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| Race 25 of 36 in the2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series | |||
 Atlanta Motor Speedway track layout | |||
| Date | September 1, 2013 (2013-09-01) | ||
| Location | Atlanta Motor Speedway Hampton,Georgia,United States | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 1.54 miles (2.48 km) | ||
| Distance | 325 laps, 500.5 mi (805.476 km) | ||
| Weather | Temperatures up to 90 °F (32 °C); wind speeds up to 14 miles per hour (23 km/h)[2] | ||
| Average speed | 135.128 mph (217.467 km/h) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Roush Fenway Racing | ||
| Time | 29.227 seconds | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Joey Logano | Penske Racing | |
| Laps | 77 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 18 | Kyle Busch | Joe Gibbs Racing | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | ESPN | ||
| Announcers | Allen Bestwick,Dale Jarrett, andAndy Petree | ||
| Nielsen ratings | 3.2 (5.323 million viewers) | ||
The2013 AdvoCare 500 was aNASCARSprint Cup Seriesstock car race that was held on September 1, 2013, atAtlanta Motor Speedway inHampton,Georgia,United States. Contested over 325 laps on the 1.54-mile (2.48 km)quad-oval, it was the twenty-fifth race of the2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season.Kyle Busch ofJoe Gibbs Racing won the race, his fourth win of the season, whileJoey Logano finished second.Martin Truex Jr.,Kurt Busch, andRyan Newman rounded out the top five.
Atlanta Motor Speedway is a four-turnquad-oval track that is 1.54 miles (2.48 km) long.[3] The track's turns arebanked at twenty-fourdegrees, while the 2,332-foot (711 m) front stretch, the location of the finish line, and the 1,800-foot (550 m) back stretch are banked at five.[3] The track's racing surface width varies from 55 feet to 60 feet.[3]Denny Hamlin was the race's defending winner after winning the event in2012.[4]
Before the race,Jimmie Johnson was leading theDrivers' Championship with 821 points, whileClint Bowyer stood in second with 803 points.[5]Carl Edwards followed in the third with 768, eight points ahead ofKevin Harvick and twenty-nine ahead ofKyle Busch in fourth and fifth.[5]Matt Kenseth, with 730, was in sixth; twenty-two ahead ofDale Earnhardt Jr., who was scored seventh.[5] Eighth-placedKasey Kahne was three points ahead ofGreg Biffle and sixteen ahead ofJoey Logano in ninth and tenth.[5] In theManufacturers' Championship,Chevrolet was leading with 168 points, eleven points ahead ofToyota.[6]Ford was third with 124 points.[6]
(R) - Denotes rookie driver.
(i) - Denotes driver who is ineligible for series driver points.
Three practice sessions were held before the race. The first session, scheduled on August 30, 2013, was 90 minutes long. The second and third, held a day later on August 31, 2013, were 55 and 50 minutes long.[7] In the first practice session,Brad Keselowski was the quickest with a best lap time of 29.168 seconds.[8] Edwards followed in second, ahead ofJuan Pablo Montoya andKurt Busch in third and fourth.[8] Bowyer was scored fifth-quickest with a best lap time of 29.491, more than three-tenths slower than Keselowski.[8] Logano,Martin Truex Jr.,Mark Martin, Biffle, and Kenseth completed the top-ten.[8]
During the qualifying session,Rookie of the Year contender,Ricky Stenhouse Jr. recorded his first Sprint Cup Series careerpole position[9] with a lap time of 29.227 seconds and a speed of 189.688 mph (305.273 km/h).[10] Edwards, who completed his lap in 29.330 seconds, will start alongside Stenhouse on the grid, in front of Montoya, Hamlin, andJeff Gordon.[10] Kenseth, with a lap time of 29.492 seconds, was scored sixth ahead of Truex and Earnhardt in seventh and eighth.[10] Kyle Busch and Johnson completed the first ten grid positions with lap times of 29.570 and 29.572 seconds.[10]
In the first Saturday session, Edwards was quickest with a fastest lap time of 30.224 seconds, six-thousandths of a second faster than Kahne in second. Keselowski managed to be third-quickest with a fastest lap time of 30.290. Bowyer and Kenseth followed in the fourth and fifth positions.[11] Johnson, Kyle Busch, Montoya, Harvick, and Biffle completed the first ten positions.[11] In the final practice session, Johnson was quickest with a time of 29.735 seconds and a best speed of 186.447 mph (300.057 km/h).[12] Bowyer followed in second, ahead of Edwards and Montoya in third and fourth.[12] Kahne, who was second-quickest in second practice,[11] managed fifth.[12] In the second session, Harvick had the quickest ten consecutive lap average with a speed of 176.789 miles per hour (284.514 km/h),[11] while Edwards had the best average in the final session with a speed of 179.527 miles per hour (288.921 km/h).[12]
The race went underway at 7:30 p.m. EDT, withJuan Pablo Montoya leading the field to the green flag, A couple of laps later, the first caution came out on lap 25, this was a scheduled competition caution, the race restarted on lap 30 and the second caution came out for a one car wreck in the entrance of pit road byKasey Kahne, the race restarted on lap 39, withCarl Edwards, the race leader.
Debris on the track brought out the third caution on lap 58, the race restarted on lap 63 withJeff Gordon the race leader, A couple of laps later, the fourth caution came out on lap 193 whenClint Bowyer blew an engine, the race restarted on lap 198, The fifth caution came out on lap 206 whenDenny Hamlin spun out in the back straightaway, the race restarted on lap 212 withJoey Logano the race leader, the sixth caution came out with 42 laps to go when Jimmie Johnson spun out, the race restarted with 33 laps to go, the seventh caution came out whenBrian Vickers caught the grass, with 31 laps to go, the race restarted with 28 laps to go, the eighth caution came out for a two-car wreck involvingJeff Burton andAustin Dillon, the race restarted with 22 laps to go withMartin Truex Jr. the race leader,Kyle Busch won his race at Atlanta.
^1 Points include 3Chase for the Sprint Cup points for winning, 1 point for leading a lap, and 1 point for most laps led.
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