About The “Banking 500 only from Bank of America”.
The NASCAR Banking 500 Only from Bank of America 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.
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
- 2008 Jeff Burton
- 2007 Jeff Gordon (race extended to 337 laps / 505.5 miles due to green-white-checker finish)
- 2006 Kasey Kahne
UAW-GM Quality 500
- 2005 Jimmie Johnson (race extended to 336 laps / 504 miles due to green-white-checker finish)
- 2004 Jimmie Johnson
- 2003 Tony Stewart
- 2002 Jamie McMurray
- 2001 Sterling Marlin
- 2000 Bobby Labonte
- 1999 Jeff Gordon
- 1998 Mark Martin
- 1997 Dale Jarrett
- 1996 Terry Labonte
- 1995 Mark Martin