The 2013 STP Gas Booster 500 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on April 7, 2013, at Martinsville Speedway in Ridgeway, Virginia, United States.

Contested over 500 laps on the 0.526-mile (0.847 km) oval, it was the sixth race of the 2013 Sprint Cup Series championship.

Jeff Gordon, Kasey Kahne and Kyle Busch rounded out the top five.

This is the first NASCAR race since 2005 UAW Ford 500 without 4-time Martinsville winner Denny Hamlin.

Martinsville Speedway is a four-turn short track that is 0.526 miles (0.847 km) long.

Jimmie Johnson followed in the third position, 19 points ahead of Carl Edwards and Greg Biffle in fourth and fifth.

[9] In the Saturday morning session, Bowyer was quickest, ahead of Kyle Busch and Gordon in second and third.

[10] Jamie McMurray, Biffle, Jeff Burton, Martin Truex Jr., and Kevin Harvick rounded out the first ten positions.

[10] In the final practice session for the race, Bowyer was quickest with a time of 19.518 seconds.

[13] Gordon, Keselowski., Kenseth, Newman, and Edwards completed the first ten positions on the grid.

The second caution came out on lap 70 for Scott Speed, who was stopped on the front stretch.

The race restarted on lap 180 and immediately the fourth caution came out for a multi-car wreck on the back straightaway.

With 13 laps to go, the twelfth caution came out when Kurt Busch caught fire on the front straightaway.