Fire on Fridays: 9 Other NASCAR Tracks That Need Repave or Reconfiguration July 9, 2021 Speedway Motorsports Inc. got many in the NASCAR world riled up this week when it announced July 6 its plans to repave and reconfigure Atlanta Motor Speedway. Essentially, the longtime stay on the NASCAR Cup Series schedule is getting more banking while its width is getting narrower in an attempt to get tighter racing at the intermediate track. Drama arose when Denny Hamlin and Kyle Larson revealed that they weren’t consulted on the changes and stated that no drivers were. Then SMI did some flip-flopping on whether or not it had consulted drivers or not.