Records and facts

Last year's Ally 400 was plagued by bad weather. There was a red flag early on due to lightning. Later on, a second red flag for lightning and heavy rains stopped the race until 10 p.m. ET.

Joe Gibbs Racing's Denny Hamlin, Kyle Busch and Martin Truex Jr. dominated much of the race, leading a combined 250 of 300 laps and winning the first two stages (Truex). However, Truex and Kyle Busch ran into problems and finished outside of the top 20.

Chase Elliott came to the front late in the race. He took the lead away from Kyle Busch with 39 laps to go and held on to take the win. Elliott was .551 seconds ahead of Kurt Busch at the finish. Ryan Blaney was third, then Kyle Larson and Ross Chastain.

At this point, there have only been two Cup races at Nashville Superspeedway. Those races have been won by Elliott and Larson.

Track Facts
Track / Race Length: 1.33-mile tri-oval, 300 laps (399 miles)
Banking: 14 degrees

Frontstretch: 2,250 ft., banked 9 degrees

Backstretch: 1,330 ft., banked 6 degrees

Grandstand Seating: 38,000

Pit Road Speed: 45 mph
Pace Car Speed: 55 mph
Opened: 2001

Website: http://www.nashvillesuperspeedway.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NashvilleSuperspeedway/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/NashvilleSuperS

Pre-Race Schedule:

Practice: Friday, June 23, 6:30 - 7:20 p.m. ET on USA Network

Qualifying: Saturday, June 24, 1:10 p.m. on USA Network

Say What?!

"The big thing about Nashville Superspeedway is its different characteristics from other mile-and-a halves or mile-and-a thirds that we race on, which are primarily asphalt. Nashville is all concrete so that surface is definitely different than the rest of them and what transpires throughout a run with the tire wear and things like that is definitely interesting. The biggest things that you need to be fast at Nashville are good brakes, good stopping power, being able to get to the bottom of the track, turn the center of the corner, throttle up and exit out of the corner without being too tight or too loose. Being able to have a good car that can roll the bottom has been really good for me at Nashville over the years. A lot also depends on if they put resin down or spray the track with any traction compound, because that also kind of changes whether you let the car move up the racetrack any or not." - Kyle Busch

"Nashville races are similar to a short track, which is right up my alley because short tracks are what I’ve done my entire career. But it’s also a mile-and-a-half track, so it’s a little bit bigger and it’s kind of got that little bit of an in-between. There’s a lot of shifting and different lanes, so that makes it an interesting track to race on. It’s also a night race this year, so I’m looking forward to that. I think you can compare it to a Bristol or Dover, and it is concrete but it doesn’t have as much banking in the corners. It’s a distinctive track and I’ve only been there twice, but we won those Truck races both times, so it’s a place I’ve enjoyed going to." - Ryan Preece

"[Nashville Superspeedway] really hadn’t changed [during the years it was closed]. I think a couple of the bumps were a little bit worse than probably what they were before, but nothing drastic. I think the stuff they sprayed on the racetrack added a little bit of grip to the higher lanes in practice, and then for the race it was really back down to the bottom and more traditional like it had been before.

"I’d spent a fair amount of time there, so just having that general picture in your mind of how it raced and the things that you did and how it went was definitely good to have, and it kind of took away some of the questions you might have at a place you hadn’t been to ever before." - Kevin Harvick