2013 Federated Auto Parts 400

Auto race at Richmond in 2013 September 2013 February 2025 NAS Federated Auto Parts 400 https://www.espn.com/racing/schedule/_/year/2013 2013 Sprint Cup Series Schedule ESPN 7 September 2013 2013 09 07 2013 26 36 2013_Federated_Auto_Parts_400_program_cover.jpeg 2013 Federated Auto Parts 400 program cover Richmond International RacewayRichmond, Virginia, United States 0.75 1.2 400 300 482.803 Temperatures up to 81 F C; wind speeds up to 8 mph km/h2013 Federated Auto Parts 400 weather information http://www.almanac.com/weather/history/VA/Richmond/2013-09-07 The Old Farmers' Almanac October 9, 2013 Jeff Gordon Hendrick Motorsports 20.674 seconds Brad Keselowski Penske Racing 142 99 Carl Edwards Roush Fenway Racing ABC Allen Bestwick, Dale Jarrett and Andy Petree The 2013 Federated Auto Parts 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series 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. thumb|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 amongst fans and journalists as Spingate. Entry list Car Driver Make Team1Jamie McMurrayChevroletEarnhardt Ganassi Racing2Brad KeselowskiFordPenske Racing5Kasey KahneChevroletHendrick Motorsports7Dave BlaneyChevroletTommy Baldwin Racing9Marcos AmbroseFordRichard Petty Motorsports10Danica PatrickChevroletStewart–Haas Racing11Denny HamlinToyotaJoe Gibbs Racing13Casey MearsFordGermain Racing14Mark MartinChevroletStewart–Haas Racing15Clint BowyerToyotaMichael Waltrip Racing16Greg BiffleFordRoush Fenway Racing17Ricky Stenhouse Jr.FordRoush Fenway Racing18Kyle BuschToyotaJoe Gibbs Racing19Mike BlissToyotaHumphrey Smith Racing20Matt KensethToyotaJoe Gibbs Racing22Joey LoganoFordPenske Racing24Jeff GordonChevroletHendrick Motorsports27Paul MenardChevroletRichard Childress Racing29Kevin HarvickChevroletRichard Childress Racing30David StremmeToyotaSwan Racing31Jeff BurtonChevroletRichard Childress Racing32Ken SchraderFordFAS Lane Racing33Tony RainesChevroletCircle Sport34David RaganFordFront Row Motorsports35Josh WiseFordFront Row Motorsports36J.J. YeleyChevroletTommy Baldwin Racing38David GillilandFordFront Row Motorsports39Ryan NewmanChevroletStewart–Haas Racing40Landon CassillChevroletCircle Sport42Juan Pablo MontoyaChevroletEarnhardt Ganassi Racing43Aric AlmirolaFordRichard Petty Motorsports47A.J. AllmendingerToyotaJTG Daugherty Racing48Jimmie JohnsonChevroletHendrick Motorsports51Ryan TruexChevroletHScott Motorsports55Brian VickersToyotaMichael Waltrip Racing56Martin Truex Jr.ToyotaMichael Waltrip Racing78Kurt BuschChevroletFurniture Row Racing83David ReutimannToyotaBK Racing87Joe NemechekToyotaNEMCO-Jay Robinson Racing88Dale Earnhardt Jr.ChevroletHendrick Motorsports93Travis KvapilToyotaBK Racing95Reed SorensonFordLeavine Family Racing98Michael McDowellFordPhil Parsons Racing99Carl EdwardsFordRoush Fenway Racing Results Qualifying Pos No. Car NumberDriver Team Make Speed Speed in MPH Time Time in seconds124Jeff GordonHendrick MotorsportsChevrolet130.59920.674278Kurt BuschFurniture Row RacingChevrolet130.33420.71632Brad KeselowskiPenske RacingFord130.15820.744415Clint BowyerMichael Waltrip RacingToyota130.02020.766520Matt KensethJoe Gibbs RacingToyota129.86420.791611Denny HamlinJoe Gibbs RacingToyota129.85120.79371Jamie McMurrayEarnhardt Ganassi RacingChevrolet129.68920.819822Joey LoganoPenske RacingFord129.63320.828916Greg BiffleRoush Fenway RacingFord129.36620.8711048Regan SmithHendrick MotorsportsChevrolet129.28620.8841156Martin Truex Jr.Michael Waltrip RacingToyota129.22420.8941242Juan Pablo MontoyaEarnhardt Ganassi RacingChevrolet129.12520.9101318Kyle BuschJoe Gibbs RacingToyota129.11920.9111488Dale Earnhardt Jr.Hendrick MotorsportsChevrolet129.06920.9191543Aric AlmirolaRichard Petty MotorsportsFord129.05720.9211614Mark MartinStewart–Haas RacingChevrolet129.02620.9261729Kevin HarvickRichard Childress RacingChevrolet128.99520.931185Kasey KahneHendrick MotorsportsChevrolet128.94620.9391931Jeff BurtonRichard Childress RacingChevrolet128.81720.9602055Brian VickersMichael Waltrip RacingToyota128.74320.9722117Ricky Stenhouse Jr.Roush Fenway RacingFord128.58420.9982227Paul MenardRichard Childress RacingChevrolet128.55921.0022334David RaganFront Row MotorsportsFord128.48621.0142439Ryan NewmanStewart–Haas RacingChevrolet128.38221.0312513Casey MearsGermain RacingFord128.35121.0362699Carl EdwardsRoush Fenway RacingFord128.29021.0462735Josh WiseFront Row