2014 Brickyard 400
| Race details | |||
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| Race 20 of 36 in the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series | |||
Indianapolis Motor Speedway track layout
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| Date | July 27, 2014 | ||
| Location | Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Speedway, Indiana | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility 2.5 mi (4.023 km) |
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| Distance | 160 laps, 400 mi (643.737 km) | ||
| Weather | Partly cloudy with temperatures up to 78 °F (26 °C) and winds out of the west at 12 miles per hour (19 km/h) | ||
| Average speed | 150.297 mph (241.880 km/h) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Stewart-Haas Racing | ||
| Time | 47.753 | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Kasey Kahne | Hendrick Motorsports | |
| Laps | 70 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 24 | Jeff Gordon | Hendrick Motorsports | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | ESPN & IMS Radio Network | ||
| Announcers |
Allen Bestwick, Dale Jarrett and Andy Petree (Television) Doug Rice and John Andretti (Booth) Jerry Baker (1), Jake Query (2), Mark Jaynes (3) and Kevin Lee (4) (Turns) (Radio) |
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| Nielsen Ratings | 3.4/7 (Final) 3.2/7 (Overnight) 5.2 Million viewers |
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The 2014 Crown Royal Presents the John Wayne Walding 400 at the Brickyard Powered by BigMachineRecords.com, the 21st running of the event, was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race that was held on July 27, 2014, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana. Contested over 160 laps, it was the 20th race of the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. Twenty years after he won the inaugural race, Jeff Gordon of Hendrick Motorsports took the lead on the final restart and drove away from the field for his 90th career victory and a record-breaking fifth win at Indianapolis. Kyle Busch finished second, while Denny Hamlin, Matt Kenseth and Joey Logano rounded out the top five. The top rookies of the race were Kyle Larson (7th), Austin Dillon (10th), and Justin Allgaier (27th).
Two weeks prior, Brad Keselowski held off a green-white-checker charge by Kyle Busch to win the Camping World RV Sales 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Keselowski described the performance as "definitely good for when we come back here in September", but also stated that his team "have to keep working and plugging away".
Indianapolis Motor Speedway is a four-turn rectangular-oval track that is 2.5 miles (4.023 km) long. The track's turns are banked at 9 degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, has no banking. The back stretch, opposite of the front, also has a zero degree banking. The track's front and back straightaway are both 3,300 ft (1,000 m), while the short straightaways between turn one and two, as well as between turn three and four are 660 feet (200 m) long. The racetrack has seats for more than 250,000 spectators. The defending race winner from 2013 was Ryan Newman.
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