2014 1. deild kvinnur
The 2014 1. deild kvinnur was the 30th season of women's league football in the Faroe Islands.


2014 1. deild kvinnur
The league was won by KÍ, its 15th consecutive title and 16th overall. By winning, KÍ qualified to 2015–16 UEFA Women's Champions League.


2014 1. divisjon (women)
The 2014 1. divisjon was the second tier of Norwegian women's football in 2014. The season kicked off on 21 April 2014, finishing on 26 October 2014.


2014 1. divisjon (women)
The top placed team was be promoted to next year's Toppserien. The second placed team contested a playoff against the 11th placed team from the 2014 Toppserien for the right to play in Toppserien next season.


2014 1000 Guineas
The 2014 1000 Guineas Stakes was a horse race held at Newmarket Racecourse on Sunday 4 May 2014. It was the 201st running of the 1000 Guineas.


2014 1000 Guineas
The winner was the Ballymore Thoroughbred's Miss France, an Irish-bred bay filly trained at Chantilly by André Fabre and ridden by Maxime Guyon. Miss France's victory was the first in the race for her owner, trainer and jockey.


2014 1000 Guineas, The contenders
The race attracted a field of seventeen runners, thirteen trained in the United Kingdom, two in Ireland and two in France. The favourite was the Aidan O'Brien-trained Tapestry, who had won the Debutante Stakes and finished second in the Moyglare Stud Stakes in 2013. She was accompanied by her stable companion Bracelet, the winner of the Leopardstown 1,000 Guineas Trial Stakes. The Godolphin stable was represented by Ihtimal who had won the Sweet Solera Stakes and the May Hill Stakes in England in 2013 before taking the UAE 1000 Guineas and the UAE Oaks in Dubai in early 2014.


2014 1000 Guineas, The contenders
The French challengers were the Oh So Sharp Stakes winner Miss France, and Vorda, the winner of the Prix Robert Papin and the Cheveley Park Stakes. The most strongly fancied of the British-trained runners was Rizeena, who had won the Queen Mary Stakes and beaten Tapestry in the Moyglare Stud Stakes. Other Group race winners in the field were Lucky Kristale (Duchess of Cambridge Stakes, Lowther Stakes), Sandiva (Nell Gwyn Stakes) and Princess Noor (Princess Margaret Stakes). Tapestry headed the betting at odds of 4/1 ahead of Rizeena (9/2), with Ihtimal and Miss France on 7/1.


2014 1000 Guineas, The race
Shortly after the start the fillies formed a single group racing down the centre of the wide Newmarket straight. The 100/1 outsider Manderley took the lead in the early stages and set a steady pace from Majeyda and Miss France with Ihtimal, Tapestry and Euro Charline close behind. Manderley maintained her advantage until the final quarter mile when she was challenged by Miss France and Ihtimal on her right as Lightning Thunder began to make rapid progress along the stands side rail.


2014 1000 Guineas, The race
Miss France took the lead inside the final furlong and held off the string late challenge of Lightning Thunder to win by a neck with Ihtimal half a length away in third and Manderley holding on in fourth. Euro Charline took fifth ahead of Majeyda, Rizeena, Vorda and Sandiva. The favourite Tapestry dropped away and finished last of the fourteen runners.


2014 1000 Guineas, The race
Miss France's win meant that André Fabre joined Michael Stoute and Aidan O'Brien as the third active trainer to have won all five of the British Classic Races. After the race Fabre, admitted that Maxime Guyon had not followed his instructions, saying "I was a bit worried to see Miss France so close to the pace. It was not the plan at all. But it was a fantastic ride. He did not listen to me".


2014 12 Hours of Sebring
The 62nd Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring fueled by Fresh from Florida was an endurance sports car racing event held at Sebring International Raceway near Sebring, Florida from 13–15 March 2014. The race was the second round of the inaugural Tudor United SportsCar Championship, replacing the former American Le Mans Series that previously held the 12 Hours since 1999, as well as the second round of the North American Endurance Cup. Daytona Prototypes were introduced to the race for the first time as part of the development of the United SportsCar Championship.


2014 12 Hours of Sebring
The race was won by Chip Ganassi Racing's Riley-Ford driven by Scott Pruett, Memo Rojas, and Marino Franchitti, ahead of Extreme Speed Motorsports' HPD-Honda and Action Express Racing's Chevrolet Corvette. Ford's victory was the company's first since 1969. The PC class winners were CORE Autosport in their second straight victory of the season, with drivers Colin Braun, Jon Bennett, and James Gue. Porsche North America also earned their second win of the year in GTLM with Patrick Long, Michael Christensen, and Jörg Bergmeister. The GTD category was led by Magnus Racing's Andy Lally, John Potter, and Marco Seefried.


2014 2. deild
2014 2. deild was the 39th season of the third-tier football on the Faroe Islands.


2014 2. deild karla
The 2014 2. deild karla (English: Men's Second Division) is the 49th season of third-tier football in Iceland. Twelve teams will contest the league. Play began on 10 May and concluded on 20 September.


