Stay right here, the NCTS is about to get after it for the first of two practices.  We'll have all the action for you as it happens! 

We just went green for 75 minutes of practice.  Brad Keslowski and Matt Crafton led the charge, with many other to follow.  We'll have all the action for you as it happens...

Tracy Hines, No. 13 Chevrolet: "It is just burying the right side into the track."

Mike Skinner, No. 5 Toyota: "We have a little smoke coming off the brakes. We should probably see what that is, don't you think?"

Terry Cook, No. 10 Ford: "It feels like it's running out of fuel down the straightaways. It just dies."

1 Mike Skinner 15.623 122.819
2 David Starr 15.653 122.584
3 Jack Sprague 15.661 122.521
4 Ron Hornaday Jr.15.723 122.038
5 Steve Park 15.731 121.976

6 * Mike Bliss 15.74 121.906
7 Brendan Gaughan 15.747 121.852
8 David Reutimann 15.748 121.844
9 Jimmy Spencer 15.758 121.767
10 * Ken Schrader 15.775 121.635

11 Kyle Busch 15.784 121.566
12 Todd Kluever # 15.786 121.551
13 Chris Wimmer 15.793 121.497
14 Dennis Setzer 15.807 121.389
15 Timothy Peters #15.811 121.359

16 Brad Keselowski 15.814 121.336
17 * Chad Chaffin 15.823 121.267
18 Johnny Benson 15.826 121.244
19 Brandon Whitt 15.83 121.213
20 Mike Wallace 15.832 121.198

21 Todd Bodine 15.843 121.113
22 Robert Pressley 15.844 121.106
23 Rick Crawford 15.845 121.098
24 Matt Crafton 15.853 121.037
25 Terry Cook 15.857 121.006

26 Bobby Hamilton 15.863 120.961
27 Ted Musgrave 15.882 120.816
28 Bill Lester 15.886 120.786
29 Ricky Craven 15.899 120.687
30 Deborah Renshaw 15.921 120.52

31 * Andy Houston 15.966 120.18
32 Tracy Hines 15.999 119.932
33 Chase Montgomery16.013 119.828
34 * Tim Fedewa 16.059 119.484
35 * Nicholas Tucker# 16.119 119.04

36 * Kelly Sutton 16.359 117.293
37 * Tam Topham 16.471 116.496
38 Bill Manfull 16.732 114.678
39 * Casey Kingsland 16.867 113.761
40 * Eric King 16.994 112.91

41 * Rob Ferguson 17.031 112.665
42 * Frank Wilson Jr.17.403 110.257

Terry Cook, No. 10 Ford: "It depends on how hard you press it as to how bad it pushes the nose. It is real predominant now off turn four."

David Starr, No. 75 Chevy: "The first two laps are pretty good then it starts getting tighter and tighter."

Deborah Renshaw has crashed in turns one and two to bring out the first red flag of the day. She made contact with the right front corner of her machine and coasted to a stop in turns three and four. She has been talking to her crew, but the crew is now heading to get the backup out of the trailer. We will have a report on her condition when it is available.

UPDATE: Renshaw has told her crew she is okay, however she did say she banged up her left wrist in the accident.  We will track her down as soon as she is available.  The team has unloaded the backup in hopes of making a few more laps before qualifying.

Ron Hornaday and Nick Ticker tangled coming off turn four and spun down the frontstetch to bring out the third red flag of the day. Tucker apparently made contact with the rear of Hornaday's truck and then got into the fence. Tucker was out of his truck and looking over the damage with his crew, while Hornaday's truck didn't have any noticable damage at first glance.

The final NCTS practice of the day is done, and now the teams move into qualifying mode.  Click here for the final practice results.   We are going to canvass the garage area for the newsmakers of the day and bring you some of our exclusive TrackSideLive! audio, so peruse the TruckShots gallery and hang out for a while!  We'll have some audio as soon as we get back from the garage area...

We just returned from the garage after catching up with several drivers that have been making some noise here this afternoon. 

We tracked down Nick Tucker, who was involved in an incident late in the second practice session to get the low down on what happened to tear his truck up so bad.  We also got with Brad Keselowski, who has been very impressive here today despite only seeing Bristol on a video game before coming through the gate this morning.  Bill Lester tells us what, if any, similarities are there between racing at Bristol and his road racing background.  Todd Kluever is a veteran of the high banks at Salem and Winchester, but found the going a little slow this morning.  We met up with Andy Houston earlier this season in a shop tour at ppc Racing, and we caught up with him here today when he is in uniform and ready to go race for the first time this season.  Point leader Dennis Setzer is ready to rumble here tonight, while Timothy Peters is hoping he doesn't rumble on the high banks after a rough race in Nashville a couple of weeks ago.  Finally, Brendan Gaughan is stoked at the way his team has rallied after a rough start to 2005, and he tells us what a key role experience plays here in Thunder Valley.

Check out the sights and sounds list on the right column.

