2024 Fr8 208

The 2024 Fr8 208 was the 2nd stock car race of the 2024 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, and the 16th iteration of the event. The race was held on Saturday, February 24, 2024, at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Georgia, a 1.54 miles (2.48km) permanent asphalt quad-oval shaped intermediate speedway (with superspeedway rules). The race took the scheduled 135 laps to complete. Kyle Busch, driving for Spire Motorsports, would make a late race pass for lead on Grant Enfinger with eight laps to go, and held off a charge from Ty Majeski to earn his 65th career NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series win, and his first of the season. It was Busch's 21st consecutive season with a NASCAR national series (Cup, Xfinity, or Truck) Series win. Busch stayed consistent, running in the top ten throughout the entire race and winning the second stage. Tyler Ankrum started second and led a race-high 46 laps. To fill out the podium, Majeski, driving for ThorSport Racing, and Corey Heim, driving for Tricon Garage, would finish 2nd and 3rd, respectively.

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Background

Atlanta Motor Speedway is a 1.54-mile race track in Hampton, Georgia, United States, 20 miles (32km) south of Atlanta. It has annually hosted NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series stock car races since 2004.

The venue was bought by Speedway Motorsports in 1990. In 1994, 46 condominiums were built over the northeastern side of the track. In 1997, to standardize the track with Speedway Motorsports' other two intermediate 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, with a new official length of 1.54-mile (2.48km) where before it was 1.522-mile (2.449km). The project made the track one of the fastest on the NASCAR circuit. In July 2021 NASCAR announced that the track would be reprofiled for the 2022 season to have 28 degrees of banking and would be narrowed from 55 to 40 feet which the track claims will turn racing at the track similar to restrictor plate superspeedways. Despite the reprofiling being criticized by drivers, construction began in August 2021 and wrapped up in December 2021. The track has seating capacity of 71,000 to 125,000 people depending on the tracks configuration.

Entry list

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

Qualifying

Qualifying was held on Friday, February 23, at 3:05 PM EST.

No free practice session is used in Atlanta because of superspeedway rules. The rules for such circuits involve single-truck qualifying. Each driver has one warmup lap, then participates in one timed lap, and takes the chequered flag. The fastest ten drivers from the first round move on to the second round. Whoever sets the fastest time in Round 2 will win the pole.

Daniel Dye, driving for McAnally-Hilgemann Racing, would advance from the preliminary round and set the fastest time in Round 2, with a lap of 31.817, and a speed of 174.246mph (280.422km/h).

No drivers would fail to qualify.

Qualifying results

Race results

Stage 1 Laps: 30

Stage 2 Laps: 30

Stage 3 Laps: 75

Standings after the race