The 2016 GEICO 500 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race scheduled that was held on May 1, 2016, at Talladega Superspeedway in Lincoln, Alabama.

Contested over 188 laps on the 2.66 mile (4.28 km) superspeedway, it was the 10th race of the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season.

Austin Dillon, Jamie McMurray and Chase Elliott rounded out the top-five, The race had 37 lead changes among different drivers and ten cautions for 41 laps.

A tri-oval, the track was constructed in 1969 by the International Speedway Corporation, a business controlled by the France family.

[13] Joey Logano was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 48.785 and a speed of 196.290 mph (315.898 km/h).

Unfortunately I didn’t bring it home in one piece (at Daytona), they had to fix it, but they did a great job doing that and hopefully we can just try to be smart, try to cut down on some of the dumb mistakes I made in February and try to give ourselves a shot and be there at the end.”[16] Austin Dillon, who qualified second, talked about how the No.

Usually what you’ve got in the first round is what you’ve got in the second round, but we jumped a couple of guys and got a better starting spot.”[18] Under overcast Alabama skies, Chase Elliott led the field to the green flag at 1:04 p.m. By the end of the first lap, most of the field was racing three-wide.

Elliott used the middle line to pass Kenseth on the backstretch and retake the lead on lap 29.

Elliott hit pit road on lap 38 and handed the lead to Michael Waltrip.

Eventually, Keselowski jumped ahead and started blocking the advances of the three lines of cars.

During that wreck, Chris Buescher flipped multiple times, causing the car to land back on all fours.

Michael Annett, Jimmie Johnson, Carl Edwards, and Austin Dillon were also involved.

The fourth caution of the race flew with 79 laps to go for a multi-car wreck in turn 1, involving Earnhardt Jr. and Carl Edwards after he suffered a right-front tire blowout and slammed the wall collecting Earnhardt.

The fifth caution of the race flew with 62 laps to go for a single-car spin in turn 4 involving Kahne.

The sixth caution of the race flew with 35 laps to go after David Ragan blew an engine in turn 2.

The seventh caution of the race flew with 26 laps to go for a multi-car wreck in turn 1 that collected 21 cars.

The ninth caution of the race flew with six laps to go for a multi-car wreck on the backstretch that collected 12 cars.

[28] Danica Patrick, who slammed the wall head-on at a high speed, said she "would say that's probably the most scared (I've been), trying to hop out of a car with the fire on the inside.

At Daytona a couple of years ago on the front straight without a SAFER barrier was probably one of the hardest impacts, but this one was probably worse.

"[29] Kenseth, whose car blew over and slid down the backstretch, said that Logano "ran me off the race track and that got me way behind so I thought we were done with that, but maybe we aren't.

"[30] The race restarted with four laps to go and Keselowski scored the victory as the field wrecked behind him in the tri-oval.

Involving Kevin Harvick who nearly flipped, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. , A. J. Allmendinger, and Martin Truex and Cole Whitt.

Jamie Little, Chris Neville, Vince Welch and Matt Yocum handled the action on pit road for the television side.

Alex Hayden, Winston Kelley and Steve Post worked pit road for the radio side.