This was the 12th career win for Joey Logano, fourth of the season, first at Charlotte Motor Speedway and third at the track for Team Penske.

The Bank of America 500 was carried by NBC Sports on the cable/satellite NBCSN network for the American television audience.

The race was held at Charlotte Motor Speedway, a motorsports complex located in Concord, North Carolina, United States.

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 2,000 acres (810 ha) complex also features a state-of-the-art quarter mile (0.40 km) drag racing strip, ZMAX Dragway.

It is the only all-concrete, four-lane drag strip in the United States and hosts NHRA events.

Matt Kenseth entered tied for the points lead with Joey Logano, Denny Hamlin, Carl Edwards, Martin Truex Jr., Kurt Busch, Jeff Gordon, Brad Keselowski, Kyle Busch, Ryan Newman, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kevin Harvick.

[15] The entry list for the Bank of America 500 was released on Monday, October 5 at 11:10 a.m. Eastern time.

All but Ryan Blaney and Michael McDowell were entered in the previous week's race at Dover.

Adam (Stevens) and the guys made did a great job making some good adjustments for qualifying there.

[19] Kyle Busch was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 28.518 and a speed of 189.354 mph (304.736 km/h).

[21] Under clear blue North Carolina skies, Matt Kenseth led the field to the green flag at 12:32 p.m.

Kasey Kahne was running 12th when he made an unscheduled stop on lap 42 after brushing the wall in turn 1.

[24] Greg Biffle was tagged for speeding on pit road and restarted the race from the tail-end of the field.

[25] Eventually, Earnhardt cut down his right-front tire, rode the wall and brought out the fourth caution of the race on lap 75.

But he drove in there pretty hard and ran over the left rear quarter panel of the car and got in the fence.

The sixth caution of the race flew on lap 177 after Matt Kenseth made contact with the wall in turn 4.

The seventh caution of the race flew the same lap after Justin Allgaier blew his engine in turn 1.

To add insult to injury, he was black-flagged for having too many crew members over the wall and was forced to serve a drive-through penalty.

So we’ll just move on from this and get ready for Kansas.”[30] Hornish pitted under the caution and handed the lead back to Joey Logano.

Joey Logano made his final stop with 50 laps to go and handed the lead to Sam Hornish Jr.

The guys did a great job on pit road and we were able to capitalize with their solid day and gaining track position.

So proud of (crew chief) Cole (Pearn) and my engineers and just everybody for sticking with it, and having a good game plan.

We fought track position all day but once we got up towards the front we had good speed.”[34] Following his eighth–place finish, Gordon said that he "couldn't be happier with the entire effort that we put out there.

We had Brett Bodine run through it multiple times and confirm back up to race control that the track was in good shape to go ahead and restart.

Kyle Busch and Dale Earnhardt Jr. were critical of NASCAR's cleanup effort of the oil following Justin Allgaier's engine expiration on lap 182.

[36] In his weekly appearance on the Sirius XM NASCAR Radio program The Morning Drive, NASCAR Executive Vice-President and Chief Racing Development Officer Steve O'Donnell told Mike Bagley and Pete Pistone that the officials in the tower didn't see the oil and that he couldn't "debate Kyle and (Earnhardt)[.]

Rick Allen, three–time Charlotte winner Jeff Burton and Steve Letarte had the call in the booth for the race.

Dave Burns, Mike Massaro, Marty Snider and Kelli Stavast handled pit road on the television side.

Brad Gillie, Brett McMillan, Jim Noble and Steve Richards handled pit road on the radio side.