The Atlanta Motor Speedway has given Kasey Kahne three of his 17 career victories, but the start of on Sunday’s Folds of the Honor QuikTrip 500 was anything but auspicious for the driver of the No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet.

Kahne started 29th, and early handling problems caused him to lose a lap to the race leader Kevin Harvick. But astute adjustments to the car by the crew chief Keith Rodden enabled Kahne to regain the lost lap, and a lightning-fast pit stop late in the race put him in a position to claim the fourth-place finish.

Kahne, who posted his best result since the third-place run in the last October at Charlotte said that, “we got behind early and just battled and battled,had to battle (Matt) Kenseth for a long time for the lucky dog, and he got it and he drove to the front. I knew he was really good. We just got a lot better. The adjustments were spot on. If we did not have those, we would have been two or three laps down.”

In the end, the quality work of Kahne’s crew made the crucial difference in race.

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Kahne also said that, the pit stops were really solid, and then our final pit stop was the best stop and we had all day at the perfect time, that put us in row three, and we were able to get to the fourth.

“It was a great race. Our Farmers Insurance Chevrolet really came alive. It was good. It was fun. It was quite the battle. Five hundred miles at Atlanta is a long time to run right on the wall or right on the white line and switch it up.”

Mrudula Duddempudi.