2013 Cheez-It 355 at The Glen
| Race details | |||
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| Race 22 of 36 in the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series | |||
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| Date | August 11, 2013 | ||
| Location | Watkins Glen International, Watkins Glen, New York | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility 2.454 mi (5.43 km) |
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| Distance | 90 laps, 220.5 mi (354.9 km) | ||
| Weather | Temperatures up to 78.1 °F (25.6 °C); wind speeds up to 8.9 miles per hour (14.3 km/h) | ||
| Average speed | 87.001 mph (140.015 km/h) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Richard Petty Motorsports | ||
| Time | 68.777 seconds | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Marcos Ambrose | Richard Petty Motorsports | |
| Laps | 51 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 18 | Kyle Busch | Joe Gibbs Racing | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | ESPN | ||
| Announcers | Allen Bestwick, Dale Jarrett and Andy Petree | ||
| Nielsen Ratings | 2.7 (4.171 million viewers) | ||
The 2013 Cheez-It 355 at The Glen was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race that was held on August 11 at Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen, New York. Contested over 90 laps on the 2.45-mile (4.023 km) road course, it was the twenty-second race of the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. Kyle Busch of Joe Gibbs Racing won the race, his third of the season, while Brad Keselowski finished second. Martin Truex, Jr., Carl Edwards and Juan Pablo Montoya rounded out the top five.
Watkins Glen International is one of two road courses to hold NASCAR races, the other being Sonoma Raceway. The standard short road course at Watkins Glen International is a 7-turn course that is 2.45 miles (3.94 km) long; the track was modified in 1992, adding the Inner Loop, which lengthened the long course to 3.4 miles (5.5 km) and the short course to the current length of 2.45 miles (3.94 km).Marcos Ambrose was the defending race winner after winning the race in 2011 and 2012.
On August 6, it was announced that Tony Stewart would not be participating after breaking both bones in his right leg in a Sprint car accident at Southern Iowa Speedway in Oskaloosa, Iowa, on the night of August 5. Instead, road racing veteran Max Papis would step in and replace Stewart for the Watkins Glen event, with future drivers to be decided for the next four or five oval races. This marked the first race since his debut in the 1999 Daytona 500 that a Sprint Cup race did not have Stewart in the field, ending a streak of 521 straight starts for Stewart.
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