The 2014 GEICO 500 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race that was held on October 19, 2014, at Talladega Superspeedway in Lincoln, Alabama.

Brad Keselowski held off hard charges from Ryan Newman, Matt Kenseth and Landon Cassill to score his sixth win of the season.

Matt Kenseth finished second, while Clint Bowyer, Landon Cassill, and Ryan Newman rounded out the top five.

The top rookies of the race were Austin Dillon (13th), Cole Whitt (15th), and Kyle Larson (17th).

Kevin Harvick shot ahead of Jeff Gordon on the final restart with two laps to go to win the Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

The track is a Tri-oval and was constructed by International Speedway Corporation, a business controlled by the France Family, in the 1960s.

“This is the third time I’ve run my last race,” Labonte told SiriusXM NASCAR Radio on Friday.

I wish I was 10 years younger.”[14] On September 4, NASCAR announced changes to the knockout format for Daytona and Talladega in an effort to speed up the qualifying process.

“This revision in national series qualifying at Talladega should be more exciting for our fans,” said Robin Pemberton, NASCAR senior vice president of competition and racing development.

“It will feature a more accelerated pace, provide greater opportunity for team strategy to come into play and it should more closely resemble actual racing conditions.”[15] Clint Bowyer was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 47.788 and a speed of 200.385 mph (322.488 km/h).

[18] “I thought that coming to three (laps) to go that we literally no shot,’’ said Vickers, who scored his first career Sprint Cup victory at this track in 2006.

It’s not easy.’’[18] Originally, Nemechek made it through the first round, but his time was disallowed after the oil tank encasement was found to be improperly installed.

Just as the leaders were preparing to make their scheduled stop, the second caution of the race flew on lap 103 for a large crash on the backstretch.

It started when Aric Almirola hooked J. J. Yeley into the backstretch wall, and collecting 8 more cars with Kyle Busch taking the worst hit.

[22][23] J. J. Yeley, Kyle Busch, Aric Almirola, Austin Dillon, A. J. Allmendinger, Alex Bowman, Brian Vickers, Tony Stewart, Clint Bowyer and Terry Labonte were involved in the incident.

[23] "We had rear end damage, we got hit from behind, forced us into somebody in the front," team owner Joe Gibbs said in the garage as the crew made repairs.

"He has really stepped up to be a great leader of this race team in the Chase and we've had a couple things go against us - getting the nose knocked off at Loudon, today, and Kyle's done a really good job of biting his lip and just backing the race team and letting us do our job.

Debris brought out the fifth caution with five laps to go, so the race went past its advertised distance and went into overtime.

It started when David Gilliland tapped Greg Biffle who clipped Dale Earnhardt Jr. and collected two more cars.

Brad Keselowski held off hard charging Ryan Newman and Matt Kenseth to win the race with the pack behind them, being stacked up.

To be able to win here is really a privilege, it really is.”[25] Kyle Busch, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kasey Kahne and Jimmie Johnson were the four drivers who were eliminated.

Go FAS Racing had to change it after qualifying, since NASCAR mandates the left and right side must be identical and the team went with the 1996 style.

Reed Sorenson finished a respectable 14th, considering that his Tommy Baldwin Racing car only got in after Joe Nemechek's time was disallowed.