The 2016 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on September 18, 2016, at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Illinois.

Joey Logano made his way to a second-place finish, the race had nine lead changes among different drivers and four cautions for 22 laps.

The preliminary entry list for the race included 40 cars and was released on September 12, 2016, at 11:36 a.m. Eastern time.

[16] Kyle Larson was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 29.460 and a speed of 183.299 mph (294.991 km/h).

[17] Under clear blue Illinois skies, Kyle Busch led the field to the green flag at 2:49 p.m.

Jimmie Johnson, who made it across the start/finish line on pit road before Truex crossed the line on the track, remained on the lead lap and assumed the lead after he opted to stay out when Truex pitted.

Truex, who was running second, made an unscheduled stop on lap 70 for a flat right-rear tire.

Johnson hit pit road the next lap and handed the lead to Brad Keselowski.

The second caution of the race flew on lap 119 for Brian Scott getting loose and spinning out in turn 4.

Matt Kenseth was sent to the tail end of the field on the ensuing restart for speeding on pit road.

95 car of Michael McDowell brought out the fourth caution of the race with five laps to go and forced overtime.

[26] “The racing gods want to make it difficult on us,” Truex said in victory lane.

It feels awesome.”[27] “On one hand the bad luck was going to bite us and on the other we had a lot of time to battle back,” he added.

“We’re lucky it happened early and we were able to have an awesome racecar all day.”[28] Truex's car failed post-race LIS (Laser Inspection Station) after the race.

[30] Joey Logano, who finished runner-up, said his day saw "awesome execution by the 22 team.

We were fast and I think that is something to be happy about and we can move forward to Loudon (next week) with some motivation.”[33] “You know, it was a long day for us for sure,” said Blaney.

We needed about two or three more for it to be a realistic shot.”[34] NBC Sports covered the race on the television side.

Rick Allen, Jeff Burton and Steve Letarte had the call in the booth for the race.

Dave Burns, Mike Massaro, Marty Snider and Kelli Stavast reported from pit lane during the race.