Overview This is the third year of the new Atlanta Motor Speedway configuration as it’s considered a superspeedway now. Seeing as how we just came from Daytona we can expect much of the same style racing. The Cup drivers are going to handle the 1.54-mile quad-oval which has 28 degrees of banking in the turns and 5 degrees on the straightaways. Last year Joey Logano won the first Atlanta race from the pole leading 140 laps. Byron won the July race leading 19 laps starting from the 18th position. It was Byron’s second time winning Atlanta since the reconfiguration. Strategy Pack racing will come into play once again with this race being treated as a super speedway, just like what...
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