Track/Race Length: 1.54 mile quad oval, 325 laps, 500.5 miles
Degree of Banking: Turns: 24 degrees; Straightaways: 5 degrees
Straights: Frontstretch - 2332 feet; Backstretch - 1800 feet
Pit Road Speed: 45mph
Pace Car Speed: 55mph
Grandstand Seating: 124,000
Opened: 1960
Race Festivities/Officials:
Grand Marshal: Emorys 500th heart transplant patient in 2008, Terry Mr. 500 Green
Command to start engines: Terry Mr. 500 Green
Invocation: Joe Gibbs
National Anthem: Grammy-nominated Ernie Haase & Signature Sound
Military Flyover: 4 F-15's, 159th Fighter Wing, USAF, Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base, Belle Chasse, LA
Emory Healthcare is a NASCAR sponsor? And we wonder why health care costs are so high!
League commissioner is in da house!
(I had to use spell check to spell commissioner.....time for bed)
Welcome to hawtlanta folks, home of Mother’s Finest, the braves and falcons, good Q, Georgia peaches, and fresh peanuts.
The weather is great. Got some heat coming through, then it’s supposed to cool off Saturday. Hi in the 80’s..lows down to mid 50’s.
A late race for a Sunday.