NASCAR at Charlotte 2016: Preview, Prediction for the Coca-Cola 600

Now that the fiasco that was the All-Star Race is behind us, we now return to your regularly scheduled racing, the longest race on the calendar: the Coca-Cola 600, aka the Coke 600. No, that’s not the nutrition facts, that’s the mileage, 400 laps, a test of endurance and certainly pit strategy. Carl Edwards won his first race for Joe Gibbs Racing a year ago at this time using a killer fuel gamble that ultimately put the No. 19 car in Victory Lane, lifting the chimpanzee off his back-flipping shoulders. "It's so cool to get this win—we've had such bad luck," said Edward in Reid Spencer’s NASCAR.com story from a year ago. "And we were the slowest of the [JGR cars] tonight, but we had [crew chief] Darian [Grubb] on the ...

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