Completed: 1961
Distance: .533 miles
Shape: Oval
Banking: 36° turns, 16° straights
Frontstretch: 650 feet
Backstretch: 650 feet
Seating: 160,000
Tailgating
It was only qualifying, two laps around Charlotte Motor Speedway, and just a fraction of the time that will be spent on the track Sunday during NASCAR's longest race. But the confluence of events -- Memorial Day weekend, the Coca-Cola 600 and Richard Petty's iconic No. 43 car on the pole at one of the sport's marquee facilities -- was simply too good to resist.
MorePoints leader Ricky Stenhouse Jr. is forced to the garage after breaking his drive shaft and loses 22 laps for repairs.
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