Bank of America 500

The Bank of America 500 is a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race that is hosted annually at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina, United States, with the other one being the Coca-Cola 600 on Memorial Day weekend, the 600 mile (970 km) race. It is held on the last weekend in September and is the third race of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series playoffs.
As of the 2018 season, the event is run as a 500 kilometer race using the infield road course configuration the track calls "The Roval"; previously, the race was run at a distance of 500 miles using the regular oval. is one of three races on the road course, with the other ones being the Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma Raceway and the Go Bowling at The Glen at Watkins Glen International.
==History==
The race had been a Sunday afternoon event until 2002. That year rain delayed the start by over 3 hours, meaning much of the race was run under the lights. Thanks in large part to the ratings boost NBC received in primetime hours, NASCAR made a decision to move the race date from Sunday afternoon to Saturday night from 2003-2016. NBC retained their rights to broadcast the race, unlike in most of the night events aired in their part of the season's contract which normally aired on TNT. With the move, then-Lowe's Motor Speedway became one of only two tracks in NASCAR to have two night dates on the schedule.
In 2005, the start was delayed by the finish to the Notre Dame-Southern California college football game which ran late. While the game was in its final minutes, NBC, the broadcaster of both events, had the race engines start and the pace laps proceed. As the pace car pulled off the track to pit road to start the race, NBC had just switched coverage from the game to the race, and the broadcast began as the field took the green flag. This race was known for the levigation disaster that made the track extremely fast causing the tires to blister and blow out after about 30 laps. It was due to this that Charlotte was repaved in early 2006 in time for their May events.
In 2015 and 2016, the races on Saturday night were cancelled due to bad weather, so they were run on Sunday afternoon. In 2017, at the time of the schedule announcement, the race was scheduled for Saturday night. On April 20, the race was rescheduled for Sunday and moved from a night race to a day race. At the 2017 event, after rain caused the Xfinity series event of the Saturday afternoon to be delayed by several hours, a decision was made to move the Monster Energy Cup race an hour back to a 13h00 local time start, as more rain was expected later during the day. The race eventually concluded successfully after 3 and a half hours without the occurrence of any rain delays.
In 2018, the race will shift to run the infield road course configuration of Charlotte. With this, the race length will be shortened from 500 miles / 334 laps to 500 kilometers (311 miles) / 130 laps. It will also move up a week on the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series schedule to Sunday September 30, 2018, serving as an elimination race of the first round of the playoffs.
==Past winners==
Year	Date 	No.	Driver 	Team 	Manufacturer	Race Distance	Race Distance 	Race Time	Average Speed(mph)	Report
Year	Date 	No.	Driver 	Team 	Manufacturer	Laps 	Miles (km) 	Race Time	Average Speed(mph)	Report
1960	October 16 	21 	Speedy Thompson 	Wood Brothers Racing 	Ford 	267 	400.5 (644.542)	3:32:50 	112.905 	Report
1961	October 15 	8 	Joe Weatherly 	Bud Moore Engineering 	Pontiac 	267 	400.5 (644.542)	3:20:20 	119.95 	Report
1962	October 14 	3 	Junior Johnson 	Ray Fox 	Pontiac 	267 	400.5 (644.542)	3:01:42 	132.085 	Report
1963	October 13 	3 	Junior Johnson 	Ray Fox 	Chevrolet 	267 	400.5 (644.542)	3:01:54 	132.105 	Report
1964	October 18 	28 	Fred Lorenzen 	Holman-Moody 	Ford 	267 	400.5 (644.542)	2:58:35 	134.475 	Report
1965	October 17 	28 	Fred Lorenzen 	Holman-Moody 	Ford 	267 	400.5 (644.542)	3:21:44 	119.117 	Report
1966	October 16 	12 	Lee Roy Yarbrough	Jon Thorne 	Dodge 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:49:55 	130.576 	Report
1967	October 15 	3 	Buddy Baker 	Ray Fox 	Dodge 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:50:04 	130.317 	Report
1968	October 20 	6 	Charlie Glotzbach	Cotton Owens 	Dodge 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:42:08 	135.234 	Report
