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, and the 16th iteration of the

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. The race was held on Saturday, February 24, 2024, at

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, a permanent asphalt quad-oval shaped intermediate speedway (with superspeedway rules). The race took the scheduled 135 laps to complete.

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, driving for Spire Motorsports, would make a late race pass for lead on

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with eight laps to go, and held off a charge from

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to earn his 65th career

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win, and his first of the season. It was Busch's 21st consecutive season with a NASCAR national series (Cup, Xfinity, or Truck) Series win. Busch stayed consistent, running in the top ten throughout the entire race and winning the second stage. Tyler Ankrum started second and led a race-high 46 laps. To fill out the podium, Majeski, driving for

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, and

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, driving for

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, would finish 2nd and 3rd, respectively.

Report

Background

is a 1.54-mile race track in

, United States, 20 miles (32 km) south of

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. It has annually hosted

stock car races since 2004. The venue was bought by

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in 1990. In 1994, 46

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were built over the northeastern side of the track. In 1997, to standardize the track with Speedway Motorsports' other two intermediate ovals, the entire track was almost completely rebuilt. The frontstretch and backstretch were swapped, and the configuration of the track was changed from oval to quad-oval, with a new official length of where before it was . The project made the track one of the fastest on the

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circuit. In July 2021

announced that the track would be reprofiled for the 2022 season to have 28 degrees of banking and would be narrowed from 55 to 40 feet which the track claims will turn racing at the track similar to restrictor plate superspeedways. Despite the reprofiling being criticized by drivers, construction began in August 2021 and wrapped up in December 2021. The track has

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of 71,000 to 125,000 people depending on the tracks configuration.

Entry list

* (R) denotes rookie driver. * (i) denotes driver who is ineligible for series driver points.

Qualifying

Qualifying was held on Friday, February 23, at 3:05 PM EST. No free practice session is used in Atlanta because of superspeedway rules. The rules for such circuits involve single-truck qualifying. Each driver has one warmup lap, then participates in one timed lap, and takes the chequered flag. The fastest ten drivers from the first round move on to the second round. Whoever sets the fastest time in Round 2 will win the pole. Daniel Dye, driving for

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, would advance from the preliminary round and set the fastest time in Round 2, with a lap of 31.817, and a speed of . No drivers would fail to qualify.

Qualifying results

Race results

Stage 1 ''Laps: 30'' Stage 2 ''Laps: 30'' Stage 3 ''Laps: 75''

Standings after the race

;Drivers' Championship standings ;Manufacturers' Championship standings *Note: Only the first 10 positions are included for the driver standings.

References

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NASCAR races at Atlanta Motor Speedway