NASCAR Sprint Cup teams are in for a busy week following the postponement of Atlanta Motor Speedway’s AdvoCare 400 until Tuesday.
Rain prevented teams from taking to the circuit during the original Sunday timeslot, and with tornados and strong winds being added to forecasts of further rain on Monday, NASCAR president Mike Helton announced the revised 11am (US ET) Tuesday start time (1am Wednesday Australian EST).
“Starting sometime later (Sunday night), it’s about 100 percent chance in this area there will more than likely be 3, 4, 5 inches of rain, high wind and all the things that create dangerous situations with weather,” said Helton at the circuit.
“We’ll have respect for that and reschedule this race to start at 11 Tuesday morning.”
With the Wonderful Pistachios 400 at Richmond set to conclude the regular season next Saturday night, Helton downplayed the headache the tight scheduling is likely to give teams.
“Hopefully the weather will be ok Tuesday and we’ll just be a couple of days behind, but we’ll catch up pretty quick – I hope.”
See below for Atlanta’s starting line-up
|
POS |
DRIVER |
MAKE |
SPONSOR |
SPEED |
TIME |
BEHIND |
| 1 | Kasey Kahne | Toyota | Red Bull | 186.197 | 29.775 | Leader |
| 2 | Clint Bowyer | Chevrolet | Cheerios / Hamburger Helper | 185.922 | 29.819 | -0.044 |
| 3 | Kyle Busch | Toyota | Pedigree | 185.841 | 29.832 | -0.057 |
| 4 | Brian Vickers | Toyota | Red Bull | 185.772 | 29.843 | -0.068 |
| 5 | Jeff Gordon | Chevrolet | Drive to End Hunger | 185.735 | 29.849 | -0.074 |
| 6 | Matt Kenseth | Ford | Crown Royal | 185.710 | 29.853 | -0.078 |
| 7 | Carl Edwards | Ford | Aflac “Friends of a Feather” | 185.561 | 29.877 | -0.102 |
| 8 | Martin Truex Jr. | Toyota | NAPA Auto Parts | 185.542 | 29.880 | -0.105 |
| 9 | Ryan Newman | Chevrolet | U.S. Army Reserve | 185.486 | 29.889 | -0.114 |
| 10 | Kurt Busch | Dodge | Shell / Pennzoil | 185.325 | 29.915 | -0.140 |
| 11 | A.J. Allmendinger | Ford | Best Buy | 185.288 | 29.921 | -0.146 |
| 12 | Juan Montoya | Chevrolet | Target | 185.176 | 29.939 | -0.164 |
| 13 | Denny Hamlin | Toyota | Charter Comm. | 185.127 | 29.947 | -0.172 |
| 14 | Brad Keselowski | Dodge | Miller Lite | 185.115 | 29.949 | -0.174 |
| 15 | Greg Biffle | Ford | 3M | 185.059 | 29.958 | -0.183 |
| 16 | David Reutimann | Toyota | Aaron’s Dream Machine | 184.800 | 30.000 | -0.225 |
| 17 | Jimmie Johnson | Chevrolet | Lowe’s | 184.462 | 30.055 | -0.280 |
| 18 | Marcos Ambrose | Ford | Kwikset | 184.272 | 30.086 | -0.311 |
| 19 | David Ragan | Ford | UPS “We Love Logistics” | 184.015 | 30.128 | -0.353 |
| 20 | Tony Stewart | Chevrolet | Office Depot / Mobil 1 | 183.899 | 30.147 | -0.372 |
| 21 | Kevin Harvick | Chevrolet | Rheem | 183.801 | 30.163 | -0.388 |
| 22 | Paul Menard | Chevrolet | Quaker State / Menards | 183.680 | 30.183 | -0.408 |
| 23 | Bobby Labonte | Toyota | Bush’s Baked Beans | 183.394 | 30.230 | -0.455 |
| 24 | Joey Logano | Toyota | The Home Depot | 183.382 | 30.232 | -0.457 |
| 25 | Jamie McMurray | Chevrolet | McDonald’s | 183.339 | 30.239 | -0.464 |
| 26 | Regan Smith | Chevrolet | Furniture Row / Farm American | 183.152 | 30.270 | -0.495 |
| 27 | Jeff Burton | Chevrolet | Caterpillar | 183.121 | 30.275 | -0.500 |
| 28 | Michael McDowell | Toyota | James Fund | 183.025 | 30.291 | -0.516 |
| 29 | Dale Earnhardt Jr. | Chevrolet | National Guard Military Intelligence | 182.898 | 30.312 | -0.537 |
| 30 | Scott Speed | Ford | Property Masters | 182.856 | 30.319 | -0.544 |
| 31 | J.J. Yeley | Ford | Vampt | 182.501 | 30.378 | -0.603 |
| 32 | Mark Martin | Chevrolet | Carquest / GoDaddy.com | 182.440 | 30.388 | -0.613 |
| 33 | Robby Gordon | Dodge | Speed Energy | 181.759 | 30.502 | -0.727 |
| 34 | Joe Nemechek | Toyota | ATBD | 181.693 | 30.513 | -0.738 |
| 35 | Dave Blaney | Chevrolet | Collective Soul / Golden Corral | 181.437 | 30.556 | -0.781 |
| 36 | David Gilliland | Ford | A&W All American Food | 180.745 | 30.673 | -0.898 |
| 37 | Landon Cassill | Chevrolet | Phoenix Construction | 180.575 | 30.702 | -0.927 |
| 38 | Casey Mears | Toyota | GEICO | 180.252 | 30.757 | -0.982 |
| 39 | Mike Skinner | Toyota | Big Red | 180.012 | 30.798 | -1.023 |
| 40 | Mike Bliss | Ford | Heil Trailer International | 179.889 | 30.819 | -1.044 |
| 41 | Travis Kvapil | Ford | Lazy Days RV | 179.872 | 30.822 | -1.047 |
| 42 | Andy Lally+* | Ford | Interstate Moving Services | 178.493 | 31.060 | -1.285 |
| 43 | David Starr | Ford | AdvoCare | 179.737 | 30.845 | -1.070 |
| 44 | Tony Raines | Ford | Max Q Motorsports | 179.592 | 30.870 | -1.095 |
| 45 | David Stremme | Chevrolet | Inception Motorsports | 179.516 | 30.883 | -1.108 |
| 46 | Geoffrey Bodine | Chevrolet | Luke & Associates | 178.758 | 31.014 | -1.239 |
| 47 | T.J Bell | Chevrolet | Green Smoke | 178.643 | 31.034 | -1.259 |
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