2025 Ambetter Health 400

The 2025 Ambetter Health 400 was a NASCAR Cup Series race that was held on February 23, 2025, at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Georgia. Contested over 266 laps on the 1.54-mile-long (2.48 km) asphalt quad-oval intermediate speedway (with superspeedway rules), extended from the original 260 laps due to a overtime finish, it was the second race of the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season.

Christopher Bell won the race. Carson Hocevar finished 2nd, and Kyle Larson finished 3rd. Ryan Blaney and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. rounded out the top five, and Denny Hamlin, Kyle Busch, Ross Chastain, Bubba Wallace, and John Hunter Nemechek rounded out the top ten.

Report

Background

Atlanta Motor Speedway (formerly Atlanta International Raceway) is a 1.54-mile race track in Hampton, Georgia, United States, 20 miles (32 km) south of Atlanta. It has annually hosted NASCAR Cup Series stock car races since its inauguration in 1960.

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 (2.48 km) where before it was 1.522-mile (2.449 km). 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

Ryan Blaney scored the pole for the race with a time of 30.908 and a speed of 179.371 mph (288.670 km/h).

Qualifying results

Race

Race results

Stage Results

Stage One Laps: 60

Stage Two Laps: 100

Final Stage Results

Stage Three Laps: 100

Race statistics

• Lead changes: 50 among 15 different drivers
• Cautions/Laps: 11 for 61
• Red flags: 0
• Time of race: 3 hours, 27 minutes and 37 seconds
• Average speed: 118.384 miles per hour (190.521 km/h)

Media

Television

Fox Sports carried the race by Fox in the United States. Mike Joy, Clint Bowyer, and three-time Atlanta winner Kevin Harvick called the race from the broadcast booth. Jamie Little and Regan Smith handled pit road for the television side, and Larry McReynolds provided insight on-site during the race.

Radio

The race was broadcast on radio by the Performance Racing Network and simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Brad Gillie and Mark Garrow called the race from the booth when the field races down the front stretch. Doug Turnbull called the race from atop a billboard outside of turn 2 when the field races through turns 1 and 2, and Rob Albright called the race from a billboard outside of turn 3 when the field races through turns 3 and 4. On pit road, PRN was manned by Brett McMillan, Alan Cavanna and Wendy Venturini.

Standings after the race

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