2025 Coca-Cola 600

The 2025 Coca-Cola 600 was a NASCAR Cup Series race held on May 25, 2025, at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina and the 66th running of the event. It was contested over 400 laps on the 1.5-mile (2.4 km) asphalt speedway, it was the 13th race of the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season, as well as the second of the four crown jewel races.

Kyle Larson attempted a Double Duty, racing in the 2025 Indianapolis 500 and Coca-Cola 600 on the same day.^[7] It is his second attempt after failing to succeed in 2024, as last year's Coca-Cola 600 was called for rain.^[8][9][10] Larson crashed 91 laps into the Indianapolis 500, which allowed him to leave Indianapolis early and reach Charlotte in time.^[11]

Ross Chastain won the race. William Byron, after dominating most of the night, leading 283 laps and sweeping the first 3 stages, finished 2nd, and Chase Briscoe finished 3rd. A. J. Allmendinger and Brad Keselowski rounded out the top five, and Chase Elliott, Michael McDowell, Christopher Bell, Ryan Preece, and Noah Gragson rounded out the top ten.

Chastain made history with his win, after starting from 40th position. He set the record for the lowest starting position of an eventual winner in the history of the Coca-Cola 600, as well as in the history of Charlotte Motor Speedway.

The race was held at Charlotte Motor Speedway, located in Concord, North Carolina. The speedway complex includes a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) quad-oval track that was utilized for the race, as well as a dragstrip and a dirt track. The speedway was built in 1959 by Bruton Smith and is considered the home track for NASCAR with many race teams based in the Charlotte metropolitan area. The track is owned and operated by Speedway Motorsports Inc. (SMI) with Marcus G. Smith serving as track president.

• (R) denotes rookie driver.
• (i) denotes driver who is ineligible for series driver points.

Carson Hocevar was the fastest in the practice session with a time of 29.926 seconds and a speed of 180.445 mph (290.398 km/h).

Chase Briscoe scored the pole for the race with a time of 29.532 and a speed of 182.852 mph (294.272 km/h).^[13]

Stage One Laps: 100

Stage Two Laps: 100

Stage Three Laps: 100

Stage Four Laps: 100

• Lead changes: 34 among 11 different drivers
• Cautions/Laps: 8 for 52
• Red flags: 0
• Time of race: 4 hours, 25 minutes, and 8 seconds
• Average speed: 135.781 miles per hour (218.518 km/h)

Prime Video covered the race on the television side. Adam Alexander, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Steve Letarte called the race from the broadcast booth. Jeff Gordon joined the booth for Stages 2 & 3. Kim Coon, Marty Snider, and Trevor Bayne handled pit road for the television side.

Radio coverage of the race was broadcast by the Performance Racing Network (PRN), and was also simulcasted on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Brad Gillie and Mark Garrow called the race in the booth when the field raced through the quad-oval. Rob Albright called the race from a billboard in turn 2 when the field would race through turns 1 and 2 and halfway down the backstretch. Pat Patterson called the race from a billboard outside of turn 3 when the field would race through the other half of the backstretch and through turns 3 and 4. Wendy Venturini, Brett McMillan, and Alan Cavanna were the pit reporters during the broadcast.