Pep Boys
Auto 500 Driver
Atlanta Labour Day Classic 500
September 5, 2010
Atlanta Motor Speedway
Atlanta, GA
First race: 1960
Distance: 500.5 miles (805.5 km)
Number of laps: 325
Def Champion: Kasey Kahne
The
NASCAR Sprint Cup series heads to
Atlanta Motor Speedway this weekend for
Sunday's Pep Boys Auto 500, as the best
stock car drivers in the world race at
speeds up to 190 mph.
When the lights turn on for the Pep Boys
Auto 500 on Sunday, Sept. 5th at Atlanta
Motor Speedway, NASCAR will celebrate
the return of Labor Day weekend racing
in the South. |
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Atlanta Motor Speedway is the fastest track on
the Nextel Cup Circuit. With a typical
qualifying lap speed of about 193 mph and a
record lap speed of over 197 mph, the track has
been able to avoid restrictor plates which
Nascar has applied to the longer Talladega Superspeedway and
Daytona International
Speedway. This is one of the reasons the slogan
for Atlanta Motor Speedway is Real Racing. Real
Fast.
Current track records include NASCAR Nextel Cup
Qualifying by Geoffrey Bodine at 28.074 seconds
and 197.478 mph in 1997. Dale Earnhardt holds
the NASCAR Nextel Cup Race record of 500 miles
in 3 h 3 min 3 s at an average speed of 163.633
mph on November 12, 1995.
Bet this Year 2010 Pep
Boys Auto 500
The 2009
Pep Boys Auto 500 featured a new date
and a new start time. This was Atlanta's
first ever Sprint Cup night race as
Atlanta took its place in the Race to
the Chase and in the final laps we saw,
Kahne, Harvick and Montoya in the top
three with ten to go and it would stay
like that through the checkered flag.
On September 6, 2009 Kasey Kahne won the
Pep Boys Auto 500 at the Atlanta Motor
Speedway. Kahne led a total of 60 laps
during the 500-mile race that was held
for the first time at night. This is
Kasey's second win of the 2009 season.
In 2008,
Carl Edwards won the Pep Boys Auto 500
race, marking his seventh victory of the
season.
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