Atlanta Weekend Recap

It's time for another blog! Welcome back everyone and I hope you had a great weekend! So, it's time to recap the weekends action from Atlanta Motor Speedway as the track featured a triple header. The Truck Series, Xfinity Series, and Monster Energy Cup Series ran their second race of the year. Now let's get to it. The Truck Series ran their race on Friday night. Christopher Bell qualified his #4 JBL Toyota Tundra on the pole with KBM (Kyle Busch Motorsports) teammate Kyle Busch in his #51 Toyota Tundra alongside. Bell would pick up the win after Busch would later get into the wall late in the race. Kyle would have better luck in the Xfinity Series race however, as he was able to pick up the victory over a hard charging Brad Keselowski. Busch would later be penalized as his #18 car would fail post race inspection.

As the green flag flew on Sunday for the Folds Of Honor QuikTrip 500, Kevin Harvick would lead the field with Ryan Newman alongside. Harvick would go on to dominate the first stage, which ended at lap 85. Harvick didn't stop there as he would also claim stage 2 as well. The second stage would consist of 85 laps as well as the first.

The main topic of the day would be pit road speeding penalties. A total of around 8 or 9 were accumulated during the race and some of the biggest names were caught, including the driver pitting above Jimmie Johnson, as well as, Chase Elliott, Matt Kenseth and others.

Now we move on to later in the race as Gray Gaulding's engine would expire with 63 laps to go. Gaulding would fall out of the race late in the final stage and retired his #23 Dr. Pepper Toyota. That stinks cause I really like Dr. Pepper. Oh well let's move on.

The restart would come with 56 laps to go as the race was back underway after Gray Gaulding's engine failure. And it was a wild one for sure as Clint Bowyer would make contact with rookie Erik Jones in the #77 Toyota. Bowyer would then cut a tire in turn 1 as a result of the contact and it put him out of contention.

The next caution would come out at lap 310 as Austin Dillon's #3 Chevrolet would lose power after a battery issue. The caution would be an untimely one for Kevin Harvick. More on that below. Yes I have to keep you scrolling.

At the end of the day, Brad Keselowski would pick up the win after Kevin Harvick would get caught speeding during the caution where Austin Dillon lost power, ending Harvick's dominating run. You could say Brad got lucky but a win is a win. Harvick's wife DeLana would voice her frustrations with Austin Dillon's team for possibly intentionally causing the caution. I don't think that was the case at all. Just my opinion.

Well I hope you enjoyed the recap. It was a great weekend of racing. Next stop is Viva Las Vegas as the Xfinity and Monster Energy Cup Series take to the track this weekend. The Camping World Truck Series is off this weekend as they will be back in a couple weeks at Martinsville. That's all for now. Good night everyone.