1969	October 12 	27 	Donnie Allison 	Banjo Matthews 	Ford 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:48:32 	131.271 	Report
1970	October 11 	98 	Lee Roy Yarbrough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Mercury 	334 	501 (806.281) 	4:03:28 	123.246 	Report
1971	October 10 	12 	Bobby Allison 	Holman-Moody 	Mercury 	238* 	357 (574.535) 	2:49:38 	126.14 	Report
1972	October 8 	12 	Bobby Allison 	Richard Howard 	Chevrolet 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:45:37 	133.234 	Report
1973	October 7 	11 	Cale Yarborough 	Richard Howard 	Chevrolet 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:26:58 	145.24 	Report
1974	October 6 	21 	David Pearson 	Wood Brothers Racing 	Mercury 	334 	501 (806.281) 	4:10:41 	119.912 	Report
1975	October 5 	43 	Richard Petty 	Petty Enterprises 	Dodge 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:47:22 	132.209 	Report
1976	October 10 	1 	Donnie Allison 	Ellington Racing 	Chevrolet 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:32:51 	141.226 	Report
1977	October 9 	72 	Benny Parsons 	L.G. DeWitt 	Chevrolet 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:30:32 	142.78 	Report
1978	October 8 	15 	Bobby Allison 	Bud Moore Engineering 	Ford 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:31:57 	141.826 	Report
1979	October 7 	11 	Cale Yarborough 	Junior Johnson & Associates	Chevrolet 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:43:53 	134.266 	Report
1980	October 5 	2 	Dale Earnhardt 	Rod Osterlund Racing 	Chevrolet 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:42:18 	135.243 	Report
1981	October 11 	11 	Darrell Waltrip 	Junior Johnson & Associates	Buick 	334 	501 (806.281) 	4:15:52 	117.483 	Report
1982	October 10 	33 	Harry Gant 	Mach 1 Racing 	Buick 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:39:05 	137.208 	Report
1983	October 9 	43 	Richard Petty 	Petty Enterprises 	Pontiac 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:34:43 	139.998 	Report
1984	October 7 	9 	Bill Elliott 	Melling Racing 	Ford 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:24:41 	148.861 	Report
1985	October 6 	28 	Cale Yarborough 	Ranier-Lundy 	Ford 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:39:48 	136.761 	Report
1986	October 5 	3 	Dale Earnhardt 	Richard Childress Racing 	Chevrolet 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:47:02 	132.403 	Report
1987	October 11 	9 	Bill Elliott 	Melling Racing 	Ford 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:54:02 	128.443 	Report
1988	October 9 	27 	Rusty Wallace 	Blue Max Racing 	Pontiac 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:50:02 	130.677 	Report
1989	October 8 	25 	Ken Schrader 	Hendrick Motorsports 	Chevrolet 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:20:35 	149.863 	Report
1990	October 7 	28 	Davey Allison 	Robert Yates Racing 	Ford 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:38:44 	137.428 	Report
1991	October 6 	11 	Geoffrey Bodine 	Junior Johnson & Associates	Ford 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:36:17 	138.984 	Report
1992	October 11 	6 	Mark Martin 	Roush Racing 	Ford 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:15:47 	153.537 	Report
1993	October 10 	28 	Ernie Irvan 	Robert Yates Racing 	Ford 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:14:31 	154.537 	Report
1994	October 9 	18 	Dale Jarrett 	Joe Gibbs Racing 	Chevrolet 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:26:00 	145.922 	Report
1995	October 8 	6 	Mark Martin 	Roush Racing 	Ford 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:26:48 	145.358 	Report
1996	October 6 	5 	Terry Labonte 	Hendrick Motorsports 	Chevrolet 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:30:00 	143.143 	Report
1997	October 5 	88 	Dale Jarrett 	Robert Yates Racing 	Ford 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:28:17 	144.323 	Report
1998	October 4 	6 	Mark Martin 	Roush Racing 	Ford 	334 	501 (806.281) 	4:04:01 	123.188 	Report
1999	October 11*	24 	Jeff Gordon 	Hendrick Motorsports 	Chevrolet 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:07:31 	160.306 	Report
2000	October 8 	18 	Bobby Labonte 	Joe Gibbs Racing 	Pontiac 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:44:57 	133.63 	Report