MotorsportsFord128.27221.0492840Landon CassillCircle SportChevrolet128.25421.0522930David StremmeSwan RacingToyota128.07721.0813098Michael McDowellPhil Parsons RacingFord128.04721.0863187Joe NemechekNEMCO-Jay Robinson RacingToyota127.84721.119329Marcos AmbroseRichard Petty MotorsportsFord127.79921.1273393Travis KvapilBK RacingToyota127.69021.1453447A. J. AllmendingerJTG Daugherty RacingToyota127.52721.1723583David ReutimannBK RacingToyota127.40121.1933610Danica PatrickStewart–Haas RacingChevrolet127.28621.2123738David GillilandFront Row MotorsportsFord127.25021.2183851Ryan TruexHScott MotorsportsChevrolet127.09521.2443995Reed SorensonLeavine Family RacingFord126.63021.322407Dave BlaneyTommy Baldwin RacingChevrolet126.39921.3614133Tony RainesCircle SportChevrolet126.13921.4054232Ken SchraderFAS Lane RacingFord125.87421.4504336J. J. YeleyTommy Baldwin RacingChevrolet125.77421.467Failed to Qualify4419Mike Bliss Humphrey Smith RacingToyota127.20821.225Qualifying Results1 Regan Smith drove the No. 48 car for practice and qualifying; Jimmie Johnson was on paternity leave. Race thumb|Carl Edwards won the race. Pos No. Car Number Driver Team Make Laps Completed Laps Race Status Led Laps Led Points199Carl EdwardsRoush Fenway RacingFord400Running4647278Kurt BuschFurniture Row RacingChevrolet400Running7343339Ryan NewmanStewart–Haas RacingChevrolet400Running44241Jamie McMurrayEarnhardt Ganassi RacingChevrolet400Running641527Paul MenardRichard Childress RacingChevrolet400Running340620Matt KensethJoe Gibbs RacingToyota400Running539756Martin Truex Jr.Michael Waltrip RacingToyota400Running037824Jeff GordonHendrick MotorsportsChevrolet400Running4937914Mark MartinStewart–Haas RacingChevrolet400Running0351017Ricky Stenhouse Jr.Roush Fenway RacingFord400Running0341129Kevin HarvickRichard Childress RacingChevrolet400Running0331216Greg BiffleRoush Fenway RacingFord400Running0321388Dale Earnhardt Jr.Hendrick MotorsportsChevrolet400Running031145Kasey KahneHendrick MotorsportsChevrolet400Running0301547A. J. AllmendingerJTG Daugherty RacingToyota400Running0291642Juan Pablo MontoyaEarnhardt Ganassi RacingChevrolet400Running028172Brad KeselowskiPenske RacingFord400Running142291831Jeff BurtonRichard Childress RacingChevrolet400Running0261918Kyle BuschJoe Gibbs RacingToyota400Running0252043Aric AlmirolaRichard Petty MotorsportsFord400Running0242111Denny HamlinJoe Gibbs RacingToyota399Running0232222Joey LoganoPenske RacingFord399Running0222338David GillilandFront Row MotorsportsFord399Running0212455Brian VickersMichael Waltrip RacingToyota399Running002515Clint BowyerMichael Waltrip RacingToyota398Running72202613Casey MearsGermain RacingFord397Running018279Marcos AmbroseRichard Petty MotorsportsFord397Running0172893Travis KvapilBK RacingToyota397Running0162934David RaganFront Row MotorsportsFord397Running0153010Danica PatrickStewart–Haas RacingChevrolet396Running014317Dave BlaneyTommy Baldwin RacingChevrolet396Running0133283David ReutimannBK RacingToyota395Running0123333Tony RainesCircle SportChevrolet395Running003440Landon CassillCircle SportChevrolet395Running003551Ryan TruexHScott MotorsportsChevrolet395Running003636J. J. YeleyTommy Baldwin RacingChevrolet393Running083732Ken SchraderFAS Lane RacingFord393Running073830David StremmeSwan RacingToyota391Running063987Joe NemechekNEMCO-Jay Robinson RacingToyota388Running004048Jimmie JohnsonHendrick MotorsportsChevrolet372Running044135Josh WiseFront Row MotorsportsFord142Vibration004295Reed SorensonLeavine Family RacingFord126Brakes004398Michael McDowellPhil Parsons RacingFord76Brakes01Race Results Final Chase for the Cup statistics Driver's points (post-race) - Sunday, September 8(post-penalties) - Friday, September 13 Pos Driver PointsWins Top 5 Top 10 Pos Driver Points Wins Top 5 Top 101Matt Kenseth201556131Matt Kenseth201556132Jimmie Johnson201249152Jimmie Johnson201249153Kyle Busch2012411153Kyle Busch2012411154Kevin Harvick200626134Kevin Harvick200626135Carl Edwards200628135Carl Edwards200628136Joey Logano200318146Joey Logano200318147Greg Biffle200313107Greg Biffle200313108Clint Bowyer200008138Clint Bowyer200008139Dale Earnhardt Jr.200005149Dale Earnhardt Jr.2000051410Kurt Busch2000081310Kurt Busch2000081311Kasey Kahne2000281111Kasey Kahne2000281112Martin Truex Jr.2000161112Ryan Newman2000161213 13Jeff Gordon20000512 (see below) Race manipulation controversy September 2025 yesthumb|150px|Clint Bowyer was accused of intentionally