2016 Coke Zero 400

The 2016 Coke Zero 400 powered by Cola-Cola was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race that was held on July 2, 2016 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. Contested over 161 laps - extended from 160 laps due to overtime, on the 2.5-mile (4.0 km) superspeedway, it was the 17th race of the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season.

2016 Coke Zero 400 powered by Coca-Cola

Race details[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
Race 17 of 36 in the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Date	July 2, 2016
Location	Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida
Course	Permanent racing facility 2.5 mi (4 km)
Distance	161 laps, 402.5 mi (644 km)
Scheduled Distance	160 laps, 400 mi (640 km)
Average speed	150.342 mph (241.952 km/h)
Pole position
Driver	Greg Biffle	Roush Fenway Racing
Time	46.643 seconds
Most laps led
Driver	Brad Keselowski	Team Penske
Laps	115
Winner
No. 2	Brad Keselowski	Team Penske
Television in the United States
Network	NBC
Announcers	Rick Allen, Jeff Burton and Steve Letarte
Nielsen Ratings	3.4 5.7 million viewers[9]
Radio in the United States
Radio	MRN
Booth Announcers	Joe Moore, Jeff Striegle and Rusty Wallace
Turn Announcers	Dave Moody (1 & 2), Mike Bagley (Backstretch) and Kyle Rickey (3 & 4)

The race had 26 lead changes among different drivers and five cautions for 28 laps.

Report

Background

Daytona International Speedway, the track where the race was held.

The race was held at Daytona International Speedway, a race track located in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States. Since opening in 1959, the track is the home of the Daytona 500, the most prestigious race in NASCAR. In addition to NASCAR, the track also hosts races of ARCA, AMA Superbike, USCC, SCCA, and Motocross. It features multiple layouts including the primary 2.5 miles (4.0 km) high speed tri-oval, a 3.56 miles (5.73 km) sports car course, a 2.95 miles (4.75 km) motorcycle course, and a .25 miles (0.40 km) karting and motorcycle flat-track. The track's 180-acre (73 ha) infield includes the 29-acre (12 ha) Lake Lloyd, which has hosted powerboat racing. The speedway is owned and operated by International Speedway Corporation.

The track was built in 1959 by NASCAR founder William "Bill" France, Sr. to host racing held at the former Daytona Beach Road Course. His banked design permitted higher speeds and gave fans a better view of the cars. Lights were installed around the track in 1998 and today, it is the third-largest single lit outdoor sports facility. The speedway has been renovated three times, with the infield renovated in 2004 and the track repaved twice — in 1978 and in 2010.

On January 22, 2013, the track unveiled artist depictions of a renovated speedway. On July 5 of that year, ground was broken for a project that would remove the backstretch seating and completely redevelop the frontstretch seating. The renovation to the speedway is being worked on by Rossetti Architects. The project, named "Daytona Rising", was completed in January 2016, and it costed US $400 million, placing emphasis on improving fan experience with five expanded and redesigned fan entrances (called "injectors") as well as wider and more comfortable seating with more restrooms and concession stands. After the renovations, the track's grandstands include 101,000 permanent seats with the ability to increase permanent seating to 125,000.[10][11] The project was completed before the start of Speedweeks 2016.

Entry list

The preliminary entry list for the race included forty-one cars and was released on June 3, 2016 at 2:31 pm ET.