2001	October 7 	40 	Sterling Marlin 	Chip Ganassi Racing 	Dodge 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:36:15 	139.006 	Report
2002	October 13 	40 	Jamie McMurray 	Chip Ganassi Racing 	Dodge 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:32:28 	141.481 	Report
2003	October 11 	20 	Tony Stewart 	Joe Gibbs Racing 	Chevrolet 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:30:24 	142.871 	Report
2004	October 16 	48 	Jimmie Johnson 	Hendrick Motorsports 	Chevrolet 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:50:51 	130.214 	Report
2005	October 15 	48 	Jimmie Johnson 	Hendrick Motorsports 	Chevrolet 	336* 	504 (811.109) 	4:11:18 	120.334 	Report
2006	October 14 	9 	Kasey Kahne 	Evernham Motorsports 	Dodge 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:47:29 	132.142 	Report
2007	October 13 	24 	Jeff Gordon 	Hendrick Motorsports 	Chevrolet 	337* 	505.5 (813.523)	4:00:58 	125.868 	Report
2008	October 11 	31 	Jeff Burton 	Richard Childress Racing 	Chevrolet 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:44:50 	133.699 	Report
2009	October 17 	48 	Jimmie Johnson 	Hendrick Motorsports 	Chevrolet 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:38:22 	137.658 	Report
2010	October 16 	1 	Jamie McMurray 	Earnhardt Ganassi Racing 	Chevrolet 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:34:07 	140.391 	Report
2011	October 15 	17 	Matt Kenseth 	Roush Fenway Racing 	Ford 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:25:37 	146.194 	Report
2012	October 13 	15 	Clint Bowyer 	Michael Waltrip Racing 	Toyota 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:14:01 	154.935 	Report
2013	October 12 	2 	Brad Keselowski 	Penske Racing 	Ford 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:09:53 	158.308 	Report
2014	October 11 	4 	Kevin Harvick 	Stewart-Haas Racing 	Chevrolet 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:26:49 	145.346 	Report
2015	October 11*	22 	Joey Logano 	Team Penske 	Ford 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:35:05 	139.76 	Report
2016	October 9* 	48 	Jimmie Johnson 	Hendrick Motorsports 	Chevrolet 	334 	501 (806.281) 	3:42:47 	134.929 	Report
2017	October 8 	78 	Martin Truex Jr. 	Furniture Row Racing 	Toyota 	337* 	505.5 (813.523)	3:38:00 	139.128 	Report
*1971: The race was shortened due to rain.
*1999: Race postponed from Sunday to Monday due to rain.
*2005, 2007 and 2017: The race was extended due to overtime.
*2015: Race postponed from Saturday night to Sunday afternoon due to rain.
*2016: Race postponed from Saturday night to Sunday afternoon due to a threat of hurricane.
===Multiple winners (drivers)===
# Wins	Driver 	Years Won
4 	Jimmie Johnson 	2004, 2005, 2009, 2016
3 	Bobby Allison 	1971, 1972, 1978
3 	Cale Yarborough 	1973, 1979, 1985
3 	Mark Martin 	1992, 1995, 1998
2 	Junior Johnson 	1962, 1963
2 	Fred Lorenzen 	1964, 1965
2 	LeeRoy Yarbrough	1966, 1970
2 	Donnie Allison 	1969, 1976
2 	Richard Petty 	1975, 1983
2 	Dale Earnhardt 	1980, 1986
2 	Bill Elliott 	1984, 1987
2 	Dale Jarrett 	1994, 1997
2 	Jeff Gordon 	1999, 2007
2 	Jamie McMurray 	2002, 2010
===Multiple winners (teams)===
# Wins	Team 	Years Won
8 	Hendrick Motorsports 	1989, 1996, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2016
4 	Junior Johnson & Associates	1970, 1979, 1981, 1991
4 	Roush Fenway Racing 	1992, 1995, 1998, 2011
3 	Ray Fox 	1962, 1963, 1967
3 	Holman-Moody 	1964, 1965, 1971
3 	Chip Ganassi Racing 	2001, 2002, 2010
3 	Robert Yates Racing 	1990, 1993, 1997
3 	Joe Gibbs Racing 	1994, 2000, 2003
2 	Wood Brothers Racing 	1960, 1974
2 	Bud Moore Engineering 	1961, 1978
2 	Richard Howard 	1972, 1973
2 	Melling Racing 	1984, 1987
2 	Richard Childress Racing 	1986, 2008
2 	Team Penske 	2013, 2015
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===Manufacturer wins===
# Wins	Manufacturer	Years Won
21 	Chevrolet 	1963, 1972, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1986, 1989, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2016
18 	Ford 	1960, 1964, 1965, 1969, 1978, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2011, 2013, 2015
7 	Dodge 	1966, 1967, 1968, 1975, 2001, 2002, 2006
5 	Pontiac 	1961, 1962, 1983, 1988, 2000
3 	Mercury 	1970, 1971, 1974
2 	Buick 	1981, 1982
2 	Toyota 	2012, 2017
==Notable races==
*1964: Fred Lorenzen took lead with two laps to go after Richard Petty, who led 188 laps, blew a tire and crashed. Paul Goldsmith led 71 laps before blowing his engine.
