NASCAR Xfinity Series at Atlanta

NASCAR Xfinity Series at Atlanta

NASCAR Xfinity Series
Venue	Atlanta Motor Speedway
Location	Hampton, Georgia, United States
Circuit information
Surface	Asphalt
Length	1.54 mi (2.48 km)
Turns	4

Stock car racing events in the NASCAR Xfinity Series have been held at Atlanta Motor Speedway, in Hampton, Georgia during numerous seasons and times of year since 1992.

Spring race

This article is about the race formerly called the Aaron's 312 held at Atlanta. For the race called the Aaron's 312 held at Talladega, see NASCAR Xfinity Series at Talladega § Spring race.

Bennett Transportation & Logistics 250

First race	1992
Distance	251.02 miles (403.98 km)
Laps	163 Stages 1/2: 40 each Final stage: 83
Previous names	Atlanta 300 (1992) Slick 50 300 (1993) Busch Light 300 (1994–1996) Stihl Outdoor Power Tools 300 (1997) Stihl 300 (1998) Yellow Freight 300 (1999) Aaron's 312 (2000–2005) Nicorette 300 (2006–2008) Degree Men V12 300 (2009) Great Clips 300 (2010–2011) NRA American Warrior 300 (2012) Great Clips / Grit Chips 300 (2013) Great Clips 300 benefiting Feed the Children (2014) Hisense 250 (2015) Heads Up Georgia 250 (2016) Rinnai 250 (2017–2019) EchoPark 250 (2020–2021) Nalley Cars 250 (2022) Raptor King of Tough 250 (2023–2024)
Most wins (driver)	Kevin Harvick (5)
Most wins (team)	Roush Fenway Racing (7)
Most wins (manufacturer)	Chevrolet (20)
Circuit information
Surface	Asphalt
Length	1.54 mi (2.48 km)
Turns	4

The Bennett Transportation & Logistics 250 is a NASCAR Xfinity Series stock car race held at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Georgia. Austin Hill is the defending race winner.

History

Jeff Gordon, Mike Skinner, Jamie McMurray, and Carl Edwards have gotten their first series wins in this race.

Following the transfer of the season ending Cup series race from Atlanta to Homestead–Miami Speedway after the 2001 season (although due to the September 11 attacks, 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 GlaxoSmithKline through its Nicorette brand ^{[1] [2]} and moved back to its traditional spring date.

In September 2008, NASCAR officials announced that Nicorette would not renew its corporate sponsorship for race after the 2008 season. On October 26, 2008 it was announced that Unilever's deodorant brand Degree will take over sponsorship of this race starting in 2009. It was later announced that the now-Degree V12 300 would be moving to September as part of the latest round of NASCAR realignment, which resulted in the Pep Boys Auto 500, the AMP Energy 500 at Talladega, and the Pepsi 500 at Fontana /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 AdvoCare 500.

In 2015, the Xfinity race at Atlanta moved along with the Cup race (Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500) to the second weekend of the season and ran as a doubleheader on Saturday afternoon along with the Truck Series. The race was also reduced to 250 miles in order to make the race a doubleheader on the same day. ^[3]

EchoPark Automotive was the title sponsor of the race in 2020 and 2021.

RAPTOR Coatings was the title sponsor of the race in 2023 and 2024.

The 2022 Nalley Cars 250

EchoPark Automotive became the title sponsor of the race in 2020, ^[4] 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 COVID-19 pandemic. ^[5] 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. ^[6] In 2023, Raptor Coatings replaced Nalley as the title sponsor and the new name of the race was the Raptor King of Tough 250. ^[7] In 2025, Bennett Transportation & Logistics, the primary sponsor of defending Atlanta Xfinity Series race winner Austin Hill, would become the title sponsor of this race, replacing Raptor. ^[8]

