2016 Go Bowling 400

The 2016 Go Bowling 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race held on May 7, 2016, at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kansas. Contested over 267 laps on the 1.5 mile (2.4 km) asphalt speedway, it was the 11th race of the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup season, The race had 16 lead changes among different drivers and six cautions for 30 laps.

2016 Go Bowling 400

Race details[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
Race 11 of 36 in the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Date	May 7, 2016
Location	Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kansas
Course	Permanent racing facility 1.5 mi (2.4 km)
Distance	267 laps, 400.5 mi (644.542 km)
Weather	Cloudy with the chance of Isolated Showers
Average speed	141.909 miles per hour (228.380 km/h)
Pole position
Driver	Martin Truex Jr.	Furniture Row Racing
Time	28.284
Most laps led
Driver	Martin Truex Jr.	Furniture Row Racing
Laps	172
Winner
No. 18	Kyle Busch	Joe Gibbs Racing
Television in the United States
Network	Fox Sports 1
Announcers	Mike Joy, Jeff Gordon and Darrell Waltrip
Nielsen Ratings	1.8 (Overnight)[10] 3.1 million viewers[11]
Radio in the United States
Radio	MRN
Booth Announcers	Joe Moore, Jeff Striegle and Rusty Wallace
Turn Announcers	Dave Moody (1 & 2) and Mike Bagley (3 & 4)

Report

Background

Kansas Speedway, the track where the race was held.

Kansas Speedway is a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) tri-oval race track in Kansas City, Kansas. It was built in 2001 and hosts two annual NASCAR race weekends. The Verizon IndyCar Series also raced at here until 2011. The speedway is owned and operated by the International Speedway Corporation.

Entry list

The entry list for the Go Bowling 400 was released on Monday, May 2 at 9:56 a.m. Eastern time. Forty cars are entered for the race.

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	Joey Gase (i)	Go FAS Racing	Ford
34	Chris Buescher (R)	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	Chevrolet
Official entry list

Practice

First practice

Kurt Busch was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 29.049 and a speed of 185.893 mph (299.166 km/h).[12]

Pos	No.	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Time	Speed
1	41	Kurt Busch	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	29.049	185.093
2	78	Martin Truex Jr.	Furniture Row Racing	Toyota	29.114	185.479
3	19	Carl Edwards	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	29.186	185.020
First Practice Results

Final practice

Martin Truex Jr. was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 28.770 and a speed of 187.696 mph (302.067 km/h).[13] Jimmie Johnson suffered an engine issue similar to what happened to Kasey Kahne at Phoenix in March.[14] The gremlins were remedied and he returned to the track.[14]

Pos	No.	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Time	Speed
1	78	Martin Truex Jr.	Furniture Row Racing	Toyota	28.770	187.696
2	20	Matt Kenseth	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	28.782	187.617
3	11	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	28.822	187.357
Final Practice Results

Qualifying

Martin Truex Jr. scored the pole position.

Martin Truex Jr. scored the pole for the race with a time of 28.284 and a speed of 190.921 mph (307.258 km/h).[15] Truex said afterwards that his team "had speed here this weekend for sure and feel pretty good about this car in race trim as too. We feel like we made some mistakes throughout qualifying and it took us a while to figure out this three round deal. Things have really been going well for us and clicking well. I love this race track. We’ve really been able to perform well here.”[16]

Matt Kenseth, who qualified second, said that the "Toyota's had a lot of speed in them" and that he "couldn’t get that last lap I wanted. We got off-balance a little bit at the end. Martin was able to get it. We came up a little short.”[17][18]

Kurt Busch, who qualified fourth, said he felt good about his car "because we made three spring changes going into that qualifying run. Those are things we wanted to try for the race, and we ran out of practice time to do so. It's nice that it turned out positive and the pace in qualifying is fast, yes, but the race will be at nightfall whereas we practiced in the daytime. This speed should be right in the middle of what we just ran and what changes we made. I think we're cooking up the right batch (for the race)."[19]

