2024 Coca-Cola 600

2024 Coca-Cola 600
Race details
Race 14 of 36 in the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series
Date	May 26, 2024
Location	Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina , U.S.
Course	Permanent racing facility ; 1.5 mi (2.4 km)
Distance	400 laps, 600 mi (965.6 km)
Pole position
Driver	Ty Gibbs ;
Time	29.355
Television in the United States
Network	Fox
Announcers	Mike Joy , Clint Bowyer , and Kevin Harvick
Radio in the United States
Radio	PRN
Booth Announcers	Doug Rice and Mark Garrow
Turn Announcers	Rob Albright (1 & 2) and Pat Patterson (3 & 4)

The 2024 Coca-Cola 600 is an upcoming NASCAR Cup Series race held on May 26, 2024, at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina and the 65th running of the event . Contested over 400 laps on the 1.5-mile (2.4 km) asphalt speedway, it will be the 14th race of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series season, as well as the second of the four crown jewel races .

Report [ edit ]

Background [ edit ]

Charlotte Motor Speedway , the track where the race will be held.

The race will be held at Charlotte Motor Speedway , located in Concord, North Carolina . The speedway complex includes a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) quad-oval track that was utilized for the race, as well as a dragstrip and a dirt track . The speedway was built in 1959 by Bruton Smith and is considered the home track for NASCAR with many race teams based in the Charlotte metropolitan area . The track is owned and operated by Speedway Motorsports Inc. (SMI) with Marcus G. Smith serving as track president.

Entry list [ edit ]

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

No.	Driver	Team	Manufacturer
1	Ross Chastain	Trackhouse Racing	Chevrolet
2	Austin Cindric	Team Penske	Ford
3	Austin Dillon	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet
4	Josh Berry (R)	Stewart-Haas Racing	Ford
5	Justin Allgaier (i) ^[a]	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet
6	Brad Keselowski	RFK Racing	Ford
7	Corey LaJoie	Spire Motorsports	Chevrolet
8	Kyle Busch	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet
9	Chase Elliott	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet
10	Noah Gragson	Stewart-Haas Racing	Ford
11	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota
12	Ryan Blaney	Team Penske	Ford
14	Chase Briscoe	Stewart-Haas Racing	Ford
15	Kaz Grala (R)	Rick Ware Racing	Ford
16	Shane van Gisbergen (i)	Kaulig Racing	Chevrolet
17	Chris Buescher	RFK Racing	Ford
19	Martin Truex Jr.	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota
20	Christopher Bell	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota
21	Harrison Burton	Wood Brothers Racing	Ford
22	Joey Logano	Team Penske	Ford
23	Bubba Wallace	23XI Racing	Toyota
24	William Byron	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet
31	Daniel Hemric	Kaulig Racing	Chevrolet
34	Michael McDowell	Front Row Motorsports	Ford
38	Todd Gilliland	Front Row Motorsports	Ford
41	Ryan Preece	Stewart-Haas Racing	Ford
42	John Hunter Nemechek	Legacy Motor Club	Toyota
43	Erik Jones	Legacy Motor Club	Toyota
44	J. J. Yeley (i)	NY Racing Team	Chevrolet
45	Tyler Reddick	23XI Racing	Toyota
47	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	JTG Daugherty Racing	Chevrolet
48	Alex Bowman	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet
50	Ty Dillon (i)	Team AmeriVet	Chevrolet
51	Justin Haley	Rick Ware Racing	Ford
54	Ty Gibbs	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota
66	B. J. McLeod (i)	MBM Motorsports	Ford
71	Zane Smith (R)	Spire Motorsports	Chevrolet
77	Carson Hocevar (R)	Spire Motorsports	Chevrolet
84	Jimmie Johnson	Legacy Motor Club	Toyota
99	Daniel Suarez	Trackhouse Racing	Chevrolet
Official entry list

Practice [ edit ]

William Byron was the fastest in the practice session with a time of 29.782 seconds and a speed of 181.318 mph (291.803 km/h). ^[8]

Practice results [ edit ]

Pos	No.	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Time	Speed
1	24	William Byron	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	29.782	181.318
2	45	Tyler Reddick	23XI Racing	Toyota	29.981	180.114
3	23	Bubba Wallace	23XI Racing	Toyota	29.990	180.060
Official practice results

Qualifying [ edit ]

Ty Gibbs scored the pole for the race with a time of 29.355 and a speed of 183.955 mph (296.047 km/h). ^[9]

Qualifying results [ edit ]