spinning his car to help Martin Truex Jr. make the Chase. right horizontal Martin Truex Jr. 2017 NASCAR Media Tour.jpg 116 Ryan Newman in 2009.jpg 120 Jeff Gordon 2010 Pepsi Max 400.jpg 113 Martin Truex Jr. was docked 50 driver points after the race, losing his Chase spot to Ryan Newman as a result. Jeff Gordon was later given a thirteenth spot in the Chase. Team orders became an issue during the last ten laps of the race, and it was ultimately determined that three teams had tried to manipulate the finish of the race and Chase positions. Under the Chase system at the time, 12 drivers were eligible to make the Chase: the top 10 in points, with two additional Wild Card spots for drivers positioned 11th-20th in the points with race wins. Entering the race, Kasey Kahne had already locked up the first Wild Card spot as he was the only repeat winner in the field outside of the top 10 in points, with his two race wins from earlier in the year at Bristol and Pocono. Ryan Newman entered the race trailing Martin Truex Jr. for the final wild card. In order to guarantee a Chase position, Newman needed to either win the race, or be five points ahead of Truex and not have Joey Logano or Greg Biffle fall out of the top ten (as if either Logano or Biffle dropped out of the top ten at the end of the race, the other Wild Card spot would go to one of them). Jeff Gordon trailed Logano by 16 points for 10th place, the final Chase spot based on points position. On Lap 393, Gordon was ahead of Logano by a large enough margin that Gordon led Logano by two points for the final guaranteed Chase position. Newman was the leader, and would have bumped out both Logano and Truex (one win each) had the race ended at that point. It was on that lap that Truex's teammate Clint Bowyer spun out in Turn 4. From the various angles captured of the spin, it initially appeared that Bowyer had either been tapped from behind by Dale Earnhardt Jr. or he had cut a right front tire. The field pitted under the resulting caution flag, including Bowyer, Truex's other teammate Brian Vickers, Newman and the rest of the field. A slow pit stop for Newman dropped him to third, behind Carl Edwards, Paul Menard, with Kurt Busch starting next to him in 4th. As a result of pit stops, Truex gained multiple positions. Logano, who was two laps behind the leader (while Gordon was on the lead lap), used a wavearound to move up to one lap behind the leaders, where he could race other cars one lap behind in an attempt to gain more positions and score enough points to retake Gordon. Edwards went on to win, albeit with controversy as it appeared he jumped Menard on the restart, with Kurt Busch and Newman finishing behind Edwards. However, Edwards was not penalized (as had happened to Jimmie Johnson at Dover in June) as NASCAR ruled that Menard had spun his tires and was slow getting up to speed. Newman and Truex finished tied for the final wildcard spot on both wins, and the first tie-breaker, points. However, since Truex had an extra second-place finish at Texas, he entered the Chase. Logano, who overtook Gordon on the final restart, clinched the final non-wild card spot by one point over Gordon. Immediately after the race, many in the garage suspected that Bowyer had spun out deliberately in an attempt to manipulate the finish of the race so that Truex would gain a Chase spot. The incident drew comparisons to the 2008 SingTel Singapore Grand Prix Formula One race, where Nelson Piquet Jr. intentionally caused a caution to give an advantage to teammate Fernando Alonso, who would win the race. Coincidentally, Piquet was entered in the second-tier Nationwide Series race that weekend. Dale Earnhardt Jr. was directly behind Bowyer at the moment of the spin, and said afterwards that the way Bowyer's car spun was "one of the craziest things [he's] ever seen", and noticed the car being "jerked around" to make it lose control out of turn 4. While Bowyer claimed it was a flat tire that caused him to spin out, and indeed the right front was down after the spin, it was noted that the behavior of Bowyer's car was inconsistent with the normal behavior of a car that had cut a tire: the normal behavior for a car cutting a tire in the corners being for the car to wash up the track with no steering and slam the outside wall with its right side, then come back down onto the track, rather than spinning onto the apron. In