2014 2. deild karla
The league champions were newly promoted Fjarðabyggð, who finished 7 points ahead of second-placed Grótta. Both clubs were therefore promoted to the 1. deild for the 2015 season. At the other end of the table, Völsungur and Reynir S. were both relegated to the 2015 3. deild karla.


2014 2. deild karla, Teams
The league was contested by twelve clubs, eight of which played in the division during the 2012 season. There were four new clubs from the previous campaign:


2014 2. deild karla, Results
Each team plays every opponent once home and away for a total of 22 matches per club, and 132 matches altogether.


2014 2. divisjon
The 2014 2. divisjon (often referred to as Oddsen-ligaen for sponsorship reasons) was a Norwegian football third-tier league. The league consisted of 56 teams divided into 4 groups of 14 teams. The winners of the four groups were promoted to the 1. divisjon, while the bottom three teams in each groups are relegated to the 3. divisjon.


2014 2. divisjon
The league was played as a double round-robin tournament, where all teams played 26 matches. The first round was played on 21 April 2014, while the last round was played on 25 October 2014.


2014 2000 Guineas Stakes
The 2014 2000 Guineas Stakes was the 206th running of the 2000 Guineas Stakes horse race. It was run over one mile at Newmarket Racecourse on 3 May 2014. The form of the 2014 running of the 2000 Guineas Stakes was of the strongest seen in years, as can be seen from below.


2014 2000 Guineas Stakes, Full result
* The distances between the horses are shown in lengths or shorter – nk = neck


2014 2000 Guineas Stakes, Form of race
The 206th running of the 2000 Guineas Stakes has claim to the strongest 2000 Guineas field in history, in terms of quality in depth. In surpasses the 2008 running, which included the first two home in that seasons Breeders' Cup Classic and Group 1 winners: Henrythenavigator (2000 Guineas Stakes, Irish 2,000 Guineas, St James's Palace Stakes, Sussex Stakes), New Approach (National Stakes, Dewhurst Stakes, Epsom Derby, Irish Champion Stakes, Champion Stakes), Raven's Pass (Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, Breeders' Cup Classic) and Ibn Khaldun (Racing Post Trophy).


2014 2000 Guineas Stakes, Form of race
It can also be argued that the quality of the edition, surpasses that of the acclaimed 1971 running with included Brigadier Gerard, Mill Reef and My Swallow; between the three they won every major juvenile race in Europe, whilst Brigadier Gerard and Mill reef have claim to being the best European horse of the 20th Century.


2014 2000 Guineas Stakes, Form of race
As can be seen from below, an astonishing nine of the fourteen horses in the 2014 running, were Group One winners, while two of the other five were dual Group One placed. The strength in depth of the field was exemplified on British Champions Day 2014, in Europe's richest mile race: the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes. First, second and third all ran in the 2014 2000 Guineas: 1st – Charm Spirit (5th in 2000 Guineas); 2nd – Night of Thunder (1st in 2000 Guineas); 3rd – Toormore (7th in 2000 Guineas). On Racing Post Ratings, accounting all 14 horses, the 2014 edition had an average rating of 119 lbs at the end of the 2014 flat season.


2014 2000 Guineas Stakes, Form of race, 8th Kingston Hill
Fourth in Eclipse Stakes and Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe


2014 2000 Guineas Stakes, Subsequent breeding careers
Leading progeny of participants in the 2014 2000 Guineas Stakes.


2014 2000 Guineas Stakes, Subsequent breeding careers, Other stallions
Night Of Thunder (1st) – Thunderous (1st Dante Stakes 2020), Auyantepui (1st Oaks d'Italia 2020), Night Colours (1st Premio Dormello 2019)War Command (9th) – War Breeze (1st Chilean Derby 2020)Charm Spirit (5th) – Scorpz (3rd New Zealand Derby 2020), Aretha (2nd Manawatu Sires Produce Stakes 2019), Kick On (1st Sovereign Stakes 2019)Outstrip (14th) – Flippa The Strippa (1st National Stakes 2019)Kingston Hill (8th) – Minor flat winnersThe Grey Gatsby (10th) – Offspring yet to raceShifting Power (4th) – Exported to IndiaNoozhoh Canarias (6th) – Standing in Spain


2014 24 Hours of Daytona
The 52nd Rolex 24 at Daytona was an endurance sports car racing event held at the Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach, Florida, from 23–26 January 2014. The 52nd running of the 24 Hours of Daytona was also the inaugural race for the Tudor United SportsCar Championship as well as the newly merged International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) sanctioning body. As part of the new series, Le Mans Prototype and Le Mans GT Endurance-style cars were eligible to participate for the first time in over a decade.


2014 24 Hours of Daytona
The race was won by Action Express Racing, who led a sweep of the top four positions for Corvettes in the Prototype category. Brazilian Christian Fittipaldi and Portuguese João Barbosa became two-time race winners, while Frenchman Sébastien Bourdais won his first Rolex 24 after holding off the Wayne Taylor Racing Corvette by a second and a half at the finish. The GTLM was won by Porsche North America, whose 911 RSR beat out the Team RLL BMW. The Prototype Challenge category was led by CORE Autosport ahead of 8Star Motorsports. The GTD class victory was originally awarded to the Flying Lizard Motorsports Audi following a post-race penalty for Level 5 Motorsports' Ferrari, but IMSA later rescinded the penalty, promoting the Ferrari to first place in class.


