 Harvick spoke about the difficulty of winning at the track , saying " It 's just a lot of years of getting beat by people running up there to be honest with you . I never really could figure it out . So probably end of last year ... I went home and watched some tapes of Dale [ Earnhardt ] Jr . , some of his previous races here , because he always seemed to have a good handle on running the top groove . It was just more of a rhythm thing and some things that I needed to change in my approach to run up there . For us , I think the biggest change was not only the race cars being good , but just the approach to where we ran on the race track during the race and making that commitment . It worked out for us today . " The race result left Harvick leading the Driver 's Championship with 3 @,@ 400 points , assuring him a position in the Chase for the Sprint Cup . Jeff Gordon , who finished twenty @-@ seventh , was second on 3 @,@ 107 , sixty points ahead of Hamlin and eighty @-@ seven ahead of Tony Stewart . Jimmie Johnson was fifth with 3 @,@ 014 points . Chevrolet maintained their lead in the Manufacturers ' Championship with 167 points . Toyota placed second with 147 points , and Ford followed with 106 points , ten ahead of Dodge in fourth . 4 @.@ 917 million people watched the race on television . The race took two hours , forty @-@ six minutes and thirty @-@ eight seconds to complete , and the margin of victory was 1 @.@ 731 seconds . 