Pos	No.	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	R1	R2
1	54	Ty Gibbs	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	29.621	29.355
2	24	William Byron	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	29.813	29.415
3	20	Christopher Bell	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	29.714	29.434
4	19	Martin Truex Jr.	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	29.524	29.529
5	9	Chase Elliott	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	29.735	29.556
6	48	Alex Bowman	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	29.529	29.569
7	1	Ross Chastain	Trackhouse Racing	Chevrolet	29.774	29.624
8	45	Tyler Reddick	23XI Racing	Toyota	29.714	29.648
9	34	Michael McDowell	Front Row Motorsports	Ford	29.766	29.689
10	5	Kyle Larson	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	29.711	29.719
11	11	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	29.746	?
12	23	Bubba Wallace	23XI Racing	Toyota	29.861	?
13	4	Josh Berry (R)	Stewart-Haas Racing	Ford	29.749	?
14	99	Daniel Suarez	Trackhouse Racing	Chevrolet	29.872	?
15	8	Kyle Busch	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	29.756	?
16	12	Ryan Blaney	Team Penske	Ford	29.912	?
17	2	Austin Cindric	Team Penske	Ford	29.831	?
18	14	Chase Briscoe	Stewart-Haas Racing	Ford	29.987	?
19	10	Noah Gragson	Stewart-Haas Racing	Ford	29.877	?
20	77	Carson Hocevar (R)	Spire Motorsports	Chevrolet	30.024	?
21	7	Corey LaJoie	Spire Motorsports	Chevrolet	29.885	?
22	51	Justin Haley	Rick Ware Racing	Ford	30.034	?
23	47	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	JTG Daugherty Racing	Chevrolet	29.902	?
24	31	Daniel Hemric	Kaulig Racing	Chevrolet	30.042	?
25	71	Zane Smith (R)	Spire Motorsports	Chevrolet	29.928	?
26	42	John Hunter Nemechek	Legacy Motor Club	Toyota	30.058	?
27	3	Austin Dillon	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	29.960	?
28	22	Joey Logano	Team Penske	Ford	30.101	?
29	84	Jimmie Johnson	Legacy Motor Club	Toyota	30.048	?
30	6	Brad Keselowski	RFK Racing	Ford	30.126	?
31	41	Ryan Preece	Stewart-Haas Racing	Ford	30.127	?
32	21	Harrison Burton	Wood Brothers Racing	Ford	30.175	?
33	15	Kaz Grala (R)	Rick Ware Racing	Ford	30.176	?
34	43	Erik Jones	Legacy Motor Club	Toyota	30.295	?
35	38	Todd Gilliland	Front Row Motorsports	Ford	30.374	?
36	16	Shane van Gisbergen (i)	Kaulig Racing	Chevrolet	30.473	?
37	66	B. J. McLeod (i)	MBM Motorsports	Ford	30.484	?
38	50	Ty Dillon (i)	Team AmeriVet	Chevrolet	30.624	?
39	17	Chris Buescher	RFK Racing	Ford	0.000	?
40	44	J. J. Yeley (i)	NY Racing Team	Chevrolet	0.000	?
Official qualifying results

Race [ edit ]

Race results [ edit ]

Stage results [ edit ]

Stage One Laps: 100

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Points
1	24	William Byron	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	10
2	54	Ty Gibbs	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	9
3	48	Alex Bowman	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	8
4	20	Christopher Bell	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	7
5	19	Martin Truex Jr.	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	6
6	23	Bubba Wallace	23XI Racing	Toyota	5
7	12	Ryan Blaney	Team Penske	Ford	4
8	6	Brad Keselowski	RFK Racing	Ford	3
9	4	Josh Berry (R)	Stewart-Haas Racing	Ford	2
10	34	Michael McDowell	Front Row Motorsports	Ford	1

Stage Two Laps: 100

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Points
1					10
2					9
3					8
4					7
5					6
6					5
7					4
8					3
9					2
10					1

Stage Three Laps: 100

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Points
1					10
2					9
3					8
4					7
5					6
6					5
7					4
8					3
9					2
10					1

Final Stage results [ edit ]

Stage Four Laps: 100

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Media [ edit ]

Television [ edit ]

Fox Sports will televise the race in the United States for the 24th consecutive year. This will be the final Coca-Cola 600 aired on Fox for the foreseeable future, as the 2025 race will be aired on Prime Video . Mike Joy will be the lap-by-lap announcer, while 2012 Fall Charlotte winner Clint Bowyer and two-time Coca-Cola 600 winner, Kevin Harvick will be the color commentators. Jamie Little , Regan Smith and Josh Sims will report from pit lane during the race. Larry McReynolds will provide insight from the Fox Sports studio in Charlotte.

