Contested over 90 laps on the 2.45 mile (3.94 km) road course, it was the 22nd race of the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season.

This was the tenth career victory for Joey Logano, second of the season, first at Watkins Glen and first at the track for Team Penske.

The Cheez-It 355 at The Glen was carried by NBC Sports on the cable/satellite NBCSN network for the American television audience.

It was long known around the world as the home of the United States Grand Prix, which it hosted for 20 consecutive years (1961–1980) but since 1948, it has been home to road racing of nearly every class, such as Formula One, the World Sportscar Championship, Trans-Am, Can-Am, the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, the International Motor Sports Association and the Verizon IndyCar Series.

The circuit's current layout has more/less been the same since 1971, although a chicane was installed at the uphill esses in 1975 to slow cars through these corners, where there was a fatality during practice at the 1973 United States Grand Prix.

The circuit is known as the Mecca of North American road racing and is a very popular venue among fans and drivers.

The entry list for the Cheez-It 355 at The Glen was released on Monday, August 3 at 9:00 a.m. Eastern time.

[12] Jeff Gordon was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 1:09.267 and a speed of 127.333 mph (204.923 km/h).

On lap 3, Jimmie Johnson overshot the entrance to the inner loop and was forced to come to a complete stop before continuing.

[16] As he pulled off pit road, another piece of debris flew off his car and landed in the esses.

Justin Allgaier got loose and spun out exiting turn 1, but the race remained green.

The fifth caution of the race flew on lap 57 when Tony Stewart came to a stop just before reaching the inner loop.

Matt Kenseth opted not to pit and assumed the lead, dropping Busch back to 21st.

[15] Harvick was still leading with ten laps to go with no guarantee of making the finish on his fuel load.

Harvick ran out of fuel on the final lap and was passed by Logano going into turn 11 who took the checkered flag.

We lost the race last week the same way, so it makes up for it to get it this week.”[20] “I had a chance,” Kyle Busch said after finishing second.

I felt like I was better than he was, but my crew chief called in scared on the fuel situation from last week and I don’t blame him.

We wanted to make sure we could be there at the end.”[21] “We ran pretty good with just the way the fuel strategy worked out, we had to save a lot battling with Kevin (Harvick)," Kenseth said.

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 on the television side.

Winston Kelley, Alex Hayden and Steve Post worked pit road for MRN.