Qualifying results

Pos	No.	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	R1	R2	R3
1	78	Martin Truex Jr.	Furniture Row Racing	Toyota	28.451	28.433	28.284
2	20	Matt Kenseth	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	28.416	28.315	28.337
3	11	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	28.646	28.399	28.361
4	41	Kurt Busch	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	28.518	28.423	28.401
5	2	Brad Keselowski	Team Penske	Ford	28.692	28.547	28.435
6	18	Kyle Busch	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	28.581	28.514	28.440
7	21	Ryan Blaney (R)	Wood Brothers Racing	Ford	28.734	28.485	28.470
8	31	Ryan Newman	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	28.653	28.549	28.488
9	17	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	28.626	28.506	28.532
10	6	Trevor Bayne	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	28.675	28.548	28.628
11	27	Paul Menard	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	28.766	28.558	28.706
12	19	Carl Edwards	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	28.569	28.510	28.730
13	24	Chase Elliott (R)	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	28.764	28.571
14	22	Joey Logano	Team Penske	Ford	28.603	28.574
15	48	Jimmie Johnson	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	28.596	28.614
16	14	Tony Stewart	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	28.795	28.634
17	3	Austin Dillon	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	28.551	28.637
18	42	Kyle Larson	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet	28.741	28.641
19	43	Aric Almirola	Richard Petty Motorsports	Ford	28.616	28.664
20	16	Greg Biffle	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	28.709	28.715
21	1	Jamie McMurray	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet	28.782	28.739
22	88	Dale Earnhardt Jr.	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	28.757	28.875
23	10	Danica Patrick	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	28.701	28.906
24	83	Matt DiBenedetto	BK Racing	Toyota	28.779	28.954
25	34	Chris Buescher (R)	Front Row Motorsports	Ford	28.811
26	4	Kevin Harvick	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	28.853
27	5	Kasey Kahne	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	28.854
28	44	Brian Scott (R)	Richard Petty Motorsports	Ford	28.866
29	47	A. J. Allmendinger	JTG Daugherty Racing	Chevrolet	28.925
30	95	Michael McDowell	Circle Sport – Leavine Family Racing	Chevrolet	28.927
31	13	Casey Mears	Germain Racing	Chevrolet	28.933
32	7	Regan Smith	Tommy Baldwin Racing	Chevrolet	28.972
33	15	Clint Bowyer	HScott Motorsports	Chevrolet	28.987
34	23	David Ragan	BK Racing	Toyota	29.112
35	38	Landon Cassill	Front Row Motorsports	Ford	29.199
36	30	Josh Wise	The Motorsports Group	Chevrolet	29.419
37	98	Cole Whitt	Premium Motorsports	Chevrolet	29.502
38	32	Joey Gase (i)	Go FAS Racing	Ford	29.678
39	46	Michael Annett	HScott Motorsports	Chevrolet	30.263
40	55	Reed Sorenson	Premium Motorsports	Chevrolet	30.426

Race

Start

Kyle Busch won the race.

Under clear Kansas skies, Martin Truex Jr. led the field to the green flag at 7:48 p.m. After 15 laps, he pulled to a three-second lead over Matt Kenseth. Debris in turn 4 brought out the first caution of the race on lap 24. Kyle Busch exited pit road with the race lead. Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Regan Smith were tagged for speeding on pit road and restarted the race from the tail-end of the field.

The race restarted on lap 28. Jamie McMurray was black-flagged on lap 30 after NASCAR deemed his crew made "unapproved adjustments" to the body of the car during his pit stop.[20] Matt McCall, McMurray's crew chief, said he thought NASCAR "called us back in for body modification or something. The Jackman hit the door when he went for the tire, so I don’t know. It’s interesting to me how they enforce stuff.”[20] By lap 40, Busch held a one-second lead over Kurt Busch. The second caution of the race flew on lap 56 for Matt DiBenedetto brushing the wall exiting turn 4. Truex exited pit road with the race lead.

Second quarter

The race restarted on lap 61. Carl Edwards attempted to pit because of a flat tire on lap 82, but was carrying too much speed, overshot the entrance and had to limp back around.[21] The third caution of the race flew on lap 103 for a single-car wreck in turn 2. Rounding the turn, Paul Menard got loose and rear-ended the wall. He would go on to finish 40th.[22] Denny Hamlin was tagged for speeding on pit road and restarted the race from the tail-end of the field.

The race restarted on lap 109. A number of cars began hitting pit road on lap 155. Truex pitted on lap 158 and handed the lead to Joey Logano. He pitted the next lap and handed the lead to Clint Bowyer. He pitted the next lap and handed the lead to Danica Patrick. Truex, on fresher tires, ran down and passed Patrick in turn 3 to retake the lead on lap 163.

