Fried Chicken 500



The Fried Chicken 500 is a 500-mile long RARCAR Cup Series race held every year at Random City Fried Chicken Raceway at Random City, Random Region. It is the season-opening race.

The Fried Chicken 500 has been hosted since 1962, about 5 years after RARCAR's founding. Ever since then, it is considered the most important race in an entire RARCAR schedule, also the most entertaining. The Fried Chicken 500 has earned the title of "The Great Randomese Race".

Richie Thomlinson-Meapson is the most recent winner of the Fried Chicken 500, having won it in 2022.

Family winners

 * Engine
 * Father Cole (1986) and son Chad (1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1995, 2000, 2015)
 * Speed
 * Father Zion (1980) and son Zander (2011, 2021)
 * The 2011 Fried Chicken 500 saw the three Speed brothers (Zander, Zayne, Zackary) finish 1st, 2nd, and 3rd respectively.

Drivers whose first RARCAR Cup Series win was the Fried Chicken 500

 * 1964 - Jacob Melvin
 * 1965 - Kairos Genkin
 * 1968 - Carter Tuli
 * 1983 - Shawn Swagseesoup
 * 1997 - Adrian Applesauce - One of only four RARCAR Cup Series victories; fourth career start and first Fried Chicken attempt; first rookie to win the Fried Chicken 500 and youngest Fried Chicken 500 winner
 * 2002 - Justin Bie
 * 2013 - Paul Seth Clark
 * 2014 - Jason Cook
 * 2019 - Samuel Stickman

Youngest and oldest winners of the Fried Chicken 500

 * Youngest: Adrian Applesauce - 1997 (17 years)
 * Oldest: Charlie "Chocolate" Sweets - 1999 (67 years)

Trivia

 * Chad Engine holds the record with most Fried Chicken 500 races won (8).
 * The closest Fried Chicken 500 finish of all time is 1980, where Zion Speed beat Jacob Melvin in a margin of 0.004.
 * The 2015 Fried Chicken 500 attracted the second largest average live Randomese TV audience of any sporting event that year with 20 million viewers.
 * In both times Zander Speed won the Fried Chicken 500, he also won the entire season.
 * As of 2022, Jenna Lane is the only female winner of the Fried Chicken 500, having it won all the way back from 1970.