How many laps is the Cup race at Atlanta? The Quaker 400 is 260 laps around the 1.54-mile track for a total of 400.4 miles. The race will feature three segments (laps per stage) - Stage 1: 60 laps; Stage 2: 100 laps; Stage 3: 100 laps.

Atlanta Motor Speedway

-- After taking the lead before a major storm reached the area of the Atlanta Motor Speedway, William Byron won the Quaker State 400 after it was declared official with 185 of 260 laps complete. Byron's win is his fourth of the 2023 season, the most of any driver in the NASCAR Cup Series.

If there are a few caution periods, the race could last closer to 4 hours, but if there are no caution periods, the race should last about 3 hours and 30 minutes.

One of the oldest stops on the NASCAR circuit, the Atlanta Motor Speedway, held its first race on this day in 1960. A crowd of 25,000 watched Glenn “Fireball” Roberts ride to victory lane. The racetrack was built in the wake of the first running of the Daytona 500 in 1959.

In September 1906 a riot broke out in Atlanta, in response to unfounded allegations published in the city's newspapers that a group of black men had been assaulting white women. Thousands of whites roamed the streets damaging black businesses, assaulting and severely beating African-Americans.

A racist governor, sensationalized headlines and Jim Crow laws sparked rage in a mob of White men who randomly beat and killed Black men in Atlanta.

The Daytona 500 typically runs around three and a half hours in real time, excluding the pre and post-race hoopla.

around three hours The Indy 500 is one of the biggest races in all of motorsports. Some outlier races have gone quicker, but typically the race lasts at or around three hours. Ericsson took the win last year in 2:51:00.

Speedway is popular in Central and Northern Europe and to a lesser extent in Australia and North America. A variant of track racing, speedway is administered internationally by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM).

The World Championship of Speedway was staged at Wembley Stadium, London from 1936 to 1960. A post war boom came to an end in the early 1950s thanks to television and Entertainment Tax but a revival with the advent of the Provincial League in 1960 has been largely sustained ever since.

Atlanta is ready to build a sprawling new police and fire training complex. Opponents argue that it would further militarize officers and destroy precious green space.