addition, the popping noise normally associated with a flat tire only happened after the spin. Further suspicion arose during the video replays, as the radio communications between Bowyer and crew chief Brian Pattie showed they were openly worried about the possibility of Newman winning and eliminating Truex from the Chase on lap 391, two laps before Bowyer spun. Another suspicious conversation was revealed between Vickers and his spotter, team general manager and vice president Ty Norris, where Norris ordered a completely oblivious Vickers to make a green-flag pit stop after the restart on lap 398 in order to give Truex another position to tie Newman in points. These conversations seemed to provide evidence of some kind of manipulation going on via team orders. In order for the scheme to work, Gordon, who was in 10th place, had to be overtaken by Logano in order to guarantee Truex a wild card. This scandal became known as Spingate from Bowyer's late-race spin, but also the Singapore Sling because the incident was similar to the 2008 Singapore Formula One incident to manipulate the outcome of the race.Fryer Jenna SpinGate: NASCAR Credibility Crisis Began After Clint Bowyer Spun Out At Richmond Associated Press HuffPost Sports September 16, 2013 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/16/nascar-spingate-clint-bowyer-spun_n_3937392.html February 1, 2015 On Monday, September 9, NASCAR penalized Michael Waltrip Racing by fining the team $300,000—the highest fine imposed on a team in NASCAR's 67-year history. It also indefinitely suspended Norris, placed all three of MWR crew chiefs on probation until December 31, and docked Bowyer and Truex 50 driver points (While Vickers, a Nationwide Series regular, was not eligible for Sprint Cup driver points under the series declaration rule, he was also docked 50 points, which was reflected in a negative points total at year's endhttp://www.nascar.com/en_us/sprint-cup-series/standings.default.2013.Ford%20EcoBoost%20400.html NASCAR Standings: NASCAR Drivers, Race Standings And News NASCAR.com November 17, 2013 November 26, 2015). Each car was also docked 50 owner's points (Waltrip for the #55 and #56, Rob Kauffman for the #15; even if a driver is not a Cup-declared driver, the owner earns points). As this penalty was applied before the reset for the Chase, it effectively knocked Truex out of the Wildcard spot in favor of Newman. The 50-point penalty dropped Truex to 17th in points, removing him from eligibility for a wild-card position, and giving his spot to Newman. While NASCAR could not find any conclusive evidence that Bowyer had deliberately spun out, it did determine that Vickers' pit on Norris' orders was illegal. The point deduction did not affect Bowyer's post-seeding, as all penalties affected his pre-Chase points total and he had clinched a Chase berth two races earlier. Gordon, meanwhile, remained eliminated from the Chase because he did not have the necessary points to leapfrog Logano for a spot, which drew even more controversy, since Logano was able to overtake Gordon in the ensuing restart after the caution. Logano had to stay in the top ten in order to give Truex a wild card if Newman did not win. Had the caution not occurred, Gordon would likely have clinched a Chase position, since Logano would have remained two laps down. Shortly after the penalties against Michael Waltrip Racing for trying to manipulate the race, rumors surfaced that Logano had received assistance from Front Row Motorsports driver David Gilliland. Penske and Front Row were considered technical partners, as they both used Ford cars and Roush Fenway Racing powertrains. Radio communications seemed to suggest to NASCAR that Front Row officials asked Gilliland to slow down and give up a position to Logano in order to help Logano race his way into the Chase, in exchange for an undisclosed form of compensation. Logano passed Gilliland on the final restart.http://msn.foxsports.com/nascar/story/david-gilliland-joey-logano-improper-communications-richmond-chase-for-the-sprint-cup-091113?ocid=ansfox11 NASCAR probing Gilliland-Logano teams' improper communications Fox Sports FOX Sports After a second inquiry, NASCAR placed both Penske and Front Row on probation until December 31, and forced all teams to attend a Saturday afternoon meeting at the 2013 GEICO 400 in Chicagoland, regarding ethics in light of the