960, it held its first NASCAR race on July 30, 1961. Bristol is among the most popular tracks on the NASCAR schedule because of its distinct features, which include extraordinarily steep banking combined with short length, an all concrete surface, two pit roads, and stadium-like seating.

In 2021, the race shifted to a dirt surface version of the track and was renamed the Food City Dirt Race. After the 2023 event, the race would return to being run on concrete to replace the dirt surface.

• (R) denotes rookie driver.
• (i) denotes driver who is ineligible for series driver points.

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. was the fastest in the practice session with a time of 14.981 seconds and a speed of 128.082 mph (206.128 km/h).

Alex Bowman scored the pole for the race with a time of 14.912 and a speed of 128.675 mph (207.082 km/h).

Stage One Laps: 125

Stage Two Laps: 125

Stage Three Laps: 250

• Lead changes: 4 among 4 different drivers
• Cautions/Laps: 3 for 40
• Red flags: 0
• Time of race: 2 hours, 38 minutes and 43 seconds
• Average speed: 100.746 miles per hour (162.135 km/h)

The race was carried by FS1 in the United States. Mike Joy, Clint Bowyer, and three-time Bristol winner Kevin Harvick called the race from the broadcast booth. Jamie Little and Regan Smith handled pit road for the television side, and Larry McReynolds provided insight on-site during the race.

PRN covered the radio call for the race which was simulcasted on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Brad Gillie and Mark Garrow called the race in the booth when the field raced down the frontstretch. Rob Albright called the race from atop the turn 3 suites when the field raced down the backstretch. Andrew Kurland, Doug Turnbull, Alan Cavanna and Wendy Venturini covered the action on pit lane for PRN.