No.	Driver	Team	Manufacturer
1	Jamie McMurray	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet
2	Brad Keselowski	Team Penske	Ford
3	Austin Dillon	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet
4	Kevin Harvick	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet
5	Kasey Kahne	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet
6	Trevor Bayne	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford
7	Regan Smith	Tommy Baldwin Racing	Chevrolet
10	Danica Patrick	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet
11	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota
13	Casey Mears	Germain Racing	Chevrolet
14	Tony Stewart	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet
15	Clint Bowyer	HScott Motorsports	Chevrolet
16	Greg Biffle	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford
17	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford
18	Kyle Busch	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota
19	Carl Edwards	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota
20	Matt Kenseth	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota
21	Ryan Blaney (R)	Wood Brothers Racing	Ford
22	Joey Logano	Team Penske	Ford
23	David Ragan	BK Racing	Toyota
24	Chase Elliott (R)	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet
27	Paul Menard	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet
30	Josh Wise	The Motorsports Group	Chevrolet
31	Ryan Newman	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet
32	Bobby Labonte	Go FAS Racing	Ford
34	Chris Buescher (R)	Front Row Motorsports	Ford
35	David Gilliland	Front Row Motorsports	Ford
38	Landon Cassill	Front Row Motorsports	Ford
41	Kurt Busch	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet
42	Kyle Larson	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet
43	Aric Almirola	Richard Petty Motorsports	Ford
44	Brian Scott (R)	Richard Petty Motorsports	Ford
46	Michael Annett	HScott Motorsports	Chevrolet
47	A. J. Allmendinger	JTG Daugherty Racing	Chevrolet
48	Jimmie Johnson	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet
55	Reed Sorenson	Premium Motorsports	Chevrolet
78	Martin Truex Jr.	Furniture Row Racing	Toyota
83	Matt DiBenedetto	BK Racing	Toyota
88	Dale Earnhardt Jr	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet
95	Michael McDowell	Circle Sport – Leavine Family Racing	Chevrolet
98	Cole Whitt	Premium Motorsports	Toyota
Official entry list

Final practice

Brian Scott was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 45.147 and a speed of 199.349 mph (320.821 km/h).[12] With nine minutes remaining in the session, Kyle Busch suffered a cut in his right-rear tire, got loose, turned up the track and slammed the wall head-on in turn 1.[13] After being released from the infield care center, he said the crash "was a huge impact. I thank NASCAR for all their advancements in the safety aspects of the car in the things that drivers wear and the SAFER Barriers as well today. That could have been a heck of a lot uglier than what it was. I'm pretty confident in Joe Gibbs Racing and their ability to build good race cars. I'm not very confident in Goodyear in giving us good tires to go out there and race on."[14] He later clarified his statement on Goodyear saying from his "vantage point, we’ve had a lot of tire issues this year. That’s probably, I don’t know, four or five or six tires that we’ve blown this year. That’s what the most frustrating part is. We also did the tire test at Kentucky and didn’t necessarily have the best of results I felt like from my vantage point with what we’ve got to do for next week. That’s where the frustration probably stemmed from and came from. Goodyear probably didn’t deserve what they got from me earlier today.’’[15] The damage forced him to switch to his backup car.[16]

Pos	No.	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Time	Speed
1	44	Brian Scott (R)	Richard Petty Motorsports	Ford	45.147	199.349
2	3	Austin Dillon	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	45.148	199.344
3	2	Brad Keselowski	Team Penske	Ford	45.292	198.711
Official final practice results

Qualifying

Greg Biffle scored the pole for the race with a time of 46.643 and a speed of 192.955 mph (310.531 km/h).[17] He said the pole "feels good for our team. Not only did we win the pole but the car is in race trim right now, so it shows you how fast it’ll be Saturday night and that’s one thing we’re really happy about."[18] He added that his team has "been working really, really hard. Just really excited for the whole team. I’m just happy to be driving it.”[19]

Carl Edwards, who qualified second, said he's "got a fast race car" and that he's "happy for Greg and the Roush group though. It’s good to see them succeed and congratulations on the pole."[20] He added that he "would have loved to be on the pole, but starting up front will be great and hopefully we can stay up front. I need to get a win in that column, we have a big zero there from my career here at Daytona so I would like to get a win.”[21]

