The 2024 Ambetter Health 400 was a NASCAR Cup Series race held on February 25, 2024, at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Georgia.
Contested over 260 laps on the 1.54-mile-long (2.48 km) asphalt quad-oval intermediate speedway (with superspeedway rules), it was the second race of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series season.
Daniel Suárez, driving the #99 for Trackhouse Racing, won in a three-wide photo finish with Ryan Blaney and Kyle Busch, marking the 4th closest finish in NCS history.
It has annually hosted NASCAR Cup Series stock car races since its inauguration in 1960.
Despite the reprofiling being criticized by drivers, construction began in August 2021 and wrapped up in December 2021.
This Cup race will be first time without A. J. Allmendinger since Talladega Superspeedway in fall of 2022.
Michael McDowell scored the pole for the race with a time of 30.999 and a speed of 178.844 mph (287.822 km/h).
Behind Dillon, Bubba Wallace got turned by Ryan Preece which blocked the track causing the big crash.
The cars involved were Austin Dillon, Chase Elliott, Noah Gragson, Josh Williams, Martin Truex Jr., Christopher Bell, Harrison Burton, Bubba Wallace, Daniel Hemric, Ryan Preece, John Hunter Nemechek, Erik Jones, Tyler Reddick, Alex Bowman, Justin Haley, Ty Gibbs, Carson Hocevar, B. J. McLeod, and Daniel Suárez.
On the same lap, the second caution flew when Chris Buescher spun in turn 4.
On lap 53, the third caution flew when Denny Hamlin spun down the frontstretch after he got turned by Kyle Busch.
Joey Logano went to pit on lap 128 giving the lead to Kyle Larson.
On the last lap of stage 2, Joey Logano fell back to 4th and tried to go up in front of Chris Buescher but misjudged and turned across Buescher's nose off of turn 2 and Logano, Buescher, and Denny Hamlin crashed in turn 2 bringing out the 5th caution and ending stage 2 under caution which Austin Cindric would win.
Todd Gilliland won the race off of pit road and he led the field to the restart on lap 171.
Blaney held on to it even making some good blocks on the pack that tried to get past him.
On the last lap down the backstretch, Kyle Busch got to the outside of Blaney with Suárez to the outside and it was a three-wide battle for the lead.
Austin Cindric and Bubba Wallace rounded out the top 5 while Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ross Chastain, Michael McDowell, Chris Buescher, and Ty Gibbs rounded out the top 10.
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 from the Fox Sports studio in Charlotte.
On pit road, PRN was manned by Brad Gillie, Brett McMillan, Alan Cavanna and Wendy Venturini.