By Adam Carabine
Happy Saturday everyone! This weekend, the NASCAR Cup Series travels to Atlanta, Georgia for the Ambetter Health 400 at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Atlanta is a 1.54-mile quad-oval track that races like a Super Speedway. Opening in 1960, the first NASCAR winner was Fireball Roberts that same year.
Tomorrow’s race will be 260 laps long (for a total of 400.4 miles), with stage breaks occurring at 60 – 160 – 260. The fuel window is between 73-78 laps, though tire wear could shorten the length of green flag runs. Pit road speed is 90mph in sections 1 and 2, then 45mph after that. The caution vehicle runs at 55 mph.
As this is the 2nd race of the year, and 21 drivers finished on the lead lap last race, those drivers have completed 100% of the 502.50 miles run so far.
Top 5 Career Average Finishers at Atlanta:
Ryan Blaney | 10.00 over 13 races (1 win) |
Chase Elliott | 11.50 over 12 races (1 win) |
Kyle Busch | 12.97 over 30 races (2 wins) |
Austin Cindric | 13.43 over 7 races |
Daniel Suarez | 14.50 over 12 races (1 win) |
Bottom 5 Career Average Finishers at Atlanta:
SVG | 32.00 over 1 race |
Noah Gragson | 31.00 over 6 races |
Cody Ware | 30.00 over 8 races |
Zane Smith | 28.00 over 2 races |
Michael McDowell | 26.56 over 18 races |
Atlanta is being lumped in with the Super Speedways
Top 5 Career Average Finishers at Super Speedways:
John Hunter Nemechek | 14.90 over 9 races |
Bubba Wallace | 16.68 over 30 races (1 win) |
Denny Hamlin | 17.19 over 77 races (5 wins) |
Chase Briscoe | 17.47 over 17 races |
Ryan Blaney | 17.50 over 41 races (4 wins) |
Bottom 5 Career Average Finishers at Super Speedways:
Zane Smith | 23.88 over 7 races |
Michael McDowell | 23.70 over 56 races (1 win) |
Daniel Suarez | 23.18 over 33 races |
Ty Gibbs | 22.95 over 11 races |
Cody Ware | 22.79 over 17 races |
Dale Earnhardt is the winningest driver at Atlanta, having won 9 separate races there. He’s followed by Cale Yarborough (7 wins), and Bobby Labonte (6 wins). As far as current drivers go, Kyle Busch, Brad Keselowski, Joey Logano, and William Byron all have two wins at Atlanta.
Notable drivers who have not won at Atlanta:
Kyle Larson | (has won at 18 other tracks) |
Christopher Bell | (has won at 8 other tracks) |
Tyler Reddick | (has won at 8 other tracks) |
Alex Bowman | (has won at 8 other tracks) |
Chris Buescher | (has won at 6 other tracks) |
No current drivers have scored their FIRST ever win at Atlanta.
Based on average finish, not a single driver claims Atlanta as their BEST or WORST track.
Here is the current battle for Rookie of the Year:
Riley Herbst | 20 |
SVG | 4 |
|
|
Milestone Watch
Chase Elliott | Looking for his 20th Career Win |
Kyle Larson | Looking for his 30th Career Win |
Christopher Bell | Looking for his 10th Career Win |
Kyle Larson | Looking for his 120th Career Top 5 |
Tyler Reddick | Looking for his 40th Career Top 10 |
Josh Berry | This will be his 50th Career Cup Series Start |
Here are the top 10 longest active winless streaks:
Winless Streaks
Justin Haley | 142 races |
Cole Custer | 98 races |
Bubba Wallace | 80 races |
Erik Jones | 80 races |
Kyle Busch | 58 races |
Michael McDowell | 49 races |
Daniel Suarez | 35 races |
Chase Elliott | 28 races |
Denny Hamlin | 26 races |
Brad Keselowski | 24 races |
The race begins Sunday, February 23rd at 3:00pm ET (Noon PST) – Enjoy the race everyone!
Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter @RacingRefresh
Comentários