Qualifying results

Pos	No.	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	R1	R2
1	16	Greg Biffle	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	46.722	46.643
2	19	Carl Edwards	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	46.855	46.693
3	18	Kyle Busch	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	46.988	46.793
4	17	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	46.909	46.797
5	2	Brad Keselowski	Team Penske	Ford	46.773	46.813
6	3	Austin Dillon	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	46.851	46.813
7	20	Matt Kenseth	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	46.860	46.818
8	48	Jimmie Johnson	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	47.014	46.836
9	11	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	47.045	46.881
10	41	Kurt Busch	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	47.043	46.908
11	22	Joey Logano	Team Penske	Ford	46.876	47.022
12	21	Ryan Blaney (R)	Wood Brothers Racing	Ford	47.019	47.058
13	6	Trevor Bayne	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	47.073
14	43	Aric Almirola	Richard Petty Motorsports	Ford	47.092
15	78	Martin Truex Jr.	Furniture Row Racing	Toyota	47.095
16	88	Dale Earnhardt Jr.	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	47.103
17	42	Kyle Larson	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet	47.137
18	5	Kasey Kahne	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	47.174
19	14	Tony Stewart	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	47.202
20	13	Casey Mears	Germain Racing	Chevrolet	47.250
21	4	Kevin Harvick	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	47.258
22	10	Danica Patrick	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	47.259
23	31	Ryan Newman	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	47.275
24	24	Chase Elliott (R)	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	47.279
25	34	Chris Buescher (R)	Front Row Motorsports	Ford	47.300
26	47	A. J. Allmendinger	JTG Daugherty Racing	Chevrolet	47.399
27	27	Paul Menard	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	47.445
28	35	David Gilliland	Front Row Motorsports	Ford	47.501
29	1	Jamie McMurray	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet	47.566
30	44	Brian Scott (R)	Richard Petty Motorsports	Ford	47.628
31	15	Clint Bowyer	HScott Motorsports	Chevrolet	47.688
32	32	Bobby Labonte	Go FAS Racing	Ford	47.773
33	46	Michael Annett	HScott Motorsports	Chevrolet	47.785
34	38	Landon Cassill	Front Row Motorsports	Ford	47.809
35	98	Cole Whitt	Premium Motorsports	Toyota	47.967
36	83	Matt DiBenedetto	BK Racing	Toyota	47.984
37	95	Michael McDowell	Circle Sport – Leavine Family Racing	Chevrolet	48.005
38	23	David Ragan	BK Racing	Toyota	48.019
39	55	Reed Sorenson	Premium Motorsports	Chevrolet	48.122
40	7	Regan Smith	Tommy Baldwin Racing	Chevrolet	0.000
Did not qualify
41	30	Josh Wise	The Motorsports Group	Chevrolet	48.885
Official qualifying results

Race

First half

Under clear Florida evening skies, Greg Biffle led the field to the green flag at 8:14. The honor of leading the first lap, however, went to Carl Edwards. Brad Keselowski passed Edwards on the outside line to take the lead on the ninth lap. Riding along, the field raced two and three wide through the entire pack. The first caution of the race flew on lap 21 for a stalled car on the frontstretch. The car was the No. 38 of Landon Cassill and he was reporting engine failure. Because this came out the same lap as a scheduled competition caution, the teams were allowed to refuel. David Ragan opted to stay out when the leaders pitted and assumed the lead. He pitted the next time through and Keselowski cycled back to the lead. Jimmie Johnson was tagged for too many crew members over the wall and Casey Mears was tagged for his crew being over the wall too soon. Both restarted the race from the tail end of the field.

The race restarted on lap 26. Biffle drag-raced Keselowski to the start/finish line to take the lead on lap 30. Keselowski took it back on lap 31. The field settled into a single-file train running the high side of the track. That only lasted a few laps, however, as the bottom line – led by Joey Logano – began to close in on Keselowski. A number of cars, including race leader Keselowski, began pitting on lap 65. This handed the lead to Denny Hamlin, who pitted the next lap and handed the lead to Mears. He pitted on lap 68 and Kevin Harvick assumed the lead. He pitted the next lap and handed the lead to Clint Bowyer. He pitted the next lap and the lead cycled to Kyle Busch. Danica Patrick was tagged for driving through too many pit boxes on pit road and was forced to serve a pass through penalty.

Second half

Denny Hamlin passed teammate Busch on the top and took the lead on lap 77. Keselowski passed to his outside to take back the lead on lap 83. The second caution of the race flew on lap 90 for a multi-car wreck in turn 1.[22] It started when Jamie McMurray bounced off Kyle Larson, got hooked into the wall by Johnson and collected up to 22 cars.[23] McMurray said he didn't "know what happened. I think somebody got into my left rear, and I don't know if I cut a tire down. After I felt that happen, I just didn't have any control. ... It's unfortunate. It's part of [restrictor] plate racing."[24] Johnson said that there was "light contact" and that "the momentum carried me into the back of [McMurray] and turned him sideways. It was a matter of inches, and once it started, it collected everybody."[25] "Just a bunch of cars crashing -- pretty much that was it," said Matt Kenseth. "I was just trying to make my way back toward the front a little bit there. We had a bad pit-stop exchange and came out way, way behind everybody. Carl was up toward the front and we were running with him before the pit stop. I probably should have just hung in the back, hindsight, but who knows when they're going to wreck, you never know if they're going to wreck. Just trying to get back toward the front and there was a wreck somewhere a few rows up in front of me and just nowhere really to go."[26] Michael Annett, Biffle, Bowyer, Chris Buescher, Matt DiBenedetto, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chase Elliott, David Gilliland, Harvick, Johnson, Kasey Kahne, Kenseth, Larson, McMurray, Paul Menard, Ryan Newman, Patrick, Ragan, Regan Smith, Martin Truex Jr. and Ryan Blaney all were involved.[27][28] Buescher would go on to finish 40th.[29] Logano exited pit road first.

