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NOTES: Kyle Busch will certainly have his hands full this week, as he tries to repeat at Bristol Motor Speedway. Last season, Busch defeated Denny Hamlin by less than a second for his 14th career Sprint Cup title. Busch led 378 of the 503 laps for a 0.391 of a second victory. Starting from the 19th position, Busch gained the lead for the first time on lap 69 and dominated the race, leading on five separate occasions. Pole sitter Mark Martin placed sixth. Busch will have to battle with his brother Kurt, a five-time winner at BMS, Matt Kenseth a two-time champion here and Jeff Gordon, who boasts five wins in Tennessee. Although never a winner here, Jimmie Johnson is seeking his 50th career Sprint Cup title. A win at Bristol would make him the fourth-fastest driver to reach that mark in his 295th start. Johnson is 0-for-16 at BMS, but did finish third last year. Sunday's Food City 500 is the fifth race of 2010 and the last where teams in the top 35 of the final 2009 owner standings are guaranteed a starting spot. Beginning at Martinsville, the 2010 owner standings will be used to determine each week's top-35 guaranteed spots. Jeff Burton crossed the finish line just 0.588 of a second ahead of Kevin Harvick and Clint Bowyer to capture his 20th career Sprint Cup title In 2008. Tony Stewart led for most of the race, leading six times for 267 laps, but faded to 14th. Jimmie Johnson started on the pole and placed 18th. Trailing Denny Hamlin with just two laps remaining, Burton took the lead when Hamlin suddenly slowed and then hung on to take the checkered flag. In his 668th and final regular season race, Dale Jarrett finished 37th. Tony Stewart and Denny Hamlin dominated this race in 2007, but it was Kyle Busch who took the checkered flag, as he clipped Jeff Burton by less than a second for his fourth career Sprint Cup title. Stewart, who started fourth on the grid, led four times for a race-high 257 laps, but faded to 35th and Hamlin, who placed 14th, led for 177 laps. Pole sitter Jeff Gordon led the first six laps, but could do no better than third. Busch reclaimed the lead from Hamlin on lap 485 and held on for victory by 0.064 of a second. Kurt Busch outdueled Kevin Harvick down the stretch to take the checkered flag in 2006, as he crossed the finish line 0.179 of a second ahead of the defending champion for his 15th career Sprint Cup title and fourth at this race. Busch, who previously captured the Food City 500 from 2002-04, reclaimed the lead on lap 496 of the 500-lap event and held on for victory. Busch led for a total of 33 laps, while Matt Kenseth, who placed third, led for 124 laps, including laps 410 through 495. Pole sitter Tony Stewart led for a race- high 245 laps, but finished 12th. When Harvick won in 2005, he snapped the three-year win streak of Kurt Busch, as he raced to a 4.652 seconds win over Elliott Sadler. The win enabled Harvick to post a rare double in NASCAR, as he also captured the Nationwide race the previous day. Harvick started 43rd on the grid due to a faulty power steering pump and did not take the lead until lap 91 and then reclaimed the lead on lap 434 of the 500-lap race, leading a total of 109 laps, including the final 67 for his fifth Sprint Cup Series title. When Cale Yarborough won this race in 1973, he led all 500 laps. Jeff Gordon and Darrell Waltrip have won this event four straight years. Gordon from 1995-98 and Waltrip from 1981-84. Waltrip won 12 races at Bristol, more than any other driver. Gordon has an amazing five wins and 20 top-10s at this track with an average finish of 11.6, leading 2,438 laps in 34 races. There has been only one race run caution-free at Bristol, the 1971 Volunteer 500, won by Charlie Glotzbach. The late Dale Earnhardt won this race five times. There have been 98 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races at Bristol since the track opened in 1961. The race has been won from the Pole on 22 occasions at Bristol, the most of any starting position. Eleven of those have come in the spring race; 11 in the fall. Fifty-one races at Bristol have been won from the first four starting positions and a whopping 79 of the 98 from the top-10. The furthest back in the field that a race winner has started was 38th by Elliott Sadler in the 2001 Food City 500. "Stone Cold" Steve Austin will serve as the Grand Marshall and will command the drivers to start their engines. Jason Witten of the Dallas Cowboys will be the honorary starter and wave the green flag. The next Sprint Cup Series race is the March 28th Goody's Fast Pain Relief 500 at Martinsville Speedway, as Jimmie Johnson defends his title. 03/16 18:34:08 ET