NASCAR Sprint Cup race, Bristol 500 time TV schedule live stream

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The NASCAR Sprint Cup race schedule heads to Bristol today for the Food City 500, which sees the points standings continue to heat up as the 2015 season gets underway. Kevin Harvick continues to top the leaderboard and he has some familiar faces trying to catch up with him as he tries to continue his dominant NASCAR stretch. Today’s race has an early start time and airs on a national TV channel as well as a live stream online option for those looking to tune in via a computer or mobile touchscreen device.

Harvick leads the NASCAR Sprint Cup standings by 26 points heading into today’s race at Bristol, with Joey Logano his closest pursuant in second place. Martin Truex Jr is in third place, forty points back, while Brad Keselowski is in fourth place, sixty points back. Casey Kahne rounds out the top five. Jimmie Johnson, who once had a multi-year dominant stretch of his own, is in sixth. Dale Earnhardt Jr is in seventh place as he looks to overcome a slow start to the season. Bristol Motor Speedway has generations of NASCAR history behind it along with tight racing on a fairly short track. As always, the winner of today’s race qualifies for the Chase for the Cup well ahead of the season’s end, so the action will be as playoff-esque as ever.

Today’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Bristol 500 race has a start time schedule of 12:30pm eastern time on television and a 1:00pm green flag race start and airs on TV channel FOX as well as a live stream online.