Halfway

Debris on the backstretch brought out the fourth caution of the race with 99 laps to go. Hamlin was tagged for speeding on pit road and restarted the race from the tail-end of the field.

The race restarted with 94 laps to go. A number of drivers began pitting with 57 laps to go. Truex hit pit road with 54 laps to go and handed the lead to Matt Kenseth. Truex came back down pit road because of a loose right-front wheel.[23] The wheel was on crooked because of a jammed bracket behind the wheel.[24] After the race, Truex said he "couldn’t believe it. I went around Turns 1 and 2 and I was like ‘Wheel loose.’ I kept telling myself that maybe it's not me, maybe it's just shaking because it has tape on it or something stupid. It was loose and I knew it right away. Frustrating, but that's how it goes.”[25] Kenseth pitted with 53 laps to go and handed the lead to Logano. He pitted with 52 laps to go and handed the lead to Brad Keselowski. He pitted with 50 laps to go and handed the lead to Tony Stewart. Kyle Busch passed entering turn 3 to retake the lead with 36 laps to go.

Fourth quarter

The fifth caution of the race flew with 34 laps to go after Ricky Stenhouse Jr. rode the wall through turns 3 and 4. Jimmie Johnson was tagged for speeding on pit road and restart the race from the tail-end of the field.

The race restarted with 28 laps to go. The sixth caution of the race flew with 27 to go for a multi-car wreck in turn 3. Threading the needle between Keselowski and Kyle Larson, Hamlin got loose and spun out.[26] Logano, with nowhere to go, t-boned the No. 11 car.[27] Hamlin said afterwards that he "and the No. 2 got loose at the same time, I don’t think there was any contact, but the No. 42 was real close to me on the outside. I was driving in really deep there to try and clear him. Didn’t get him cleared and I knew if I didn’t get him clear then I would’ve put myself in a bad spot. I was just going for it. We’ve got a win and it’s win or nothing with this type of format, so why not go in there and take a chance? Unfortunately, it didn’t work.”[28] Logano said it looked from his point that "the 2 got loose and then the 11 got loose. I was hoping the 11 would come down the hill and when you’re in the smoke you can’t see anything. I hit the wall, so I knew where that was and I just kept riding and riding and hoping the 11 would come down the hill because I couldn’t see and he stayed up there and I got him right in the door. It’s unfortunate…It’s just racing. Things happen sometimes.”[29]

The race restarted with 19 laps to go. Busch held off a late charge by Harvick to score the victory.[30]

Driver comments

Busch said afterwards that winning at Kansas was "pretty big – man, there’s been a lot of rough days here at Kansas, that’s for sure. A lot of good ones too, but I just can’t say enough about this team and everyone on this M&M’s Camry. This thing was awesome tonight. At the beginning and middle part of the race we weren’t great, but Adam Stevens (crew chief) and the guys, they just kept working on it.”[31]

Following his second-place finish, Harvick said his car towards the end "got tight, I hit a big piece of debris down there about six or seven laps into the run. From that point on I just got really tight…We overhauled this thing this morning to try to get it close. They did a great job.”[32]

After finishing third, Kurt Busch said his team "battled hard. I was trying to find all the different lines on the track to find speed. We did a lot of things good and to win you’ve got to be great. We are right there, we are knocking on the door, but thanks to Haas Automation, Monster Energy, Chevrolet, everybody at Stewart-Haas it’s a great second and third place finish. We always want to win and we have been doing really good with this Tony Gibson (crew chief) led team.”[33]

