#18-Kyle Busch won the Heads Up Georgia 250 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. It is his 77th XFINITY Series win and 1st of the year. He started from the pole and lead 119 of the 163 laps. #42-Kyle Larson finished second, followed by #20-Erik Jones, #2-Paul Menard, #3-Ty Dillon, #22-Brad Keselowski, #19-Daniel Suarez, #7-Justin Allgaier, #1-Elliott Sadler, and #43-Jeb Burton.There were 5 cautions for 21 laps and 5 lead changes among 4 leaders.
The average speed was 137.065mph.
No race team went home and everyone made the green flag.
Local Connecticut Modified Driver, #01 Ryan Preece in his Kubota Chevrolet completed 159 of the 163 lap race in his second Xfinity race started 22nd and finished 21st.
After two races sits at 21st with 20 points which is 50 behind the division leader Jr. Motorsports driver Elliot Sadler.
Next Race Las Vegas Saturday March 5, 2016
Atlanta XFINITY Race Fast Facts: Kyle Busch won the 25th Annual Heads Up Georgia 250, his series-leading 77th victory in 312 NASCAR XFINITY Series races.
This is his first victory and ninth top-10 finish in 12 races at Atlanta Motor Speedway. His previous best finish at Atlanta was second, five times.
Kyle Larson (second) posted his fourth top-10 finish in four races at Atlanta Motor Speedway. It is his first top-10 finish in 2016.
Erik Jones (third) posted his first top-10 finish in two races at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Elliott Sadler leads the point standings by 3 points over Daniel Suarez.
(NASCAR Integrated Marketing)(2-27-2016)
XFINITY Driver standings following Atlanta:
1) #1-Elliott Sadler, 70
2) #19-Daniel Suarez, 67, -3
3) #3-Ty Dillon, 65, -5
4) #33-Brandan Jones, 64, -6
5) #7-Justin Allgaier, 63, -7
6) #62-Brendan Gaughan, 60, -10
7) #6-Darrell Wallace, Jr., 58, -12
8) #11-Blake Koch, 53, -17
9) #16-Ryan Reed, 51, -19
10) #51-Jeremy Clements, 50, -20
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