Contested over 500 laps on the .533 mile (.858 km) concrete short track, it was the 24th race of the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season.

Kevin Harvick finished second for the tenth time in the season while Denny Hamlin, Jimmie Johnson and Clint Bowyer rounded out the top five.

This was the 11th career victory for Joey Logano, third of the season, second at Bristol Motor Speedway and 12th at the track for Team Penske.

Ford left Bristol trailing Toyota by one-point for second in the manufacturer standings and Chevrolet by 71 for the points lead.

The Irwin Tools Nights Race was carried by NBC Sports on the cable/satellite NBCSN network for the American television audience.

Despite its short length, Bristol is among the most popular tracks on the NASCAR schedule because of its distinct features, which include extraordinarily steep banking, an all concrete surface, two pit roads, and stadium-like seating.

The entry list for the Irwin Tools Night Race was released on Monday, August 17 at 11:17 a.m. Eastern time.

[12] Towards the tail-end of the session, Martin Truex Jr. blew a right-front tire and slammed the wall exiting turn 2.

[15] "Our FedEx Ground Camry obviously was very fast that last round and Dave (Rogers, crew chief) made the great adjustments to it to pick up the speed and I think that hopefully we’ll have something that we can race with them tomorrow night,” Hamlin said.

The groove is up top there, so I was hoping we were going to qualify better than this, especially with this pretty awesome Rainbow paint scheme that Axalta has this weekend for us.

[15] Under a clear East Tennessee evening sky, Denny Hamlin led the field to the green flag at 7:52 p.m.

Starting on the bottom line, which isn't the norm at Bristol, he shot ahead of teammate Kyle Busch to lead the first lap.

Ryan Blaney and Danica Patrick were tagged for speeding on pit road and restarted the race from the rear of the field.

He shot ahead of Kyle Larson on the outside line and drove away from the field followed closely by teammate Denny Hamlin.

“Unfortunate, but man these guys at TRD (Toyota Racing Development) have been doing such an awesome job, we’ve had so much power and everything has been really reliable here the last year and a half.

Felt like we were really competitive – we were one or two adjustments away from where we needed to be, but I thought our Dollar General Camry had good speed.”[17] The second caution of the race flew on lap 126 for a single-car wreck in turn 4.

Again deviating from recent Bristol norm, Denny Hamlin restarted on the bottom line and shot ahead of his teammate.

Exiting turn 2, A. J. Allmendinger came down across the nose of Ricky Stenhouse Jr., slid down the track and slammed the inside wall.

Teammate Kyle Busch drove by Denny Hamlin on the top side to take back the lead on lap 156.

Being caught being the lapped car of Josh Wise allowed Joey Logano to drive up to his outside, but pulled out in front and continued leading.

Logano powered underneath Busch after he made slight contact with the wall to take the lead on lap 226.

Justin Allgaier was tagged for speeding on pit road and restarted the race from the rear of the field.

[20] "The 48 (Johnson) jumped on my outside and we were really good on the bottom and it kind of surprised me by getting out there and he held me tight coming off of Turn 2 and then I guess the 15 (Bowyer) got a little bit of a run and there just wasn’t enough room for the three of us," Ragan said after the race.

Greg Biffle was tagged for speeding on pit road and restarted the race from the rear of the field.

Kevin Harvick was unable to catch Joey Logano on the final lap as he went on to score the victory at Bristol.

“I was watching him drive in and I was like, ‘He’s going to get me eventually,’ so I just wanted to make sure I stayed at least three or four car lengths up on him so he didn't get to me.”[24] "He was just one step ahead of me in traffic,” Harvick explained after finishing runner-up for the 10th time this season.

Driver got us behind last weekend after Michigan, but man, when you step up to the plate like this and you’re running at the level that it takes to be a part of the championship caliber elite group like you have in the Chase.

Rick Allen, one–time Bristol winner 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.

Brad Gillie, Brett McMillan, Jim Noble and Steve Richards worked pit road on the radio side.