Joey Logano finished second, while Kevin Harvick, Martin Truex Jr., and Denny Hamlin rounded out the top five.

This was the Busch's 33rd career victory for, fourth of the season, third consecutive and his first at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

The Crown Royal 400 was carried by NBC Sports on the cable/satellite NBCSN network for the American television audience.

[13] It is located on the corner of 16th Street and Georgetown Road, approximately six miles (10 km) west of Downtown Indianapolis.

On July 7, NASCAR announced that a higher drag aero package would be used for the weekend's race.

[14] The changes to the cars included a nine-inch spoiler, one-inch wicker bill, 43-inch radiator pan and a two-inch leading edge for the splitter.

Jeff Gordon, tied with Michael Schumacher for all-time winningest driver at Indianapolis, made his 22nd and final career start at the Brickyard.

[17] Less than three minutes into the session, the hood of Denny Hamlin's car snapped up and smashed his windshield.

"Just to be here racing is cool and with all the work the guys put in yesterday, we started out terribly and we were really slow.

TRD, Toyota and everybody has put a lot of effort in and to have Stanley Tools on the pole for the Brickyard 400, this is cool.”[22] "Overall from where we have been this weekend to what we picked up today I am proud of what my Shell Pennzoil team has done," Joey Logano said after qualifying second.

"[22] "Unfortunately that wasn’t the one that paid, but that got us in the second round which was the important part," Tony Stewart said after qualifying fourth.

Austin Dillon was tagged for speeding on pit road and was forced to serve a drive-through penalty.

The fourth caution of the race flew on lap 107 when Aric Almirola got loose, slid down the backstretch, and hit with the inside wall.

The fifth caution of the race flew with 40 laps to go when Brian Scott got loose and slammed the wall exiting turn 2.

Everyone but Brad Keselowski, David Ragan, Tony Stewart, and Kasey Kahne opted to pit.

The seventh caution of the race flew with 13 laps to go when Dale Earnhardt Jr. got pushed into the grass in turn 1, came back up, and spun out.

The ninth caution of the race flew when Trevor Bayne got rear-ended and went into the wall while going into turn 1 at the restart.

[27] “The new high drag aerodynamic package used at Indianapolis was hoped to create more drafting and passing.

Strategy was the key ingredient that provided spice and interest with fuel mileage as usual a big part of the day.

Perhaps a bigger impact will come next month when the high drag rules are used at Michigan International Speedway.’’ “It’s really a treat to win here at Indy,” Busch said.

Everyone at Joe Gibbs Racing, all the men and women there, you work so hard and pour your hearts into it.

Unfortunately we come up a little bit short.”[29] “You always want to put yourself in position for a win at the end and that’s what we did today,” Truex said after finishing fourth.

Today it came together and it’s a good feeling to regain momentum.”[30] After being passed for the lead on the final lap of the previous day's Xfinity Series race, Ryan Blaney rebounded to finish twelfth.

That’s part of the reason we created this specific package for Indianapolis – to see the characteristics of it, knowing that there are a lot of personalities in the garage area that have different opinions … but it’s on NASCAR to come up with the one that we put in front of the fans on each individual racetrack each weekend.

So, we’ll take time.’’ Members of the NASCAR media gave their thoughts on the aero package used for this race.

"[28] Jim Utter of Motorsport.com also said it "didn’t look all that different than Brickyards of the past and not at all like the predictions (or hopes) of lots of “pack racing” and drafting.

Rick Allen, Jeff Burton, and Steve Letarte had the call in the booth for the race.

Dave Burns, Mike Massaro, Marty Snider, and Kelli Stavast handled pit road for the television side.

Brad Gillie, Brett McMillan and Nick Yeoman worked pit road for the radio side.