The 2023 Bank of America Roval 400 was a NASCAR Cup Series race that was held on October 8, 2023, at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina. It was contested over 109 laps on the road course. It was the 32nd race of the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series season, the sixth race of the Playoffs, and final race of the Round of 12. It was won by A. J. Allmendinger. This was the last race with the old roval configuration, as Charlotte Motor Speedway announced before the 2024 Coca-Cola 600 that the roval would get a redesign for 2024.
Since 2018, deviating from past NASCAR events at Charlotte, the race will utilize a road course configuration of Charlotte Motor Speedway, promoted and trademarked as the "Roval". The course is in length and features 17 turns, utilizing the infield road course and portions of the oval track. The race will be contested over a scheduled distance of 109 laps, .
During July 2018 tests on the road course, concerns were raised over drivers "cheating" the backstretch chicane on the course. The chicanes were modified with additional tire barriers and rumble strips in order to encourage drivers to properly drive through them, and NASCAR will enforce drive-through penalties on drivers who illegally "short-cut" parts of the course. The chicanes will not be used during restarts. In the summer of 2019, the bus stop on the backstretch was changed and deepened, becoming a permanent part of the circuit, compared to the previous year where it was improvised.
If a driver fails to legally make the backstretch bus stop, the driver must skip the frontstretch chicane and make a complete stop by the dotted line on the exit before being allowed to continue. A driver who misses the frontstretch chicane must stop before the exit.
Bubba Wallace was the fastest in the practice session with a time of 1:21.646 seconds and a speed of .
Tyler Reddick scored the pole for the race with a time of 1:21.214 and a speed of .
The race was won by A. J. Allmendinger after there were five restarts following caution periods in the final thirty-one laps. This marked AllmendingerâÂÂs third career Cup Series victory, as well as the second Cup Series victory for Kaulig Racing.
Stage One Laps: 25
Stage Two Laps: 25
Stage Three Laps: 59
NBC Sports covered the race on the television side. Rick Allen, Jeff Burton and Steve Letarte called the race from the broadcast booth, Dale Earnhardt Jr was due to call the race with them but was absent from a fever. Dave Burns, Kim Coon and Marty Snider handled the pit road duties from pit lane.
The Performance Racing Network had the radio call for the race, which was also simulcasted on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Doug Rice and Mark Garrow called the race from the booth when the field raced down the front straightaway. IMS Radio's Nick Yeoman was assigned the entrance to the road course and into the Bank of America bridge (Turns 1âÂÂ3). Voice of the Indianapolis 500 Mark Jaynes was assigned the action from the Bank of America bridge to the middle of the infield section. Doug Turnbull called the action exiting in infield into the oval Turn 1 banking (Turns 7âÂÂ9). Pat Patterson called the action on the backstretch and into the bus stop. Rob Albright was assigned to the oval Turn 3-4 end. (Turns 13âÂÂ15). Brad Gillie, Brett McMillan, Alan Cavanna, and Wendy Venturini had the call from the pit area for PRN.