 Bristol Dirt Race. Image: Ricky Stenhouse Jr Fb The dirt surface at Bristol is a completely different race track than we are used to of course. So, naturally, that lends itself to some different names at the top of the pilon. This past weekend was no different, here are some of the drivers that had some fantastic runs on the dirt!
Todd Gilliland Gilliland scored his 4th career Top-10 finish at Bristol with his 8th-place finish. Bristol represented the second Top-10 finish of the season for Todd who is having a better sophomore season so far than his rookie season despite being told he would not be full-time in his #38 car. Ricky Stenhouse Jr Your reigning Daytona 500 champion is having a far better start to his 2023 season as well with the dirt racer's 500 win and his 3rd Top-10 finish of the season so far. Stenhouse Jr netted a 4th place finish and scored 33 points to help keep him in the running for the playoffs starting in August pending as many winners as we had last season. Justin Haley Justin Haley announced his engagement Tuesday morning, so congratulations. He did that following up his 9th career Top-10 finish in the Cup Series. Haley was up front all night long scoring 4 Stage Points on top of his 6th place final spot. Bubba Wallace Bubba has had a shit season, there's no way around that. He sits 24th in the points and has only 1 Top-5 this season at Vegas. But Bubba without a doubt showed a great improvement on the dirt after winning his Heat race and then finishing a respectable 12th and an average running position of 13.11. Bubba's previous 2 finishes on dirt were 27th and 28th. Austin Dillon Outside of being in contention late in the Daytona 500, the eldest of the Dillon brothers showed commanding speed all night long on the dirt. Austin won his Dirt race and followed that up with a 3rd place finish. Dillon scored 18 Stage Points and battled for the Top 5 all night long with the second-best average running position of 4.26. Ty Gibbs Ty is on a roll this season. In his first 4 starts of the season, he finished an average of 22.75. The last 4, all Top-10s with an average of 9.25 after finishing 10th on the dirt. Gibbs had an average running position of 19.82 but greatly improved that run with his 5th Career Top-10 in just 19 starts. J.J. Yeley JJ had one hell of a starting position of 3rd for his Rick Ware Racing #15 Ford Mustang finishing 20th. JJ ended up scoring his best career finish since 2019's Summer Daytona race. His finishing position improved 3.91 positions over his average running position even running 45 laps in the Top-15. By: Tom Luttermoser
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