Contested over 301 laps on the 1.058-mile (1.703 km) speedway, it was the 19th race of the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season.

The track was originally the site of Bryar Motorsports Park before being purchased and redeveloped by Bob Bahre.

[12] Martin Truex Jr. scored the pole for the race with a time of 28.621 and a speed of 133.077 mph (214.167 km/h) after Kyle Larson was disqualified after failing post-qualifying inspection.

Erik Jones made contact with Kasey Kahne exiting pit road, cutting down his left-front tire that went undetected.

When the race restarted on Lap 41, the left-front tire on Jones' car failed entering Turn 3 and with no inner-liner in the left-front, which NASCAR doesn't run at tracks the size of and/or smaller than Loudon, rather than the tire simply un-chord, it sent his car into the outside wall, bringing out the second caution.

A few of the lead cars, such as Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin and Kevin Harvick, short-pitted the end of the first stage.

The race was totally in his control, until a flat right-front tire forced him to hit pit road earlier than planned, handing the lead to Busch with 83 laps to go.

[20] But while the tire advantage played in his favor in the 28 laps he worked to get back to the lead, it turned against him after the pit cycle.

[26] This proved key to Hamlin pulling away, even when Larson closed the gap to three car-lengths with three to go, and driving on to victory.

[27] During the pre-race show, Daniel Suárez gave a fan a box of Dunkin Donuts, a competitor brand and food product of one of his sponsors, Subway.