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NASCAR Atlanta 2015: Start time, TV schedule for QuikTrip Folds of Honor 500

Mar 1, 2015, 1:01 PM UTC

Marvin Gentry-USA TODAY Sports

The NASCAR scene moves to Atlanta Motor Speedway for the second race of the season on Sunday, with the QuikTrip Folds of Honor 500. Joey Logano has the pole in Atlanta one week after winning his first Daytona 500 last weekend.

FOX will televise the QuikTrip Folds of Honor 500, starting with the FOX NASCAR Sunday pregame show, at 12:30 p.m. ET, anchored by Chris Myers along with analysts Darrell Waltrip and Michael Waltrip.

Race coverage begins at 1 p.m., with Mike Joy on play-by-play, along with analysts Darrell Waltrip and Larry McReynolds, and pit reporters Jamie Little, Chris Neville and Matt Yocum. The green flag is expected to drop at approximately 1:16 p.m.

The race will be available online using the FOX Sports GO app, and available on radio through the Performance Racing Network as well as Sirius XM channel 90.

The race won’t include Kyle Busch, injured last Saturday at Daytona after a head-on collision with a concrete wall with no safety barrier. Atlanta Motor Speedway will have tire barriers in place this weekend, plus an expansion of SAFER barriers going forward, a good call according to McReynolds.

"Atlanta installing tire barriers for this weekend is as good as they can do right now. I was very vocal about this in our NASCAR XFINITY pre-race show on FOX Sports 1 on Saturday, but I meant every word," McReynolds said this week. "We have been on this safety crusade for 15 years, and after 15 years, and I don’t want to hear any more about the cost of SAFER barriers, the studies regarding where cars are most likely to hit or the argument that venues must accommodate other series, hindering them from putting SAFER barriers all the way around. Those excuses are now inexcusable.

"In the short term, hopefully we won’t see a single wall without a tire barrier, and in the long term, hopefully we won’t see a wall without a SAFER barrier at any track. We got another wakeup call with Kyle Busch on Saturday, and shame on us if we don’t react 100 percent across the board at every single race track. If we can help keep drivers safe, shame on us if we don’t."