| Type: | NASWINSTON |
| Date: | May 24 |
| Scheduled Km: | 965.606 |
| Distance Km: | 965.606 |
| Avg: | 132.98mph |
| Pole Team: | Junior Johnson & Associates |
| Network: | TBS |
| Most Driver: | Kyle Petty |
| Radio: | Performance Racing Network |
| Announcers: | Ken Squier, Neil Bonnett |
| Most Team: | SABCO Racing |
| First Driver: | Dale Earnhardt |
| First Team: | Richard Childress Racing |
| Most Laps: | 141 |
| Season No: | 29 |
| Location: | Concord, North Carolina, Charlotte Motor Speedway |
| Pole Time: | 30.773 |
| Scheduled Mi: | 600 |
| Distance Laps: | 400 |
| Scheduled Laps: | 400 |
| Course Km: | 2.41 |
| Course Mi: | 1.5 |
| Race No: | 10 |
| Official Name: | 33rd Annual Coca-Cola 600 |
| Car: | 3 |
| Race Name: | Coca-Cola 600 |
| Year: | 1992 |
| Distance Mi: | 600 |
| Pole Driver: | Bill Elliott |
The 1992 Coca-Cola 600 was the 10th stock car race of the 1992 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season and the 33rd iteration of the event. The race was held on Sunday, May 24, 1992, in Concord, North Carolina, at Charlotte Motor Speedway, a 1.5 miles (2.4 km) permanent quad-oval. The race took the scheduled 400 laps to complete. At race's end, Richard Childress Racing driver Dale Earnhardt would manage to make a late-race pass with 54 to go for the lead to take his 53rd career NASCAR Winston Cup Series victory and his only victory of the season.[1] [2] To fill out the top three, Morgan–McClure Motorsports driver Ernie Irvan and SABCO Racing driver Kyle Petty would finish second and third, respectively.
Charlotte Motor Speedway is a motorsports complex located in Concord, North Carolina, United States 13 miles from Charlotte, North Carolina. The complex features a 1.5 miles (2.4 km) quad oval track that hosts NASCAR racing including the prestigious Coca-Cola 600 on Memorial Day weekend and the NEXTEL All-Star Challenge, as well as the UAW-GM Quality 500. The speedway was built in 1959 by Bruton Smith and is considered the home track for NASCAR with many race teams located in the Charlotte area. The track is owned and operated by Speedway Motorsports Inc. (SMI) with Marcus G. Smith (son of Bruton Smith) as track president.
Qualifying was split into two rounds. The first round was held on Wednesday, May 20, at 3:00 PM EST. Each driver would have one lap to set a time. During the first round, the top 20 drivers in the round would be guaranteed a starting spot in the race. If a driver was not able to guarantee a spot in the first round, they had the option to scrub their time from the first round and try and run a faster lap time in a second round qualifying run, held on Thursday, May 21, at 2:00 PM EST. As with the first round, each driver would have one lap to set a time. For this specific race, positions 21-40 would be decided on time,[3] and depending on who needed it, a select amount of positions were given to cars who had not otherwise qualified but were high enough in owner's points; up to two were given. If needed, a past champion who did not qualify on either time or provisionals could use a champion's provisional, adding one more spot to the field.
Bill Elliott, driving for Junior Johnson & Associates, would win the pole, setting a time of 30.773 and an average speed of 175.479mph in the first round.[4]
Six drivers would fail to qualify.
| Pos | Driver | Points | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Davey Allison | 1,564 | |||||||
| 2 | Bill Elliott | 1,453 (-111) | |||||||
| 3 | Harry Gant | 1,444 (-120) | |||||||
| 4 | Alan Kulwicki | 1,432 (–132) | |||||||
| 1 | 5 | Dale Earnhardt | 1,420 (–144) | ||||||
| 1 | 6 | Terry Labonte | 1,378 (–186) | ||||||
| 2 | 7 | Morgan Shepherd | 1,333 (–231) | ||||||
| 8 | Geoff Bodine | 1,248 (–316) | |||||||
| 1 | 9 | Dick Trickle | 1,245 (–319) | ||||||
| 1 | 10 | Mark Martin | 1,217 (–347) | ||||||
| Official driver's standings | |||||||||