EchoPark Speedway (previously Atlanta Motor Speedway) has raced just like the superspeedways of Daytona and Talladega since its repave and reconfiguration in 2022.
NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Components Collection driver Taylor Grey want to see NASCAR take off the tapered spacers — the successor to the notorious restrictor plate — which can be part of the superspeedway engine package deal on the 1.5-mile venue in Hampton, Georgia.
“It is a type of [races] the place it is form of up within the air,” Grey stated Wednesday on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. “By no means actually know what is going on to occur. I want they’d take the restrictor plate off of ’em and allow us to go take our mile-and-a-half package deal there and determine it out.”
How Atlanta’s modified
Whereas Atlanta has became a drafting race in recent times, the torrid tempo at which the observe’s floor has worn out has produced racing extra akin to Nineteen Nineties superspeedway racing than latest Cup Collection superspeedway racing. That is made Atlanta appointment tv for followers and one of many hottest tickets in NASCAR.
“I really feel like Atlanta is a reasonably powerful place for speedway racing,” Grey stated. “Every thing simply occurs lots quicker than it does at Daytona and Talladega. It is beginning to get fairly worn out. Once we first began going there, you have been extensive open within the pack. Now, it is beginning to get the purpose the place we’re lifting extra and we’re having points with automobile dealing with. I believe it is in all probability going to be probably the most slick it has been on Saturday.”
Grey might actually use run on Saturday, provided that he enters the race eleventh within the collection standings and solely 52 factors above the Chase lower line with 4 races left within the O’Reilly Collection common season.
