2023 Coca-Cola 600

Race details[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
Race 14 of 36 in the2023 NASCAR Cup Series
Date	May 29, 2023 (2023-05-29)
Location	Charlotte Motor Speedway inConcord, North Carolina, U.S.
Course	Permanent racing facility
Course length	1.5 miles (2.4 km)
Distance	400 laps, 600 mi (965.6 km)
Average speed	120.465 miles per hour (193.870 km/h)
Pole position
Driver	William Byron	Hendrick Motorsports
Time	2.550 (Pandemic Formula)
Most laps led
Driver	Ryan Blaney	Team Penske
Laps	163
Winner
No. 12	Ryan Blaney	Team Penske
Television in the United States
Network	Fox
Announcers	Mike Joy,Clint Bowyer,Tony Stewart, andDanny McBride (Stage 2)
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)

The2023 Coca-Cola 600 was aNASCAR Cup Series race held on May 29, 2023, atCharlotte Motor Speedway inConcord, North Carolina and the 64th running of theevent. Contested over 400 laps on the 1.5-mile (2.4 km) asphalt speedway, it was the 14th race of the2023 NASCAR Cup Series season, as well as the third of the fourcrown jewel races. The race was postponed from Sunday, May 28 to Monday, May 29, due to rain.

The race was held atCharlotte Motor Speedway, located inConcord, 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 adragstrip and adirt track. The speedway was built in 1959 byBruton Smith and is considered the home track for NASCAR with many race teams based in theCharlotte metropolitan area. The track is owned and operated bySpeedway Motorsports Inc. (SMI) withMarcus G. Smith serving as track president.

Similar to theDaytona 500, which was a four-stage race (with the first stage being the qualifying heat race), the Coca-Cola 600 is a four-stage race, with this the only race where all four stages are in the main race itself. All four stages are scheduled to consist of 100 laps. The race is official after the second stage.

• (R) denotes rookie driver.
• (i) denotes the driver ineligible for series driver points.

Practice was cancelled due to inclement weather.

Qualifying was cancelled due to inclement weather.William Byron was awarded the pole for the race as a result of NASCAR's pandemic formula with a score of 2.550.^[9]

Ryan Blaney won the race driving aFord forTeam Penske. It was Blaney's first Cup Series race win since the2022 NASCAR All-Star Race, and his first points-paying win since the2021 Coke Zero Sugar 400.^[10][11]Chase Elliott was suspended from thefollowing race after he intentionally right-hookedDenny Hamlin's car in the dog-leg of the frontstretch, causing a crash.^[12][13] On Wednesday May 31, NASCAR levied an L3 penalty to the No. 14Stewart-Haas Racing team ofChase Briscoe for counterfeiting a single-source part. The penalty is the largest single team penalty to occur in the Next Gen era, with Briscoe's team being docked 120 driver and owner points and 25 playoff points. In addition, Briscoe's crew chief,Johnny Klausmeier, was given a six race suspension and the team was fined $250,000.^[14]

Stage OneLaps: 100

Stage TwoLaps: 100

Stage ThreeLaps: 100

Stage FourLaps: 100

• Lead changes: 31 among 13 different drivers
• Cautions/Laps: 16 for 83 laps
• Red flags: 1 for 30 minutes and 48 seconds
• Time of race: 4 hours, 58 minutes, and 50 seconds
• Average speed: 120.465 miles per hour (193.870 km/h)

Fox Sports televised the race in the United States for the 23rd consecutive year.Mike Joy was the lap-by-lap announcer, while 2012 Fall Charlotte winnerClint Bowyer, three-time NASCAR Cup Series champion and co-owner ofStewart-Haas RacingTony Stewart, and actorDanny McBride in Stage 2 were the color commentators.Jamie Little,Regan Smith and Josh Sims reported from pit lane during the race.Larry McReynolds provided insight from the Fox Sports studio in Charlotte.

Radio coverage of the race was broadcast by thePerformance Racing Network (PRN), and was also simulcasted onSirius XMNASCAR Radio. Doug Rice and Mark Garrow called the race in the booth when the field raced through the quad-oval. Rob Albright called 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 called 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 were the pit reporters during the broadcast.

Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 Ross Chastain 446 5 2 Ryan Blaney 445 (–1) 2 3 William Byron 442 (–4) 1 4 Kevin Harvick 438 (–8) 1 5 Martin Truex Jr. 433 (–13) 4 6 Christopher Bell 429 (–17) 1 7 Tyler Reddick 409 (–37) 4 8 Denny Hamlin 400 (–46) 9 Brad Keselowski 394 (–52) 1 10 Kyle Busch 392 (–54) 1 11 Kyle Larson 377 (–69) 1 12 Chris Buescher 368 (–78) 1 13 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 358 (–88) 2 14 Joey Logano 357 (–89) 15 Bubba Wallace 327 (–119) 1 16 Alex Bowman 296 (–150) Official driver's standings

Manufacturers' Championship standings Pos Manufacturer Points 1 Chevrolet 527 2 Toyota 488 (–39) 3 Ford 478 (–49) Note: Only the first 16 positions are included for the driver standings. . – Driver has clinched a position in theNASCAR Cup Series playoffs.

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