2014 Oral-B USA 500
| Race details | |||
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| Race 25 of 36 in the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series | |||
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| Date | August 31, 2014 | ||
| Location |
Atlanta Motor Speedway Hampton, Georgia |
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| Course | Permanent racing facility 1.54 mi (2.48 km) |
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| Distance | 335 laps, 515.9 mi (830.8 km) | ||
| Scheduled Distance | 325 laps, 500.5 mi (805.476 km) | ||
| Weather | Partly cloudy with a temperature of 84 °F (29 °C); wind out of the west at 3 miles per hour (4.8 km/h) | ||
| Average speed | 131.512 mph (211.648 km/h) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Stewart-Haas Racing | ||
| Time | 29.118 | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Kevin Harvick | Stewart-Haas Racing | |
| Laps | 195 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 5 | Kasey Kahne | Hendrick Motorsports | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | ESPN & PRN | ||
| Announcers |
Allen Bestwick, Dale Jarrett and Andy Petree (Television) Doug Rice and Mark Garrow (Booth) Rob Albright (1 & 2) and Doug Turnball (3 & 4) (Turns) (Radio) |
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| Nielsen Ratings | 3.2/7 (Final) 3.0/7 (Overnight) 5.21 Million viewers |
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The 2014 Oral-B USA 500 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race that was held on August 31, 2014, at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Georgia. Contested over 335 laps on the 1.54 mi (2.48 km) quad-oval, it was the 25th race of the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Kasey Kahne of Hendrick Motorsports won the race, his first win of the season. Matt Kenseth finished second, while Denny Hamlin, Jimmie Johnson and Carl Edwards rounded out the top five. The top rookies of the race were Kyle Larson (8th), Michael Annett (21st), and Austin Dillon (24th).
Joey Logano took the lead with 44 laps to go and had to hold off a late race charge by Team Penske team mate Brad Keselowski to score his third win of the 2014 season, at the Irwin Tools Night Race. Logano described the result as "awesome", and also reflected on his personal best 2014 campaign. Keselowski praised Logano's performance, stating that "he ran a great race" while his car "was just about equal to Joey's but he just had better track position than on us".
The venue, Atlanta Motor Speedway, is a four-turn quad-oval track that is 1.54 miles (2.48 km) long. The track's turns are banked at twenty-four degrees, while the 2,332-foot (711 m) front stretch, the location of the finish line, and the 1,800-foot (550 m) back stretch are banked at five. The track's racing surface width varies from 55 feet to 60 feet. The defending race winner from 2013 was Kyle Busch.
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