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After racing last Sunday and Thursday at the mammoth 1.5-mile Charlotte Motor Speedway, the NASCAR Cup Series heads to a very different type of atmosphere and layout this Sunday at the short-track Bristol (Tennessee) Motor Speedway for the Food City presents the Supermarket Heroes 500. It’s the first of two scheduled visits this season, with Bristol also scheduled to host a “playoff” race on September 19.

Unfortunately, one aspect of Bristol, which opened in 1961, will be missing this time around and that’s a very large, raucous group of fans because none are allowed in attendance due to the coronavirus (also no qualifying). Bristol Motor Speedway is the third largest sports venue in America as it can hold more than 160,000 people.

The track is right near the Virginia/Tennessee state line, and in 2006 Virginia Tech and the University of Tennessee played a college football game there with 157,000 people in attendance. That shattered the NCAA record.