NASCAR Coca-Cola 600 2019: Schedule, lineup, TV and weather at Charlotte Motor Speedway
It’s race day at Charlotte Motor Speedway, and we've got all the information you need to get ready for Sunday night’s Coca-Cola 600, the 13th race in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series:
START TIME: 6 p.m. ET. GREEN FLAG: 6:10 p.m. ET.
General Robert Neller, 37th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, will instruct drivers to start their engines at 6:10 p.m. ET.
TV: Fox. Pre-race broadcast begins at 5:30 p.m. ET.
RADIO: Performance Racing Network. STREAMING: Fox Sports Go.
RACE DISTANCE: 400 laps around the 1.5-mile track for a total of 600 miles.
STAGE LENGTHS (laps per stage): Stage 1: 100, Stage 2: 100, Stage 3: 100, Stage 4: 100.
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NATIONAL ANTHEM: Chief Musician William Edwards of The United States Navy Band will perform the anthem at 6:03 p.m. ET followed by a flyover by 4 MV-22s from Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 266 of the United States Marine Corps.
WEATHER: Hot. The race will begin with temperatures in the low 90s under partly cloudy skies. Once the sun goes down, the area should cool off with temperatures sliding into the low 80s.
LAST TIME: Kyle Busch put on a clinic, leading 377 of 400 laps to win NASCAR’s longest race for the first time. Busch topped runner-up Martin Truex Jr., the 2016 race winner, by 3.823 seconds.
LINEUP: Daytona 500 pole winner William Byron, 21, became the youngest driver ever to capture the pole for the Coca-Cola 600. Aric Almirola will start alongside Byron on the front row
Here is the lineup for the Gander RV 400 (car number in parentheses):
1. (24) William Byron, Chevrolet
2. (10) Aric Almirola, Ford
3. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota
4. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet
5. (4) Kevin Harvick, Ford
6. (41) Daniel Suarez, Ford
7. (22) Joey Logano, Ford
8. (14) Clint Bowyer, Ford
9. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Ford
10. (8) Daniel Hemric, Chevrolet
11. (1) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet
12. (9) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet
13. (88) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet
14. (19) Martin Truex Jr, Toyota
15. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet
16. (20) Erik Jones, Toyota
17. (21) Paul Menard, Ford
18. (6) Ryan Newman, Ford
19. (12) Ryan Blaney, Ford
20. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota
21. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford
22. (37) Chris Buescher, Chevrolet
23. (34) Michael McDowell, Ford
24. (47) Ryan Preece, Chevrolet
25. (42) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet
26. (36) Matt Tifft, Ford
27. (95) Matt DiBenedetto, Toyota
28. (13) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet
29. (43) Bubba Wallace, Chevrolet
30. (32) Corey LaJoie, Ford
31. (38) David Ragan, Ford
32. (00) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet
33. (52) Bayley Currey, Ford
34. (96) Parker Kligerman, Toyota
35. (15) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet
36. (53) BJ McLeod, Chevrolet
37. (27) Reed Sorenson, Chevrolet
38. (51) Cody Ware, Ford
39. (77) Quin Houff, Chevrolet
40. (66) Joey Gase, Toyota
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