Contested over 267 laps on the 1.5 mile (2.4 km) asphalt speedway, it was the 11th race of the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup season.

This was the 73rd career victory for Jimmie Johnson, third at Kansas Speedway and sixth at the track for Hendrick Motorsports.

Kevin Harvick entered Kansas with a 40-point lead over Martin Truex Jr. after a fourth-place finish at Talladega.

Erik Jones, who drove in relief of Denny Hamlin at the 2015 Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway, made his official Sprint Cup Series debut in the No.

Kevin Harvick was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 28.306 and a speed of 190.772 mph (307.018 km/h).

[12] Erik Jones, making his official Sprint Cup Series debut, was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 28.227 and a speed of 191.306 mph (307.877 km/h).

[13] “There’s been a lot of people that have been involved over the past few weeks to get me ready for this,” Jones told Fox Sports 1.

It’s just really an honor to be fastest this practice.”[13] Joey Logano won the pole with a time of 28.067 and a speed of 192.397 mph (309.633 km/h).

[14] “We just kind of swung for the fence in the last round and the car drove awesome,” said Logano, who won his twelfth career pole.

We just need to rack up some more wins.”[14] “We had our best speed in our last run so that was what we were looking for,” said Kasey Kahne, who turned a lap of 191.911 mph (308.851 km/h).

“We’ve been getting better every week I think and that improvement will hopefully carry here to Kansas tomorrow night.

We have a fast car and I’m excited.”[14] “I just couldn’t quite find the speed in the last round,” Martin Truex Jr. said.

It’s been good.”[14] “We just got a little better speed in our car and this racetrack has been pretty good for us,” said Greg Biffle, who became the first Roush Fenway Racing driver to make a final round of qualifying this season.

I just said I was going to go for it.”[14] “It would make our life so much easier starting up front and having a good pit stall pick,” Jimmie Johnson said.

He was saved by the first caution of the race flew on lap eight for a two car wreck on the backstretch and turn 4.

Exiting turn 2, Jeb Burton had a left-front flat and spun out on the backstretch, however at that point the race stayed green.

Teammate J. J. Yeley spun and made contact with the wall in turn 4, which caused the caution.

He ducked onto pit road on lap 82 and handed the lead to rookie teammate Erik Jones.

The fourth caution of the race flew on lap 118 for a one car spin on the front stretch.

Matt Kenseth got sideways after suffering a flat left-front tire exiting 2 and was able to save it.

Brad Keselowski surrendered the lead on lap 164 to pit and handed it to Martin Truex Jr.

The sixth caution of the race flew on lap 184 for a single car wreck in turn 3.

The seventh caution of the race flew for Erik Jones hitting the wall in the tri-oval.

The ninth caution of the race flew with twelve laps to go when Stenhouse Jr. slammed the wall in turn 2.

Paul Menard was tagged for an uncontrolled tire and forced to drop to the tail-end of the field for the restart.

Jimmie Johnson held off a hard charging Kevin Harvick for his 73rd career victory.

If we'd have taken two, we probably would have come out sixth, been in a pretty good position.”[24] Fox Sports covered their fifth race at Kansas Speedway.

Mike Joy, Larry McReynolds and Darrell Waltrip had the call in the booth for the race.

Jamie Little, Chris Neville and Matt Yocum handled the pit road duties for the television side.

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