2026 Autotrader 400

The 2026 Autotrader 400 was a NASCAR Cup Series race held on February 22, 2026, at EchoPark Speedway in Hampton, Georgia. Contested over 271 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 2026 NASCAR Cup Series season.

Tyler Reddick won the race. Chase Briscoe finished 2nd, and Ross Chastain finished 3rd. Carson Hocevar and Daniel Suárez rounded out the top five, and Shane van Gisbergen, Zane Smith, Bubba Wallace, Ryan Preece, and Ryan Blaney rounded out the top ten.

EchoPark Speedway (commonly referred to as Atlanta Motor Speedway) is a 1.54-mile race track in Hampton, Georgia, United States, 20 miles (32 km) south of Atlanta. It has annually hosted NASCAR Xfinity Series stock car races since 1992.

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.^[7][8] The track has seating capacity of 71,000 to 125,000 people depending on the tracks configuration.

On June 3, 2025, SMI announced the track's renaming to EchoPark Speedway under a new seven-year sponsorship deal with the Smith family-owned business, EchoPark. The renaming ended a 35-year stint under the Atlanta Motor Speedway name.^[9]

On August 20, 2025, when the schedule was unveiled, Autotrader was announced as the title sponsor for EchoPark's spring race, replacing Ambetter Health.^[10]

• (R) denotes rookie driver.
• (i) denotes driver who is ineligible for series driver points.

Qualifying for the race was canceled due to inclement weather. Tyler Reddick was awarded the pole for the race as a result of NASCAR's pandemic formula with a score of 1.000.^[11]

Stage One Laps: 60

Stage Two Laps: 100

Stage Three Laps: 100

• Lead changes: 57 among 14 different drivers
• Cautions/Laps: 10 for 67 laps
• Red flags: 1 for 10 minutes and 31 seconds
• Time of race: 3 hours, 32 minutes and 27 seconds
• Average speed: 117.865 miles per hour (189.685 km/h)

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

The race was broadcast on radio by the Performance Racing Network and simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Brad Gillie and Nick Yeoman called the race from the booth when the field raced down the front stretch. Doug Turnbull called the race from atop a billboard outside of turn 2 when the field raced through turns 1 and 2, and Jack Johnson called the race from a billboard outside of turn 3 when the field raced through turns 3 and 4. On pit road, PRN was manned by Brett McMillan, Andrew Kurland and Wendy Venturini.