Contested over 267 laps on the 1.5 miles (2.4 km) tri-oval, it was the eleventh race of the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.

As the field was coming to the white flag, Alex Bowman got hit from behind by Ryan Newman and turned down into Jimmie Johnson.

[10] Also, Justin Allgaier got turned by Cole Whitt and slid through a small section of the infield grass that destroyed the nose of his car.

[10] With the field halfway down the backstretch, the caution was thrown and Denny Hamlin scored the victory in the Aaron's 499 at Talladega Superspeedway.

It feels good to come to this type of racetrack and know you can win.”[10] "It's frustrating because the simple fact is that we both felt we had the opportunity to pounce," Clint Bowyer said of the finish he'd hoped for teaming up with Greg Biffle to catch the leader.

[13] He also broke the previous track record in round two set last year by Matt Kenseth who started 28th.

The first caution of the race flew on lap 47 when Clint Bowyer got loose exiting turn 2, overcorrected and spun out on the backstretch.

The third caution of the race flew on lap 71 when Denny Hamlin got loose exiting turn 2 and spun out.

The fourth caution of the race flew on lap 110 when Marcos Ambrose got loose and spun out through the grass exiting turn 4.

The fifth caution of the race flew on lap 150 when Jamie McMurray slammed the wall hard in turn 3 following a cut right-front tire.

“I just entered turn three and I heard a small pop and then just lost all the steering and got into the fence and then knocked the oil lines and everything off which caused the fire.

Keith (Rodden, crew chief) had been kind of reporting to me what the tires looked like after each stop and hadn’t seen any really wear issues at all.

Just lost all the air and ended up crashing.”[15] Kasey Kahne traded the lead with Joey Logano on pit road with the former stall being behind the start/finish line, but he exited as the leader.

The sixth caution of the race flew with 88 laps to go when Kurt Busch got loose exiting turn 4 and destroyed his splitter sliding through the grass.

The seventh caution of the race flew with 81 laps to go for a multi-car wreck on the front stretch that collected six cars.

[15] Exiting turn 4, A. J. Allmendinger got loose, hooked Justin Allgaier who went straight into the path of David Gilliland and both slammed the wall hard before the start/finish line.

The eighth caution of the race flew with 65 laps to go when Kurt Busch popped the left-rear tire and spun out exiting turn 2.

Harvick hit pit road to make his final stop of the race with 30 laps to go and Carl Edwards moved to the lead.

Kenseth ducked onto pit road for the final time with 25 laps to go and Jimmie Johnson assumed the lead.

Johnson dropped onto pit road for the final time with twelve laps to go and Brad Keselowski took over the lead.

Keselowski made his final stop with nine laps to go and the lead cycled back to Jeff Gordon.

Jeff Gordon held off a hard charging Kevin Harvick in the closing laps to score the victory.