2026 Coca-Cola 600

The race was held at Charlotte Motor Speedway, located in Concord, North Carolina. The speedway complex includes a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) quad-oval track is utilized for the race, as well as a dragstrip and a dirt track. The speedway was built in 1959 by Bruton Smith and is considered the home track for NASCAR with many race teams based in the Charlotte metropolitan area. The track is owned and operated by Speedway Motorsports Inc. (SMI) with Marcus G. Smith serving as track president.

Storylines

For the third year in a row, a driver attempted to complete the "Double Duty," as Katherine Legge attempted to compete in both the Indianapolis 500 and Coca-Cola 600 on the same day.^[7][8] After crashing out early in the Indianapolis 500, Legge reached Charlotte and raced the Coca-Cola 600, finishing the latter 12 laps behind the winner and in 31st place, last among cars still in the race.^[9]

Kyle Busch was scheduled to race but died on May 21, from complications with pneumonia three-days prior; Austin Hill raced in Busch's stead, RCR later changed the number 8 to number 33 and announced that the number 8 would be reserved for his son when he begins his NASCAR Cup career.^[10][11] During pre-race, NASCAR CEO Steve O'Donnell honored the late driver with a moment of silence, a missing man formation during the pace laps, as well as a silent lap on lap 8.^[12] Busch was also remembered at the Indianapolis 500 earlier that day.^[13]

Etapa cuatro : 73 vueltas (acortada por la lluvia)

• Cambios de liderazgo: 32 entre 13 conductores diferentes
• Precauciones/Vueltas: 12 durante 75 vueltas
• Señales de alerta: 2 por mal tiempo
• Tiempo de carrera: 4 horas, 39 minutos y 56 segundos
• Velocidad media: 119,921 millas por hora (192,994 km/h) 

Prime Video transmitió la carrera por televisión. Adam Alexander , Dale Earnhardt Jr. y Steve Letarte narraron la carrera desde la cabina de transmisión. Kim Coon, Marty Snider y Trevor Bayne se encargaron de la transmisión desde boxes.

La cobertura radiofónica de la carrera fue transmitida por Performance Racing Network (PRN) y también se transmitió simultáneamente por Sirius XM NASCAR Radio . Brad Gillie y Alex Hayden narraron la carrera desde la cabina de transmisión cuando los autos pasaban por el óvalo cuádruple. Andrew Kurland narró la carrera desde una valla publicitaria en la curva 2 cuando los autos pasaban por las curvas 1 y 2 y la mitad de la recta trasera. Pat Patterson narró la carrera desde una valla publicitaria fuera de la curva 3 cuando los autos pasaban por la otra mitad de la recta trasera y por las curvas 3 y 4. Wendy Venturini , Brett McMillan y Alan Cavanna fueron los reporteros de boxes durante la transmisión.