The 2022 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 was a

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held on March 20, 2022 at

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. Contested over 325 laps on the 1.54-mile-long (2.48 km) asphalt quad-oval intermediate speedway, it was the fifth race of the

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season.

Report

Background

Atlanta Motor Speedway (formerly Atlanta International Raceway) is a track in

, 20 miles (32 km) south of

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. It is a quad-oval track with a

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of 111,000. It opened in 1960 as a standard oval. In 1994, 46

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s were built over the northeastern side of the track. In 1997, to standardize the track with Speedway Motorsports' other two ovals, the entire track was almost completely rebuilt. The frontstretch and backstretch were swapped, and the configuration of the track was changed from oval to quad-oval. The project made the track one of the fastest on the

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circuit.

Entry list

* (R) denotes rookie driver. * (i) denotes driver who is ineligible for series driver points.

Practice

Friday's practice session was canceled due to inclement weather. Practice replaced qualifying Saturday. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. was the fastest in the practice session with a time of 29.708 seconds and a speed of .

Practice results

Qualifying

Qualifying was cancelled because of a need to add additional practice to the reconfigured circuit.

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was awarded the pole for the race as a result of the pandemic formula with a score of 2.850.

Starting Lineup

Race

Stage Results

2022 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 from frontstretch

Stage One ''Laps:'' 105 Stage Two ''Laps:'' 105

Final Stage Results

Stage Three ''Laps:'' 115

Race statistics

* Lead changes: 46 among 20 different drivers * Cautions/Laps: 11 for 65 * Red flags: 0 * Time of race: 3 hours, 57 minutes and 14 seconds * Average speed:

Post-race

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, who finished 12th, was penalized 100 playoff points when an illegally modified body part was found on his car during a post-race inspection. In addition, Matt McCall, his crew chief, was fined $100,000 and suspended for the next four races. The penalty dropped Keselowski from 6th in the point standings to 35th.

Media

Television

The

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was carried by

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in the United States.

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, and five-time Atlanta winner

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called the race from the broadcast booth.

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and Regan Smith handled pit road for the television side, and

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provided insight from the Fox Sports studio in Charlotte.

Radio

The race was broadcast on radio by the

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and simulcast on

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. Doug Rice and Mark Garrow called the race from the booth when the field raced down the front stretch. Rob Albright called the race from atop a billboard outside of turn 2 when the field raced through turns 1 and 2, and Pat Patterson called the race from a billboard outside of turn 3 when the field raced through turns 3 and 4. On pit road, PRN was manned by Brad Gillie, Doug Turnbull, and

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Standings after the race

;Drivers' Championship standings ;Manufacturers' Championship standings *Note: Only the first 16 positions are included for the driver standings.

Notes

References

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