2014 FedEx 400

Race details[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
Race 13 of 36 in the2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
The race under green flag
Date	June 1, 2014 (2014-06-01)
Location	Dover International Speedway,Dover,Delaware
Course	Permanent racing facility
Course length	1 miles (1.6 km)
Distance	400 laps, 400 mi (643.737 km)
Weather	Sunny with a high temperature of 71 °F (22 °C); wind out of the East at 6 miles per hour (9.7 km/h).
Average speed	117.724 mph (189.458 km/h)
Pole position
Driver	Brad Keselowski	Team Penske
Time	21.892
Most laps led
Driver	Jimmie Johnson	Hendrick Motorsports
Laps	272
Winner
No. 48	Jimmie Johnson	Hendrick Motorsports
Television in the United States
Network	Fox &MRN
Announcers	Mike Joy,Darrell Waltrip andLarry McReynolds (Television) Joe Moore and Jeff Striegle (Booth) Mike Bagley (Backstretch) (Radio)
Nielsen ratings	3.5/9 (Final) 3.3/9 (Overnight) 5.4 Million viewers[11]

The2014 FedEx 400 benefiting Autism Speaks was aNASCARSprint Cup Series stock carrace held on June 1, 2014, atDover International Speedway inDover,Delaware. Contested over 400 laps on the 1 mile (1.6 km) oval, it was the 13th race of the2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.Jimmie Johnson won the race, his second of the season and ninth at Dover, whileBrad Keselowski finished second.Matt Kenseth,Clint Bowyer, andDenny Hamlin rounded out the top five. The top rookies of the race wereKyle Larson (11th),Austin Dillon (20th), andBrett Moffitt (22nd).

The entry list for the FedEx 400 was released on Tuesday, May 27, 2014, at 9:37 a.m. Eastern time. Forty-three drivers were entered which meant no one failed to qualify.

Kyle Busch was the fastest in first practice with a time of 21.648 and a speed of 166.297 mph (267.629 km/h).

Brad Keselowski won the pole with a new track record time of 21.892 and a speed of 164.444 mph (264.647 km/h). After the session, Keselowski stated that his team "gave me a great car here", as he entered the weekend looking for a second win of 2014.^[12]

Brad Keselowski was also the fastest in the second practice session with a time of 22.542 and a speed of 159.702 mph (257.015 km/h).

Jimmie Johnson was the fastest in final practice with a time of 22.661 and a speed of 158.863 mph (255.665 km/h).

The race began at 1:18 p.m local time.Kyle Larson had to start from the rear of the field due to an engine change.Kyle Busch led his 10,000th lap in Sprint Cup Series competition on lap 29, becoming the 15th driver to reach the milestone.^[13]Alex Bowman brushed the wall and brought out the first caution on lap 65. Following the pit stops,Denny Hamlin andDavid Ragan were both caught speeding on pit road. Kyle Busch led the first 81 laps but was passed byJimmie Johnson for the lead. Coming off turn four,Clint Bowyer squeezed Busch into the wall on lap 124; Busch hit the wall in turn one and brought out the second caution of the race. He attempted to get back at Bowyer but his crew chief told him it was not Bowyer's fault.^[14] Bowyer later regarded the race as a "frustrating day", compromising his own race and Busch's race.

Coming off turn two,A. J. Allmendinger came acrossRicky Stenhouse Jr. and got loose. He collectedGreg Biffle and both got loose. Biffle went into the wall tail-first, hit Stenhouse, and sent him into the outside wall and head first into the inside one on the backstretch.Landon Cassill andRyan Truex also spun out in Turn 1. This brought out the third caution of the race. The race was then red-flagged, whileJustin Allgaier also took damage when he was clipped in the side by Allmendinger.Kevin Harvick took the lead from Johnson on the restart while on lap 157,Jamie McMurray hit a piece on concrete in Turn 2, hit the wall in Turn 3 and brought out the fourth caution. This happened in a similar fashion toJeff Gordon atMartinsville Speedway in 2004. NASCAR was forced to red flag the race for a second time to fix a hole in the track, while the concrete also damaged the glass covering the crossover bridge that crosses over the top of Turn 2. The race was suspended for 22 minutes, with Harvick holding the lead at the restart. However, just after the restart, Harvick had a tire go down andMatt Kenseth took the lead.

Johnson retook the lead on lap 178, and upon completing lap 215, he became the all-time leader in laps led at Dover. Bowman hit the wall for a third time in turn 1 and brought out the fifth caution on lap 222.J. J. Yeley brought out the sixth caution on lap 240 after blowing his engine, while debris brought out the seventh caution with forty laps to go.Casey Mears' right-rear tire came apart and the inner-liner rubber that came off the tire brought out the eighth caution with eight laps to go. Johnson held off a four lap charge byBrad Keselowski to take his second win of the season – successively, for the 13th time in his career – and 68th of his career. "It is incredible," Johnson said. "This race car was awesome. I just have so much to be thankful for. Chad (crew chief Knaus) told me I'd love the car, and sure enough, from the time we unloaded the car, he was right." Keselowski described his day as "up and down" and that his car did not progress as much as he had liked until the halfway mark of the race.^[15]

• Lead changes: 18 among different drivers
• Cautions/Laps: 8 for 41
• Red flags: 2 for 29:01
• Time of race: 3 hours, 23 minutes and 52 seconds
• Average speed: 117.724 miles per hour (189.458 km/h)

Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 1 Matt Kenseth 463 1 2 Jeff Gordon 461 (−2) 1 3 Carl Edwards 438 (−25) 2 4 Jimmie Johnson 436 (−27) 5 Dale Earnhardt Jr. 429 (−34) 1 6 Joey Logano 414 (−49) 4 7 Kyle Busch 411 (−52) 1 8 Brad Keselowski 404 (−59) 5 9 Denny Hamlin 379 (−84) 3 10 Kyle Larson(R) 377 (−86) 1 11 Ryan Newman 374 (−89) 12 Kevin Harvick 373 (−90) 5 13 Brian Vickers 366 (−97) 2 14 Paul Menard 362 (−101) 15 Austin Dillon(R) 358 (−105) 5 16 Greg Biffle 357 (−106)

Manufacturers' Championship standings Pos Manufacturer Points 1 Chevrolet 585 2 Ford 558 (−27) 3 Toyota 528 (−57) Note: Only the first sixteen positions are included for the driver standings.

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