The Rundown: Richmond

6. Kasey Kahne, No. 5 Chevrolet, Hendrick Motorsports. Kahne improved upon a 40th-starting position to earn his fourth top-10 of the season and climb to sixth in the points.

7. Matt Kenseth, No. 20 Toyota, Joe Gibbs Racing. Kenseth and the No. 20 crew chased the handling of his car throughout the race en route to their fifth top-10 this season. He now ranks seventh in the points. 

8. Jeff Gordon, No. 24 Chevrolet, Hendrick Motorsports. Gordon remains inside the top 10 in points after collecting his sixth straight top-10 finish of the season on Sunday.

9. Clint Bowyer, No. 15, Michael Waltrip Racing. Bowyer posted his second-best finish of the 2015 season and improved three spots in the points to 14th.

10. Martin Truex Jr., No. 78 Chevrolet, Furniture Row Racing. Truex, who ranks third in the points, secured his eighth top-10 result of the year and now owns a 9.4 average finishing position after nine races.

11. Ryan Newman, No. 31 Chevrolet, Richard Childress Racing. Newman rallied from a late-race unscheduled pit stop for a loose wheel to pick up a spot in the points and now ranks 15th.

12. Kyle Larson, No. 42 Chevrolet, Chip Ganassi Racing. The handling faded on Larson’s No. 42 Chevrolet just past halfway, but he worked with his team to finish where he started and improve three positions in the points.

13. AJ Allmendinger, No. 47 Chevrolet, JTG Daugherty Racing. Allmendinger opened Sunday's postponed event from fourth – his best 2015 start – and held on to record his best short track result this year.

14. Dale Earnhardt Jr., No. 88 Chevrolet, Hendrick Motorsports. Earnhardt started 26th and ran as high as eighth before a late-race dust-up with Tony Stewart in Turn 1 on Lap 360. | Earnhardt Jr., Stewart make contact

15. Paul Menard, No. 27 Chevrolet, Richard Childress Racing. Menard was the beneficiary of the fee pass after the seventh caution flag was waved and went on to earn his best Richmond result since 2013.
   
16. Chase Elliott, No. 25 Chevrolet, Hendrick Motorsports. In just his second Sprint Cup start, Elliott cracked the top 10 late in the race, briefly dipped into the top five during a cyle of green flag stops and was one of 19 cars to finish on the lead lap. | Elliott meets his goal for Richmond

17. Brad Keselowski, No. 2 Ford, Team Penske. Keselowski was running third when he had an extended stop on pit road during the Lap 270 caution period to examine a suspected dropped cylinder.

18. Justin Allgaier, No. 51 Chevrolet, HScott Motorsports. Allgaier, who ran as high as second on Sunday, encountered stomach cramps during the last 100 laps of the race.

19. Carl Edwards, No. 19 Toyota, Joe Gibbs Racing. Edwards navigated handling woes to ultimately stay on the lead lap, and midway through the race, his team reported he was clocking lap times as fast as eventual winner Kurt Busch.

20. Aric Almirola, No. 43 Ford, Richard Petty Motorsports. Almirola climbed from his 27th-place start to finish as the first car one lap down.

21. Greg Biffle, No. 16 Ford, Roush-Fenway Racing. Biffle's forward progress was stalled on Lap 140 when he had to serve a penalty for a loose grille cover.

22. Denny Hamlin, No. 11 Toyota, Joe Gibbs Racing. Hamlin, of nearby Chesterfield, Virginia, evaded a late-race spin by Tony Stewart, but couldn't find enough momentum to improve his position and return to the lead lap.

23. David Ragan, No. 18 Toyota, Joe Gibbs Racing. Handling was a persistent issue for Ragan, who was put a lap down during the first long green-flag run.

24. Trevor Bayne, No. 6 Ford, Roush Fenway Racing. Bayne, making his first career Sprint Cup start at Richmond, was running 24th around Lap 260 when he made hard contact with the wall.

25. Danica Patrick, No. 10 Chevrolet, Stewart-Haas Racing. Patrick survived early contact around Richmond's congested quarters and further damage after an incident on pit road, but held on to post her second-best Richmond result. | Patrick involved in multiple incidents at Richmond

26. Landon Cassill, No. 40 Chevrolet, Hillman Smith Motorsports. Cassill qualified 19th – ahead of Richmond victors Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Jimmie Johnson – before matching his 2014 spring finish there.

27. Austin Dillon, No. 3 Chevrolet, Richard Childress Racing. Dillon, making his best career start at Richmond, slid down the race track and made contact with Clint Bowyer just past the halfway mark.

28. Ricky Stenhouse Jr., No. 17, Roush Fenway Racing. Stenhouse sustained front fender damage early in the race and made multiple stops during the third caution period to fix it.

29. Brett Moffitt, No. 55 Toyota, Michael Waltrip Racing. Moffitt, the fastest qualifying rookie, blew a right-front tire and hit the wall as green-flag stops were concluding on Lap 270.

30. Casey Mears, No. 13 Chevrolet, Germain Racing. Mears posted his second-best short track finish of the season after making contact early with Danica Patrick.

31. David Gilliland, No. 38 Ford, Front Row Motorsports. Happy with his car's speed in practice, Gilliland struggled to make up track position after qualifying 30th.

32. Alex Bowman, No. 7 Chevrolet, Tommy Baldwin Racing. Bowman and his team worked through several issues including a lack of forward bite and a subsequent loose-handling condition on Sunday.

33. Michael Annett, No. 46 Chevrolet, HScott Motorsports. Annett matched his best Richmond result after rolling off the grid 38th.

34. Reed Sorenson, No. 34 Ford, Front Row Motorsports. A flat tire during qualifying meant Sorenson had to climb his way from the very back when the green flag dropped on Sunday.

35. Sam Hornish Jr., No. 9 Ford, Richard Petty Motorsports. A deep qualifying spot plus a car that refused to turn made for a long day for Hornish, who also picked up some nose damage after making contact with Jeb Burton on Lap 368.

36. Cole Whitt, No. 35 Ford, Front Row Motorsports. Whitt turned in his second-best run at the 0.75-mile short track after a pre-race transmission change negated his best qualifying effort at Richmond.

37. Matt DiBenedetto, No. 83 Toyota, BK Racing. DiBenedetto, who lined up 37th, found his car was better on the long green-flag runs, but was handed two pit road violations during a Lap 367 stop.

38. Jeb Burton, No. 23 Toyota, BK Racing. The Halifax, Virginia, native spun on the backstretch after receiving contact from behind from Sam Hornish Jr. to bring out the final caution flag.

39. Alex Kennedy, No. 33 Chevrolet, Circle Sport. The rookie picked up three spots after starting 42nd in his first Richmond outing.

40. Jeff Green, No. 30 Chevrolet, The Motorsports Group. Green, in his first Richmond Sprint Cup start since 2010, qualified 33rd for the 400-lap event, but had to start from the rear after an engine change.

41. Tony Stewart, No. 14 Chevrolet, Stewart-Haas Racing. Stewart spun in Turn 3 after making contact with Dale Earnhardt Jr. on Lap 360. | See what happened to the three-time Cup champion

42. Josh Wise, No. 98 Ford, Phil Parsons Racing. Wise, making his seventh Richmond start, brought out the third and fourth cautions on Sunday for engine issues.

43. Joey Gase, No. 32 Ford, Go FAS Racing. Gase, making his first Richmond start, was running 40th just prior to the Lap 138 caution when he received contact from behind from a lead-lap car.