AMS PREVIEW – “THEY SAID IT”

JOEY LOGANO:  “I call Atlanta kind of a confused racetrack. It doesn’t know if it wants to be a superspeedway or a mile-and-a-half. It seems like you’re wide-open all the way around it most of the time. If you’re leading, for sure, but there are other times where you’re hanging on and you’re in the back and you’re lifting and all that stuff. Honestly, it’s similar to what Daytona was like before they repaved it years and years and years ago, where it had some bumps and some character and the tires would fall off to where you had to kind of hang on and handling came into play. The same thing can happen there.”

CHASE BRISCOE: “I think it is the most mentally draining racetrack we have on the schedule. Daytona and Talladega have always been mentally draining at the end of the day, but you go to Atlanta and things happen four times the speed because you lose a mile with that racetrack. It’s an interesting track because it races like a superspeedway, but it’s still an intermediate. The corners didn’t change. The radius of the corners, all of that is still the same that we’ve always had, so it’s not like a Daytona or a Talladega where your car goes around there wide-open super easy. You’re manhandling the car at all times, so Atlanta is a very challenging racetrack and by far the most mentally draining with just how much your brain is trying to process and listen to your spotter, but then actually applying what your spotter is saying is hard because things happen so fast there. It’s a tough one for sure.”

RYAN PREECE: “The runs that we get at Atlanta are far greater than any other superspeedway runs that we get, but the handling in Atlanta means so much more. It is actually tricky. Some teams concentrate on trimming out, and I think a lot of it is weather-oriented, but you need to have a really good handling car at Atlanta.”