2014 Pure Michigan 400
| Race details | |||
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| Race 23 of 36 in the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series | |||
| Date | August 17, 2014 | ||
| Location |
Michigan International Speedway Brooklyn, Michigan |
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| Course | Permanent racing facility 2.0 mi (3.2 km) |
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| Distance | 200 laps, 400 mi (640 km) | ||
| Weather | Cloudy with a temperature of 71 °F (22 °C); wind out of the east at 5 miles per hour (8.0 km/h) | ||
| Average speed | 141.788 mph (228.186 km/h) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Hendrick Motorsports | ||
| Time | 34.857 | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Joey Logano | Team Penske | |
| Laps | 82 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 24 | Jeff Gordon | Hendrick Motorsports | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | ESPN & MRN | ||
| Announcers |
Allen Bestwick, Dale Jarrett and Andy Petree (Television) Joe Moore and Jeff Striegle (Booth) Dave Moody (1 & 2) and Buddy Long (3 & 4) (Turns) (Radio) |
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| Nielsen Ratings | 3.2/7 (Final) 3.0/7 (Overnight) 5.150 Million viewers |
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The 2014 Pure Michigan 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race that was held on August 17, 2014, at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan. Contested over 200 laps on the 2.0-mile (3.2 km) superspeedway, it was the 23rd race of the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Jeff Gordon won the race, his third win of the season. Kevin Harvick finished second while Joey Logano, Paul Menard, and Dale Earnhardt Jr. rounded out the top five. The top rookies of the race were Austin Dillon (22nd), Cole Whitt (25th), and Alex Bowman (26th).
A. J. Allmendinger held off a hard charging Marcos Ambrose with two laps to go to score his first career Sprint Cup Series victory in the Cheez-It 355 at The Glen at Watkins Glen International. Upon exiting his car, Allmendinger expressed his delight at the result, stating he could not "believe we've won a NASCAR Sprint Cup race", before congratulating his entire JTG Daugherty Racing team, expressing "with this whole 47 team, [team owners] Tad Geschickter, Jody Geschickter, Brad Daugherty, all the great sponsors we have, our first Cup victory together, my first victory...I love these guys. I just wanted it so bad for them and this team. They work so hard. I wasn't gonna let Marcos take that from me".
The track, Michigan International Speedway, is a four-turn superspeedway that is 2 miles (3.2 km) long. Opened in 1960, the track's turns are banked at eighteen degrees, while the 3,600-foot-long front stretch, the location of the finish line, is banked at twelve degrees. The back stretch, has a five degree banking and is 2,242 feet long. Michigan International Speedway has a grandstand seating capacity of 84,000 people.Joey Logano was the defending race winner from the 2013 race.
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