Scott Fowler: Coca-Cola 600 is usually too long. Not this year. Make it 1,000 miles! NASCAR is back.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Gentlemen, start your engines — in slightly less than three weeks.In a sports world in need of live events, the tentative return of NASCAR’s Cup racing May 17 and May 20 in Darlington, S.C. — and then to Charlotte Motor Speedway for the Coca-Cola 600 on May 24 — qualifies as a huge dose of good news.NASCAR is expected to make an announcement soon for a radically revised version of its highest-level series — one that would also include a shorter points race to be held at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 27. Other races in NASCAR’s lower series may also be scheduled in late May …

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