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The Bank of America 500 is a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race that is hosted annually at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina, United States. The race is usually held in the month of October, and is 500 miles long. Prior to 1966, the race was a 400-mile event.
race was shown on TBS from at least the mid-1980s to 2000. From 2002 to 2006, it was shown on NBC, and since 2007, it has been on ABC.
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The Bank of America 500 is a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race that is hosted annually at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina, United States. The race is usually held in the month of October, and is 500 miles long. Prior to 1966, the race was a 400-mile event.
Television history
The race was shown on TBS from at least the mid-1980s to 2000. From 2002 to 2006, it was shown on NBC, and since 2007, it has been on ABC. The 2001 race was scheduled for NBC, but was moved to TNT just 30 minutes before the start because it conflicted with the decision to invade Afghanistan by allied governments including the United States and the United Kingdom.
The 2002 race was also known for beginning a practice where, if a race broadcast on a network was running long and ran into prime-time hours, the broadcast would not switch to cable, as was the case in the past, and stayed with network television, a procedure which has since been retracted by ESPN.
From Sunday to Saturday
The day that the race is held was changed following the 2002 running. Due to good ratings in primetime during the event (resulting in part from a three-hour rain delay before the race), track officials moved the 2003 race from Sunday afternoon to Saturday night, where it has been ever since. In 2005, the start was delayed by the finish to the Notre Dame-Southern California college football game which ran late. While the game was in its final minutes, NBC, the broadcaster of both events, had the race engines start and the pace laps proceed. As the pace car pulled off the track to pit road to start the race, NBC had just switched coverage from the game to the race, and the broadcast began as the field took the green flag.
Past winners
Bank of America 500
UAW-GM Quality 500
Mello Yello 500
All Pro Auto Parts 500
Oakwood Homes 500
Miller High Life 500
National 500
NAPA National 500
National 500
National 400
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