{"id":49342,"date":"2018-02-26T10:14:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T18:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=49342"},"modified":"2018-02-26T10:14:44","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T18:14:44","slug":"three-unexciting-races-in-hotlanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/three-unexciting-races-in-hotlanta\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Unexciting Races in \u201cHotlanta\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The best that can be said for last weekend\u2019s three NASCAR races at Atlanta Motor Speedway<\/a> is that they delivered winners \u2013 Kevin Harvick and Brett Moffitt. \u00a0These races are usually exciting affairs, because it\u2019s an older track and the surface is often described as being \u201clike sandpaper for tires.\u201d This past weekend\u2019s races were decidedly not like regular Atlanta races. With the rare exception, everyone seemed to be on rails throughout all three.<\/p>\n

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NASCAR Hotlanta Weekend Not So Hot<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Kevin Harvick<\/a>, in the #98 delivered a dominating performance in Saturday\u2019s XFINITY Rinnai 250 race to kick off the weekend, sweeping both stages and taking the checkered flag. Some excitement was added with 25 to go in Stage 1, when Michael Annett<\/a> had a tire go down and went around without hitting anything. Likewise, with 23 to go, Tyler Reddick<\/a> had a tire go down, spinning without crashing. Joey Logano took the #22 to second and Christopher Bell<\/a> took the #20 to a third place finish.<\/p>\n

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Brett Moffitt Wins Uninspiring Camping World Truck Race<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The truck racers continued the sleepy racing into Saturday evening. Noah Gragson<\/a> took his Kyle Busch Motorsports<\/a> #18 to the lead from his third place starting spot and basically never looked back in Saturday afternoon\u2019s NASCAR Camping World Active Pest Controls 200 benefiting Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta. Kyle Busch took his #4 to first place in at the end of the second stage.<\/p>\n

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Jesse Little<\/a> in the #97 had a great race, finishing eighth. A blip of excitement was given when Norm Benning<\/a>, in the #6, went around early in the race. The race did go into NASCAR Overtime because Josh Reaume<\/a> in the #33 met with Dalton Sargent<\/a> in the #25 with six to go in the race. Adding a little hilarity, under that caution, Kyle Busch\u2019s team mistakenly removed the lug nuts on his left rear tire, causing him to lose it shortly after leaving the pits in the lead. Brett Moffitt<\/a> in the #16, won the race, while Noah Gragson<\/a> took second and Johnny Sauter<\/a> drove his #21 to third.<\/p>\n

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The green flag was supposed to wave around 1PM yesterday, but rain delayed things to where the command to start engines wasn\u2019t given until 3:24PM. After telling the broadcast crew, \u201cI\u2019ve got a great race car, guys,\u201d Ryan Newman took his #31 to the lead shortly after the drop of the green. Kevin Harvick in the #4 came out on top at the end of the 30 lap shootout, leading up to the competition caution. His team\u2019s excellent 14.9 second pit stop got him out in the lead. Harvick took off to a four-second lead and ended up winning the uneventful first stage.<\/p>\n

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Bringing his record to four DNFs in four races, Jimmie Johnson<\/a> added the race\u2019s only real spice by blowing a tire with 12 to go in stage two. Keselowski<\/a> took off on the drop of the green and ended up winning the stage. With 28 to go, Darrell \u201cBubba: Wallace, Junior<\/a> in the 43 added a little more excitement by mildly getting into the 17 of Ricky Stenhouse, Junior<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Kevin Harvick came out of the ensuing pit stops in first place and never looked back after getting a great start when the green came back out. Keselowski came in second and Clint Bowyer<\/a> surprised the crowd by coming in third in his Stewart-Haas<\/a> #14.<\/p>\n

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The best that can be said for last weekend\u2019s three NASCAR races at Atlanta Motor Speedway is that they delivered winners \u2013 Kevin Harvick and Brett Moffitt.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":49344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3424,3470,5029,22],"tags":[3789,4827,1528,1074,127,41,1632],"class_list":["post-49342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nascar","category-news","category-racing","category-event-coverage","tag-atlanta-motor-speedway","tag-brett-moffitt","tag-kevin-harvick","tag-mike-aguilar","tag-nascar","tag-news","tag-racing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/NASCAR-Atlanta-Lead-Art-min.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-cPQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49353,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49342\/revisions\/49353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}