The race restarted on lap 102. A power move to the outside by Keselowski got him by his teammate for the lead at lap 106. Debris brought out the third caution of the race with 30 laps to go. Busch exited pit road first.

The race restarted with 26 laps to go. After racing side-by-side for five laps, Keselowski powered by him on the outside on the backstretch to take back the lead with 21 laps to go. Busch drove underneath him exiting turn 4 to retake the lead with 19 laps to go. Keselowski drove underneath him in turn 2 to retake the lead with 16 laps to go.[30] The fourth caution of the race flew with 12 laps to go for a single-car wreck in turn 1 involving Tony Stewart.[31] “Casey Mears was watching and gave me plenty of room to get up there,” Stewart said. “So I figured it was better if I got to the top. Then three or four laps later I got loose into (Turn) 1, so I hadn’t been loose all day there. When I did, I over-corrected and got into the fence.”[32]

The race restarted with six laps to go. The fifth caution of the race flew with five laps to go after Edwards was turned into the wall by Ryan Blaney and collected Bobby Labonte.[33]

The race restarted with two laps to go. Keselowski held off the Busch brothers and teammate Logano to score the victory just as Kurt Busch got turned into the tri-oval grass by Logano.[34]

Post-race

Driver comments

Keselowski said in victory lane his "guys were doing a heck of a job; Kyle and Kurt (Busch) worked together really well. My teammate, Joey Logano, was a huge part of this. Joey has won here and he's really a pro -- especially on that restart -- and he gave me the push I needed to get to the front. Here we are, it's Daytona in victory lane. I don't care if it's the 500, it's Daytona, and this is huge. I love this place."[35]

Kyle Busch, who drove his backup car to a runner-up finish, said this race "was really close to Talladega. We finished second at Talladega. Just there at the end of the race, the 2 car was really, really fast. Really, really strong. It’s really hard to get by him. I tried just about everything. The only thing I didn’t quite have was a big enough push one time to just try to make a move. He was really good at making that thing pretty wide.”[36]

"To have a top-three finish today, it's really a great day for us and a great day for Roush Fenway Racing and Ford," Bayne said after finishing third. "For our organization to be on the pole this weekend, to have three cars in the top eight, two in the top-five, I think that's kind of a landmark for us as an organization with the struggles we've had to get all three teams running strong on a weekend like this."[37]

Logano, who finished fourth, said of his last lap incident with Kurt Busch that he hated "that I got into Kurt there at the end racing to the line. I had a run to turn up underneath him, and when you do that, the cars get free and then I was there and he tried to catch it and I was there again. It is a product of this racing, but I hate that it happened."[38] Busch said after the race that he thought "that he (Logano) made an aggressive mistake; you can't go from fifth to first," Busch said. "There's just no shot at it. It's a shame that we ended up spun around and wrecked. We could have come out of here with the points lead."[39]

