Daniel Suarez wins rain-shortened Coca-Cola 600
Daniel Suarez won a rain-shortened Coca-Cola 600 Sunday night at Charlotte Motor Speedway, holding off charges on late-race restarts from Christopher Bell and Denny Hamlin.
The 400-lap scheduled race ended on lap 373. Hamlin, Bell, Reddick, and Larson rounded out the Top-5 finishers.
The win was Suarez’s first since Atlanta in February 2024.
Throughout the race
11:27 p.m. ET: Cars stopped on pit road. Lap 373.
28 to go: Caution for rain. Suarez currently leading.
31 to go: Green flag!
11:20 p.m. ET: Restart waived off.
11:18 p.m. ET: After a red flag for rain, the engines are refired and should be going back to racing with 32 laps to go.
Lap 362: Suarez is leading with a caution for rain. Bell second and Hamlin third.
Restart coming with 41 to go after a caution. Suarez and Bell the front row.
Lap 330: A caution for a wreck along the backstretch involves Preece, Berry, Buescher, and Briscoe.
Lap 319: Stenhouse got into Chastain off of turn 2, sending the No. 1 into the inside retaining wall along the backstretch. Caution
Stage 3: Bell, Hamlin, Gibbs, Briscoe, Larson, Reddick, Van Gisbergen, Keselowski, Blaney, Stenhouse
Stage 2: Hamlin, Gibbs, Briscoe, Reddick, Larson, Bell, Blaney, Buescher, Van Gisbergen, Stenhouse
Lap 144: Denny Hamlin back to the lead.
Lap 135: Toyota has the Top-4 positions: Briscoe, Hamlin, Reddick, Gibbs
Stage 1: Larson, Briscoe, Reddick, Hamlin, Jones, Blaney, Gibbs, Preece, Stenhouse, Van Gisbergen
Elliott, Cindric and Zilisch all had issues with wrecks.
Lap 34: Josh Berry spins off of Turn 2, bringing out the first caution of the race.
Lap 28: Tyler Reddick has led every lap thus far. Gibbs is second 1.1 seconds back.
Lap 20: Tyler Reddick, Ty Gibbs, Ryan Blaney, Michael McDowell, and Chase Briscoe the Top-5.
Lap 8: Tyler Reddick leads while the broadcasters hold a silent lap and fans in the stands hold up the No. 8 for the late-great Kyle Busch.
Lap 2: Tyler Reddick leads lap 1.
6:35 p.m. ET: Green flag!
6:28 p.m. ET: Racecars on tracks for pace laps.
6:19 p.m. ET: Engines are fired for the Coca-Cola 600.
6:02 p.m. ET: Pre-race festivities are underway. Members of Kyle Busch’s family are honored by remarks from NASCAR CEO Steve O’Donnell.
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Dominic Aragon is currently the editor-in-chief for The Racing Experts.
From Grants, New Mexico, USA, Aragon started watching NASCAR in 2004 and has been covering the sport since 2009. Aragon is a 2012 graduate of Grants High School and a May 2016 graduate of the University of New Mexico with a B.A. in Mass Communications & Journalism. Aragon has worked in local and national media, as a musician, and an educator. He is co-author of the 2024 book "All of It: Daytona 500 Champion Tells the Rest of the Story" with racer Geoff Bodine.
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