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2013 Federated Auto Parts 400
Race details[1]
Race 26 of 36 in the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
2013 Federated Auto Parts 400 program cover
Date
September 7, 2013 (2013-09-07)
Location
Richmond International Raceway Richmond, Virginia, United States
Course
Permanent racing facility 0.75 mi (1.2 km)
Distance
400 laps, 300 mi (482.803 km)
Weather
Temperatures up to 81 °F (27 °C); wind speeds up to 8 miles per hour (13 km/h)[2]
Pole position
Driver
Jeff Gordon
Hendrick Motorsports
Time
20.674 seconds
Most laps led
Driver
Brad Keselowski
Penske Racing
Laps
142
Winner
No. 99
Carl Edwards
Roush Fenway Racing
Television in the United States
Network
ABC
Announcers
Allen Bestwick, Dale Jarrett and Andy Petree
Motor car race
The 2013 Federated Auto Parts 400 also known as “Spingate” was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on September 7, 2013, at Richmond International Raceway in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Contested over 400 laps, it was the twenty-sixth and final race leading into the Chase for the Sprint Cup in the 2013 Sprint Cup Series season. Carl Edwards of Roush Fenway Racing won the race, his second win of the season, while Kurt Busch finished second. Ryan Newman, Jamie McMurray, and Paul Menard rounded out the top five.
The race was the first for Harry Scott Jr. as a Sprint Cup Series team owner; Ryan Truex drove the #51 car in the team's debut.
The layout of Richmond International Raceway, the venue where the race was held.
The race was marred by a controversial finish, after evidence surfaced that two teams were found to have manipulated the outcome of the race and Chase positions in the final ten laps. NASCAR ultimately determined that Michael Waltrip Racing, Penske Racing, and Front Row Motorsports were involved in two separate, but intertwined, incidents, first by Clint Bowyer intentionally causing a caution with less than ten laps remaining in the race, and on the ensuing restart, having Brian Vickers pit after a restart from caution so that Martin Truex Jr. would clinch a Wildcard berth over Ryan Newman, and the second was collusion where Penske's Joey Logano earned the final guaranteed berth over Jeff Gordon after passing Front Row's David Gilliland. Both situations were intertwined together because of the tenth place and wild card situation. This scandal became widely known as Spingate.
^"2013 Sprint Cup Series Schedule". ESPN. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
^"2013 Federated Auto Parts 400 weather information". The Old Farmers' Almanac. Retrieved October 9, 2013.
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