Bristol still has tickets for sale

Jeff Byrd, president and general manager of Bristol Motor Speedway, would not say how many tickets remained nor how many had been sold for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Food City 500 on March 22.

Although he evaded hard numbers and talked around sales figures, Byrd did tell the Bristol Herald Courier something race fans and NASCAR followers have been waiting months to hear: He anticipates tickets for the Food City 500 will sell out in the next five to six days.

“We’re going to run out of tickets," Byrd said Wednesday afternoon, sitting in his spacious office that overlooks Volunteer Parkway. “We sold more yesterday than on Monday. And we sold more on Monday than we sold on Sunday."

If Byrd is right, the sellout would mark the 54th consecutive Cup race that has done so at BMS. The current sell-out streak at the 160,000-capacity track dates to Aug. 28, 1982 and is the longest run in NASCAR. Tricities.com