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2024 Bank of America Roval 400
NASCAR Cup Series race From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The 2024 Bank of America Roval 400 was a NASCAR Cup Series race held on October 13, 2024, at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina. Contested over 109 laps on the 2.32-mile (3.73 km) road course, it was the 32nd race of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series season, the sixth race of the Playoffs, and the final race of the Round of 12. Kyle Larson won the race. Christopher Bell finished 2nd, and William Byron finished 3rd. Austin Cindric and Chase Elliott rounded out the top five, and A. J. Allmendinger, Shane van Gisbergen, Joey Logano, Bubba Wallace, and Ryan Blaney rounded out the top ten.
Originally, Joey Logano failed to make the Round of 8, however, Alex Bowman later failed post race inspection; thus bringing Logano back into the Round of 8, eliminating Bowman.[10]
This race marked the final playoff appearance for Stewart–Haas Racing.
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Background
Since 2018, deviating from past NASCAR events at Charlotte, the race will utilize a road course configuration of Charlotte Motor Speedway, promoted and trademarked as the "Roval". The course is 2.28 miles (3.67 km) in length and features 17 turns, utilizing the infield road course and portions of the oval track. The race will be contested over a scheduled distance of 109 laps, 400 kilometres (250 mi).[11][12][13]
During July 2018 tests on the road course, concerns were raised over drivers "cheating" the backstretch chicane on the course. The chicanes were modified with additional tire barriers and rumble strips in order to encourage drivers to properly drive through them, and NASCAR will enforce drive-through penalties on drivers who illegally "short-cut" parts of the course. The chicanes will not be used during restarts. In the summer of 2019, the bus stop on the backstretch was changed and deepened, becoming a permanent part of the circuit, compared to the previous year where it was improvised.
If a driver fails to legally make the backstretch bus stop, the driver must skip the frontstretch chicane and make a complete stop by the dotted line on the exit before being allowed to continue. A driver who misses the frontstretch chicane must stop before the exit. [14][15]
On May 26, 2024, it was announced that the Charlotte Roval would get a redesign, featuring an updated infield road course which includes an extension of the straightaway after turn 5, a new turn 6, and a sharper hairpin for turn 7, in addition the apex for turn 16 on the final chicane was made tighter.[16]
Entry list
- (R) denotes rookie driver.
- (P) denotes playoff driver.
- (i) denotes driver who is ineligible for series driver points.
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Practice
Shane van Gisbergen was the fastest in the practice session with a time of 83.242 seconds and a speed of 98.604 mph (158.688 km/h).
Practice results
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Qualifying
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Shane van Gisbergen scored the pole for the race with a time of 1:22.704 and a speed of 99.246 mph (159.721 km/h).[17]
Qualifying results
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Race
Race results
Stage results
Stage One Laps: 25
Stage Two Laps: 25
Final Stage results
Stage Three Laps: 59
Race statistics
- Lead changes: 7 among 6 different drivers
- Cautions/Laps: 5 for 13
- Red flags: 0
- Time of race: 3 hours, 0 minutes, and 3 seconds
- Average speed: 82.817 miles per hour (133.281 km/h)
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Television
NBC covered the race on the television side. Leigh Diffey, Jeff Burton, and Steve Letarte called the race from the broadcast booth. Dave Burns, Kim Coon, and Marty Snider handled the pit road duties from pit lane.
Radio
The race was broadcast on radio by the Performance Racing Network and simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Doug Rice and Mark Garrow called the race from the booth when the field raced down the front straightaway. IMS Radio's Nick Yeoman was assigned the entrance to the road course and into the Bank of America bridge (Turns 1–3). Voice of the Indianapolis 500 Mark Jaynes was assigned the action from the Bank of America bridge to the middle of the infield section. Doug Turnbull called the action exiting in infield into the oval Turn 1 banking (Turns 7–9). Pat Patterson called the action on the backstretch and into the bus stop. Rob Albright was assigned to the oval Turn 3-4 end. (Turns 13–15). On pit road, PRN was manned by Brad Gillie, Brett McMillan, Alan Cavanna, and Wendy Venturini.
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Standings after the race
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