Toyota NASCAR Cup Series star Kyle Busch says Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at the revamped Atlanta Motor Speedway is “going to be crazy” as he anticipates superspeedway-style racing on the 1.5-mile oval.
Atlanta was last reconfigured in 1997, changing to a quad-oval format that measured 1.54 miles. Although it retains the same length, the banking of its turns have been increased from 24 degrees to 28 degrees and the track has been narrowed from 55-feet wide to 40-feet wide – all covered in fresh asphalt.
The goal of the reconstruction is encourage the kind of pack-style racing seen at NASCAR’s high-banked giants of Daytona and Talladega.
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“Atlanta is going to be crazy,” said Busch. “It literally got a facelift with a whole new track surface and layout and everything.
“It’s going to be a different race than what we’ve had there in years past, where you have the old asphalt and really have fast lap times to fire off, and then you…
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