two related match fixing incidents. Additionally, NASCAR CEO Brian France announced that Gordon would be added to the Chase field, expanding the field to 13 drivers. France explained in a press conference that his decision to add Gordon to the Chase was "based on the totality of events that were outside" Gordon's control, and how MWR's and Penske's manipulation attempts gave Gordon an "unfair disadvantage", and the fact that if Bowyer had not spun and the caution had not come out at any point between lap 393 and the white flag, Gordon would have qualified for the Chase on points based on his running position.http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-media/articles/2013/09/13/jeff-gordon-chase-drivers-13-drivers-joey-logano-richmond.html Gordon added to postseason picture NASCAR.com September 13, 2013 January 24, 2014 December 8, 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20151208110027/http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-media/articles/2013/09/13/jeff-gordon-chase-drivers-13-drivers-joey-logano-richmond.html dead Aftermath NAPA Auto Parts, Truex's primary sponsor on the #56 car, announced on September 19, 2013, that they would revoke sponsorship of MWR at the end of the season as a direct result of the incident, choosing instead to align with Hendrick Motorsports and Dale Earnhardt Jr. for the 2014 season. In 2014, NAPA would partner with Earnhardt's Nationwide Series team JR Motorsports and became the primary sponsor for up-and-coming driver Chase Elliott's 2014 championship and rookie of the year run in the Nationwide Series. They also sponsored Elliott for his part-time Sprint Cup debut in 2015, with a partial run set for his championship debut in 2016 after Elliott was moved to the No. 24 full-time following Jeff Gordon's retirement from racing, with Axalta moving over to sponsor Earnhardt from 2016 to 2017 and then Alex Bowman and William Byron, starting in 2018; Elliott would eventually win his first Cup Series title (with NAPA sponsorship) in 2020 (by which point Elliott's car had been renumbered to 9). With the loss of NAPA sponsorship, MWR had to scale the #56 team down to a part-time team for 2014, while Truex and everyone on his pit crew ended up being signed by Furniture Row Racing to replace a departing Kurt Busch. Truex would win the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Championship for Furniture Row. Michael Waltrip Racing continued to run as a two-car operation for 2014 and 2015 but never again saw victory lane. Team principal Rob Kauffman announced he was purchasing a stake in Chip Ganassi Racing in 2015 and MWR folded at the end of the season; the team's charters (as a founding member of Race Team Alliance) were given to Stewart–Haas Racing and fellow Toyota team Joe Gibbs Racing, allowing both to receive one extra car under the then-new charter system. Bowyer would take 5-Hour Energy to HScott Motorsports for 2016. In 2017, Bowyer moved to drive the 14 for Stewart–Haas Racing in 2017, replacing retired team owner, Tony Stewart. 5-Hour Energy would move to Furniture Row to sponsor Erik Jones and Truex, before also withdrawing from the sport in 2018. NASCAR would be rocked by another race manipulation scandal six years later, involving backmarker teams during that year's season finale, the 2019 Ford EcoBoost 400, involving bonuses for the best team without a Race Team Alliance charter (a system introduced in 2016) in that year's owner point standings. The record fine, $300,000, was broken in 2023, when all four Hendrick Motorsports cars were discovered to have irregularities on the louvers during the pre-race inspection for the 2023 United Rentals Work United 500 (along with Justin Haley's, belonging to Kaulig Racing); Hendrick Motorsports were fined $400,000 for the irregularities ($100,000 per car).Long Dustin NASCAR issues severe penalties to Hendrick Motorsports https://nascar.nbcsports.com/2023/03/15/nascar-issues-severe-penalties-to-hendrick-motorsports-alex-bowman-kyle-larson-william-byron/ NBC Sports March 15, 2023 References Sprint Cup Series 2013 2013 AdvoCare 500 2013 GEICO 400 collapsed Federated Auto Parts 400 Federated Auto Parts 400 Federated Auto Parts 400 Federated Auto Parts 400 Category:NASCAR controversies Category:NASCAR races at Richmond Raceway Category:Cheating in sports Category:Match fixing Category:Sports scandals in the United States