Race results

Pos	Grid	No.	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Pts.
1	5	2	Brad Keselowski	Team Penske	Ford	161	45
2	3	18	Kyle Busch	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	161	40
3	13	6	Trevor Bayne	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	161	38
4	11	22	Joey Logano	Team Penske	Ford	161	38
5	4	17	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	161	36
6	17	42	Kyle Larson	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet	161	35
7	6	3	Austin Dillon	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	161	34
8	1	16	Greg Biffle	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	161	34
9	31	15	Clint Bowyer	HScott Motorsports	Chevrolet	161	33
10	37	95	Michael McDowell	Circle Sport – Leavine Family Racing	Chevrolet	161	31
11	35	98	Cole Whitt	Premium Motorsports	Toyota	161	30
12	20	13	Casey Mears	Germain Racing	Chevrolet	161	30
13	26	47	A. J. Allmendinger	JTG Daugherty Racing	Chevrolet	161	28
14	12	21	Ryan Blaney (R)	Wood Brothers Racing	Ford	161	27
15	14	43	Aric Almirola	Richard Petty Motorsports	Ford	161	26
16	38	23	David Ragan	BK Racing	Toyota	161	26
17	9	11	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	161	25
18	23	31	Ryan Newman	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	161	23
19	28	35	David Gilliland	Front Row Motorsports	Ford	161	22
20	33	46	Michael Annett	HScott Motorsports	Chevrolet	161	21
21	16	88	Dale Earnhardt Jr.	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	161	20
22	39	55	Reed Sorenson	Premium Motorsports	Chevrolet	161	19
23	10	41	Kurt Busch	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	161	18
24	32	32	Bobby Labonte	Go FAS Racing	Ford	160	17
25	2	19	Carl Edwards	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	155	17
26	19	14	Tony Stewart	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	148	16
27	22	10	Danica Patrick	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	130	14
28	7	20	Matt Kenseth	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	127	13
29	15	78	Martin Truex Jr.	Furniture Row Racing	Toyota	127	13
30	18	5	Kasey Kahne	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	122	11
31	34	38	Landon Cassill	Front Row Motorsports	Ford	119	10
32	24	24	Chase Elliott (R)	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	113	9
33	36	83	Matt DiBenedetto	BK Racing	Toyota	108	8
34	29	1	Jamie McMurray	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet	91	7
35	8	48	Jimmie Johnson	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	89	6
36	27	27	Paul Menard	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	89	5
37	30	44	Brian Scott (R)	Richard Petty Motorsports	Ford	89	4
38	40	7	Regan Smith	Tommy Baldwin Racing	Chevrolet	89	4
39	21	4	Kevin Harvick	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	89	3
40	25	34	Chris Buescher (R)	Front Row Motorsports	Ford	89	1
Official race results

Race summary

• Lead changes: 26 among different drivers
• Cautions/Laps: 5 for 28
• Red flags: 0
• Time of race: 2 hours, 48 minutes and 38 seconds
• Average speed: 150.342 miles per hour (241.952 km/h)

Media

Television

NBC Sports covered the race on the television side. Rick Allen, Jeff Burton and Steve Letarte had the call in the booth for the race. Dave Burns, Mike Massaro, Marty Snider and Kelli Stavast reported from pit lane during the race.

NBC
Booth announcers	Pit reporters
Lap-by-lap: Rick Allen Color-commentator: Jeff Burton Color-commentator: Steve Letarte	Dave Burns Mike Massaro Marty Snider Kelli Stavast

Radio

MRN had the radio call for the race which was also be simulcasted on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio.

MRN Radio
Booth announcers	Turn announcers	Pit reporters
Lead announcer: Joe Moore Announcer: Jeff Striegle Announcer: Rusty Wallace	Turns 1 & 2: Dave Moody Backstretch: Mike Bagley Turns 3 & 4: Kyle Rickey	Alex Hayden Winston Kelley Steve Post Kim Coon

Standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings Pos Manufacturer Points 1 Kevin Harvick 565 2 2 Brad Keselowski 551 (–14) 1 3 Kurt Busch 545 (–20) 1 4 Joey Logano 531 (–34) 2 5 Carl Edwards 527 (–38) 3 6 Kyle Busch 492 (–73) 1 7 Martin Truex Jr. 482 (–83) 2 8 Chase Elliott (R) 482 (–83) 2 9 Jimmie Johnson 475 (–90) 1 10 Denny Hamlin 446 (–119) 1 11 Matt Kenseth 443 (–122) 2 12 Austin Dillon 434 (–131) 1 13 Dale Earnhardt Jr. 433 (–132) 1 14 Ryan Newman 425 (–140) 2 15 Ryan Blaney (R) 409 (–156) 1 16 Jamie McMurray 405 (–160) Official drivers' classification

Manufacturers' Championship standings Pos Manufacturer Points 1 Toyota 704 2 Chevrolet 685 (–19) 3 Ford 642 (–62) Official manufacturers' classification Note: Only the top sixteen positions are included for the driver standings. These drivers are eligible for the Chase for the Sprint Cup. . – Driver has clinched a position in the Chase for the Sprint Cup.

Note

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