Kyle Busch wins second straight NASCAR XFINITY Series race at Atlanta

March 4, 2017 By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service HAMPTON, Ga. – It took Kyle Busch 13 years to get his first NASCAR XFINITY Series victory at Atlanta Motor Speedway. It took him one more year to get the second. The pole winner at Atlanta for the sixth time, Busch pulled away after a restart on Lap 148 of 163 and beat Brad Keselowski to the finish line by .605 seconds to score his second straight victory at the 1.54-mile track in Saturday’s Rinnai 250. “It took so long to get here to begin with,” Busch said in Victory Lane. “Now we’ve…

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Christopher Bell wins two-lap shootout for Atlanta victory

March 4, 2017 By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service HAMPTON, Ga. – Christopher Bell unquestionably had the dominant truck in Saturday’s Active Pest Control 200, but, in the end, the driver of the No. 4 Kyle Busch Motorsports Toyota Tundra had to work hard for the third NASCAR Camping World Truck Series victory of his career. In the nightcap of a NASCAR doubleheader at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Bell held off fellow Tundra driver Matt Crafton in a two-lap shootout to the finish for his first win of the 2017 season. Austin Cindric’s spin on Lap 124 of 130 brought out the eighth…

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Jimmie Johnson (48) drives through Turn 4 during the NASCAR Sprint Cup series auto race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Sunday, March 1, 2015, in Hampton, Ga. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

Atlanta Preview: Handling and Speed Will Matter

By Jared Turner From the glory of Daytona to the beginning of the grind that is the remainder of the schedule, the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season gets in full swing with Sunday’s Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Aside from Atlanta being one of the fastest tracks on the NASCAR tour, the high-banked, 1.54-mile quad-oval couldn’t be much different from Daytona International Speedway — the world-famous site of last weekend’s season-opening race. Atlanta is the first of 32 “normal” races on the 36-race schedule, meaning that drivers won’t be bunched in tight packs all day by…

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5 Lessons Learned at the Daytona 500

By Jared Turner The Verdict Is Out NASCAR’s New Stage Format Sunday’s Daytona 500 was the first full premier race broken down by segment, on the basis of NASCAR’s new enhanced race format introduced for the sport’s top three series prior to the 2017 season. While some observers suggest that dividing races into stages — all of which pay points at their respective conclusion — makes wrecks more likely to occur, there is no empirical evidence to support this kind of cause and effect. In fact, many drivers completely refuted this theory at Daytona, saying that the presence of segments was not…

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Just Sayin’: Kyle Busch Needs to Cool His Jets

By Jared Turner When Kyle Busch wrecked out of Sunday’s Daytona 500, it was a disappointing end to what had been a promising day for the Joe Gibbs Racing driver. Busch, still seeking his first triumph in the sport’s biggest race, had won the first stage, and — despite being a lap down by virtue of being on a different pit sequence from the leaders — stood an excellent chance of contending for the win. But all that changed when a tire failure sent his Toyota spinning abruptly in the middle of the pack, collecting multiple teammates along with Dale Earnhardt Jr.…

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