2013 AAA Texas 500

AAA Texas 500

Race details[1][2][3]
Race 34 of 36 in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Simple line diagram of Texas Motor Speedway track layout
Date	November 3, 2013 (2013-11-03)
Location	Texas Motor Speedway Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Course	Permanent racing facility 1.5 mi (2.4 km)
Distance	334 laps, 501 mi (806.3 km)
Weather	Temperatures reaching up to 71.1 °F (21.7 °C); wind speeds up to 13 miles per hour (21 km/h)
Pole position
Driver	Carl Edwards	Roush Fenway Racing
Time	27.535 seconds (196.114 mph)
Most laps led
Driver	Jimmie Johnson	Hendrick Motorsports
Laps	255
Winner
No. 48	Jimmie Johnson	Hendrick Motorsports
Television in the United States
Network	ESPN
Announcers	Allen Bestwick, Dale Jarrett and Andy Petree

The 2013 AAA Texas 500 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on November 3, 2013, at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas, United States.

(R) - Denotes rookie driver.

(i) - Denotes driver who is ineligible for series driver points.

Contested over 334 laps, it was the thirty-fourth, and the eighth race in the Chase for the Sprint Cup during the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. Jimmie Johnson of Hendrick Motorsports won the race, his sixth win of the season, while Dale Earnhardt Jr. finished second and Joey Logano finished third.

Kyle Busch, Jimmie Johnson and Matt Kenseth were considered the most likely to win this race according to the pundits while Brad Keselowski, Elliott Sadler and Juan Pablo Montoya were considered the extreme underdogs. Some of the racing experts predicted that Jeff Gordon, Denny Hamlin and Greg Biffle would initially make great lap times during the race but would ultimately falter in the end.

Before the race, the championship lead would be split between Kenseth and Johnson. With three racing remaining, it looked like a tiebreaker would have been needed if the stalemate had carried over into Homestead-Miami.^[4]