2023 Bank Of America Roval 400

The 2023 Bank of America Roval 400 was a NASCAR Cup Series race that was held on October 8, 2023, at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina. It was contested over 109 laps on the road course. It was the 32nd race of the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series season, the sixth race of the Playoffs, and final race of the Round of 12. It was won by A. J. Allmendinger. This was the last race with the old roval configuration, as Charlotte Motor Speedway announced before the 2024 Coca-Cola 600 that the roval would get a redesign for 2024.

Report

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 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, .

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.

Entry list

* (R) denotes rookie driver.
* (i) denotes driver who is ineligible for series driver points.
* (P) denotes playoff driver.
* (OP) denotes owner’s playoffs car.

Practice

Bubba Wallace was the fastest in the practice session with a time of 1:21.646 seconds and a speed of .

Practice results

Qualifying

Tyler Reddick scored the pole for the race with a time of 1:21.214 and a speed of .

Qualifying results

Race

The race was won by A. J. Allmendinger after there were five restarts following caution periods in the final thirty-one laps. This marked Allmendinger’s third career Cup Series victory, as well as the second Cup Series victory for Kaulig Racing.

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: 7 for 18 laps
* Red flags: 0
* Time of race: 3 hours, 5 minutes, and 57 seconds
* Average speed:

Media

Television

NBC Sports covered the race on the television side. Rick Allen, Jeff Burton and Steve Letarte called the race from the broadcast booth, Dale Earnhardt Jr was due to call the race with them but was absent from a fever. Dave Burns, Kim Coon and Marty Snider handled the pit road duties from pit lane.

Radio

The Performance Racing Network had the radio call for the race, which was also simulcasted 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). Brad Gillie, Brett McMillan, Alan Cavanna, and Wendy Venturini had the call from the pit area for PRN.

Standings after the race

;Drivers' Championship standings

;Manufacturers' Championship standings

*Note: Only the first 16 positions are included for the driver standings.

References

{{2023 NASCAR Cup

Bank of America Roval 400
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NASCAR races at Charlotte Motor Speedway
Bank of America Roval 400