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Reddick Takes Atlanta Cup Pole by Formula as Busch Wins Shortened Truck Race and Creed Scores First O’Reilly Victory

Rain forced NASCAR to use its performance formula for the Cup grid, with the Truck race ending on a time limit.

Overview

  • Saturday’s Cup qualifying at EchoPark Speedway was canceled for weather, so NASCAR’s performance metric set Sunday’s Autotrader 400 lineup with Tyler Reddick on pole and Joey Logano second.
  • The Truck Series Fr8 Racing 208 was delayed and then capped by a 4:20 p.m. ET hard stop under the adverse-conditions rule, ending after 125 of the scheduled 135 laps with no overtime.
  • Kyle Busch earned his 68th Truck win and ninth at Atlanta, leading a Spire Motorsports one-two with Carson Hocevar second in a 0.114-second finish.
  • Ben Rhodes led a race-high 70 Truck laps before running out of fuel late in Stage 2, recovering to finish fourth behind Gio Ruggiero in third and ahead of Corey Heim in fifth.
  • Sheldon Creed captured his first O’Reilly Auto Parts Series win after late contact between Ross Chastain and Austin Hill shuffled the lead; Creed prevailed as Hill finished 12th and Chastain sixth following a race that also featured an early multi-car crash on lap five.