Contested over 400 laps on the 0.75 mile (1.2 km) asphalt short track, it was the ninth race of the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season.

Carl Edwards won the race, Kyle Busch finished second, and Jimmie Johnson, Kasey Kahne and Kevin Harvick rounded out the top-five.

The entry list for the Toyota Owners 400 was released on Monday, April 18 at 12:58 a.m. Eastern time.

[13] Kevin Harvick earned the pole for Sunday's race after rain washed out qualifying.

[14] He said afterwards that his team "had decided to come into the weekend and approach qualifying a little bit different, with just the way the race tracks have been and the timing of the practices.

"[15] Joey Logano, who earned the second starting spot, said that he felt "like my team did a great job understanding the weather today before we hit the race track.

Overall it is a good starting spot.”[16] Jimmie Johnson was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 22.342 and a speed of 120.849 mph (194.488 km/h).

[17] Under clear blue Virginia skies, Kevin Harvick led the field to the green flag at 1:16 p.m. After 15 laps, he pulled to seven-tenths of a second over Jimmie Johnson.

Chris Buescher and Hamlin were tagged for an uncontrolled tire and restarted the race from the tail-end of the field.

After cutting down his left-rear, Tony Stewart suffered a blowout and slowed down on the track.

Exiting the turn, Ryan Newman suffered a left-rear tire blowout and spun out.

The eighth caution of the race flew with 42 laps to go for a single-car spin in turn 4 involving Brian Scott.

[18] Edwards said in victory lane that Kyle Busch is "an amazing teammate and it’s like he got really slow there at the end.

He went down into (turn) one and I dove it in and I got to him and I thought, ‘Man, I’ve got something.’ And he went to get down to the bottom and park it in three and four and I had already decided to go down there so I thought, ‘Man, I’m going to give him a little nudge,’ and we both have got wins and we’re racing for fun getting these trophies and just an awesome day.”[19] “It's racing, I guess,” Busch said.

Jamie Little, Vince Welch and Matt Yocum handled the pit road duties for the television side.

Kim Coon, Alex Hayden and Steve Post will work pit road for the radio side.