Atlanta Qualifying Sub Download
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ATLANTA -- Aric Almirola won the pole for the Quaker State 400 at Atlanta Motor Speedway during qualifying on Saturday evening, laying down a lap of 31.261 (177.346 mph) in the final round to win his first pole of the 2023 season and the fifth of his Cup career. After winning just two poles during his first nine full-time seasons, Almirola has now won at least one pole in each of the last three seasons.
Almirola headlined a strong qualifying performance for Ford, who carried over the strength they showed in Atlanta's spring race despite July's midsummer conditions making for a jarring difference from unseasonably cold weather in March. Eight of the 10 cars to make the final round of qualifying were Fords, with Ty Gibbs' Toyota and Kyle Larson's Chevrolet the lone representatives of their respective manufacturers.
Larson was an exception to what was otherwise a difficult session for Chevrolet, as a number of notable Chevy drivers -- including Kyle Busch, Chase Elliott, Ross Chastain and Alex Bowman -- had qualifying runs well outside the top 20. The Toyotas were hardly spared either: Christopher Bell got loose in Turn 2 on his qualifying lap, while Bubba Wallace had to abort his qualifying lap and did not post a time after discovering what was believed to be a mechanical issue that compromised the handling of his car.
One of the standouts of qualifying was Harrison Burton, who timed in fifth fastest to earn his best-ever starting spot for a Cup Series race. Also of note was Todd Gilliland, who tied his career-best qualifying result in ninth.
On a wet-but-drying track with conditions improving constantly throughout qualifying for the Motul Petit Le Mans, being last under the checkered flag proved to be an advantage in many cases. That was, until GTP, the final of the three qualifying sessions, began. Heavy mist started falling after a dramatic finish to LMP2/LMP3 qualifying that saw Ben Keating set the fastest time overall in an LMP2 car, leading to worsening conditions as the GTP cars rolled out.
Louis Deletraz, the endurance addition for the No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Autosport Acura ARX-06, drew qualifying for the team, and on his second set of wet tires, with only one lap to do it, took the GTP pole with a time of 1m15.402s, nearly 6s slower than the top times of the weekend.
In between the No. 10 and the other championship contenders was Sebastien Bourdais, who had been near the top of the time sheets all weekend and turned a 1m15.632s lap to start the No. 01 Cadillac Racing V-Series.R on the outside of the front row. (Despite the GTP cars qualifying behind many of the LMP2 cars, and even some LMP3 machines, they will still be gridded first for the race). Augusto Farfus in the No. 24 BMW, one of the first cars to go onto wet tires, will start on the inside of the second row after a 1m15.731s lap, with Tom Blomqvist in the No. 60 Meyer Shank Racing with Curb Agajanian Acura alongside.
With light rain having been falling since the end of the Michelin Pilot Challenge race, Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta was wet, but drying when the GTD cars took to the track for the first qualifying session. Ian James and the Heart of Racing crew rolled the dice, threw on slicks, and saw their gamble pay off with an overall pole position among the GT cars.
Mirko Bortolotti would have been on the inside of the second row in the GTD PRO Iron Lynx Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo 2, but he left the pit box too early, the penalty for which is all times lost and the No. 63 will start at the back. Instead it was the sister Lamborghini qualifying third overall and second in GTD as Doriane Pin claimed the spot for the Iron Dames with a 1m23.168s. GTD cars took the next two spots, and the two Vasser Sullivan Lexuses will line up nose to tail after Aaron Telitz qualified the No. 12 fourth overall, followed by Bill Auberlen in the No. 97 Turner Motorsport BMW M4 GT3.
Start wave assignments for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Peachtree Road Race are performance based. During registration, all participants had the opportunity to enter valid results from a previous race within the established guidelines provided below. Start waves were assigned to participants based on the qualifying time submitted during registration. Participants who did not enter qualifying times were placed in later start waves. Read more about time verification below.
For those that registered for the Peachtree and submitted a qualifying time, the time verification process was conducted by a small group people who worked through the process of manually verifying thousands!
