If you tuned in expecting the Atlanta racing of old, you soon realized that the repave and superspeedway set up was something completely new, exciting and different.
William Byron held off a late race charge by Ross Chastain and Bubba Wallace to win Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
"Pretty wild," Byron said. "I'm out of breath. It was crazy."
“Lots of changes with the Next Gen car,” Byron added. “The Chevrolet was awesome, had a pretty rough practice and worked hard on it and got it handling well, it was kind of an intermediate style with a little bit of speedway into it, so a lot of fun.”
Sundays race completed with 11 cautions and featured 46 lead changes which was a new track record.
Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 Results:
William Byron
Ross Chastain
Kurt Busch
Daniel Suarez
Corey LaJoie
Chase Elliott
Chris Buescher
Martin Truex Jr.
Joey Logano
Alex Bowman
Justin Haley
Brad Keselowski
Bubba Wallace
Erik Jones
Chase Briscoe
Josh Bilicki
Ryan Blaney
David Ragan
BJ McLeod
Greg Biffle
Kevin Harvick
Aric Almirola
Christopher Bell
Michael McDowell
Harrison Burton
Cody Ware
Todd Gilliland
Tyler Reddick
Denny Hamlin
Kyle Larson
Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
Austin Cindric
Kyle Busch
Cole Custer
Austin Dillon
Ty Dillon
Noah Gragson
Chase Wilhelm of nascar.com provides a recap:
Check out the recap by Zach Sturniolo at NBC Sports:
Associated Press on Fox News: