“I am excited to go back to Atlanta,” William Byron hopes to get back to the winning ways in his return to Atlanta Motor Speedway
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As the re-designed 1.54-mile circuit hosts the Quaker State 400, Atlanta Motor Speedway will be the first venue of the 2022 season to host the Next-Gen vehicle for the second race. presented this Sunday by Walmart. Given the uncertainty surrounding the last championship slots, the Intermediate track with Superspeedway characteristics will undoubtedly host one of the season’s most thrilling races.
William Byron will be hitting the tracks in his No:24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevy Camaro ZL1 in Atlanta hoping to secure his third win of the 2022 season. Byron who won last time around earlier this season at the re-configured track will be expecting the coming race to be the one in which he might be able to regain his confidence and set himself to the playoff as he was able to finish inside the top 10 just once after his Martinsville win 10 race weekends ago.
Find out what William Byron had to say about the coming race
William Byron talks about his return to Atlanta and acknowledged that he is excited about the return and points out that the outing will be slicker than last time around in March. He went on to add that though the outing going to be like a superspeedway race Atlanta demands drivers be more concerned about handling the car compared to the race in March.
“I am excited to go back to Atlanta (Motor Speedway). I think the track is going to be slicker than the last race there in March. It’s still going to race like a superspeedway race but I think we’re going to be working on the handling of our cars more than we did last time with the heat,” William Byron said.
He went on to add that he is honestly interested to see how the race will play out and what the conditions will end up being. He added that the lack of practice time means that they will only have the Adapting time during the race. William Byron Pointed out that just like every other weekend of the 2022 season has been the teams have to wait and see what will unravel at the track.
“I’m honestly interested to see how that plays out and what the conditions end up being like. We’ll have to really adapt throughout the race since we have no practice this time. Just like a lot of these weekends this season, we’ll just have to see how it goes once we get there and get on track,” William Byron added.
Rudy Fugle, William Byron’s crew chief acknowledged that they had a good outing at Atlanta in March and the data they have been able to get from the race will surely benefit them this Sunday. He points out that the Atlanta track has a problem similar to the Daytona where the handling of the car becomes a major factor which is caused by the difference in the temperature of the track following the races.
“Obviously, we had a good showing at Atlanta (Motor Speedway) in March and some of those notes will definitely transfer over for this weekend. However, the track has been sitting in the sun and baking since we were there last. It’s almost a similar situation as when we run the DAYTONA 500 to then racing 400 miles in August in that it’s much cooler the first time we race at Daytona (International Speedway) and then handling becomes a bigger factor in the summer race,” Rudy Fugle said.
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