If you were denied, participants received an email notification with instructions on how to adjust their submitted qualifying time and the timeframe allowed to do so. If you failed to resubmit a qualifying time that met the requirements, you were assigned to a later wave.
If you have any questions regarding this process, please send a detailed email with your first name, last name and the email address you used to register for the race to peachtree@atlantatrackclub.org.
ATLANTA -- Shortstop Dansby Swanson rejected his qualifying offer on Tuesday. This concluded a procedural move that will allow the Braves to gain a compensatory Draft pick if the shortstop signs with another team this winter.
The second Cup race at Atlanta is shaping up to be a repeat of the first back in March. Ford once again dominated qualifying, taking nine of the top 11 positions, including pole position. That honor went to Aric Almirola, who led a strong Stewart Haas Racing contingent on Saturday. It is the fifth career pole for Almirola; his second at Atlanta and his first of the season. Ryan Blaney will start alongside him on the front row, as the Team Penske driver came up just 0.014 seconds shy of snatching the top spot.
Ty Gibbs and Kyle Larson will start from Row 4 tomorrow, leading the way for Toyota and Chevrolet. Larson is the only Chevrolet driver that qualified inside the top 16. Todd Gilliland and Austin Cindric rounded out the top-ten in qualifying. Brad Keselowski just missed out on the final round and will start 11th tomorrow. Tyler Reddick starts beside him in 12th, and was able to put together a good lap after his teammate Bubba Wallace had to abort his qualifying attempt after nearly crashing.
Wallace was certainly not the only driver with his hands full on Saturday. Christopher Bell and Alex Bowman also had close calls that killed their one-lap run in qualifying. After winning the last two races, Trackhouse Racing struggled today in qualifying as Daniel Suarez and Ross Chastain start 26th and 30th tomorrow. Kyle Busch (22nd) and Chase Elliott (23rd) will also have some work to do in order to get to the front in the race.
Each team was entitled to reserve the rights to a maximum of eight qualified players. Of the eight qualified players, no more than four could be veterans (260 regular season professional hockey games played as of the start of the upcoming 2023-24 season). Players on open qualifying offers cannot be traded.
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Joey Logano, the defending champion of the NASCAR Cup Series, is set to lead the field to green for the second time this year, after blasting to the top of the speed charts in the final round of Saturday's qualifying session.
However, the most head-turning aspect of Saturday's qualifying wasn't Logano's second pole of the year, or the top-three sweep for Team Penske, but rather the complete and utter domination by Ford Performance.
Kyle Larson and Christopher Bell, the lone Chevrolet and Toyota drivers in the final round of qualifying on Saturday, will start from ninth and tenth. Bell, driving the No. 20 for Joe Gibbs Racing, failed to complete a lap after spinning coming to the green for his lap.
William Byron, who has captured the victory in each of the last two events in the NASCAR Cup Series, barely missed the final round of qualifying, and will have to make progress from 11th if he's hoping to capture a third straight victory.
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For most of the 1990s and 2000s, the track boasted the highest speeds on the NASCAR circuit, with a typical qualifying lap speed of about 193 mph (311 km/h), first posted by driver Breton Roussel on June 22, 1990, and a record lap speed of over 197 mph (317 km/h). In 2004 and 2005, the similarly designed Texas Motor Speedway saw slightly faster qualifying times, and as the tracks' respective racing surfaces have worn, qualifying speeds at Texas have become consistently faster than at Atlanta.[5] The NASCAR circuit has two tracks, the longer Talladega Superspeedway and Daytona International Speedway, that were once faster than Atlanta or Texas, with lap speeds usually exceeding 200 mph (320 km/h), but restrictor plates were mandated for use on those tracks in 1988 after Bobby Allison's violent crash at Talladega the year before, reducing average lap speeds to about 190 mph (310 km/h). Prior to the 2021 reconfiguration project, NASCAR did not require restrictor plates at Atlanta, which helped lead to the adoption of Atlanta's commercial slogan, "Real Racing. Real Fast."
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