The 3rd NASCAR weekend at the reconfigured Atlanta Motor Speedway has been put in the books and with it is pack racing, storylines, and even an unconventional walk-off by Josh Williams. With that being said though I find the future of this track intriguing as I am not sure that it will necessarily keep the pack style superspeedway racing it has been re-designed for. This is why Atlanta may become NASCAR’s weirdest track.
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Do you like Atlanta with superspeedway racing?
Yes
@JGR4LIFE agreed
Yes. And I thought the same thing about the asphalt looking aged already. Must have used a type of asphalt that would do so.
TV numbers weren’t good, but I’m beginning to think we’re seeing the end of cable for good and need streaming numbers instead.
No
I used to really not like Atlanta because of the extremely worn surface and dreaded. I’m not a big fan of the pack racing, but I like that this track encourages attrition, and if the racing gets more spread out due to the surface aging, we could probably see 1970’s type racing; which I really look forward to.
I do not understand how you hold the opinion you expressed in the first sentence.
Prediction: Atlanta will become the most aero tight track on the calendar in the next 4 years. You can follow, but not pass because all the lead driver needs to do is take your line so you are forced to lift in the corner.
The new cars have kind of changed that. The air is so much cleaner behind them if this was the gen 6 I agree. But the Gen 7 is pretty slick
I’d like to see what some horsepower would do. Track wore out pretty fast last repave, I think it would be interesting
I want to see how the cars would race with 670 HP spacer instead of 510 hp spacer at Atlanta.
Personally I was at this race this weekend and those last couple laps were one of the best finishes I have ever seen.
same
I remember Kurt Busch said something about “running unrestricted.” Once safety improves in these cars I’d love to see them experiment with running the current short track package, if the racing doesn’t improve with the ST package, then just let em rip around Atlanta with the intermediate package.
I think your right. As the track wears. Handling will come into play more and more. I think the packs will become more and more split up.
No matter what happens to the track, the thing that still hurts me is the fact that they took SO MUCH track width out all around… I will never understand that
When adding banking you kind of have to unless you want to rebuild the entire turn. Think of it as a triangle, you had to shorten the hypotenuse to have a higher angle of banking.
last year atlanta was my favorite track i absolutely loved both races that it put on this year the middle of the race was pretty boring single file but that happens at daytona and talladega it’s just kind of comes with super speedway racing so it’s not the tracks fault. it’s my favorite race this year and i can’t wait for the summer race
To be fair, the style of racing now at Atlanta is almost like the early-mid 2000s plate racing but with a smaller bubble between cars, you can make moves, going 3 wide will make you looser than a 2 dollar hooker, and there are huge runs that can generate but a skilled leader can find ways to stall out the cars behind. I’m just happy the drivers can pull out of line and actually make spots up and not instantly fall back making a completely one line race
Best time i’ve ever had at my home track was this past sunday. been going for about 5 years and this was the first ATL SuperSpeedway race I’ve been too. Huge turn out. It was fun. There was a crowd. Don’t love that they did the conversion, but i can’t say it didn’t improve my experience.
Honestly the second stage looked a lot like 2006-2008 Daytona , witch I really liked
This race was way better than the last couple Daytona and Talladega races. We even had 3 wide racing, something you don’t ever see anymore at other super speedways. I hope the loud minority doesn’t ruin this new track. This racing will help grow the fans and money. There is a reason Daytona and Talledaga are so popular with fans. Fans are only angry with those types of races when there favorite driver gets wrecked out. If Chase Elliot was racing and won, people would have loved it.
One thing I learned from listening to an episode of MRN Classic Races is that the oval Atlanta I think was 27 degrees at one point. I don’t think pack racing will last as it ages and they will have to switch it back to the intermediate aero package. I think it will age into a better version of old Atlanta.
The race this weekend totally changed my mind on this reconfiguration. I was bitching about how I did not think it was possible to run a whole race on this track without it looking like, well, the Xfinity race. I wouldn’t say Sunday was the most fun I’ve ever had watching stock car racing, but it was everything it needed to be to shut me up. They proved they can run a clean, competitive race on it. And as much as I always want more racing, 400 is the way to go here. In the future I think if they want to optimize the racing, they probably have to tune the package up a little differently, but whatever the case I hope they don’t go chasing solutions or start trying to curate a specific kind of racing too quickly, and just let it run and see how it goes.
I like the idea of it being a hybrid track, I feel like it would be an interesting watch, but nascar needs to leave things alone and make minimal changes to the track and the package in order for it to come in like that
I’ve always liked the Atlanta races. They’re just generally a lot of fun and I’d highly recommend someone who doesn’t know a lot about NASCAR watch an Atlanta race if they’re interested. I don’t think it really needed to be reconfigured, but it definitely needed to be repaved, and I like what they’ve done with it.
I think you nailed it. We are already seeing that handling matters at AMS and as the surface begins to age and lose grip, that’s only going to continue. What we might end up with is the old 70s-00s era Daytona/Dega type races where sure the draft was an important aspect but you had to have your car handling well in order to go fast. It wasn’t just luck, there was very much some skill involved. That’d be great. The other possibility is that we do end up with some sort of hybrid track or the sport decides to go back to unrestricted racing on the track and we get really fast racing where multiple grooves are an option again.
Nobody really knows for sure, but there’s nothing wrong with AMS being what it is right now. I don’t want every 1.5 going this route for sure. But AMS in its current form is fine.