Atlanta Motor Speedway

Atlanta Motor Speedway is a traditional circuit used in NASCAR.

The circuit is a " quad-oval" (oval comprising a straight line forming an elbow). Its length is of 1,54 miles (2,478 kilometers), and the mean velocities reached on a lathe can exceed the 190 mph (305 km/h).

Except for the circuits of Daytona and Talladega, where one uses plates of restriction in order to attach the engines, it is about the fastest circuit of the season.

The NASCAR Nextel Cup, and the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series comes twice the year on this circuit which is located a few kilometres from Atlanta. The first race of the season takes place in March, whereas second place has at the end of October, it is in Nextel Cup, the sixth of the ten races of the " Drive out for the Nextel Cup".

This very fast circuit often gives place on very tight arrivals, thus in March 2005, Carl Edwards, carries out a going beyond of anthology on Jimmie Johnson at the time of the last tower of the race and is essential some thousandth. The day before, it had gained the race of Busch Series.

The NASCAR Busch Series comes only once per annum on Atlanta Motor Speedway, in March.

Records

NASCAR Nextel Cup, qualifications: Geoffrey Bodine, 28.074 S (197,478 mph), 1997
NASCAR Nextel Cup, race (500 miles): Dale Earnhardt, 3:3 min 3 S (163,633 mph), November 12th 1995
NASCAR Busch Series, qualifications: Greg Biffle, 28.830 S (192,300 mph), 2003
NASCAR Busch Series, race (300 miles): Mark Martin, 1:58 min 55 S (151,751 mph), March 8th 1997
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, qualifications: Rick Crawford, 30.339 S (182,735 mph), 2005
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, race (200 miles): Ron Hornaday, 1:27 min 35 S (142,424 mph), March 18th 2005

Last winners

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