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Alsco Uniforms 500
The Alsco Uniforms 500 was a NASCAR Cup Series race that was held annually at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina, United States, with the other one being the Coca-Cola 600 on Memorial Day weekend, the 600-mile (970 km) race. Beginning in 2018, the race was replaced by a road course race rather than one on the full oval, called Bank of America Roval 400.
The race had been a Sunday afternoon event until 2002. That year rain delayed the start by over 3 hours, meaning much of the race was run under the lights. Thanks in large part to the ratings boost NBC received in primetime hours, NASCAR made a decision to move the race date from Sunday afternoon to Saturday night from 2003 to 2016. NBC retained their rights to broadcast the race, unlike in most of the night events aired in their part of the season's contract which normally aired on TNT. With the move, then-Lowe's Motor Speedway became one of only two tracks in NASCAR to have two-night dates on the schedule.
In 2015 and 2016, the races on Saturday night were cancelled due to bad weather, so they were run on Sunday afternoon. In 2017, at the time of the schedule announcement, the race was scheduled for Saturday night. On April 20, the race was rescheduled for Sunday and moved from a night race to a day race. At the 2017 event, after rain caused the Xfinity Series event of the Saturday afternoon to be delayed by several hours, a decision was made to move the Cup race an hour back to a 1:00 PM local time start, as more rain was expected later during the day. The race eventually concluded successfully after 3 and a half hours without the occurrence of any rain delays.
Starting in 2018, the race was replaced by a 2.28 miles (3.67 km) road course configuration of Charlotte Motor Speedway, the Bank of America Roval 400, with a race distance of 400 kilometres (250 mi) over 109 laps.
Due to schedule changes resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, Charlotte Motor Speedway hosted an additional 500-kilometer (312 mile) race in 2020 called the Alsco Uniforms 500 on the Wednesday following the Coca-Cola 600. It was run as a replacement for the Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma Raceway after the track announced that NASCAR had canceled its events at the road course due to the pandemic.
Oval (400 miles (640 km))
Race time: 2:58:35 (1964)
Average Speed: 134.475 miles per hour (216.417 km/h) (1964)
Oval (500 miles (800 km))
Race time: 3:09:53 (2013)
Average Speed: 158.308 miles per hour (254.772 km/h) (2013)
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Alsco Uniforms 500
The Alsco Uniforms 500 was a NASCAR Cup Series race that was held annually at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina, United States, with the other one being the Coca-Cola 600 on Memorial Day weekend, the 600-mile (970 km) race. Beginning in 2018, the race was replaced by a road course race rather than one on the full oval, called Bank of America Roval 400.
The race had been a Sunday afternoon event until 2002. That year rain delayed the start by over 3 hours, meaning much of the race was run under the lights. Thanks in large part to the ratings boost NBC received in primetime hours, NASCAR made a decision to move the race date from Sunday afternoon to Saturday night from 2003 to 2016. NBC retained their rights to broadcast the race, unlike in most of the night events aired in their part of the season's contract which normally aired on TNT. With the move, then-Lowe's Motor Speedway became one of only two tracks in NASCAR to have two-night dates on the schedule.
In 2015 and 2016, the races on Saturday night were cancelled due to bad weather, so they were run on Sunday afternoon. In 2017, at the time of the schedule announcement, the race was scheduled for Saturday night. On April 20, the race was rescheduled for Sunday and moved from a night race to a day race. At the 2017 event, after rain caused the Xfinity Series event of the Saturday afternoon to be delayed by several hours, a decision was made to move the Cup race an hour back to a 1:00 PM local time start, as more rain was expected later during the day. The race eventually concluded successfully after 3 and a half hours without the occurrence of any rain delays.
Starting in 2018, the race was replaced by a 2.28 miles (3.67 km) road course configuration of Charlotte Motor Speedway, the Bank of America Roval 400, with a race distance of 400 kilometres (250 mi) over 109 laps.
Due to schedule changes resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, Charlotte Motor Speedway hosted an additional 500-kilometer (312 mile) race in 2020 called the Alsco Uniforms 500 on the Wednesday following the Coca-Cola 600. It was run as a replacement for the Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma Raceway after the track announced that NASCAR had canceled its events at the road course due to the pandemic.
Oval (400 miles (640 km))
Race time: 2:58:35 (1964)
Average Speed: 134.475 miles per hour (216.417 km/h) (1964)
Oval (500 miles (800 km))
Race time: 3:09:53 (2013)
Average Speed: 158.308 miles per hour (254.772 km/h) (2013)
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