2014 Bojangles' Southern 500
| Race details | |||
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| Race 8 of 36 in the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series | |||
| Date | April 12, 2014 | ||
| Location | Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility 1.366 mi (2.198 km) |
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| Distance | 374 laps, 510.884 mi (822.188 km) | ||
| Scheduled Distance | 367 laps, 501.322 mi (806.800 km) | ||
| Weather | Clear skies with a temperature of 81 °F (27 °C); wind out of the southwest at 10 mph (16 km/h) | ||
| Average speed | 131.211 mph (211.164 km/h) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Stewart-Haas Racing | ||
| Time | 26.802 | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Kevin Harvick | Stewart-Haas Racing | |
| Laps | 238 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 4 | Kevin Harvick | Stewart-Haas Racing | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | Fox & MRN | ||
| Announcers |
Mike Joy, Darrell Waltrip and Larry McReynolds (Television) Joe Moore, Barney Hall and Jeff Striegle (Booth) Dave Moody (1 & 2) and Mike Bagley (3 & 4) (Turns) (Radio) |
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| Nielsen Ratings | 3.6/7 (Final) 3.2/5 (Overnight) 5.921 Million viewers |
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The 2014 Bojangles' Southern 500, the 58th running of the event that traces its lineage to the 1957 Rebel 300, was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on April 12, 2014, at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina. The race was contested over 374 laps – extended from 367 laps due to two attempts at a green–white–checker finish – on the 1.366 miles (2.198 km) oval, it was the eighth race of the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Kevin Harvick of Stewart-Haas Racing won the race, his second win of the season and first at Darlington, while Dale Earnhardt, Jr. finished second. Jimmie Johnson, Matt Kenseth, and Greg Biffle rounded out the top five. The race was also the first Darlington race won by a polesitter since Dale Jarrett, in the 1997 Rebel (then a 400-mile race). The top rookies of the race were Kyle Larson (8th), Austin Dillon (11th), and Justin Allgaier (23rd). It was the longest race in Darlington Raceway history.
Joey Logano passed Jeff Gordon on the final lap to score the victory in the Duck Commander 500 at Texas Motor Speedway. "Talk about a lot of emotion," Logano said. "You feel like you are about to win the race and then the caution comes out when you come to take the white and you’re like, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me.'" “That was a great battle,” said Gordon. “At one point I thought we had a shot at it. We got a pretty good restart. Joey was right on me and I was pretty loose in one and two, and I wish I had gone a little bit higher in three and four. But, he got that run off of four and he got in the back of me, and I thought I was going to wreck, so at that point I was like second would be good."
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