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All right, everybody, welcome back to another edition of The Teardown.

My name is Jeff Gluck, and I'm on with my co-worker Jordan Bianchi.

We are motorsports writer to the athletic, and one of us is incredibly, incredibly jealous of the other person tonight, that is me because forever and for eternity

Jordan gets to say he was one at one of the great NASCAR classic finishes of all time

maybe classic NASCAR races ever what a night what an unexpected results this weekend weekend at atlanta um man jordan how are you feeling

right now dude what it was it feel like to be there did alana just become one of nascar's

favorite best tracks it certainly feels that way and i'm going to write about this the athletic but

i think i can pinpoint the moment

where everybody's opinion about Atlanta, which going into this weekend, I think everybody kind of

agreed it was like, eh, it's better than what it was, but it's still not, you know, great. Drivers

really weren't in favor of it. Media was, eh, you know, I think it was when Austin Cindrick went four wide into turn one.

He did that crazy move down the front stretch, pulls out, goes to the inside, and you're like,

oh my God, is this happening?

And like, they're just going to all wad up.

It's going to be the biggest crash in NASCAR history in turn one.

He makes it, and everybody was like, wow.

And I think it was that precise moment when Atlanta Motor Speedway became one of NASCAR's favorite tracks

and the playoff race that is going to kick off the playoffs, that everybody is kind of dreading collectively in the garage.

They still may be dreading it to some degree fans though are like hell yeah i can't wait for that i just think it's so amazing

how attracts perception can change so quickly and and we're not talking about oh since they did

the reconfiguration we're talking about like

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