{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.coca-cola-600","code":"thing-q1104915","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q1104915/","name":"Coca-Cola 600","alternateNames":[],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.1.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Activities and processes","entryKind":"thing","plane":"ACT","domain":["ACT.EVT"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"The Coca-Cola 600 is an annual NASCAR Cup Series stock-car race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina, traditionally held on the United States Memorial Day weekend and scheduled over 600 miles.","purpose":"Enable an agent to recognise the Coca-Cola 600, distinguish its individual runnings, assess their sporting status and act on authoritative schedules and results.","scope":{"in":["Continuity of the race across historical names and individual editions","Edition-specific schedules, actual racing intervals and postponements","Charlotte oval configuration, scheduled distance and actual distance completed","Race entries, qualifying outcomes and participant roles","Applicable sporting rules, race-control decisions and official classifications","Evidence supporting race facts, revisions and disputed explanations"],"out":["Charlotte Motor Speedway infrastructure and other events held there","The NASCAR Cup Series championship as a whole","Driver biographies and team organisational models","Vehicle engineering specifications beyond their eligibility for an edition","The Coca-Cola company, beverage and sponsorship portfolio","Support races, concerts and ticket products except their relationship to the race"],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["Identify the event through its NASCAR Cup Series association, Charlotte Motor Speedway venue and nominal 600-mile, 400-lap format together; these distinguish it from other Charlotte races. [NASCAR race guide](https://www.nascar.com/2023/coca-cola-600)","Resolve the venue to the 1.5-mile oval configuration rather than the road-course configuration within the same complex. [Speedway track history](https://www.charlottemotorspeedway.com/fans/track-history/)","Treat the recurring race and a dated running as different levels of identity; a particular winner, start time or interruption belongs to an edition.","Test historical naming continuity against the World 600 lineage, whose first running the venue dates to June 19, 1960. [Speedway track history](https://www.charlottemotorspeedway.com/fans/track-history/)","Do not require exactly 600 completed miles to recognise an edition: distinguish scheduled format from any officially documented shortening or extension."],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"race-identity-and-continuity","name":"Race identity and continuity","description":"Recognise the Coca-Cola 600 across names and years without merging it with other Charlotte events.","layers":[{"id":"historical-name-continuity","name":"Historical name continuity","description":"Connect source-attested names to the registered race.","findings":[{"id":"name-continuity-evidence","name":"Name continuity evidence","description":"Record the authority and effective period for each historical title rather than treating every title as a separate event.","questions":[{"text":"Which official histories establish continuity between World 600 and Coca-Cola 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distance.","findings":[{"id":"distance-accounting","name":"Distance accounting","description":"Record circuit length, scheduled laps and credited completed laps without assuming they always yield the same race distance.","questions":[{"text":"Which configuration, circuit length and scheduled lap count does the edition's official record specify?","id":"distance-accounting-q01","kind":"measurement"},{"text":"How many laps and miles were officially completed, and what decision explains any departure from the schedule?","id":"distance-accounting-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"edition-specific-rules","name":"Edition-specific rules","description":"Attach the applicable competition format instead of projecting one season's rules across race history.","findings":[{"id":"stages-and-finish-conditions","name":"Stages and finish conditions","description":"Represent stage boundaries where applicable, completion thresholds and finish procedures as versioned rules.","questions":[{"text":"Does this edition use stages, and what official document defines their lap boundaries and points?","id":"stages-and-finish-conditions-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which rules govern an official shortened finish, restart or overtime attempt in this edition?","id":"stages-and-finish-conditions-q02","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"What rule changes must be accounted for before comparing this edition with earlier Coca-Cola 600 runnings?","id":"stages-and-finish-conditions-q03","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"entries-and-race-performance","name":"Entries and race performance","description":"Connect the people and organisations contesting the 600 with their participation and observed performance.","layers":[{"id":"entry-to-start","name":"Entry to start","description":"Follow each entered car and driver through eligibility, qualification and the actual start.","findings":[{"id":"participation-status","name":"Participation status","description":"Preserve driver, entrant and car-number associations for the edition, including documented substitutions and withdrawals.","questions":[{"text":"Which entries were submitted, qualified, withdrawn or recorded as starters?","id":"participation-status-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Did a driver substitution or starting-position penalty change who started or where?","id":"participation-status-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"long-race-performance","name":"Long-race performance","description":"Represent performance across the running while separating observations from tactical explanations.","findings":[{"id":"performance-and-strategy-evidence","name":"Performance and strategy evidence","description":"Associate lap leadership, pit sequences, attrition and changing track conditions with measured records or attributed accounts.","questions":[{"text":"Which official timing records support laps led, position changes and laps completed by each starter?","id":"performance-and-strategy-evidence-q01","kind":"measurement"},{"text":"Who attributes a result to fuel strategy, tire management, endurance or changing conditions, and what evidence supports that explanation?","id":"performance-and-strategy-evidence-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]},{"id":"race-control-and-official-outcome","name":"Race control and official outcome","description":"Track decisions that change the running and determine which result an agent may report.","layers":[{"id":"interruptions-and-decisions","name":"Interruptions and decisions","description":"Connect caution, suspension, restart and termination decisions to their issuer and stated basis.","findings":[{"id":"race-control-decision-evidence","name":"Race-control decision evidence","description":"Separate an observed incident from the official decision and from subsequent explanations of its cause.","questions":[{"text":"Which authority ordered a caution, suspension, restart or end to this running, and when?","id":"race-control-decision-evidence-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which reported causes are official findings, participant claims or unresolved interpretations?","id":"race-control-decision-evidence-q02","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"What published decision permits an agent to move the edition from suspended to resumed or completed?","id":"race-control-decision-evidence-q03","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"classification-and-revision","name":"Classification and revision","description":"Maintain the authoritative result and the history of material corrections.","findings":[{"id":"reportable-result","name":"Reportable result","description":"Distinguish finishing order, official classification and associated points or penalties using dated source versions.","questions":[{"text":"Which NASCAR classification establishes the winner, finishing positions and completion status for this edition?","id":"reportable-result-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Did inspection, penalties or an appeal change classification, points or both?","id":"reportable-result-q02","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"Which downstream summaries require correction when an official result is amended?","id":"reportable-result-q03","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"evidence-and-external-alignment","name":"Evidence and external alignment","description":"What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.","layers":[{"id":"reported-evidence","name":"Reported evidence","description":"Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.","findings":[{"id":"evidence-confidence-notes","name":"Check these first","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Coca-Cola 600 this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-confidence-notes-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-standards-and-regulation","name":"Standards and regulation","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Coca-Cola 600 this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-real-world-use","name":"Real-world use","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Coca-Cola 600 this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-real-world-use-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-measurements","name":"Typical measurements","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Coca-Cola 600 this model covers, and on what 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