2013 Coca-Cola 600
| Race details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Race 12 of 36 in the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series | |||
| Date | May 26, 2013 | ||
| Location | Charlotte Motor Speedway, Concord, North Carolina | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility 1.5 mi (2.4 km) |
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| Distance | 400 laps, 600 mi (965.606 km) | ||
| Weather | Overcast with a high temperature around 76 °F (24 °C); wind out of the SSE at 4 miles per hour (6.4 km/h). | ||
| Average speed | 130.521 mph (210.053 km/h) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Joe Gibbs Racing | ||
| Time | 27.604 seconds | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Kasey Kahne | Hendrick Motorsports | |
| Laps | 161 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 29 | Kevin Harvick | Richard Childress Racing | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | Fox | ||
| Announcers | Mike Joy, Darrell Waltrip, Larry McReynolds | ||
| Nielsen Ratings | 4.1 | ||
The 2013 Coca-Cola 600, the 54th running of the race, was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on May 26, 2013, at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina, United States. Contested over 400 laps on the 1.5–mile (2.4 km) oval, it was the twelfth race of the 2013 Sprint Cup Series championship. Kevin Harvick of Richard Childress Racing won the race, his second win in the Coca-Cola 600 and in the 2013 season. Kasey Kahne followed in the second while Kurt Busch, Denny Hamlin, and Joey Logano rounded out the top five.
There were 11 cautions for 61 laps and 24 lead changes between 12 different drivers throughout the course of the race. One of the most significant stoppages came from a fallen skycam cable that damaged several cars and injured spectators. The result moved Harvick to the seventh position in the Drivers' Championship, 83 points behind Jimmie Johnson in first and 15 ahead of Paul Menard in eighth. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, five points ahead of Toyota and thirteen ahead of Ford, with 24 races remaining in the season.
Charlotte Motor Speedway is a four-turn quad-oval track that is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long. The track's turns are banked at twenty-four degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, is five degrees. The back stretch, opposite of the front, also had a five degree banking. The racetrack has seats for 134,000 spectators.Kasey Kahne was the defending race winner after winning the event in the 2012 race.
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