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The capacity for the Food City 500 in March 2000 was 147, 000 as the Kulwicki Terrace and Kulwicki Tower were completed.

Both were named after the late NASCAR star Alan Kulwicki, who was the reigning Cup Series champion when he died in a plane crash in 1993 while on his way to the spring race at Bristol, which he won the previous year.

As a tribute to retiring star Darrell Waltrip, the entire Turn 3 and 4 sections were renamed in his honor in 2000, including a section of seats in Turn 4 near the start-finish line marked as alcohol free.

( Waltrip refused to drive for a team in 1987 because its sponsor was of alcoholic beverages.

) Sections were also named in honor of the Allison family and David Pearson as part of the renaming of grandstands.