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NASCAR Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 Entry List: Dates, Event Times At Charlotte Motor Speedway
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Published19 May 2025
Was North Wilkesboro Speedway the runaway winner over NASCAR Cup Series’ All-Star weekend?
Christopher Bell, who enters next weekend’s points event at Charlotte Motor Speedway ranked third in the drivers’ standings, rallied from sixth place over the final 28 lap, outdueling Joey Logano to capture Sunday night’s All-Star Race. And a cool $ 1 million in prize money.
Bell and Logano slammed fenders and challenged each other until Bell ran the reigning series champion out his groove with 10 rotations remaining. The 0.625-mile short track may prove too tempting for NASCAR officials not to schedule a near-future points race at iconic venue, which did not stage a national series event from 1997-2022.
North Wilkesboro’s revitalized track helped grow the 41st exhibition event’s intensity. Multiple three- and four-way position battles were featured, even though points leader Kyle Larson’s No. 5 Chevrolet suffered a broken toe link.
“I did all I could do to hold him off, and he got under me and released the brake and gave me no option,” Logano told FOX Sports. “Kind of just ran me up into the wall, and if I could’ve got to him, he was going around after a move like that. I just couldn’t get back to him.”
Added Bell: “We need more events like this, more races like this,” Bell said. “I love that we revived this race track.”
Larson qualified P21 for next Sunday afternoon’s Indianapolis 500. In his second attempt to complete “The Double,” the 2021 Cup champion is also scheduled to compete in the Coca-Cola 600 in the evening.
Kyle Larson goes around and into the wall at #Indy500 practice. pic.twitter.com/UjkHctURKk
— INDYCAR on FOX (@IndyCarOnFOX) May 16, 2025
NASCAR National Series, ARCA Weekend Schedule
Here is a list of NASCAR National Series and ARCA Menards Series events this weekend at Charlotte Motor Speedway and IndyCar’s Indianapolis 500 race time (All Times ET):
Friday
- 1:30 p.m.: ARCA Menards Series practice
- 2:30 p.m.: ARCA Menards Series qualifying
- 3:35 p.m.: Truck Series practice
- 4:40 p.m.: Truck Series qualifying
- 6 p.m.: ARCA Menards General Tire 150 race
- 8:30 p.m.: Truck Series North Carolina Education Lottery 200 race
Saturday
- 11:05 a.m.: Xfinity Series practice
- 12:10 p.m.: Xfinity Series qualifying
- 1:30 p.m.: Cup Series practice
- 2:40 p.m.: Cup Series qualifying
- 4:30 p.m.: Xfinity Series BetMGM 300 race
Sunday
- 12:45 p.m.: 109th Indianapolis 500 race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway
- 6 p.m.: Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 race
IT’S OUR TURN. 👊 #CocaCola600 pic.twitter.com/SP5nd31nYd
— Charlotte Motor Speedway (@CLTMotorSpdwy) May 19, 2025
NASCAR Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 Entry List
NASCAR Cup Series officials released the entry list for Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway:
Entry, Driver, Car No.
- 1, Ross Chastain, No. 1 Chevrolet
- 2, Austin Cindric No. 2 Ford
- 3, Austin Dillon, No. 3 Chevrolet
- 4, Noah Gragson, No. 4 Ford
- 5, Kyle Larson, No. 5 Chevrolet
- 6, Brad Keselowski, No. 6 Ford
- 7, Justin Haley, No. 7 Chevrolet
- 8, Kyle Busch, No. 8 Chevrolet
- 9, Chase Elliott, No. 9 Chevrolet
- 10, Ty Dillon, No. 10 Chevrolet
- 11, Denny Hamlin, No. 11 Toyota
- 12, Ryan Blaney, No. 12 Ford
- 13, AJ Allmendinger, No. 16 Chevrolet
- 14, Chris Buescher, No. 17 Ford
- 15, Chase Briscoe, No. 19, Toyota
- 16, Christopher Bell, No. 20 Toyota
- 17, Josh Berry, No. 21 Ford
- 18, Joey Logano, No. 22 Ford
- 19, Bubba Wallace, No. 23 Toyota
- 20, William Byron, No. 24 Chevrolet
- 21, Todd Gilliland, No. 34 Ford
- 22, Riley Herbst, No. 35 Toyota
- 23, Zane Smith, No. 38 Ford
- 24, Cole Custer, No. 41 Ford
- 25, John Hunter Nemechek, No. 42 Toyota
- 26, Erik Jones, No. 43 Toyota
- 27, TBA, No. 44 Chevrolet
- 28, Tyler Reddick, No. 45 Toyota
- 29, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., No. 47 Ford
- 30, Alex Bowman, No. 48 Chevrolet
- 31, Cody Ware, No. 51 Ford
- 32, Ty Gibbs, No. 54 Toyota
- 33, Ryan Preece, No. 60 Ford
- 34, Josh Bilicki, No. 66 Ford
- 35, Michael McDowell, No. 71 Chevrolet
- 36, Carson Hocevar, No. 77 Chevrolet
- 37, Jimmie Johnson, No. 84 Toyota
- 38, Connor Zilisch, No. 87 Chevrolet
- 39, Shane van Gisbergen, No. 88 Chevrolet
- 40, Daniel Suarez, No. 99 Chevrolet
Starting this weekend with the Coca-Cola 600 @CLTMotorSpdwy pic.twitter.com/YdyQTPczP9
— Kyle Larson (@KyleLarsonRacin) May 19, 2025
