The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series resumes normal, albeit longer, activities this Memorial Day weekend at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Following a weekend where $1 million but no points were on the line, racing at the 1.5-mile track culminates with the “greatest day in motorsports” on Sunday.
Leavine Family Racing's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series History at Charlotte Motor Speedway ... Team owner Bob Leavine has five starts at the Concord, N.C., facility between three drivers. The Concord, N.C.-based organization finished 43rd a year ago in the Coca-Cola 600.
History 300...While Charlotte may be a "home" track for many NASCAR teams and drivers, to the Texas-native James Buescher, this weekend's race is just another one on the road. Concord, North Carolina-based RAB Racing however will have plenty of support from family and friends as the team shop sits just five miles from the 1.5-mile quad-oval of Charlotte Motor Speedway (CMS). Buescher comes into the 11th race of the season sitting eighth in points, just 13 points out of seventh. Buescher has four career NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) starts at CMS and has recorded two top-10 finishes with a best finish of seventh-place coming in 2012.
Elliott Sadler and the No. 11 OneMain Financial team head to Charlotte Motor Speedway this weekend, where the majority of the NASCAR community calls home. In 14 NASCAR Nationwide Series starts at Charlotte, Sadler won the pole award once, recorded four top-five and five top-10 finishes with 16 laps led. Sadler has also made 25 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series starts at Charlotte with one pole award, one top-five and three top-ten finishes.
A United States Congresswoman, the North Carolina Senate Leader and a military hero will lead race fans in the commencement of the nation’s largest Memorial Day Weekend celebration as they serve as race officials for the 2014 Coca-Cola 600. Master Sergeant Cedric King will be the Grand Marshal, United States Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito will be the Honorary Starter and North Carolina Senate Leader Phil Berger will serve as the Honorary Race Director for the 55th running of NASCAR’s only 600-mile race at the famed Charlotte Motor Speedway on Sunday, May 25.
Richard Childress Racing at Charlotte ... In 137 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series starts at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Richard Childress Racing teams have earned seven points-paying victories (four wins with Dale Earnhardt, one with Jeff Burton and two with Kevin Harvick) and four All-Star race victories (three with Earnhardt and one with Harvick), giving RCR 11 total Sprint Cup Series checkered flags at the Concord, N.C. track. RCR boasts 21 top-five and 44 top-10 finishes at the 1.5-mile track. Childress, a former driver on NASCAR's senior circuit, contributed two of those top-10 finishes from 1978 to 1979. The Welcome, N.C. organization has led a combined 1,141 laps at the Charlotte facility.
Roush Fenway Racing’s (RFR) Ryan Reed unveiled today a new patriotic design for the No. 16 American Diabetes Association Drive to Stop DiabetesSM presented by Lilly Diabetes Ford Mustang. This design will run in five of the six NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) races during NASCAR’s ‘An American Salute’ program.
DID YOU KNOW? … When Brad Keselowski won October’s Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway it marked the first non-Roush Fenway Racing win for Ford at the track since 1997 when Dale Jarrett won the same event with Robert Yates Racing.
This Week's Shore Lodge Chevrolet at Charlotte Motor Speedway ... Brian Scott will wheel chassis No. 460 in this weekend's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. This Chevrolet SS was raced in March at Auto Club Speedway where Scott qualified 37th and finished 35th after an early-race accident.
"We learned during All-Star weekend that the track at Charlotte Motor Speedway has changed. It seems a lot rougher than it has in the past. It's actually not just bumps but ripples in the track. And they're on both ends of the track, right in the groove along the bottom. We watched everybody kind of struggle with it last week.