Past winners

Year	Date	No.	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Race Distance		Race Time	Average Speed (mph)	Ref
						Laps	Miles (km)
1992	March 14	1	Jeff Gordon	Bill Davis Racing	Ford	197	299.834 (482.536)	2:24:36	124.412	[9]
1993	November 13*	2	Ward Burton	A.G. Dillard Motorsports	Chevrolet	197	299.834 (482.536)	2:44:05	109.64	[10]
1994	March 12	7	Harry Gant	Whitaker Racing	Chevrolet	197	299.834 (482.536)	2:20:56	127.649	[11]
1995	March 11	74	Johnny Benson Jr.	BACE Motorsports	Chevrolet	197	299.834 (482.536)	2:03:45	145.767	[12]
1996	March 9	5	Terry Labonte	Labonte Motorsports	Chevrolet	197	299.834 (482.536)	2:08:15	139.656	[13]
1997*	March 8	60	Mark Martin	Roush Racing	Ford	197	299.834 (482.536)	1:58:55	151.751	[14]
1998*	November 7	60	Mark Martin	Roush Racing	Ford	195	300.3 (483.286)	2:10:23	138.193	[15]
1999	March 13	19	Mike Skinner	Emerald Performance Group	Chevrolet	195	300.3 (483.286)	2:33:46	117.178#	[16]
2000	March 11*	60	Mark Martin	Roush Racing	Ford	203	312.62 (503.113)	2:27:47	126.924	[17]
2001	March 10	87	Joe Nemechek	NEMCO Motorsports	Chevrolet	203	312.62 (503.113)	2:10:18	143.954	[18]
2002	October 26	27	Jamie McMurray	Brewco Motorsports	Chevrolet	203	312.62 (503.113)	2:15:09	138.788	[19]
2003	October 25	7	Greg Biffle	Evans Motorsports	Chevrolet	203	312.62 (503.113)	2:08:17	146.217	[20]
2004	October 30	17	Matt Kenseth	Reiser Enterprises	Ford	208*	320.32 (515.505)	2:24:08	133.343	[21]
2005	March 19	60	Carl Edwards	Roush Racing	Ford	203	312.62 (503.113)	2:23:34	130.651	[22]
2006	March 18	21	Jeff Burton	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	195	300.3 (483.286)	2:20:47	127.984	[23]
2007	March 17	29	Jeff Burton	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	195	300.3 (483.286)	2:21:39	127.201	[24]
2008	March 8	17	Matt Kenseth	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	198*	304.92 (490.721)	2:19:21	131.29	[25]
2009	September 5	33	Kevin Harvick	Kevin Harvick Inc.	Chevrolet	195	300.3 (483.286)	2:04:04	145.228	[26]
2010	September 4	88	Jamie McMurray	JR Motorsports	Chevrolet	195	300.3 (483.286)	2:04:44	144.452	[27]
2011	September 3	60	Carl Edwards	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	195	300.3 (483.286)	2:15:40	132.811	[28]
2012	September 1	6	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	195	300.3 (483.286)	2:32:51	117.88	[29]
2013	August 31	33	Kevin Harvick	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	195	300.3 (483.286)	2:08:01	140.747	[30]
2014	August 30	5	Kevin Harvick	JR Motorsports	Chevrolet	195	300.3 (483.286)	2:08:37	140.091	[31]
2015	February 28	88	Kevin Harvick	JR Motorsports	Chevrolet	163	251.02 (403.977)	1:40:32	149.813	[32]
2016	February 27	18	Kyle Busch	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	163	251.02 (403.977)	1:49:53	137.065	[33]
2017	March 4	18	Kyle Busch	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	163	251.02 (403.977)	1:57:16	128.435	[34]
2018	February 24	98	Kevin Harvick	Stewart–Haas Racing with Biagi-DenBeste	Ford	163	251.02 (403.977)	1:56:09	129.67	[35]
2019	February 23	20	Christopher Bell	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota*	163	251.02 (403.977)	1:48:00	139.456	[36]
2020	June 6*	16	A. J. Allmendinger	Kaulig Racing	Chevrolet	163	251.02 (403.977)	2:02:37	122.832	[37]
2021	March 20	7	Justin Allgaier	JR Motorsports	Chevrolet	163	251.02 (403.977)	2:10:50	115.117	[38]
2022	March 19	54	Ty Gibbs	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	172*	264.88 (426.282)	2:36:39	101.454	[39]
2023	March 18	21	Austin Hill	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	163	251.02 (403.977)	2:44:49	91.382	[40]
2024	February 24	21	Austin Hill	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	169*	260.26 (418)	1:55:16	135.474	[41]
2025	February 22	21	Austin Hill	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	163	251.02 (403.977)	2:21:18	106.59	[42]