Click here for Final Practice Results

Notables...two-time Bristol pole winner Mike Skinner led both sessions, with a quick time in session 2 of 15.276 seconds...Kyle Busch moved into second in the second session late in the going...former series champion Mike Bliss has been extremely strong in practice, coming home sixth in the first session and fifth in the second...experience is a premium here at Bristol, but rookies Timothy Peters and Todd Kluever both cracked the top-10 in final practice...Bliss is locked into the field based on his 2002 series championship leaving five positions open; based on second practice times, Chad Chaffin, Ken Schrader, Wayne Edwards, Tim Fedewa, and Andy Houston would have made the race...missing the field, if we set the field based on practice times, would have been Tam Topham, Kelly Sutton, Nick Tucker, Frank Wilson, Casey Kingsland and Eric King...King did not make a lap in the final practice...Busch turned the highest number of laps in the second session with 52, and made his fastest lap on his 51st circuit.

A quick visual check of several Chevrolets show that each of the Silverados in line to qualify are running much more left front camber than teams utilizing the Ford F-150, Toyota Tunda and Dodge Ram body styles.  Even though this is a short track, the high speeds and the dynamic forces in the turns mean aerodynamics are a big issue, and building in that much front camber could be an indication that the Chevrolet crew chiefs think they may be at an aero disadvantage here.

The Brevak Racing Team has finished the repairs on the No. 31 Dodge.  They put on a new front bumper cover, rear bumper cover, and patched up some damage to the right rear quarter panel.

"It was all cosmetic, no suspension damage at all," Tucker said.  "The hard part's done, now all we need to do is get a good lap and get in the race."

Here are the pit assignments for the O'Reilly 200 presented by Valvoline MaxLife:

Frontstretch

17  David Reutimann  NTN Bearings Toyota
50  Todd Kluever # Shell Rotella T Ford
23  Johnny Benson  Toyota Tundra Toyota
2  Jimmy Spencer  Team ASE Dodge
29  Brad Keselowski  Samson Stone Ford
22  Bill Lester  Office Depot Toyota
4  Timothy Peters # Bailey's Dodge
75  David Starr  Spears Manufacturing Chevrolet
07  Chris Wimmer  Green Light Racing Chevrolet
10  Terry Cook  Ford Power Stroke Diesel by Int'l Ford
Start/Finish Line & Scoring Camera
60  Chad Chaffin  Cintas Toyota
6  Ron Hornaday Jr.  GM Goodwrench Chevrolet
12  Mike Wallace  Toyota Tundra Toyota
14  Rick Crawford  Circle Bar Truck Corral Ford
15  Kyle Busch  Billy Ballew Motorsports Chevrolet
06  Mike Bliss  MRD Motorsports Chevrolet
52  Ken Schrader  Federated Auto Parts Chevrolet
38  Brandon Whitt  Cure Autism Now/McMillin Homes Toyota

Backstretch

5  Mike Skinner  Toyota Tundra Toyota
62  Steve Park  Orleans Racing Dodge
46  Dennis Setzer  Chevrolet Silverado Chevrolet
40  Andy Houston  TBA Chevrolet
1  Ted Musgrave  Mopar Dodge
77  Brendan Gaughan  Jasper Engines & Transmissions Dodge
8  Deborah Renshaw  BHR2 Dodge
65  Tim Fedewa  TBA Dodge
08  Bill Manfull  Stokes Chevy/Montgomery MS Ford
30  Todd Bodine  Germain Motor Company Toyota
18  Chase Montgomery  Bobby Hamilton Racing Dodge
88  Matt Crafton  Menards Chevrolet
31  Nicholas Tucker # TBA Dodge
04  Bobby Hamilton  Bailey's Dodge
59  Robert Pressley  M-Select Oil Pumps by Melling Dodge
13  Tracy Hines  ThorSport Racing Chevrolet
99  Ricky Craven  Superchips Ford
16  Jack Sprague  Chevy Trucks Chevrolet

With a frontstretch and backstretch pit road, NASCAR has enacted special rules for this evening for green flag and caution flag pit stops.  Under green, a driver needs to only utilize the pit road where his pit stall is.  For instance, Jack Sprague will only need to come down the backstretch pit road this evening if he is forced to make a green flag pitstop.  Under caution, all drivers coming to pit road must enter in off turn two, come down the backstretch pit road, circulate under the line in turns three and four, and come down the frontstretch pit road.  In the instance of a pass thru penalty, the driver only needs to go down the pit road where his/her pit stall is, however, if a driver is pitted on the frontstretch and enters the backstetch for a pass-thru, he/she must also go down the frontstretch pit road.

Pit road speed is 30 miles per hour, and starts 180 feet before the first occupied pit stall on each pit road.  The pit road speed ends 75 feet past the last occupied pit stall on each pit road.  Drivers must maintain pit road speed thru the open turns three and four area under caution flag stops. 

The restart point is the double red line on the wall outside turn four.

Minimum speed is 16.80 seconds.

The pace truck will run 35 miles per hour this evening.

10. Lap 35 - Tucker is running slow on the bottom of the track.  He may be in danger of not meeting NASCAR's minimum speed requirement.

