2014 Toyota Owners 400
| Race details | |||
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| Race 9 of 36 in the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series | |||
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| Date | April 26, 2014 | ||
| Location | Richmond International Raceway in Richmond, Virginia | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility 0.75 mi (1.2 km) |
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| Distance | 400 laps, 300 mi (482.803 km) | ||
| Weather | Sunny, 78 °F (26 °C), 13 mph (21 km/h) winds WSW | ||
| Average speed | 93.369 mph (150.263 km/h) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Chip Ganassi Racing | ||
| Time | 21.280 (set by first practice) | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Jeff Gordon | Hendrick Motorsports | |
| Laps | 173 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 22 | Joey Logano | Team Penske | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | Fox & MRN | ||
| Announcers |
Mike Joy, Darrell Waltrip and Larry McReynolds (Television) Joe Moore and Jeff Striegle (Booth) Mike Bagley (Backstretch) (Radio) |
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| Nielsen Ratings | 3.3/7 (Final) 3.0/7 (Overnight) 5.573 Million viewers |
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The 2014 Toyota Owners 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on April 26, 2014, at Richmond International Raceway in Richmond, Virginia. Contested over 400 laps on the 0.75 miles (1.21 km) D-shaped short track, it was the ninth race of the 2014 Sprint Cup Series championship. Joey Logano recorded his fifth career win in this race. Jeff Gordon finished second, while Kyle Busch, Brad Keselowski, and Matt Kenseth rounded out the top five. The top rookies of the race were Kyle Larson (16th), Justin Allgaier (21st), and Austin Dillon (27th).
On the final restart of the Bojangles' Southern 500, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. got an excellent start to get ahead of Kevin Harvick, but Harvick with four tires passed Dale on two and took the victory at Darlington Raceway. “This is the one race I told Rodney (Childers, crew chief) I wanted to win,” said Harvick. “We were able to put it all together, but this is the Southern 500, this is as big as it gets in NASCAR racing. It feels great. It’s allowed us with the way the points system is to go for wins and not have to worry about the bad weeks too much,” he said. “Really proud for these guys and looking forward to the last 10." “It's a little disappointing to come that close because I know I don't really run that well here and the opportunities to win are going to be very few compared to other tracks,” said Earnhardt Jr. “It hurts a little bit to come that close because we worked so hard to try to win races. Running second is great but nobody is going to really remember that. But we're proud of it.” “Yeah, just very happy to finish there in the top three,” said Johnson. “I thought we had a shot at a win. I think if things stayed green after our last pit stop, we had a good chance at it, good shot at it. I'm happy with (crew chief) Chad's (Knaus) decision to go with two, and there were enough cars that took two that it gave us a little bit of a cushion, maybe enough of a cushion to make it four or five laps there.”
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