*1965: Lorenzen won for the second straight year after a wild three-abreast battle with Curtis Turner and Dick Hutcherson for first. The race was a tragic affair as a massive crash claimed the life of Harold Kite.
*1970: Leeroy Yarbrough took what turned out to be his final Grand National win.
*1971: Bobby Allison in the Holman-Moody Mercury battled Charlie Glotzbach, driving the Chevrolet Monte Carlo fielded by track president Richard Howard. Allison took the lead on Lap 177 and led when rain shortened the race at Lap 238. Leeroy Yarbrough drove a second Howard Chevrolet, reuniting with team manager Junior Johnson, for whom Leeroy had driven earlier that 1971 season.
*1973: Controversies plagued the weekend. Charlie Glotzbach won the pole in Hoss Ellington's Chevrolet but NASCAR discovered a moveable restrictor plate after qualifying and put Glotzbach to the back of the field. Buddy Baker was pulled out of the race 228 laps in by team owner Nord Krauskopf when NASCAR said it wanted to reinspect the #71 Dodge after the race. David Pearson and Glotzbach crashed 40 laps in, leaving Petty, Cale Yarborough, and Bobby Allison in charge. Yarborough and Petty put Allison three laps down en route to the 1-2 finish. But following the race controversy ensued over the postrace inspection of the top three cars; Allison's Chevy cleared after one hour but six hours after the inspection NASCAR announced the results for Yarborough's #11 would receive further study, and Allison claimed to have seen Petty's team remove the air filter from the car before it could be inspected; track promoter Richard Howard threatened a lawsuit if the race results were changed. Allison claimed the top two finishers were illegal and threatened to sue NASCAR; Petty asserted only three of his engine's eight cylinders were checked; a later meeting between Allison and Bill France, Jr. settled the controversy.
*1974: The race set an event record for lead changes at 47. David Pearson lost two laps 150 miles in but made up the deficit and surged to the win. The race was marred by ten-car crash in which Marty Robbins suffered serious facial injuries, a two-car crash involving Grant Adcox and Ramo Stott, and a pit fire in Richard Petty's pit.
*1975: Petty took the win for a season sweep at Charlotte. The 500 was the final race for track under promotion of Richard Howard as Bruton Smith would take control of the speedway the following January.
*1976: Donnie Allison surprised the field by winning, his first Winston Cup win since 1971 and the first for team owner Hoss Ellington. The engine measured slightly over the 358 cubic inch limit; after lengthy discussion the engine was allowed to cool down and it measured below 358 cubic inches; Ellington quipped, "This one's legal. We left all the cheater stuff at Darlington."
*1978: Bobby Allison broke out of a competitive race to win handily. The lead changed 40 times. David Pearson won the pole, his 11th straight Charlotte pole.
*1980: Dale Earnhardt edged Buddy Baker and Cale Yarborough and solidified his point lead over Yarborough with three races to go in the season. The win was Earnhardt's fifth of his second career Winston Cup season. The weekend was dominated by controversy between Darrell Waltrip and the DiGard Racing team as Waltrip announced he was leaving the team after the season despite threats of legal action by team owners the Gardner brothers to retain him. Waltrip spun out after breaking a sway bar piece, then fell out with engine failure, angrily demanding afterward he needed to "get away from these Gardners."
