The 2014 Aaron's 499 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race run on May 4, 2014, at Talladega Superspeedway in Lincoln, Alabama.

Contested over 188 laps on the 2.66 miles (4.28 km) tri-oval, it was the tenth race of the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.

Denny Hamlin won the race, his first points paying win at a restrictor plate track, and joined a list of drivers to win in their 300th start, while Greg Biffle finished second and Clint Bowyer, Brian Vickers, and A. J. Allmendinger rounded out the top five.

[11] The top rookies of the race were Kyle Larson (9th), Austin Dillon (15th), and Michael Annett (16th).

[15] Paul Menard, A. J. Allmendinger, Casey Mears and Austin Dillon rounded out the top five.

"[15] Kasey Kahne and Truex Jr. started at the rear of the field after failing post-qualifying inspection.

"Basically we had a malfunction with a ballast container," Kahne's crew chief Kenny Francis said in a manufacturer release.

"[16] Dave Blaney, Eric McClure, Joe Nemechek and J. J. Yeley failed to qualify for the race.

Jeff Gordon, who was pushing Patrick on the bottom, jumped to the middle line and assumed the lead on lap eight.

She just misjudged him.’’[17] Landon Cassill stayed out to lead a lap before giving it back to Paul Menard.

Joey Logano jumped to the bottom line in front of Kyle to take back the lead.

Greg hit pit road on lap 95 to make his scheduled stop and handed the lead to teammate Carl Edwards.

Trevor Bayne used a push from the top line to pull alongside Earnhardt Jr. before taking the lead on lap 113.

Despite being six laps down, Brad Keselowski pulled the middle line up to the front to help another driver challenge Dale for the lead.

Unfortunately, coming through turn 4, Keselowski got loose and spun out in front of the field and collected eleven other cars, including points leader Jeff Gordon, defending race winner David Ragan and pole sitter Brian Scott, in the Big One on lap 137.

I don’t know what his strategy was but just lost control of his car in front of the field and when that happens it always collects a bunch of them.

Greg Biffle got a good push on the outside line and dropped down in front of Ambrose to take back the lead.

The fifth caution of the race flew with 38 laps to go after David Gilliland's engine blew up going down the backstretch (recently named Alabama Gang Superstretch).

Jimmie Johnson got loose in turn 3, overcorrected, hit Joey Logano and started an eight car crash.

David Ragan, who made it through the first big wreck with no damage, was boxed in by Logano and Kurt Busch.

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

[18] 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.

It feels good to come to this type of racetrack and know you can win.”[18] "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 Biffle to catch the leader.