The 2016 STP 500 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race held on April 3, 2016, at Martinsville Speedway in Ridgeway, Virginia.

Contested over 500 laps on the .526 mile (.847 km) paperclip-shaped short track, it was the sixth race of the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season.

A. J. Allmendinger finished second, while Kyle Larson, Austin Dillon and Brad Keselowski rounded out the top-five.

This was the 35th career victory for Busch, first of the season, first at Martinsville Speedway and ninth at the track for Joe Gibbs Racing.

At 0.526 miles (0.847 km) in length, it is the shortest track in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.

[13] Trevor Bayne went to his backup car after crashing his primary in the final 30 seconds of the session.

[15] He joined Jeff Gordon, Mark Martin, Darrell Waltrip and Glen Wood as the only drivers to have earned three-consecutive poles at Martinsville.

Everyone at Stewart-Haas Racing, Chevy, it's an honor to put the Arnie’s Army and Janssen Chevrolet in the top three.”[21] Kasey Kahne was the fastest in the second practice session with a time of 19.710 and a speed of 96.073 mph (154.615 km/h).

[22] Kyle Larson was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 19.835 and a speed of 95.468 mph (153.641 km/h).

[23] Under clear blue Virginia skies, Joey Logano led the field to the green flag at 1:19 p.m.

Denny Hamlin and Brad Keselowski were tagged for speeding on pit road and restarted the race from the tail-end of the field.

Matt Kenseth drove by his teammate exiting turn 2 to take the lead on lap 133.

Aric Almirola retired from the race on lap 208 due to engine issues and would go on to finish last.

[27] He said afterwards that it was the "first time ever doing it here, so it’s a little embarrassing, but I mean we were the fastest car those last 30 laps and we got back to the top-five and I was making up a lot of my speed on entry.

Reed Sorenson was tagged for having too many crew members over the wall and restarted the race from the tail-end of the field.

Chase Elliott was tagged for speeding on pit road and restarted the race from the tail-end of the field.

Jamie McMurray suffered a left-front tire blowout, got hit in the rear and turned.

[31] Busch said after the race that he "had a really good car through practice and Adam (Stevens, crew chief) made some really good adjustments overnight to keep us where we need to be in order to run up front all day, led a lot of laps, probably led the most laps there and to win here in Martinsville is pretty cool – finally get to take a clock home.

"[33] A. J. Allmendinger said of his second–place finish and his strong runs of late that they're "something that really started on the West Coast swing and coming through here, I feel like we've been at our best at the end of these races.

Jamie Little, Vince Welch and Matt Yocum handled pit road duties for the entire race.

Joe Moore, Jeff Striegle and seven-time Martinsville winner Rusty Wallace called the race in the booth as the cars were on the frontstretch.

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