*1981: Darrell Waltrip's late-season victory surge included leading the final 61 laps of the 1981 500. Bobby Allison finished second and after leading the series in August was now trailing by 58 laps. Harry Gant led Lap 3 before his engine erupted in the first turn.
*1982 Gant broke through to his first superspeedway win as he edged Bill Elliott in a ten-lap showdown after Bobby Allison, who led 280 laps, blew his engine. A ten-car crash erupted when Dale Earnhardt hooked Richard Petty into a spin.
*1983: The race was marred by controversy involving an outsized engine for race winner Richard Petty as well as suspicion about runner-up Darrell Waltrip; Petty was subsequently fined $35,000 and 104 NASCAR points.
*1985: Cale Yarborough lost a lap on five separate occasions and made them up all five times for his final NASCAR win.
*1993: Ernie Irvan led race-record 328 laps for his second win with Robert Yates. NASCAR shaved spoiler size to five inches and raised the front airdam a few inches out of concern for escalating track speeds and believing, following driver lobbying, that reducing downforce would force drivers to slow down for the turns. The change did not reduce speeds.
*1994: Dale Jarrett stole the win after engine failure eliminated Geoff Bodine and a late crash eliminated Ricky Rudd and Jeff Gordon; the win was Jarrett's final win with Joe Gibbs Racing.
*1996: Terry Labonte dominated and erased a point gap of over 100 to Jeff Gordon, who fell out with engine failure. The race was marred by a brutal multicar crash involving Ernie Irvan when Irvan spun out and was center-punched by John Andretti.
*2000: Bobby Labonte broke out of a fierce fight with Dale Earnhardt, Ricky Rudd, and Jeremy Mayfield to grab the win. The weekend was marred by a sudden shortage of tires available from Goodyear, but the race went with no problems with tires. The lead changed 46 times, the first Charlotte race to break 40 lead changes since 1988.
*2002: Subbing for injured regular Sterling Marlin, Jamie McMurray grabbed his first win in his second career NASCAR start. A major crash erupted in the trioval and brought out a furious response from team owner Richard Childress.
==Television history==
The race was shown on TBS from at least the mid-1980s to 2000. From 2002 to 2006, it was shown on NBC, and from 2007 to 2014, it was on ABC.
The 2002 race was also known for beginning a practice where, if a race broadcast on a network was running long and ran into prime-time hours, the broadcast would not switch to cable. In this case, the race began as scheduled in the early afternoon but was delayed for hours due to weather. NBC did not move the race to TNT, and broadcast the race in its entirety; the race ended early Sunday evening with Jamie McMurray winning in only his second NASCAR Winston Cup start. Since ESPN took over the rights to the race and to most of NBC and TNT's former NASCAR package, that policy has been discontinued. Starting in 2015 the race will move back to NBC, after the network signed a 10-year, $4.4 Billion dollar deal with NASCAR, NBC has the rights for the final 20 races of the season(14 of 20) from the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway and the Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, this event was on ABC for several years as part of ESPN before the departure, In 2017, due to broadcasting changes, the race will move from NBC to NBCSN.
The 2005 running of the race drew ire from fans due to the broadcast policy in which a college football game cut into NBC's NASCAR slot. Due to the excessive length, the pre-race show was not broadcast at all and the network finally started it as the field came to the green flag to begin the race.
The 2014 race was known for the broadcast policy that drew the ire of fans once again. Because of the excessive length of the Baylor-TCU ESPN College Football game, the race would be shifted to ESPNEWS. But the station was airing an NBA preseason game between the Cleveland Cavaliers and Miami Heat from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that ran long into overtime. The race broadcast started on Lap 27.
