2013 Federated Auto Parts 400
| Race details | |||
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| Race 26 of 36 in the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series | |||
Richmond International Speedway
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| Date | September 7, 2013 | ||
| Location |
Richmond International Raceway Richmond, Virginia, United States |
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| Course | Permanent racing facility 0.75 mi (1.2 km) |
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| Distance | 400 laps, 300 mi (482.803 km) | ||
| Weather | Temperatures up to 81 °F (27 °C); wind speeds up to 8 miles per hour (13 km/h) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Hendrick Motorsports | ||
| Time | 20.674 seconds | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Brad Keselowski | Penske Racing | |
| Laps | 142 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 99 | Carl Edwards | Roush Fenway Racing | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | ABC | ||
| Announcers | Allen Bestwick, Dale Jarrett and Andy Petree | ||
The 2013 Federated Auto Parts 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race held on September 7, 2013, at Richmond International Raceway in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Contested over 400 laps, it was the twenty-sixth and final race leading into the Chase for the Sprint Cup in the 2013 Sprint Cup Series season. Carl Edwards of Roush Fenway Racing won the race, his second win of the season, while Kurt Busch finished second. Ryan Newman, Jamie McMurray, and Paul Menard rounded out the top five.
The race was the first for Harry Scott, Jr. as a Sprint Cup Series team owner; Ryan Truex drove the #51 car in Scott's debut.
The race was marred by a controversial finish, after evidence surfaced that two teams were found to have manipulated the outcome of the race and Chase positions in the final ten laps. NASCAR ultimately determined that Michael Waltrip Racing, Penske Racing, and Front Row Motorsports were involved in two separate, but intertwined, incidents, first by Clint Bowyer intentionally causing a caution with less than ten laps remaining in the race, and on the ensuing restart, having Brian Vickers pit after a restart from caution so that Martin Truex, Jr. would clinch a Wildcard berth over Ryan Newman, and the second was collusion where Penske's Joey Logano earned the final guaranteed berth over Jeff Gordon after passing Front Row's David Gilliland. Both situations were intertwined together because of the tenth place and wild card situation. This scandal became widely known as Spingate from Bowyer's intentional spin.
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