“It’s just a superspeedway race on a mile-and-a-half racetrack,” Kevin Harvick on NACAR’s return to Atlanta for the second time this season


“It’s just a superspeedway race on a mile-and-a-half racetrack,” Kevin Harvick on NACAR’s return to Atlanta for the second time this season

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NASCAR will hit the track running on Atlanta Motor Speedway this weekend for the 19th round of cup racing and the second coming of Next-Gen cars to the newly reconfigured 1.5 miles track. The intermediate track which was repaved last year to make it more like a superspeedway such as  Talladega and Daytona saw intense and crash-prone battle last time around were William Byron came out victorious in his No:24 HMS Chevy.

Stewart Hass Racing, one of the NASCAR front runners of the past, has been among the teams of 2022 as other than Chase Briscoe none of their drivers won a race this season or has been in contention for one. The 2104 cup champion Kevin Harvick, though stands P11 in the championship table is yet secure playoffs as he remains winless and he will be hoping to get that all-crucial win at Atlanta this weekend.

Though the track has changed Harvick is the Active driver in the Cup with most races starting at the track where his first career cup win came. He also has won the Daytona 500 and Talledega and will be hoping to convert his recent streak of consecutive Top 10 finishes to a win on Sunday. Harvick now has comes forth expressing his thoughts on how the race will play out on Sunday.

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Find out what Kevin Harvick said

Kevin Harvick
Kevin Harvick

Kevin Harvick acknowledged that Atalanta is just a 1.5 miles superspeedway which calls for speedy decision-making due to the fact that the corners cars move around quickly so as the corners. He points out that the Atlanta race is just more than the traditional lines forming pack arcing track as it’s something, a different style of racing, the drivers should get used to.

It’s just a superspeedway race on a mile-and-a-half racetrack. Things just happen a lot faster, so the decisions have to happen faster, the cars move around a lot more, and the corners come up a lot quicker. A lot more just seat-of-your-pants, just, ‘Go here, go there, do this, do that.’ And I think that the way the lines formed and moved and everything happened, you just had to get used to a different style of race than we’ve had before,” Kevin Harvick said.

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Kevin Harvick went on to say that the tack got some superspeedway characteristics of racing in a way that its wide-open pack racing. He also pointed out that when compared to Daytona or Talledega the final race product in Atlanta lacks pushing and shoving mid-race when moving around the corners.

It’s got some characteristics of superspeedway racing in the way that you wind up in a pack and you’re holding it wide open. But the way that the bumps and things are there, and the way you have to go into the corner, and the way the race developed, there wasn’t near as much pushing and shoving as there is at Daytona and Talladega,” Kevin Harvick added.

Kevin Harvick went on to say that it’s going to be a hotter race day and turns three and four will be a bit edgy. He pointed out that the drivers will have to make up for the heat and lack of grip in the corners with a bit of downforce saying “It’s definitely going to be hotter. Turns three and four were a little bit edgy, but you’re probably going to want just a touch of downforce in your car just to try to make up for some of the heat and lack of grip that’s going to come with just the time of year and the temperature,”.

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