New Hampshire Motor Speedway is a 1.058-mile (1.703 km) oval speedway located in Loudon, New Hampshire which has hosted NASCAR racing annually since the early 1990s, as well as an IndyCar weekend and the oldest motorcycle race in North America, the Loudon Classic.

The track was originally the site of Bryar Motorsports Park before being purchased and redeveloped by Bob Bahre.

We worked in qualifying trim most of our first practice this weekend and now we have to translate that speed to a good race set-up for Sunday.

We’d like to come out of here with the trophy and make our way to the next round of the Chase.”[13] Kyle Larson was the fastest in the second practice session with a time of 28.814 and a speed of 132.186 mph (212.733 km/h).

[15] Under clear blue New Hampshire skies, Carl Edwards led the field to the green flag at 2:17 p.m.

The fourth caution of the race flew with 36 laps to go after Michael McDowell suffered a left-rear tire blowout and spun out in turn 3.

Kevin Harvick beat Kenseth going into turn 3 to take the lead with five laps to go and drove on to score the victory.

I probably shouldn’t have had that in my mind so I made sure I got rolling early and I spun the tires a little bit and he got half a car length anticipating it and just did it perfect and beat me through one and two and cleared me.

I shouldn’t have worried about what they (NASCAR) said and just got to turn one first.”[22] NBCSN covered the race on the television side.

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