NASCAR Live Race Updates: Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte

Coca-Cola 600 Pre-Race Info

Coca-Cola 600 will be televised on Prime Video, the first of five NASCAR Cup Series races to be covered by the streaming service. Television coverage of the event will begin at 6:00 PM ET. The Performance Racing Network (PRN) and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio will provide the event's radio broadcast.

For subscribers of the Max streaming service, NASCAR Driver Cam, which streams live in-car camera footage from every car in the field, will be available for today's race.

The overall race purse, which teams will fight for their portion of in Sunday's race is a total of $13,651,450.

The race distance is 400 laps around the 1.5-mile Charlotte Motor Speedway, which equates to a 600-mile race distance.

The race will be broken up into four Stages. Stage 1 will end at the conclusion of Lap 100, Stage 2 will end at the conclusion of Lap 200, Stage 3 will end at the conclusion of Lap 300, and the race is scheduled to finish at the end of Lap 400, barring an Overtime finish.

The winner of Stages 1, 2, and 3 will be awarded one Playoff Point, and the overall race winner will be awarded five Playoff points. The Playoff Points will be added to the reseeded point totals if the drivers make it into the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs, and the Playoff Points will be carried through each round of the Playoffs.

The top-10 finishers in Stages 1, 2, and 3 will also receive regular-season championship points. The Stage Winners will receive 10 points for the Stage Win, and the point total will decrease by one point for the top-10 finishers in each Stage.

Christopher Bell is the defending winner of the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte. Last season's race was shortened due to weather.

Chase Briscoe Takes Second Crown Jewel Pole of 2025

Chase Briscoe followed up a pole position in the season-opening Daytona 500 with another pole-winning run for Sunday's Coca-Cola 600. Briscoe narrowly defeated Kyle Larson by 0.020 seconds to win the pole with a lap time of 29.532 seconds (182.852 mph).

Coca-Cola 600 Starting Lineup

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McDowell, No. 71 Spire Team Lose Car Chief, Pit Selection After Pre-Race Inspection

It wasn't what the No. 71 Spire Motorsports team had in mind for a start to their Coca-Cola 600 race weekend, but Michael McDowell will chase his third career NASCAR Cup Series win at a bit of a disadvantage after his No. 71 Chevrolet failed pre-race inspection multiple times on Saturday.

As a result of the multiple inspection failures, the No. 71 team will be without car chief Griffin Rider for the remainder of the weekend, and McDowell's team lost their pit selection, which goes by order of qualifying results.

McDowell did go on to qualify 15th for Sunday's Coca-Cola 600 in Saturday's qualifying session.

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