Toyota Owners 400

The Toyota Owners 400 is a 400 lap NASCAR Cup Series stock car race held at the Richmond Raceway in Richmond, Virginia.

The race usually takes place at the end of April and on Sunday afternoons. For a few years, it had taken place during the day in February, during the weekend following the Daytona 500. Lighting was installed in 1991 but the spring race continued to be contested during the day. The generally still cold weather (snow having even caused a postponement of the race in 1989) caused officials to move the date of the race later in the season, towards the end of spring in late May or early June. They take the opportunity to run the race on Saturday evening instead of Sunday afternoon. Starting with the 1999 season, the race is set for the month of May. Since 2012 and the realignment of NASCAR Cup Series races, the race has been moved to the last Saturday in April (swapping dates with the Talladega spring race) and the race returned to Sunday afternoon in 2016 but returned to Saturday night in 2018.

The 2020 race was not held due to the, being replaced with a race at Darlington Raceway.

Your Name Here
From 2007 to 2011, the race has beared a different name each year. The company (brand of Canadian ) owns the name of the race. It will associate the winner of a competition taking place during the Daytona Speedweeks (week of competitions organized at Daytona in January or February of each year and ending with the NASCAR Cup Series race, the Daytona 500).

This is how the race was officially called:
 * 2007: Houma, Louisiana winning tryout competition.
 * '2008 The race was emotional following Columbiana's Dan Lowry's tryout win in Ohio;
 * 2009: The race was emotional following of Huntington's essay competition victory in New York.

For the 2010 and 2011 seasons, only members of the armed forces will be eligible for the tryouts at Daytona. The races are then called:
 * 2010: The race was emotional following of Clarksville, Army veteran Heath Calhoun, a native of Clarksville].
 * 2011: The race was emotional following Marine Matthew Hansen's Trials competition victory and in honor of his twin brother Daniel Hansen killed in action on February 14, 2009.

From the 2012 season, the company chose to stop sponsoring the race and instead sponsor the Brickyard 400.

Track length notes

 * 1953–1969: 0.5 mile course
 * 1970–1988: 0.542 mile course
 * 1989–present: 0.75 mile course

Television broadcasters
As of 2016, the Toyota Owners 400 is broadcast on Fox in the United States. During the 1980s and early 1990s, covered the race. ESPN took over later in the decade, and from 2001 to 2006, the race was shown on. In 2007, for the first time in the track's history, the track's races aired on network television.