1999 Coca-Cola 600

February 2025 NASWINSTON Coca-Cola 600 1999 5 30 1999 12 34 Lowe's Motor Speedway.svg Layout of Lowe's Motor Speedway Lowe's Motor Speedway, Concord, North Carolina 1.5 2.4 400 600 965.606 Temperatures averaging around 71.7 F C; wind speeds up to 6.9 mph km/hWeather information at The Old Farmers' Almanac 151.367 mph km/h on Bobby Labonte Joe Gibbs Racing Jeff Burton Roush Racing 198 99 Jeff Burton Roush Racing TBS Ken Squier, Dick Berggren, & Buddy Baker The 1999 Coca-Cola 600, the 40th running of the event, was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race held on May 30, 1999 at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina. Contested at 400 laps on the 1.5 mile (2.4 km) speedway, it was the twelfth race of the 1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season. The race was won by Jeff Burton, driving the #99 Exide Batteries Ford Taurus for Roush Racing, after starting second and leading nine times for a total of 198 laps, including the last 17. It was his third victory of six he recorded during the 1999 season and his first of two wins in the Coca-Cola 600 (he later won the event in 2001). He also won a $1 million bonus from Winston as part of their No Bull 5 competition. There were two other noteworthy stories from the race, both involving rookie drivers. After winning several races in the Busch Series for his father’s team, Dale Earnhardt Jr. made his Winston Cup debut in the #8 Budweiser Chevrolet Monte Carlo. He finished the race in sixteenth place.Race results at Race Database Another rookie, Tony Stewart, participated in both the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 in the same day. At Indianapolis, he ran ninth driving the #22 car for Tri-Star Motorsports. After the race he flew to Charlotte and started the #20 Home Depot Pontiac Grand Prix for Joe Gibbs Racing, bringing it home in fourth place. He was the third driver after John Andretti in 1994 and Robby Gordon in 1997 to do so; he repeated this feat in 2001 and ran the entire distance of both events.https://www.foxsports.com/nascar/story/coca-cola-600-charlotte-motor-speedway-sprint-cup-series-tony-stewart-dale-earnhardt-052315 Stewart remembers Dale Earnhardt's act of kindness at Coke 600 Tom Jensen Fox Sports May 23, 2015 October 15, 2018 Background thumb|left|Lowe's Motor Speedway, the track where the race was held. Lowe's Motor Speedway is a motorsports complex located in Concord, North Carolina, United States 13 miles from Charlotte, North Carolina. The complex features a 1.5 miles (2.4 km) quad oval track that hosts NASCAR racing including the prestigious Coca-Cola 600 on Memorial Day weekend and The Winston, as well as the UAW-GM Quality 500. The speedway was built in 1959 by Bruton Smith and is considered the home track for NASCAR with many race teams located in the Charlotte area. The track is owned and operated by Speedway Motorsports Inc. (SMI) with Marcus G. Smith (son of Bruton Smith) as track president. Top 10 results Pos No. Car number Driver Team Manufacturer 1 99 Jeff Burton Roush Racing Ford 2 18 Bobby Labonte Joe Gibbs Racing Pontiac 3 6 Mark Martin Roush Racing Ford 4 20 Tony Stewart Joe Gibbs Racing Pontiac 5 88 Dale Jarrett Robert Yates Racing Ford 6 3 Dale Earnhardt Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 7 33 Ken Schrader Andy Petree Racing Chevrolet 8 22 Ward Burton Bill Davis Racing Pontiac 9 31 Mike Skinner Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 10 12 Jeremy Mayfield Penske-Kranefuss Racing Ford Race statistics Time of race: 3:57:50 Average Speed: 151.367 mph Pole Speed: 185.23 Cautions: 5 for 23 laps Margin of Victory: 0.574 sec Lead changes: 23 Percent of race run under caution: 5.8% Average green flag run: 62.8 laps References Coca-Cola 600 Coca-Cola 600 Category:NASCAR races at Charlotte Motor Speedway