2014 24 Hours of Daytona
An incident marred the race during its third hour when Memo Gidley's GAINSCO Corvette ran into the back of the slowed Risi Ferrari of Matteo Malucelli. Officials halted the race for approximately one hour while both drivers were extracted from their cars. Both were held at Halifax Medical Center for several days.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans
The 82nd 24 Hours of Le Mans (French: 82e 24 Heures du Mans) was an 24 hour automobile endurance racing event for Le Mans Prototype and Le Mans Grand Touring Endurance cars held from 11 to 15 June 2014 at the Circuit de la Sarthe close to Le Mans, France. It was the 82nd running of the event, as organized by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) since 1923. The race was the third round and the premier event of the 2014 FIA World Endurance Championship, with half of the race's fifty-five entries contesting the championship. Approximately 263,000 spectators attended the event, the largest crowd since 1989.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans
The race was won by the No. 2 Audi driven by Swiss Marcel Fässler, German André Lotterer, and Frenchman Benoît Tréluyer, who previously won Le Mans as a trio in 2011 and 2012. This victory was Audi's thirteenth since the company debuted at the race in 1999. The Audi team took the lead after the No. 7 Toyota came to a stop after leading half the race distance, but were challenged by Porsche when two Audi cars required turbocharger replacements. The No. 1 Audi of Tom Kristensen, Marc Gené and Lucas di Grassi finished in second place, three laps behind the race winners, while Anthony Davidson, Sébastien Buemi and Nicolas Lapierre's No. 8 Toyota recovered from an accident in the first hour to finish in third place.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans
The (Le Mans Prototype 1-Lightweight) LMP1-L category was won by the No. 12 Rebellion Racing Rebellion-Toyota of Nick Heidfeld, Mathias Beche, and Nico Prost, the sole finisher in the class. The Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2) class finished with the Jota Sport Zytek-Nissan of Simon Dolan, Oliver Turvey, and Harry Tincknell ahead of the TDS Racing Ligier-Nissan by less than a lap's distance.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans
The No. 51 AF Corse Ferrari won the Le Mans Grand Touring Endurance Professional (LMGTE Pro) category with drivers Gianmaria Bruni, Giancarlo Fisichella, and Toni Vilander, while the Le Mans Grand Touring Endurance Amateur (LMGTE Am) category was won by Aston Martin Racing's trio of Danish drivers: David Heinemeier Hansson, Kristian Poulsen, and Nicki Thiim.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans
The result meant Davidson, Lapierre and Buemi remained the leaders of the Drivers' Championship with 80 points while Fässler, Tréluyer and Lotterer's victory enabled them to move into second on 60 points and di Grassi and Kristensen remained in third place but a further six points behind. Mathias Beche, Nicolas Prost and Nick Heidfeld remained in fourth position on 42 points and Gené's second-place finish moved him to fifth place. Toyota remained the leaders of the Manufacturers' Championship, but their advantage over Audi had been reduced to one point while Porsche maintained third position with five races left in the season.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Schedule and pre-championship standings
The 2014 Le Mans schedule was moved forward one week to avoid conflicts with other major motorsports series. It was the 82nd running of the event, and the third of eight scheduled rounds of the 2014 FIA World Endurance Championship. Before the race Toyota drivers Anthony Davidson, Sébastien Buemi and Nicolas Lapierre led the Drivers' Championship with 50 points, 16 ahead of their teammates Alexander Wurz, Stéphane Sarrazin and Kazuki Nakajima and a further 16 in front of Loïc Duval, Lucas di Grassi and Tom Kristensen.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Schedule and pre-championship standings
Mathias Beche, Nicolas Prost and Nick Heidfeld were fourth on 18 points and Timo Bernhard, Brendon Hartley and Mark Webber stood in fifth place with 15.5 points. Toyota were leading the Manufacturers' Championship with 84 points, 48 ahead of their rival Porsche in second; the third-placed Manufacturer Audi had scored 28 points. Toyota had so far dominated the championship, winning the season's previous two races. Wurz, Sarrazin and Nakajima along with Duval, di Grassi and Kristensen had finished in second once and Bernhard, Hartley, Webber along with Wurz, Sarrazin and Nakajima had both secured third-place podium finishes.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Circuit and regulation changes
Following the death of Allan Simonsen during the 2013 race, the ACO announced improvements to several sections of the circuit. Tertre Rouge was re-profiled and new barriers and tire walls were added at the corner's exit onto the Mulsanne Straight. Run-off areas in the Corvette corners were expanded, and Tecpro barriers were added behind the tire walls at the start of the Porsche corners. Large kerbs were added to the paved run-off at the second Ford chicane to deter cars from cutting the corner.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Circuit and regulation changes
