2017 Coca-Cola 600
auto race held at Charlotte in 2017
The 2017 Coca-Cola 600, the 58th running of the event, was a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race held on May 28 and 29th, 2017 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina. Contested over 400 laps on the 1.5 mile (2.42 km) asphalt speedway, it was the 12th race of the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season. Austin Dillon won the first race of his NASCAR Cup Series career for Richard Childress Racing in car number 3, the first time the 3 car had won a Cup Series event since 2000. It was also the first race to be broken into four stages rather than the normal three.
Entry list
First practice
Erik Jones was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 28.021 seconds and a speed of 192.713 mph (310.142 km/h).
Qualifying
Kevin Harvick scored the pole for the race with a time of 27.918 and a speed of 193.424 mph (311.286 km/h). Harvick said afterwards that in qualifying, the cars were more loose "than they were in practice and just based on past experience here it was a handful through one and two. I just about lost it the first run, but the car was so good in three and four I didn’t want to over-adjust on it and make it too tight down there because you get tighter as the lap runs, so the guys did a good job of making adjustments, but not making it so tight that I couldn’t carry the throttle like I needed to in three and four. So they just did a great job on our Mobil 1 Ford.”
Qualifying results
Practice (post-qualifying)
Second practice
Ryan Blaney was the fastest in the second practice session with a time of 28.715 seconds and a speed of 188.055 mph (302.645 km/h).
Final practice
Kyle Larson was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 28.970 seconds and a speed of 186.400 mph (299.982 km/h).
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