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events in the

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have been held at

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, in

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during numerous seasons and times of year since 1992.

Spring race

The Bennett Transportation & Logistics 250 is a

stock car race held at

, a few miles south of

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. This race had been Atlanta's lone Busch/Nationwide/Xfinity Series date until 2021 when a second race was added in July. Although it has been shuffled around the schedule several times, most years, it has been held at the beginning of the season in February or March.

History

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, Mike Skinner,

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, and

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have gotten their first series wins in this race. Following the transfer of the season ending Cup series race from Atlanta to

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after the 2001 season (although due to the

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, the 2001 Atlanta fall race was the second-to-last race of the season when the race at New Hampshire was moved from September to November as the last race of the season), the then 312-mile race was moved to Atlanta's fall race weekend where it remained until Aaron's Rental, who was sponsoring the race, chose instead to sponsor the lone Busch event at Talladega. The race gained sponsorship from

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through its

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brand and moved back to its traditional spring date. In September 2008,

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officials announced that Nicorette would not renew its corporate sponsorship for race after the

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season. On October 26, 2008 it was announced that

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's deodorant brand Degree will take over sponsorship of this race starting in

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. It was later announced that the now-Degree V12 300 would be moving to September as part of the latest round of

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, which resulted in the

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, the

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at Talladega, and the Pepsi 500 at

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/Auto Club Speedway trading places. The Degree V12 300 took the place of the Camping World RV Service 300 on NASCAR's Labor Day weekend race schedule and serves as an accompanying race to the

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. In 2015, the Xfinity race at Atlanta moved along with the Cup race (

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) to the second weekend of the season and ran as a doubleheader on Saturday afternoon along with the

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. The race was also reduced to 250 miles in order to make the race a doubleheader on the same day. 2022 Nalley Cars 250 from frontstretch

EchoPark Automotive became the title sponsor of the race in 2020, replacing Rinnai. That year, the race had been moved from being in February and the second race of the season and the first race before the three-race west coast swing to March and as the fifth race of the season as the first race after the west coast swing. However, the race was moved again from March to June due to the

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. In 2021, the race returned to March. In 2022, Nalley Automotive Group replaced EchoPark as the title sponsor and the new name of the race was the Nalley Cars 250. In 2023, Raptor Coatings replaced Nalley as the title sponsor and the new name of the race was the Raptor King of Tough 250. In 2025, Bennett Transportation & Logistics, the primary sponsor of defending Atlanta Xfinity Series race winner

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, would become the title sponsor of this race, replacing Raptor.

Past winners

Multiple winners (drivers)

Multiple winners (teams)

Manufacturer wins

Summer race

The Focused Health 250 is a

race at

. The race is one of two Xfinity Series races at Atlanta along with the

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in the spring.

History

The track had previously always held one Busch/Nationwide/Xfinity Series race, but in 2021, when the

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got a second race at Atlanta for the first time since 2010, this Xfinity Series race was added to the schedule on the same weekend in July as the new Cup Series race.

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held the

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to the race that year. In 2022,

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replaced Credit Karma as the title sponsor. When the start times for all of NASCAR's events were announced, the 2023 event will become a Saturday night event to coincide with the track's second Cup race returning to a nighttime event.

Past winners

*2021 & 2023: Races extended due to an

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. *2021: Kyle Busch's 102nd and final Xfinity Series win, since he would retire from the division once he reached 100 wins.

Multiple winners (drivers)

Multiple winners (teams)

Manufacturer wins

References

External links

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