A new safety system was implemented, which allowed for the intervention of safety vehicles on a particular section of the circuit without the need for neutralising the entire race with safety cars. The system, termed a slow zone, requires cars to slow and maintain a speed of 60 km/h (37 mph) within a specific zone. Speeds within the zones were monitored by GPS systems that were required on every car. In conjunction with the slow zone procedure an onboard marshalling system warned drivers of the location of slow zones.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Circuit and regulation changes
New regulations required rookies, as well as drivers who have not competed at Le Mans in the past five years, to participate in a half-day simulator training course. The course includes examples of night and wet racing at Le Mans, as well as the new safety car and slow zone procedures.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries, Automatic invitations
Automatic entry invitations were earned by teams that won their class in the previous running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, or have won Le Mans-based series such as the American Le Mans Series, European Le Mans Series and Asian Le Mans Series. Some second-place finishers were also granted automatic invitations in certain series. As with the 2013 race, the American Le Mans Series was given two designated entries rather than entries for each class. All current FIA World Endurance Championship full-season entries also automatically earned invitations.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries, Automatic invitations
As automatic invitations were granted to teams, the teams were allowed to change their cars from the previous year to the next, but are not allowed to change their category. However, automatic invitations in the two GTE categories were able to be swapped between the two based on the driver line-ups chosen by these teams.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries, Automatic invitations
On 20 December 2013, the ACO published its initial list of automatic invitations. Muscle Milk Pickett Racing and Team Endurance Challenge did not take up their automatic entries; Risi Competizione also turned down its invitation, but later submitted a request for another car and was granted a reserve entry.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries, Garage 56
The ACO continued the Garage 56 concept, started in 2012. Garage 56 allows a 56th entry to the race, using the rigours of the 24 Hours of Le Mans to test new technology. The ACO announced during 2013 that the Nissan Motor Company's Nismo division had been granted the Garage 56 entry for 2014.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries, Garage 56
Nissan unveiled the car, known as the ZEOD RC, during the 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans weekend. The ZEOD RC was designed by Ben Bowlby, who created the 2012 Garage 56 entry DeltaWing with backing from Nissan. The ZEOD RC utilized a hybrid electric drivetrain with lithium ion battery packs in a chassis similar in design to the DeltaWing. The car featured a turbocharged three-cylinder internal combustion engine and two electric drive motors. Nissan planned to attempt a full lap of the Circuit de la Sarthe under all-electric power, a goal achieved during the pre-race warm-up session.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries, Entry list
In conjunction with the announcement of entries for the 2014 FIA World Endurance Championship and the 2014 European Le Mans Series, the ACO announced the full list of invitations for Le Mans, plus ten reserves. In addition to the 31 guaranteed entries from the World Endurance Championship, thirteen entries came from the European Le Mans Series, five from the United SportsCar Championship, and two from the Asian Le Mans Series, while the rest of the field was filled with one-off entries competing only at Le Mans.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries, Entry list
Following the publication of the invitations, several teams withdrew their entries. SRT Motorsports announced that its Vipers would be withdrawn, citing concentration on the United SportsCar Championship, and bringing the manufacturers in the Le Mans Grand Touring Endurance Professional (LMGTE Pro) category down to four. JMW Motorsports' and Team Taisan's Ferrari cars were promoted to the race entry as a result. On 28 April 2014, the ACO released a revised entry list that confirmed the withdrawal of Millennium Racing's two entries, Craft Racing, and two additional Aston Martin Racing entries. Larbre Compétition, Caterham Racing, Pegasus Racing and second entries of IMSA Performance Matmut and Prospeed Competition were promoted from the reserves to the race entry.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries, Entry list
Lotus withdrew its new LMP1-L class prototype due to a delay in completion of the car, leaving only Rebellion Racing cars in the category. Millennium Racing, which had previously withdrawn due to a delay in funding, had one entry reinstated. A week later Strakka Racing withdrew its Strakka Dome S103 after an accident in testing damaged the car, which had been planned to debut in the LMP2 category. Krohn Racing, who had initially withdrawn its joint entry with Risi Competizione from the reserve list, replaced the Strakka. The day before the start of scrutineering, Millennium Racing was unable to secure its funding and was forced to withdraw for the second time. No replacement was found.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Testing and practice
