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Charlotte Motor Speedway (known as Lowe's Motor Speedway from 1999 to 2009 due to sponsorship reasons) is a 1.500-mile (2.414 km) quad-oval intermediate speedway in Concord, North Carolina. It has hosted various major races since its inaugural season of racing in 1960, including NASCAR , IndyCar , and IMSA SportsCar Championship races.
In September 2015 the Charlotte County Airport Authority evicted the Haase family as the track promoters, citing "empty promises" and considerable unpaid debt, leaving the track idle. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] On Thursday, August 18, 2016, new owners Joe and Janet Gentry took over the speedway and began cleaning up weeds around the track after weeks of ...
The company was founded by Bruton Smith and has its headquarters at Charlotte Motor Speedway, in Concord, North Carolina, just north of Charlotte. Speedway Motorsports owns nine racing facilities with a combined seating capacity of approximately 885,000.
The Coca-Cola 600 is one of NASCAR’s longest races. The Sunday race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord is sold out and expected to draw presidential candidate and former president Donald Trump.
Christopher Bell (20) drives alongside Noah Gragson (10) in the first half during the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord on Sunday, May 26, 2024.
The Coca-Cola 600 is the first of two races at the 1.5-mile quad-oval race track in Concord, ahead of the fall playoff race — where Charlotte Motor Speedway lays out a road course known as the ...
The 2018 Bank of America Roval 400, the first race held on the road course configuration The configuration of the Roval, from 2018 to 2023.. The fall Charlotte race was originally held on the main oval layout until 2017, in which it was a Saturday night race from 2003 to 2016 following a rating boost from the 2002 race being delayed to later in the night (coincided with television primetime ...
Charlotte Speedway was the site of NASCAR's first Strictly Stock Series (now NASCAR Cup Series) race on June 19, 1949. The Daytona Beach Road Course held the first race sanctioned by NASCAR in 1948. The track was a few miles west of the NASCAR Hall of Fame, on Little Rock Road. It was owned by Carl C. Allison Sr. and his wife, Catherine ...