Pep Boys 500

Pep Boys Auto 500
Sun, September 6, 2009
Atlanta Motor Speedway
Atlanta, GA

Atlanta Motor Speedway is gearing up to host the Pep Boys Auto 500 on September 6, the track's first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series night race in its history.

Formerly known as the (Bass Pro Shops MBNA 500). The Pep Boys Auto 500 is one of two races held at Atlanta Motor Speedway—the other being the Kobalt Tools 500 held earlier in March. The Pep Boys Auto 500 falls late in the NASCAR season and expect a heated competition, as NASCAR's top drivers compete for late-season points before entering the Chase for the Sprint Cup. With only a few races left after this week, Sprint Cup points are like gold.

The first Atlanta Motor Speedway race was won by one of the most heated names in all of racing. Glenn Fireball Roberts won the first race at the track, on July 31, 1960. After Fireball, there's been a trail of big-name champions in Atlanta, Georgia, including Bill Elliot, Richard Petty, Rusty Wallace, and 2006 winner Tony Stewart. The legendary Dale Earnhardt tops the all-time list of race winners at Atlanta Motor Speedway, with nine. Labonte is the active leader with six wins. Bet on the race track where Richard Petty ended his career and Jeff Gordon began his.

Formerly known as the Atlanta International Raceway, the now Atlanta Motor Speedway, is located in Hampton, just to the south of the city Atlanta. Atlanta Motor Speedway is a 1.54 mile Oval Fast Superspeedway located in Hampton, Georgia. A complete revamping of the track was done in 1997 and has made this quad oval course one of the faster tracks on the NASCAR circuit. Track banking in turns is 24 degrees with 5 degree banking on the straights. The Atlanta Motor Speedway’s slogan is “Real Racing. Real Fast.” This is not an exaggeration, as NASCAR has not mandated restrictor plates at this track.

2009 Pep Boys 500 Results

It was the first time under the lights at Atlanta Motor Speedway, and it was Kasey Kahne who held off Kevin Harvick in the Pep Boys Auto 500 to win his second NSCS race of the 2009 season.

Kahne, who led 60 of the 325 laps, won his 11th series career race, and is now in 6th-place in the points standings, with only one race left (next weekend’s Richmond International Speedway’s Chevy Rock & Roll 400) to determine the top-12 for the chase to the championship.

The series points leader, Tony Stewart, who finished 11th, now leads Jeff Gordon (finished 8th) by 237 points, and 6th-place finisher, Denny Hamlin, clinches a spot in the chase.

Following Kahne and Harvick to the drop of the checkered flag were Juan Pablo Montoya in third, David Reutimann fourth, Mark Martin fifth, Denny Hamlin sixth, Brian Vickers seventh, Jeff Gordon eighth, Ryan Newman ninth and Greg Biffle rounds out the top-10 finishers.

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