A test day was held on 1 June, two weeks prior to the race, and allowed but did not require all entrants for the race to participate in eight hours of track time divided into two sessions. Krohn Racing did not attend the test due to lack of preparation, while Prospeed Competition's second car was also not entered. Millennium Racing had its race entry plus a second car entered for the test but did not arrive. AF Corse brought an additional Ferrari to allow more testing for drivers, bringing the total cars for the day to 54.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Testing and practice
Toyota set the pace of the day with a three minutes and 23.014 seconds lap recorded by Buemi in the second session, followed by Nakajima in the No. 7 Toyota in second. The No. 3 Audi of Marco Bonanomi was within a second of the top time. The fastest Porsche of Neel Jani was over a second and a half behind Buemi's lap. Roman Rusinov led the LMP2 class for G-Drive Racing with a three minutes and 37.795 seconds lap time ahead of Karun Chandhok's No. 48 Murphy Prototypes and Signatech Alpine.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Testing and practice
The LMGTE Pro category was led by Frédéric Makowiecki's Porsche with a three minutes and 57.260 seconds time, while the team's second car was damaged beyond repair early in the session after becoming airborne in the gravel traps of the Ford chicane. Paolo Ruberti's 8 Star Motorsports Ferrari was the fastest in LMGTE Am, and the second fastest amongst all LMGTE runners, with a three minutes and 57.403 seconds lap. After the test several prototype teams, including all Audi, Porsche, and Toyota cars participated in an unofficial test on the shorter Bugatti Circuit the following day to ensure car components were working efficiently before the race.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Testing and practice
Official practice was held on 11 June with the full 54-car field on track for four hours. Toyota led from the start once again, with Davidson claiming the fastest time of the session with a three minutes and 23.652 seconds lap, just ahead of the No. 2 Audi. Porsche's fastest laps were nearly three seconds off the pace. Early in the session, the No. 1 Audi of Loïc Duval spun and became airborne in the Porsche Curves, impacting catch fencing above the barriers and destroying the car.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Testing and practice
Duval was able to climb from the car but was not cleared for the rest of the week while Audi was forced to bring in a spare chassis to replace the vehicle. He was replaced by Jota Sport driver Marc Gené with Oliver Turvey taking over the Spaniard's seat at the British team. OAK Racing's Ligier JS P2, making its racing debut, led the LMP2 category with a three minutes and 40.611 seconds lap time.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Testing and practice
In LMGTE, an Am class car led the field with Nicki Thiim's Aston Martin recording a three minutes and 57.015 seconds lap time, ahead of the LMGTE Pro AF Corse Ferrari by thirteen thousandths of a second. The experimental Nissan ZEOD RC was the only car not to set a lap time in the session after suffering mechanical failures on its first lap. A second stoppage was necessitated after Erik Maris crashed into the barrier at the first Mulsanne chicane and the session ended early when Frankie Montecalvo impacted the wall at the second chicane and debris was scattered across the track.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Qualifying
The first qualifying session began late Wednesday night under clear weather, as Porsche led the time sheets early on with a flying lap from Jani in the No. 14 entry, followed by Hartley's three minutes and 23.157 seconds time a few laps later to top the session. The two Toyota cars stood two seconds back by the end of the session, although the No. 7 car suffered an oil leak and stopped on the side of the circuit, while the two participating Audi R18 e-tron quattro cars were three seconds adrift of the Porsche vehicles.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Qualifying
Olivier Pla carried OAK Racing's Morgan to provisional pole in LMP2 with a time of three minutes 38.843 seconds ahead of the Signatech Alpine and KCMG Oreca. Nicolas Minassian in the No. 37 SMP Racing Oreca-Nissan caused a red flag for half an hour early in the session after crashing in the Porsche Curves. The Pro class of LMGTE was led by Gianmaria Bruni's AF Corse Ferrari, setting a pace of three minutes and 54.754 seconds. Aston Martin, Porsche, and Corvette all had cars within two seconds of the Ferrari.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Qualifying
Aston Martin's second entry, driven by Fernando Rees, crashed at the Porsche Curves, forcing the session to be ended half an hour earlier than planned in order to repair the barriers. The Aston Martin would later be withdrawn from the race due to the damage to the car. At the premature end of the session, Andrea Bertolini's SMP Ferrari was at the top of the timing charts for LMGTE Am with a three minutes and 56.787 seconds lap time, followed by the No. 61 AF Corse Ferrari and Dempsey Porsche.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Qualifying
Thursday's first qualifying session saw more stoppages for crashes. James Calado crashed his AF Corse Ferrari in the Porsche Curves, necessitating a half-hour red flag. This was followed by the No. 1 Audi, making some of its first laps since its accident on Wednesday, spinning at Indianapolis corner and damaging the car's bodywork. While driver di Grassi attempted to return to the pit lane he swerved in front of Leo Roussel's Pegasus Morgan, causing the LMP2 car to dart off the track and crash at the pit entrance. At the same time, Bret Curtis in the No. 79


