2019 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway Race Weekend Discussion

First year since 2016 I'm not going to Atlanta. Big sad

 

I'm hope this weekend race in Atlanta would be better, than last 2 years, when they're so boring.

 

Watched the qualifying and it is very weird to not see anybody lift at the corners. Even if they did it was just barely.

 

Which sucks. I don't know, maybe the racing will be good, but it kind of sucks with less driver input how fast a lap might be.

Also, Stankhouse had his feelings hurt last week and won't help anyone who talks crap about him, which might be the entire garage: https://twitter.com/jeff_gluck/status/1099043457736282112

 

That is AWESOME news! I cannot wait to finally be able to see these races live.

 

For painters, here's the Sam Bass a post decal being run this weekend

 

I can't believe Stenhouse can be that childish

 

Well he dated Danica so he learned from the best.

 

Could be, considering it's on the c post and not the a post.

 

Maybe he's starting to feel the pressure from underperforming and also causing a few huge crashes at the superspeedway races and pissing almost everyone off. Part of the problem is, he never owns up to anything he does wrong AND he's just not that great. Probably in part because of how far off Roush has fallen recently, but I honestly couldn't see another competitive team picking him up if he ever leaves.

 

Here's another shot of the blue and orange Sam Bass decal.

 

Heading out to the track now.
Sun is out, wind is crazy!
Going to be an awesome day!

 

Brad Keselowski is the first driver to win in a Mustang since Bobby Allison in 1971 at Middle Georgia Raceway.

Keselowski joins Austin Dillon and Kyle Busch in active drivers who have won the first race for a car model racing for the first time or coming off a hiatus. Matt Kenseth was the first driver to win in a Ford Fusion, back at Fontana in 2006.

This is the 11th time Kyle Larson has led over 100 laps in a race, and Larson has only won one of those races - Fontana, back in 2017. Clint Bowyer has done this only six times in 286 more starts, but has won twice as many races as Larson.

At 0.218 seconds, this was the closest finish at Atlanta since Carl Edwards won by half a car length over Jimmie Johnson in the 2005 spring race.

This is the first race at Atlanta where somebody who isn't Kevin Harvick led the most laps since 2013. Kevin Harvick has led the most laps at Atlanta in every race since he joined SHR, until today. Jimmy John's sponsored him in all of those races.

 

Well that's obviously the problem... he wasn't freaky fast this time, especially in the second half of the race.

 

note to self, keep original picks and not replace them. Had Aric, replaced him with Bubba. Had Harvick, replaced him with Joey... ugh