Fox
Booth announcers	Pit reporters	In-race analyst
Lap-by-lap: Mike Joy Color-commentator: Clint Bowyer Color-commentator: Kevin Harvick	Jamie Little Regan Smith Josh Sims	Larry McReynolds

Radio [ edit ]

Radio coverage of the race will be broadcast by the Performance Racing Network (PRN), and will also be simulcasted on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio . Doug Rice and Mark Garrow will call the race in the booth when the field raced through the quad-oval. Rob Albright will call the race from a billboard in turn 2 when the field was racing through turns 1 and 2 and halfway down the backstretch. Pat Patterson will call the race from a billboard outside of turn 3 when the field raced through the other half of the backstretch and through turns 3 and 4. Brad Gillie, Brett McMillan, Wendy Venturini , and Alan Cavanna will be the pit reporters during the broadcast.

PRN Radio
Booth announcers	Turn announcers	Pit reporters
Lead announcer: Doug Rice Announcer: Mark Garrow	Turns 1 & 2: Rob Albright Turns 3 & 4: Pat Patterson	Brad Gillie Brett McMillan Wendy Venturini Alan Cavanna

Notes [ edit ]

^ Justin Allgaier replaced Kyle Larson in the race. Larson was competing in the Indianapolis 600 that same day.

References [ edit ]

^ "2024 schedule" . Jayski.com . Jayski's Silly Season Site . Retrieved April 21, 2024 .
^ "Charlotte Motor Speedway" . NASCAR.com . NASCAR Media Group, LLC. January 3, 2013. Archived from the original on September 29, 2015 . Retrieved April 21, 2024 .
^ Taranto, Steven (October 3, 2023). "NASCAR Cup Series 2024 schedule announcement: New additions, race dates, plus the complete calendar" . CBS Broadcasting Inc . Retrieved April 21, 2024 .
^ "NASCAR reveals 2024 Cup schedule as Atlanta, Watkins Glen move to playoffs" . National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC. October 4, 2023 . Retrieved April 21, 2024 .
^ "Entry List" (PDF) . Jayski.com . Jayski's Silly Season Site . May 20, 2024 . Retrieved May 20, 2024 .
^ "Practice Results" . NASCAR.com . NASCAR . May 25, 2024 . Retrieved May 25, 2024 .
^ "Qualifying Results" . NASCAR.com . NASCAR . May 25, 2024 . Retrieved May 25, 2024 .
^ Utter, Jim (May 25, 2024). "NASCAR Coke 600: Byron spins but leads practice; Reddick penalized" . Motorsport.com . Concord, North Carolina : Motorsport Network . Retrieved May 25, 2024 .
^ Utter, Jim (May 25, 2024). "NASCAR Coke 600: Ty Gibbs beats Byron to first career pole" . Motorsport.com . Concord, North Carolina : Motorsport Network . Retrieved May 25, 2024 .

Previous race: 2024 Goodyear 400	NASCAR Cup Series 2024 season	Next race: 2024 Enjoy Illinois 300

[8] Justin Allgaier replaced Kyle Larson in the race. Larson was competing in the Indianapolis 600 that same day.

[1] "2024 schedule" . Jayski.com . Jayski's Silly Season Site . Retrieved April 21, 2024 .

[2] "Charlotte Motor Speedway" . NASCAR.com . NASCAR Media Group, LLC. January 3, 2013. Archived from the original on September 29, 2015 . Retrieved April 21, 2024 .

[cbs-news20220914-3] Taranto, Steven (October 3, 2023). "NASCAR Cup Series 2024 schedule announcement: New additions, race dates, plus the complete calendar" . CBS Broadcasting Inc . Retrieved April 21, 2024 .

[nascar-news20220924-4] "NASCAR reveals 2024 Cup schedule as Atlanta, Watkins Glen move to playoffs" . National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC. October 4, 2023 . Retrieved April 21, 2024 .

[5] "Entry List" (PDF) . Jayski.com . Jayski's Silly Season Site . May 20, 2024 . Retrieved May 20, 2024 .

[6] "Practice Results" . NASCAR.com . NASCAR . May 25, 2024 . Retrieved May 25, 2024 .

[7] "Qualifying Results" . NASCAR.com . NASCAR . May 25, 2024 . Retrieved May 25, 2024 .

[9] Utter, Jim (May 25, 2024). "NASCAR Coke 600: Byron spins but leads practice; Reddick penalized" . Motorsport.com . Concord, North Carolina : Motorsport Network . Retrieved May 25, 2024 .

[10] Utter, Jim (May 25, 2024). "NASCAR Coke 600: Ty Gibbs beats Byron to first career pole" . Motorsport.com . Concord, North Carolina : Motorsport Network . Retrieved May 25, 2024 .

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