The result moved him to first in the Drivers' Championship, 33 points ahead Jimmie Johnson in second.

[9] During the first practice session, Biffle, for the Roush Fenway Racing team, was quickest ahead of Edwards in second and Juan Pablo Montoya in the third position.

[10] Regan Smith, Paul Menard, Martin Truex Jr., Johnson, and A. J. Allmendinger rounded out the top ten quickest drivers in the session.

Sadler clinched his eighth pole position during his career, with a time of 27.363, his first since May, 2006 at Talladega Superspeedway.

[12] Johnson, one of the drivers in the Chase for the Sprint Cup, qualified seventeenth, while Hamlin was scored thirtieth.

[12] The six drivers that failed to qualify for the race were J. J. Yeley, Scott Riggs, Michael McDowell, Jeff Green, Josh Wise, and Brian Keselowski.

[15] Kurt Busch managed to be fourth fastest, ahead of Smith and Sam Hornish Jr.[15] Sadler was scored seventh, Menard took eighth, Gordon was ninth, and Johnson took tenth.

[15] The race, the thirty-fourth out of a total of thirty-six in the season, began at 3:00 p.m. EST and was televised live in the United States on ESPN.

[16] Dr. Roger Marsh, of Texas Alliance Raceway Ministries, began pre-race ceremonies, by giving the invocation.

Next, rock singer Kelly Hansen of Atlantic recording artists Foreigner performed the national anthem, and singer Lee Ann Womack gave the command for drivers to start their engines.

[16] During the pace laps, Trevor Bayne had to move to the rear of the grid because of changing transmissions.

Ragan took over the third position, while his teammate Edwards claimed second on the sixth and eighth laps respectively.

At the lap 17 restart, Biffle remained the leader, ahead of Sadler and Edwards in second and third.

Martin came off of pit road the leader, followed by Edwards, Kyle Busch, and Biffle.

Biffle maintained the lead on the restart, followed by Martin, Sadler, Bowyer, and Johnson.

About 20 laps after Martin reclaimed the lead, Truex spun into the infield, bringing out the fourth caution.

Between laps 144 and 148, Johnson moved from ninth to sixth, passing Bowyer, Harvick, and Kyle Busch.

[16] Joey Logano won the race off of pit road and he led the field to the restart.

Busch came down pit road to get new tires and he got back out onto the racetrack and beat the pace car to stay on the lead lap.

But before words were exchanged, Gordon shoved Burton and the two got into a little bit of a fight on the backstretch with Officials separating both drivers.

With 49 laps to go, the second cycle of green flag pit stops began with Joey Logano leading for 2 laps while Biffle pitted and Biffle took the lead back after everything cycled through.

Hamlin had built a large lead over Matt Kenseth but with 7 laps to go, the 9th and final caution flew when Patrick Carpentier spun in turn 2.

Mark Martin, Joey Logano, and Greg Biffle rounded out the top 5 while Kevin Harvick, Clint Bowyer, David Ragan, Jimmie Johnson, and Paul Menard rounded out the top 10.