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Qualifying
Prospeed Porsche spun at the entrance to the Dunlop Chicane and impacted the wall, knocking Curtis unconscious. Curtis was transported to the local hospital for a check-up and was not cleared for the remainder of the race meeting. Following clean-up of the circuit qualifying resumed with fifteen minutes left in the session, and improvements were made by nearly every hybrid and non-hybrid car in LMP1. Kazuki Nakajima improved provisional pole position with a three minutes and 22.589 seconds lap, followed by the Porsche entries of Romain Dumas and Bernhard. The fastest Audi was fourth after a lap from Oliver Jarvis.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Qualifying
Tristan Gommendy gave the débuting Ligier of TDS Racing provisional pole in LMP2 after displacing the Murphy Oreca on the last lap of the session, setting a time of three minutes and 38.094 seconds. In LMGTE Pro, Corvette led the session but did not improve on AF Corse's lap time from the first qualification session. Similarly the No. 61 AF Corse Ferrari came within two-tenths of a second of besting SMP's lead time in LMGTE Am.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Qualifying
With the multiple stoppages in qualifying, the third session was expanded by half an hour in order to give teams more time on the circuit. Fifteen minutes into the session Nakajima set a new fastest time of three minutes and 21.789 seconds and would hold the top of the time charts to take Toyota's first pole position at Le Mans since 1999. Dumas improved the No. 14 Porsche's time to sit alongside the Toyota on the front row of the grid.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Qualifying
Audi was not able to improve on their times from the second qualifying session, and settled for fifth, sixth, and seventh places on the grid. The No. 12 Rebellion, driven by Beche, won out over its sister car in the non-hybrid LMP1-L category but eight seconds off the overall pole position. In LMP2, OAK Racing and the Jota Zytek traded provisional pole before Gommendy reclaimed the top spot for TDS Racing and Ligier with a three minutes and 37.609 seconds lap time.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Qualifying
Bruni improved on his own provisional pole time in LMGTE Pro with a three minutes and 53.700 seconds, extending the class lead by over a second from the No. 73 Corvette in second and sole Aston Martin in third. Sam Bird earned AF Corse a second pole position by improving LMGTE Am's top time by two seconds with a three minutes and 54.665 seconds and setting the second fastest time of all LMGTE cars combined. Aston Martin's two entries were second and third in the class, yet a full second behind the Ferrari.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Qualifying
The Nissan ZEOD RC of Lucas Ordóñez, after earlier woes in the week, set a three minutes and 50.185 seconds lap time to place 27th overall in qualifying. The slow zone procedure was used for the first time in the third qualifying session, after Montecalvo spun the 8 Star Ferrari into the gravel in the Porsche Curves. The slow zone was required once more to finish the session after Chandhok crashed the Murphy Oreca at Indianapolis. Both slow zones prevented qualifying times from being improved in the final hour of the session.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Qualifying, Post-qualifying
Prospeed nominated Sebastien Crubile as a replacement for Curtis, but the ACO did not allow him to participate due to a lack of laps taken under night conditions. The team elected continue as a two-driver operation, but were forced to switch to the LMGTE Pro category due to no longer meeting the LMGTE Am driver ranking requirements. Calado was injured from his second qualifying session crash and was not cleared to participate in the race and was replaced by Pierre Kaffer.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Qualifying, Qualifying results
Pole position winners in each class are indicated in bold and by a  The fastest time set by each entry is denoted in gray.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Warm-up
The cars took to the track on Saturday morning for a 45-minute warm-up session in dry and sunny weather. The No. 8 Toyota driven by Buemi set the fastest time with a late lap of three minutes and 23.731 seconds. The sister Toyota of Lapierre was third-fastest having been separated from his teammate by Lotterer who recorded the second-quickest overall time. The other two Audi entrants of Filipe Albuquerque and Marcel Fässler rounded out the top five. The fastest LMP2 lap was set by Pierre Thiriet with a time of three minutes and 40.263 seconds.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Warm-up
Jan Magnussen, driving the No. 73 Chevrolet Corvette, was the quickest driver in LMGTE Pro with the No. 95 Aston Martin driven by Thiim the fastest of the LMGTE Am drivers. Maurizio Mediani made contact with Shinji Nakano's car but both vehicles sustained only minor damage. Mika Salo crashed his AF Corse Ferrari in a collision with the barriers at the entry to the Porsche Curves, possibly caused by a rear puncture, but the car was not heavily damaged.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race
The weather at the start was dry and sunny. The air temperature throughout the race ranged from 12.5–25 °C (54.5–77.0 °F) with a track temperature between 15.5–47 °C (59.9–116.6 °F). Approximately 243,000 spectators attended the event, the largest crowd since 1989. The race began at 15:00 Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00), with two-time Formula One World Champion Fernando Alonso having the honour of waving the French Tricolour to start the race.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race
The 54-car field was led by Wurz's Toyota, who maintained the position for most of the opening hours, followed by Lapierre in the second Toyota and the trio of Audi cars driven by Lotterer, Bonanomi and Kristensen; the two Porsche entries of Bernhard and Jani fell back from the leaders.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race
The experimental Nissan ZEOD RC driven by Wolfgang Reip came to a rest on the side of the circuit at the Porsche Curves on the sixth lap after suffering a failure related to its gearbox, and became the first retirement of the race after a request by the team to recover the car was rejected by the ACO. Meanwhile, Lapierre fell from second place after spinning exiting a Mulsanne chicane and bringing out the race's first slow zone procedure.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race
Rain fell across parts of the circuit in the second hour of the race and several cars were caught out by the change in conditions. The KCMG Oreca-Nissan driven by Richard Bradley, which had been trading the LMP2 lead with Jota Sport, hydroplaned into the first Mulsanne chicane and impacted the tire barriers heavily, while further up the Mulsanne Straight several contenders in multiple classes were involved in a heavy accident.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race
A group of LMGTE cars as well as the No. 3 Audi were slow on the course when they were approached by the No. 8 Toyota of Lapierre at a high speed. Aquaplaning under braking, Lapierre spun amongst the group of cars and impacted the barriers head on. This was followed by Bird in the LMGTE Am-leading AF Corse Ferrari who drove into the rear of Bonanomi. The accident led to a safety car intervention, during which Lapierre was able to limp the Toyota back to the pit lane for repairs that lasted for nearly an hour. Bonanomi and Bird were unable to get their cars moving again and retired. Bradley was able to drive back to the pit lane for repairs and kept second place in LMP2.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race
Rain returned to the circuit only fifteen minutes after the race resumed green flag conditions and more chaos ensued; Chandhok of Murphy Prototypes and Michael Munemann of Greaves Motorsport collected one another while spinning exiting Tertre Rouge corner, bringing out the safety cars for the second time. As the rain tapered off and racing resumed once more, the remaining Toyota and pursuing Porsche cars were now on different pit stop sequences, allowing Bernhard and later Hartley to briefly take the overall race lead before Sarrazin in the No. 7 reclaimed the top spot by the fourth hour.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race