Race results

Pos	Grid	No.	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Points
1	6	18	Kyle Busch	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	267	44
2	26	4	Kevin Harvick	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	267	39
3	4	41	Kurt Busch	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	267	38
4	2	20	Matt Kenseth	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	267	38
5	7	21	Ryan Blaney (R)	Wood Brothers Racing	Ford	267	36
6	17	3	Austin Dillon	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	267	35
7	8	31	Ryan Newman	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	267	34
8	29	47	A. J. Allmendinger	JTG Daugherty Racing	Chevrolet	267	33
9	13	24	Chase Elliott (R)	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	267	32
10	5	2	Brad Keselowski	Team Penske	Ford	267	32
11	12	19	Carl Edwards	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	267	30
12	16	14	Tony Stewart	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	267	30
13	9	17	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	267	28
14	1	78	Martin Truex Jr.	Furniture Row Racing	Toyota	267	29
15	22	88	Dale Earnhardt Jr.	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	267	26
16	27	5	Kasey Kahne	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	267	25
17	15	48	Jimmie Johnson	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	267	24
18	19	43	Aric Almirola	Richard Petty Motorsports	Ford	265	23
19	33	15	Clint Bowyer	HScott Motorsports	Chevrolet	265	22
20	23	10	Danica Patrick	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	265	22
21	31	13	Casey Mears	Germain Racing	Chevrolet	265	20
22	28	44	Brian Scott (R)	Richard Petty Motorsports	Ford	265	19
23	32	7	Regan Smith	Tommy Baldwin Racing	Chevrolet	265	19
24	25	34	Chris Buescher (R)	Front Row Motorsports	Ford	265	17
25	10	6	Trevor Bayne	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	264	16
26	21	1	Jamie McMurray	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet	264	15
27	20	16	Greg Biffle	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	264	14
28	30	95	Michael McDowell	Circle Sport – Leavine Family Racing	Chevrolet	264	13
29	34	23	David Ragan	BK Racing	Toyota	264	13
30	24	83	Matt DiBenedetto	BK Racing	Toyota	264	12
31	35	38	Landon Cassill	Front Row Motorsports	Ford	264	10
32	39	46	Michael Annett	HScott Motorsports	Chevrolet	260	9
33	40	55	Reed Sorenson	Premium Motorsports	Chevrolet	257	8
34	38	32	Joey Gase (i)	Go FAS Racing	Ford	257	0
35	18	42	Kyle Larson	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet	252	6
36	36	30	Josh Wise	The Motorsports Group	Chevrolet	245	5
37	3	11	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	240	4
38	14	22	Joey Logano	Team Penske	Ford	240	4
39	37	98	Cole Whitt	Premium Motorsports	Chevrolet	212	2
40	11	27	Paul Menard	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	129	1
Official race results

Race summary

• Lead changes: 16 among different drivers
• Cautions/Laps: 6 for 30
• Red flags: 0
• Time of race: 2 hours, 49 minutes and 20 seconds
• Average speed: 141.909 miles per hour (228.380 km/h)

Media

Television

Fox Sports covered their sixth race at the Kansas Speedway. Mike Joy, three-time Kansas winner Jeff Gordon and Darrell Waltrip had the call in the booth for the race. Jamie Little, Vince Welch and Matt Yocum handled the action on pit road for the television side.

Fox Sports 1 Television
Booth announcers	Pit reporters
Lap-by-lap: Mike Joy Color-commentator: Jeff Gordon Color commentator: Darrell Waltrip	Jamie Little Vince Welch Matt Yocum

Radio

MRN had the radio call for the race which will also be simulcasted on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Joe Moore, Jeff Striegle and Rusty Wallace called the race in the booth when the field raced through the tri-oval. Dave Moody covered the race from the Sunoco spotters stand outside turn 2 when the field raced through turns 1 and 2. Mike Bagley called the race from a platform inside the backstretch when the field raced down the backstretch. Kyle Rickey covered the race from the Sunoco spotters stand outside turn 4 when the field raced through turns 3 and 4. Alex Hayden, Winston Kelley and Steve Post worked pit road for the radio side.

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

Standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 Kevin Harvick 390 2 Kyle Busch 386 (–4) 3 Carl Edwards 367 (–23) 4 Jimmie Johnson 353 (–37) 1 5 Kurt Busch 350 (–40) 1 6 Brad Keselowski 332 (–58) 2 7 Joey Logano 320 (–70) 2 8 Austin Dillon 307 (–83) 1 9 Dale Earnhardt Jr. 305 (–85) 1 10 Martin Truex Jr. 303 (–87) 11 Chase Elliott (R) 303 (–87) 1 12 Jamie McMurray 276 (–114) 1 13 Denny Hamlin 273 (–117) 1 14 Matt Kenseth 269 (–121) 1 15 A. J. Allmendinger 265 (–125) 2 16 Ryan Blaney (R) 255 (–135) Official driver's standings

Manufacturers' Championship standings Pos Manufacturer Points 1 Toyota 464 2 Chevrolet 443 (–21) 3 Ford 404 (–60) Official manufacturers' standings Note: Only the first 16 positions are included for the driver standings. . – Driver has clinched a Chase position.

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