The Kobalt 500 as a tale of attrition as tires eliminated one after another competitor at Atlanta Motor Speedway. I was surprised because we’ve not heard or seen much about tires this season, but now we have Atlanta. At least it’s not track surface chunks or stray running caution lights. It’s something that someone had some control over, when you dwell on it.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. led the pack to the first green flag start, but Kyle Busch just took the lead from him and spanked Jr. Dale should have taken the outside line to start the race maybe. Or maybe it wouldn’t have mattered actually.
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Dale Earnhardt Jr set a blistering pole speed by almost 1/2 a mph faster than the next driver as he snagged the No. 1 starting spot for the Kobalt 500 on Sunday at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Junior Nation goes crazy wild, that’s for sure.
One qualifying story the world was watching was to see if Ryan Newman was going to break his tie with Buddy Baker of 7 poles here at Atlanta, but alas, it is not to be so this time by as Ryan oddly, qualified 7th. [Atlanta Stat Facts]
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If you were wondering when to tune into the festivities and events for the upcoming Kobalt 500 and other NASCAR related programming, here’s the info!
Kobalt Tools 500 from Atlanta Motor Speedway
- 1:00 PM ET Friday 3/5 First Practice on Speed – TRUCKS
- 2:30 PM ET Friday 3/5 First Practice on Speed – CUP
- 4:00 PM ET Friday 3/5 Second Practice on Speed – TRUCKS
- 6:00 PM ET Friday 3/5 Qualifying on Speed – CUP
- 9:30 AM ET Saturday 3/6 Qualifying on Speed – TRUCKS
- 11:00 AM ET Saturday 3/6 Practice on Speed – CUP
- 12:20 PM ET Saturday 3/6 Practice on Speed – CUP
- 2:00 PM ET Saturday 3/6 E-Z-GO 200 Live on Speed – TRUCKS
- 1:00 PM ET Sunday 3/7 Kobalt Tools 500 Live on Fox
Have fun gang!
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Stuff on Brusimm: 
Here are some background statistics for this weekend NASCAR Sprint Cup Race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, for the Kobalt 500, for the number-centric folks out there:
In 2009,
The pole winner was Mark Martin, grabbing the pole at 187.045 mph (29.640 secs.).
The track qualifying record is held by Geoffrey Bodine at a blazing 197.478 mph (28.074 secs), on 11-15-97. Not sure we’re going to see that broken anytime soon!
The race winner was Kurt Busch, setting a pace of 127.573 mph on 3-8-09,
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