9. Lap 25 - Restart. Skinner leads.  Chaffin, Sprague, Cook, and Benson are the top-5.

8. Lap 22 - Gaughan goes behind the wall for repairs.  Bodine has made repeated pit stops on the backstretch to repair the left front.

7. Lap 18 - Second yellow for a crash on the backstetch.  Lester spins after contact from Montgomery, and collects Gaughan and Tucker in the aftermath.  Gaughan contacts the inside wall and does significant damage to the nose of his truck.

6. Lap 13 - Green flag.  Skinner leads Reutimann, Chaffin, Sprague and Cook.

5. Lap 11 - No stops among the leaders.  One to go signal has been given to the field.

4. Lap 9 - Skinner pulls away as Reutimann and Chaffin fight for second. Wimmer spins coming out of turn four and makes contact with the inside wall.

3. Green flag. Skinner leads lap one as the field tries to get single file.

2. Engines are fired.  We'll have four pace laps on the initial roll-off here tonight.

1. The drivers have been introduced to the large audience here at Bristol Motor Speedway.  We're running a little behind following the USAR race, but NASCAR is in hurry-up mode trying to get us started as close to on time as possible.

20. Lap 91 - Skinner leads Chaffin and Bodine as Hamilton is behind the wall with significant damage to the nose of his machine.

19. Lap 83 - Skinner makes quick work of Bodine and Chaffin to take the lead before Craven, Crawford, and Hamilton come together in turn three.  Craven has significant damage to the rear and Hamilton has brought his machine behind the wall.

18. Lap 72 - Chaffin, Bodine, Skinner, Sprague, Benson, Starr, Setzer, Musgrave, Busch, Hornaday, Spencer, Kluever, Pressley, Cook, Craven, Schrader, Whitt, Keselowski, Bliss, Crawford, Lester, Park, Peters, Crafton, Hamilton, Wallace, Houston, Hines, Fedewa, Montgomery, Renshaw, Manfull, Tucker, Reutimann come to the green.

17. Lap 67 - Renshaw spins in turn two to bring out the fourth yellow of the evening.  Skinner comes to pit road with most of the leaders as Chaffin stays out to take over the top spot.  Fuel should not be an issue from lap 70 to the finish, but can tires make it to the end?

16. Lap 65 - Skinner closing in on a pack of about 15 trucks battling for position on the tail end of the lead lap. 

15. Lap 57 - Cook is under fire as Setzer, Schrader and Starr all pass, pushing Cook back to 11th.

14. Lap 51 - Benson gives Cook a tap to move him out of the groove.  Benson takes fourth, Busch follows to fifth with Cook now sixth.

13. Lap 47 - Whitt is trapped behind lapped truck of Montgomery and getting pressure from Wallace for seventh.

12. Lap 43 - Rundown: Skinner, Chaffin, Sprague, Cook, Benson, Busch, Whitt, Wallace, Setzer, Schrader, Starr, Hornaday, Crawford, Musgrave, Kluever, Spencer, Peters, Keselowski, Park, Craven, Hamilton, Bliss, Crafton, Fedewa, Renshaw, Pressley, Hines, Bodine, Lester, Houston, Montgomery, Manfull, Reutimann, Tucker, Gaughan, and Wimmer.  Reutimann's team is replacing the power steering pump.

11. Lap 41 - Reutimann makes an unscheduled stop reporting problems steering his machine.  The crew is under the hood as Manfull spins on the backstretch to bring out the third caution. 

29. Lap 183 - Bodine has closed the lead down and is now knocking on Skinner's back door for the lead.  Setzer makes contact with the wall in turn two to bring out the sixth caution after 100 consecutive laps if green flag racing.  Setzer had a right front tire go down and made heavy contact with the outside wall in turn one.

28. Lap 170 - Chaffin comes to the pits under green for four tires reporting his tires are completely worn.

27. Lap 160 - Thirty trucks on the track still. Skinner leads Bodine, Chaffin, Sprague, Benson, Setzer, Musgrave, Busch, Hornaday, Spencer, Starr, Kluever, Bliss, Schrader, Park, Pressley, Wallace, Crafton, and Keselowski on the lead lap.  Lapped trucks are Crawford, Whitt, Peters, Hines, Montgomery, Lester, Fedewa, Renshaw, Tucker, Reutimann, and Cook. 

26. Lap 151 - Bodine dips under Chaffin off turn two to take over the second spot.  Sprague is now there pressuring for third.

25. Lap 144 - Skinner's lead has shrunk as he has been in race traffic.  Chaffin and Bodine have chopped the lead down to about 10-15 truck lengths. We have been under green since the fourth caution at lap 83.

24. Lap 130 - Skinner leads Chaffin, Bodine, Sprague, Benson, Setzer, Musgrave, Busch, Hornaday, Spencer, Starr, Kluever, Pressley, Schrader, Bliss, Park, Wallace, Whitt, Crafton, Keselowski, Crawford, and Peters on the lead lap. 

23. Lap 115 - Skinner leads by half a straightaway over Chaffin and Bodine.

22. Lap 103 - Cook goes a lap down after running among the top-5 in the early stages.

21. Lap 97 - Skinner leads Chaffin, Bodine, Sprague and Benson.