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While NASCAR was founded in Daytona Beach, Florida, held its first race there and has its main headquarters on the east coast of Florida, no question that the heart and soul of NASCAR is located in Charlotte. The majority of NASCAR teams have a base in North Carolina’s biggest city or nearby.

The longest race on the Cup Series is the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, annually run on the American Memorial Day Weekend. That was won by Brad Keselowski on Sunday/early Monday (due to a rain delay). The drivers return to the same track already again Wednesday for the Alsco Uniforms 500, with a start time of 8 p.m. ET.

It’s the second straight week that NASCAR is staging a Wednesday night race in its top series. Before last week at Darlington, there hadn’t been a Wednesday event since all-time great Richard Petty won his 200th and final NASCAR Cup race on July 4, 1984, in the Firecracker 400 at Daytona.