2014 STP 500
| Race details | |||
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| Race 6 of 36 in the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series | |||
| Date | March 30, 2014 | ||
| Location |
Martinsville Speedway Ridgeway, Virginia |
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| Course | Permanent racing facility 0.526 mi (0.847 km) |
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| Distance | 500 laps, 263 mi (423.257 km) | ||
| Weather | Mostly cloudy with a temperature around 48 °F (9 °C); wind out of the NNW at 25 miles per hour (40 km/h) | ||
| Average speed | 72.176 mph (116.156 km/h) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Joe Gibbs Racing | ||
| Time | 18.998 | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Jimmie Johnson | Hendrick Motorsports | |
| Laps | 296 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 41 | Kurt Busch | Stewart-Haas Racing | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | Fox & MRN | ||
| Announcers |
Mike Joy, Darrell Waltrip and Larry McReynolds (Television) Joe Moore and Barney Hall (Booth) Dave Moody (Backstretch) (Radio) |
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| Nielsen Ratings | 4.2/10 (Final) 3.8/9 (Overnight) 6.7 Million viewers |
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The 2014 STP 500 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race that was held on March 30, 2014, at Martinsville Speedway in Ridgeway, Virginia. Contested over 500 laps on the 0.526 miles (0.847 km) oval, it was the sixth race of the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Kurt Busch won the race, his first win with Stewart-Haas Racing, breaking an 83-race winless streak. Jimmie Johnson finished second, while Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Joey Logano, and Marcos Ambrose rounded out the top five. The top rookies of the race were Austin Dillon (15th), Justin Allgaier (23rd), and Kyle Larson (27th).
On the final lap of the Auto Club 400, Kyle Busch passed his brother Kurt Busch and held off a hard charging rookie Kyle Larson to win the race. "Holy cow, what do you expect when you have a green-white-checkered finish and everyone comes down pit road to put on four tires," Busch said. "That's a Days of Thunder thing right there. What do you mean, there's two laps to go, everybody is to pit, Cole. I came off the fourth turn in disbelief that we won this thing, because we were mediocre all day. It was really weird for us, not a race that we're typically used to. But now there's a load off your shoulders that you can go out the rest of the season and race the way you want to." After winning his first Nationwide Series race the previous day, Larson stated that it had "been a really good weekend" and that he had been battling "probably a 12th place car for most of the day".
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