The 2024 Quaker State 400 available at Walmart was a NASCAR Cup Series race held on September 8, 2024, at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Georgia. Contested over 266 laps—extended from 260 laps due to an overtime finish on the 1.54-mile-long (2.48 km) asphalt quad-oval intermediate speedway (with superspeedway rules). It was the 27th race of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series season, the first race of the 2024 NASCAR playoffs, and the first race of the Round of 16. Joey Logano won the race. Daniel Suárez finished 2nd, and Ryan Blaney finished 3rd. Christopher Bell and Alex Bowman rounded out the top five, and Tyler Reddick, Kyle Busch, Chase Elliott, William Byron, and Austin Cindric rounded out the top ten.
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Background
Atlanta Motor Speedway is a track in Hampton, Georgia, 20 miles (32 km) south of Atlanta. It is a 1.54-mile (2.48 km) quad-oval track with a seating capacity of 111,000. It opened in 1960 as a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) standard oval. In 1994, 46 condominiums were built over the northeastern side of the track. In 1997, to standardize the track with Speedway Motorsports' other two 1.5-mile (2.4 km) ovals, the entire track was almost completely rebuilt. The frontstretch and backstretch were swapped, and the configuration of the track was changed from oval to quad-oval. The project made the track one of the fastest on the NASCAR circuit.
Entry list
- (R) denotes rookie driver.
- (P) denotes playoff driver.
- (i) denotes driver who is ineligible for series driver points.
Qualifying
Michael McDowell scored the pole for the race with a time of 30.927 and a speed of 179.261 mph (288.493 km/h).
Qualifying results
Race
Race results
Stage results
Stage One Laps: 60
Stage Two Laps: 100
Final Stage results
Stage Three Laps: 100
Race statistics
- Lead changes: 24 among 14 different drivers
- Cautions/Laps: 8
- Red flags: 0
- Time of race: 3 hours, 6 minutes, and 11 seconds
- Average speed: 134.450 miles per hour (216.376 km/h)
Media
Television
USA covered the race on the television side. Leigh Diffey, Jeff Burton, and Steve Letarte called the race from the broadcast booth. Dave Burns, Kim Coon and Marty Snider handled the pit road duties from pit lane. Similar to the Summer Daytona race and the Summer Talladega race, NBC showed every green flag lap ad-free.
Radio
The race was broadcast on radio by the Performance Racing Network and simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Doug Rice and Mark Garrow called the race from the booth when the field raced down the front stretch. Doug Turnbull called the race from atop a billboard outside of turn 2 when the field raced through turns 1 and 2. Pat Patterson called the race from a billboard outside of turn 3 when the field raced through turns 3 and 4. On pit road, PRN was manned by Brad Gillie, Brett McMillan, and Wendy Venturini.
Standings after the race
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