Year	Network 	Lap-by-lap 	Color commentator(s)
1964	ABC 	Jim McKay 	Chris Economaki
1965	ABC 	Bill Flemming 	Rodger Ward
1966	ABC 	Jim McKay 	Rodger Ward
1967	ABC 	Keith Jackson 	Ned Jarrett
1968	ABC 	Jim McKay 	Ned Jarrett
1969	ABC 	Jim McKay 	Chris Economaki
1970	ABC 	Jim McKay 	Chris Economaki
1971	ABC 	Keith Jackson 	Chris Economaki
1972	ABC 	Keith Jackson 	Chris Economaki
1973	ABC 	Jim McKay 	Jackie Stewart
1974	ABC 	Jim McKay 	Chris Economaki
1975	ABC 	Jim McKay 	Jackie Stewart
1976	ABC 	Keith Jackson 	Chris Economaki
1977	ABC 	Keith Jackson 	Jackie Stewart
1978	ABC 	Jim McKay 	Jackie Stewart
1979	NBC 	Paul Page 	Johnny Rutherford
1980	NBC 	Paul Page 	Johnny Rutherford
1981	NBC 	Paul Page 	Johnny Rutherford
1982	ABC 	Keith Jackson 	Chris Economaki
1983	Mizlou 	Ken Squier 	Donnie Allison
1984	Mizlou 	Ken Squier 	Donnie Allison
1985	Jefferson-Pilot	Mike Joy 	Ned Jarrett
1986	Jefferson-Pilot	Mike Joy 	Ned Jarrett
1987	SETN 	Eli Gold 	Jerry Punch
1988	SCOREFNN 	Eli Gold 	Johnny Hayes
1989	TBS 	Ken Squier 	Johnny HayesChris Economaki
1990	TBS 	Ken Squier 	Johnny HayesChris Economaki
1991	TBS 	Ken Squier 	Neil Bonnett
1992	TBS 	Ken Squier 	Neil Bonnett
1993	TBS 	Ken Squier 	Neil Bonnett
1994	TBS 	Ken Squier 	Chuck BownCale Yarborough
1995	TBS 	Ken Squier 	Richard Petty
1996	TBS 	Ken Squier 	Buddy BakerDick Berggren
1997	TBS 	Ken Squier 	Buddy BakerDick Berggren
1998	TBS 	Ken Squier 	Buddy BakerDick Berggren
1999	TBS 	Allen Bestwick	Buddy BakerDick Berggren
2000	TBS 	Allen Bestwick	Buddy BakerDick Berggren
2001	TNT* 	Allen Bestwick	Benny ParsonsWally Dallenbach
2002	NBC 	Allen Bestwick	Benny ParsonsWally Dallenbach
2003	NBC 	Allen Bestwick	Benny ParsonsWally Dallenbach
2004	NBC 	Allen Bestwick	Benny ParsonsWally Dallenbach
2005	NBC 	Bill Weber 	Benny ParsonsWally Dallenbach
2006	NBC 	Bill Weber 	Benny ParsonsWally Dallenbach
2007	ABC 	Jerry Punch 	Rusty WallaceAndy Petree
2008	ABC 	Jerry Punch 	Dale JarrettAndy Petree
2009	ABC 	Jerry Punch 	Dale JarrettAndy Petree
2010	ABC 	Marty Reid 	Dale JarrettAndy Petree
2011	ABC 	Allen Bestwick	Dale JarrettAndy Petree
2012	ABC 	Allen Bestwick	Dale JarrettAndy Petree
2013	ABC 	Allen Bestwick	Dale JarrettAndy Petree
2014	ABC 	Allen Bestwick	Dale JarrettAndy Petree
2015	NBCSN* 	Rick Allen 	Jeff BurtonSteve Letarte
2016	NBC 	Rick Allen 	Jeff BurtonSteve Letarte
2017	NBC 	Rick Allen 	Dale JarrettJeff BurtonSteve Letarte
2018	NBC 	Rick Allen 	Jeff BurtonSteve LetarteDale Earnhardt Jr.
===Notes===
* 2001: Originally scheduled to be broadcast on NBC, the race was moved to TNT, because NBC News needed to broadcast President George W. Bush's announcement of the War in Afghanistan and the War on Terror.
* 2015: Originally scheduled to be broadcast on NBC, the race was moved to NBCSN due to the postponement of the race.
==References==
==External links==
*Crittenden Automotive Library: Mello Yello 500
*NASCAR Banking 500 race page
*NASCAR Commentators Crews and Networks
*Ratings Drop Again, But NASCAR's Chase Hits High on ABC