The 2016 Coca-Cola 600, the 57th running of the event, was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race held on May 29, 2016, at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina.

Contested over 400 laps on the 1.5 mile (2.42 km) asphalt speedway, it was the thirteenth race of the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup season.

The race was held at Charlotte Motor Speedway, which is located in Concord, North Carolina.

The speedway was built in 1959 by Bruton Smith and is considered the home track for NASCAR with many race teams based in the Charlotte metropolitan area.

We had a really good car that day and thought we were going to go to victory lane and got beat on fuel mileage.

Now our job is to get it better on Saturday for a long 600 miles and make sure that we’ve got some adjustability in it.”[17] Kurt Busch continued to be quickest into the second practice session with a time of 28.272 and a speed of 191.002 mph (307.388 km/h).

[19] Under cloudy North Carolina skies, Martin Truex Jr. led the field to the green flag at 6:12 p.m.

Ryan Blaney and Chase Elliott were tagged for speeding on pit road and restarted the race from the tail-end of the field.

During the green flag cycle of stops on lap 266, Logano was tagged for his crew being over the wall too soon and was forced to serve a pass-through penalty.

[23] Logano said after the race that his team, and others, are "trying to make pit stops so fast and you’re gonna push everything to the edge.

I haven’t seen it, but unfortunately, that kind of made us make a green flag pit stop, which is really hard to overcome.

We actually raced back to the lead lap, but we lost the balance a little bit on the last run and I couldn’t make much time once we got going.

In the ensuing caution, Aric Almirola was tagged for speeding on pit road and restarted the race from the tail-end of the field.

Cole Pearn (crew chief), Jazzy (team engineer Jeff Curtis), my guys are something special.

The cars were already sliding around a fair amount all day.”[27] Johnson said after finishing third that he was "so proud of the effort we put in tonight.

A couple times on the restarts we would get close, but all-in-all a very strong performance for this Lowe’s Chevrolet.

I’m happy for Martin and the team, those guys have worked awful hard to get where they’re at.”[29] Fox Sports televised the race in the United States for the sixteenth consecutive year.

Jamie Little, Chris Neville, Vince Welch and Matt Yocum reported from pit lane during the race.

Brad Gillie, Brett McMillan, Jim Noble and Steve Richards were the pit reporters during the broadcast.