2016 Pure Michigan 400
| Race details | |||
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| Race 24 of 36 in the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series | |||
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| Date | August 28, 2016 | ||
| Location | Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility 2 mi (3.2 km) |
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| Distance | 200 laps, 400 mi (640 km) | ||
| Average speed | 162.730 mph (261.889 km/h) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Team Penske | ||
| Time | 35.697 | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Kyle Larson | Chip Ganassi Racing | |
| Laps | 41 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 42 | Kyle Larson | Chip Ganassi Racing | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | NBCSN | ||
| Announcers | Rick Allen, Jeff Burton and Steve Letarte | ||
| Nielsen Ratings | 1.9/3 (Overnight) 2.1/4 (Final) 3.4 million viewers |
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| Radio in the United States | |||
| Radio | MRN | ||
| Booth Announcers | Kurt Becker and Jeff Striegle | ||
| Turn Announcers | Dave Moody (1 & 2) and Alex Hayden (3 & 4) | ||
The 2016 Pure Michigan 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on August 28, 2016 at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan. Contested over 200 laps on the two-mile (3.2 km) D-shaped oval, it was the 24th race of the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season.
Kyle Larson won his first race of the season, the race had thirteen lead changes among different drivers and four cautions for 17 laps.
Michigan International Speedway (MIS) is a two-mile (3.2 km) moderate-banked D-shaped speedway located off U.S. Highway 12 on more than 1,400 acres (5.7 km2) approximately four miles (6.4 km) south of the village of Brooklyn, in the scenic Irish Hills area of southeastern Michigan. The track is used primarily for NASCAR events. It is sometimes known as a "sister track" to Texas World Speedway, and was used as the basis of Auto Club Speedway. The track is owned by International Speedway Corporation (ISC). Michigan International Speedway is recognized as one of motorsports' premier facilities because of its wide racing surface and high banking (by open-wheel standards; the 18-degree banking is modest by stock car standards). Michigan is the fastest track in NASCAR due to its wide, sweeping corners and long straightaways; typical qualifying speeds are in excess of 200 mph (320 km/h) and corner entry speeds are anywhere from 215 to 220 mph (346 to 354 km/h) after the 2012 repaving of the track.
NASCAR announced in late July that the modified aerodynamic package used at Michigan in June and Kentucky in July was used one more time this past weekend at Michigan. In addition to the aero changes used in the 2016 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race, there was a reduction in spoiler size from 3.5 to 2.5 in (8.9 to 6.4 cm), a two-inch (5.1 cm) reduction of the splitter and resizing the deck fin.
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