Marcos Ambrose Food City 500 Race Preview

CONCORD, N.C. – Marcos Ambrose enters the weekend 16th in championship points and looks to move back up the point standings with a solid finish in the No. 9 DEWALT Ford at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway. The No. 9 team posted a fifth-place finish last fall at the World’s Fastest Half Mile giving the team confidence that they can come away with a solid top-10 finish this weekend. Ambrose posted two top-fives and four top-10s in his eight starts at the .53-mile track and has an average finish of 16.5. Comments from DEWALT Ford Fusion Driver Marcos Ambrose: “Bristol will be the first time we race the Gen-6 car at a half-mile track. I’m looking forward to seeing how the cars race there. I think it will be a really exciting and aggressive race. I really like Bristol. You are up on the wheel for all 500 laps of the race. That’s the kind of racing I like and really excel at. It is definitely one of the tracks that fits my style of racing. “The last few weeks have been tough. The cars have ...