Now that the warmth of the Daytona 500 has fizzled, Cup drivers’ qualification for the Feb. 23 Ambetter Well being 400 at Atlanta is in full swing. All eyes had been on Ryan Blaney this morning as he led the sector of 39 in simply over 30.908 seconds. He fought and received over Penske teammate No. 2 Austin Cindric in underneath 000.2 seconds, incomes his eleventh profession pole. Blaney’s Ford Mustang Darkhorse dealt with completely, and he couldn’t have predicted a greater consequence.
This gave the impression to be a development amongst right now’s prime ten drivers who certified,d apart from No. 8 Kyle Busch. Drivers appeared much less pressured on the 1.54-mile quad-oval compared to Daytona. There was no want to interact in a number of rounds of single-lap qualifying. As an alternative, drivers ran single laps within the first spherical to find out the highest ten opponents. What does this imply for Sunday?