Multiple winners (drivers)

# Wins	Driver	Years Won
5	Kevin Harvick	2009, 2013-2015, 2018
3	Mark Martin	1997, 1998, 2000
	Austin Hill	2023-2025
2	Jamie McMurray	2002, 2010
	Matt Kenseth	2004, 2008
	Carl Edwards	2005, 2011
	Jeff Burton	2006, 2007
	Kyle Busch	2016, 2017

Multiple winners (teams)

# Wins	Team	Years Won
7	Roush Fenway Racing	1997, 1998, 2000, 2005, 2008, 2011, 2012
6	Richard Childress Racing	2006, 2007, 2013, 2023-2025
4	JR Motorsports	2010, 2014, 2015, 2021
	Joe Gibbs Racing	2016, 2017, 2019, 2022

Manufacturer wins

# Wins	Make	Years Won
20	Chevrolet	1993-1996, 1999, 2001-2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2013-2015, 2020, 2021, 2023-2025
10	Ford	1992, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2018
4	Toyota	2016, 2017, 2019, 2022

Summer race

For the race at Circuit of the Americas with the same name see NASCAR Xfinity Series at Circuit of the Americas

Focused Health 250

Corporate sponsor	Focused Health
First race	2021
Distance	251.02 miles (403.98 km)
Laps	163 [43] Stages 1/2: 45 each Final stage: 73
Previous names	Credit Karma Money 250 (2021) Alsco Uniforms 250 (2022-2023)
Most wins (driver)	Austin Hill (2)
Most wins (team)	Joe Gibbs Racing Richard Childress Racing (2)
Most wins (manufacturer)	Chevrolet (3)
Circuit information
Surface	Asphalt
Length	1.54 mi (2.48 km)
Turns	4

The Focused Health 250 is a NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Georgia. Nick Sanchez is the defending race winner.

History

Credit Karma was the title sponsor of the race in its first year in 2021

The track had previously always held one Busch/Nationwide/Xfinity Series race, but in 2021, when the NASCAR Cup Series 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. ^[44] Credit Karma held the naming rights to the race that year. ^[45] In 2022, Alsco replaced Credit Karma as the title sponsor. ^[46] When the start times for all of NASCAR's events were announced, the 2023 event would become a Saturday night event to coincide with the track's second Cup race returning to a nighttime event. ^[47] In 2024, with collaboration with Speedway Motorsports, Focused Health took over as the title sponsor in Atlanta and COTA. ^[48]

Past winners

Year	Date	No.	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Race distance		Race time	Average speed (mph)	Ref
						Laps	Miles (km)
2021	July 10	54	Kyle Busch*	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	164*	252.56 (406.72)	2:18:59	109.032	[49]
2022	July 9	21	Austin Hill	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	163	251.02 (404.24)	1:57:36	128.071	[50]
2023	July 8	20	John Hunter Nemechek	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	169*	260.26 (419.119)	2:24:33	108.029	[51]
2024	September 7	21	Austin Hill	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	163	251.02 (404.24)	2:07:05	118.514	[52]
2025	June 27–28*	48	Nick Sanchez	Big Machine Racing	Chevrolet	163	251.02 (404.24)	2:36:14	96.402	[53]

• 2021 & 2023: Races extended due to an overtime.
• 2025: After a long red flag delay for lightning strikes, the first two stages of the race were held on Friday, with the final stage ending on Saturday.

Multiple winners (drivers)

# Wins	Driver	Years Won
2	Austin Hill	2022, 2024

Multiple winners (teams)

# Wins	Team	Years Won
2	Joe Gibbs Racing	2021, 2023
	Richard Childress Racing	2022, 2024

Manufacturer wins

# Wins	Make	Years Won
3	Chevrolet	2022, 2024, 2025
2	Toyota	2021, 2023

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External links

• Atlanta Motor Speedway race results at Racing-Reference

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