Further down the field changes in lead were also happening in other categories. Wet weather tyre strategy from the Dempsey-Proton Porsche failed to pay off as the No. 98 Aston Martin took command in LMGTE Am from the slower Porsche. After the damaged KCMG car relinquished the lead in LMP2, Franck Mailleux's No. 34 Race Performance Oreca and Signatech driver Paul-Loup Chatin traded off the category lead before later being joined by the No. 35 OAK Ligier driven by Alex Brundle.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race
The LMGTE Pro lead became a multi-car battle between representatives of each of the four manufacturers, with the lead sometimes changing several times per lap. The Porsche 919 Hybrid also suffered its first major problems as the No. 14 of Marc Lieb went to the garage with fuel pressure problems, dropping the car to 51st place before it recovered to sixth.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race
As night fell on the circuit, Toyota's lead extended to over a minute from the two remaining Audi entrants, while the OAK Ligier took over the LMP2 lead and ran away to nearly three minutes over the duelling Race Performance Oreca and Signatech Alpine. LMGTE Pro continued to be a close battle between Giancarlo Fisichella in the No. 51 Ferrari, Darren Turner's No. 97 Aston Martin, and No. 74 Corvette driven by Richard Westbrook, with the trio following one another nose to tail for a multitude of laps.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race
The second Corvette dropped off the leading pace after problems with the car's air jack system required a lengthy pit stop. The No. 98 and No. 95 Aston Martin vehicles continued to hold sway over the LMGTE Am class, but around midnight Pedro Lamy relinquished the lead the No. 98 car had held for 86 consecutive laps when he came to the pit lane with smoke from the bonnet as the power steering system on the car failed.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race
The No. 1 Audi of Kristensen was forced to the garage to replace failed fuel injectors after the race passed half distance, while Lieb Porsche's No. 14 car was forced to return to the pit lane on solely electrical power after suffering a second fuel pressure problem. As Nakajima drove the No. 7 Toyota into its ninth hour in the race lead, the car lost drive shortly after the Arnage corner and came to a stop alongside the barriers.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race
An FIA-mandated piece of monitoring equipment had failed within the car and melted a wiring loom and was not able to be repaired by Nakajima, forcing Toyota to abandon the former race-leading car. The No. 2 Audi became the new leader ahead of the No. 20 Porsche and the recovering No. 1 Audi by three laps.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race
Over an hour after taking the race lead, Fässler, driving the No. 2 Audi, was forced to replace a failing turbocharger, sitting idle for twenty minutes and falling to third. Audi's No. 1 car took over the top spot after passing the No. 20 Porsche and the ailing No. 2, eventually extending its lead to one lap over the Porsche. Further down the field the No. 74 Corvette was forced to drop out of the lead battle in LMGTE Pro as the alternator belt on the car failed, requiring a visit to the garage that lost the car three laps.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race
The No. 72 SMP Racing Ferrari of Viktor Shaytar had a crash in the Porsche Curves which damaged the safety barriers alongside the track and forced the retirement of the Ferrari. The safety car was deployed for two laps to move necessary equipment to the damaged area for repairs, while a slow zone was used after the safety car period for half an hour while the repairs were undertaken. After green flag racing resumed, the OAK Ligier of Mark Shulzhitskiy leading LMP2 was forced to the garage with engine and brake issues, eventually resuming at a slower pace.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race
The second place TDS Ligier driven by Gommendy was also hindered after a suspension failure required repairs, and Simon Dolan's Jota Zytek improved to within a lap of the top two in class. The No. 97 Aston Martin driven by Bruno Senna, after continuing its close battle with Bruni in the No. 51 Ferrari, succumbed to the same power steering failure that had hit the No. 98 sister car. Ferrari now enjoyed a two lap lead over Richard Lietz in the No. 92 Porsche who inherited second in class.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race
Nearly 21 hours into the race, Kristensen's No. 1 Audi slowed on course on several laps. After eventually returning to the garage Audi were forced to perform their second turbocharger replacement of the race as the No. 1 was hampered by the same issue that had stopped the No. 2's lead. This promoted Bernhard in the No. 20 Porsche to the race lead with the No. 2 Audi driven by Lotterer only a minute and a half behind the leader.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race
Porsche's lead lasted only an hour though as it too slowed on the course suffering from a broken anti-roll bar and was forced to the garage where it was eventually abandoned. The No. 14 Porsche of Lieb came to the garage half an hour later with gearbox issues after slowing at Mulsanne corner but returned to the race in the final half-hour.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race
The shake-up in LMP1 promoted the No. 2 Audi to the race lead, three laps ahead of di Grassi's No. 1 Audi and followed by Davidson's No. 8 Toyota, still recovering from its accident in the opening hours of the race. The attrition amongst LMP1 cars also allowed the No. 12 Rebellion Racing, the sole remaining LMP1-L car in the race, into fourth place overall. The ailing OAK Ligier of Brundle was also forced to abandon the LMP2 lead after being caught by the faster TDS Ligier of Gommendy and Harry Tincknell's Jota Zytek, before eventually having a lengthy stop for more work on the troubled engine which dropped them from contention.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race
The No. 2 Audi, driven by Fässler, Benoît Tréluyer, and Lotterer, was able to maintain the race lead without trouble for the final two hours of the race, taking the trio's third race win in four years, and Audi's thirteenth overall. Porsche was able to repair the No. 14 car enough to return it to the track for the final lap, settling for eleventh place overall. The battle in LMP2 continued into the last hour, as the Jota Zytek was able to overhaul the TDS Ligier and hold on for the class win and fifth place overall.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race
The win was the first for Jota Sport and its drivers Dolan, Turvey, and Tincknell. Nissan powered the top five finishers in the class. In the LMGTE Pro category, the No. 73 Corvette was able to come back against the No. 92 Porsche to claim second in class, but no one was able to challenge the lead of the AF Corse Ferrari for the remainder of the race.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race
The No. 95 Aston Martin, which had been Allan Simonsen's entry when he was killed in an accident at Le Mans the previous year, was undaunted in LMGTE Am and maintained the first-place position it had held for 205 consecutive laps. Proton Competition came in second in the class, two laps adrift of the Aston Martin. There were eight lead changes in the race; four cars reached the front of the field. The No. 7 Toyota led three times for a total of 207 laps, more than any other car. The No. 2 Audi led twice in the race for a total of 73 laps.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Post-race
The top three finishers of each category appeared on the podium to collect their trophies and in a later press conference. All three of the No. 1 Audi drivers felt their turbocharger problem would have cost them the victory, with Lotterer saying, "When we had the turbo problem we were very disappointed because it's impossible to come back from that. We were a bit unlucky, but at Le Mans you never know what is going to happen and the team motivated me again – they did a great job."


