NASCAR Cup Series

With several of the sport’s biggest names starting from the back of the field, from missing qualifying sessions to missing driver introductions, here is what else was surprising and not surprising from the 56th annual Folds of Honor Quicktrip 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

Richard Childress Racing teammates Ryan Newman, Paul Menard and Austin Dillon finished 10th, 13th and 39th, respectively. Paul Menard ranks 17th in the Sprint Cup Series championship point standings, trailing current leader Joey Logano by 38 points, while Ryan Newman ranks 21st and Austin Dillon ranks 25th.

Trevor Bayne, driver of the No. 6 AdvoCare Ford Fusion, battled both Mother Nature and the ever changing track conditions to earn a hard fought 19th-place finish Sunday afternoon at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

Martin Truex Jr. notched his second consecutive top-10 finish, placing sixth in Sunday's Sprint Cup Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway. The result followed an eighth-place finish in last week's season-opening Daytona 500.

Johnson didn't take the lead in the second NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race of the season until Lap 198 of 325, but from then on, his No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet was the class of the field, leading six times for 92 laps in winning for the fourth time at Atlanta and for the 71st time in his career.

"We had a great race car,” said Johnson, who scored his 71st career Sprint Cup series victory. “Unfortunately the way qualifying went Friday, we didn't have a good pit stall pick and it took us a long time to get in front of the No. 19 (Carl Edwards).

Kevin Harvick blew an engine in practice and went to the back of the field for the start of Sunday's Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

Matt Kenseth (fifth) was the highest-finishing Toyota in Sunday's rain delayed NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race at the 1.54-mile Atlanta Motor Speedway.

JIMMIE JOHNSON, NO. 48 LOWE’S CHEVROLET SS – Winner - WHAT DOES THIS SAY ABOUT YOUR TEAM? “It says a lot of good things. I’m just so excited that the guys could understand."

JOEY LOGANO – No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Ford Fusion – “We had a decent Shell/Pennzoil Ford and my guys on pit road were amazing. Every time I came on pit road they had some fast stops. I’m glad to see they brought their A-game. We raced hard and raced up toward the front all day.