2014 Duck Commander 500
| Race details | |||
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| Race 7 of 36 in the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series | |||
| Date | April 7, 2014 | ||
| Location | Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility 1.5 mi (2.4 km) |
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| Distance | 340 laps, 510.000 mi (820.765 km) | ||
| Scheduled Distance | 334 laps, 501.000 mi (806.281 km) | ||
| Weather | Partly cloudy with a temperature of 55 °F (13 °C), wind out of the northwest at 10 mph (16 km/h) | ||
| Average speed | 134.191 mph (215.959 km/h) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Stewart-Haas Racing | ||
| Time | 27.628 | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Joey Logano | Team Penske | |
| Laps | 108 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 22 | Joey Logano | Team Penske | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | Fox & PRN | ||
| Announcers |
Mike Joy, Darrell Waltrip and Larry McReynolds (Television) Doug Rice and Mark Garrow (Booth) Rob Albright (1 & 2) and Brad Gillie (3 & 4) (Turns) (Radio) |
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| Nielsen Ratings | 2.4/4 (Final) 2.1/4 (Overnight) 3.8 Million viewers |
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The 2014 Duck Commander 500 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on April 7, 2014, at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas. Contested over 340 laps – extended from 334 laps, due to a green–white–checker finish – on the 1.5 miles (2.4 km) quad-oval, it was the seventh race of the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Joey Logano of Team Penske won the race, while Jeff Gordon finished second and Kyle Busch, Brian Vickers, and the best placed rookie Kyle Larson rounded out the top five. After Larson, the top rookies of the race were Austin Dillon in 21st, and Justin Allgaier in 24th place.
Kurt Busch took the lead with ten laps to go and held off Jimmie Johnson to end an 83-race winless streak drought, and score his 25th career victory in the STP 500 at Martinsville Speedway. Busch stated that he "didn't know if we'd be able to do it, you know? The 48 car is king here, him or the 24", and that he had "been on this journey for a while and every time you come to Martinsville, you just kind of draw a line through it like there's no way I'll be able to challenge those Hendrick guys or be up in the top 10. This Stewart-Haas team gave me a car to do it." Johnson, who led 296 laps, stated that his car was "so on edge slipping and sliding" and that a "lack of security in our own car kept us from feeling more racy and putting a bumper to someone or really getting inside someone aggressively".
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