WATCH: NASCAR honors fallen service members during Coca-Cola 600 with special moment

NASCAR shared a special moment of silence with all teams at the race and the fans in attendance during their annual Coca-Cola 600 race. The Memorial Day weekend race was dedicated to all fallen service members who have served in the military, and they held a special moment of silence after the mid-way point of the race.

The race itself was nicknamed by NASCAR in honor of the holiday — “600 Miles of Remembrance” as the race is a 600-mile race.

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NASCAR dedicates Coca-Cola 600 to Memorial Day

After the second stage of the race finished, the cars all followed the pace car into pit row while their pit crews and NASCAR officials held banners, flags or paid tribute to all fallen service members. The Charlotte Motor Speedway crowd shared in the moment, as a touching tribute to the US military unfolded on pit row.

“Ladies and gentlemen, please stand if you are able, for a moment of remembrance to honor our service men and women who have sacrificed their lives so that we may enjoy our freedoms this Memorial Day weekend. To honor the fallen from our US armed forces, please join all of us in a moment of silence,” asked the track announcer.

The race held in honor of Memorial Day was also a special opportunity for drivers to honor specific military members in a beautiful way this weekend. The event had all cars feature a service member’s name on their windshields. In addition, friends and family of the featured service members were hosted in an exclusive pre-race hospitality and given tickets to the event.

Coca-Cola 600 sees major crash

In a race that was quickly becoming a war of attrition for the drivers, the Coca-Cola 600 saw 12 drivers involved in some capacity on the day’s “big one.” Before the halfway point of the 400-lap race, 24 of the 37 cars that started the race were involved in a wreck in some way already.

The crash also shined a light on a NASCAR rule that many fans were upset to see impact the race — that teams have only six minutes to get a car up to minimum speed on the race track following a wreck. If a team is unable to get a car up to speed in that short amount of time, their day is over. The rule came into effect in a big way after the wreck as cars were unable to get their cars looked at and repaired in the time window given.

By the time the back half of the race was underway, only 27 cars were left in the race. Wallace, Blaney, Keselowski and Kurt Busch were all out of the race following the wreck. Denny Hamlin was able to stay on the track, continuing his day of racing.