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Post-race
Fässler added the team attempted to pressure Toyota but they were unable to catch the Japanese manufacturer: "But this time everyone had problems. We had to be flat out and have no penalties – it isn't easy to do that when you are pushing." Tréluyer stated that winning Le Mans was "emotional" and praised the engineers strategy. He felt their approach was like their 2011 victory: "We concentrated on our own race and took the car through until morning. It was the car which had the least bad luck that won.”


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Post-race
Kristensen stated he was not unhappy to finish in second and that while his team would have liked to have had their "little fairy tale" it was still a good result. Di Grassi said it had been "a difficult race" for his team but hoped to return to Le Mans in the future while Gené revealed that did not expect a strong result but that second was "like a fairytale for me."


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Post-race
Buemi and Davidson were disappointed to achieve a third-place podium finish with Davidson saying Toyota had to learn from their mistake and make progress. Both drivers added that their focus would be on the championship.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Post-race
Lapierre accepted that his early race crash affected his team's ambitions of winning the race, stating he was unable to see anything because of low visibility, and did not expect to get the car back to the pit lane with the heavy damage it sustained: "We crossed our fingers that the car would hold together to the end, and after this we can be pleased with what we accomplished."


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Post-race
Wolfgang Ullrich, the head of Audi Motorsport, expressed his respect for Porsche, saying the German company and Toyota were strong competitors and Ullrich held a belief that Audi would succeed despite of strenuous prerequisites for the season. He stated the event was "of the kind you can only experience at Le Mans" with the deciding factors being that the Audi R18 e-tron quattro drove consistently fast for the entire duration of the race and said the victory was placed among the German company's greatest wins because of the constant changing factors for all the competing teams.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Post-race
The result meant Davidson, Lapierre and Wurz remained at the top of the Drivers' Championship with 80 points while Fässler, Tréluyer and Lotterer's victory enabled them to move into second on 60 points and di Grassi and Kristensen were still in third place but a further six points behind. Beche, Prost and Heidfeld remained in fourth position on 42 points and Gené's second-place finish allowed him to round out the top five with 36 points. Toyota remained the leaders of the Manufacturers' Championship on 115 points, but their advantage over Audi had been reduced to one point while Porsche maintained third position with five races left in the season.


2014 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Race result
Class winners are denoted in bold and by the symbol . The No. 20 Porsche was not classified amongst the finishers for failing to complete the last lap of the race.


2014 24 Hours of Nürburgring
The 2014 ADAC Zurich 24 Hours of Nürburgring was the 42nd running of the 24 Hours of Nürburgring. It took place over June 19–22, 2014. The race set a new record for the total distance driven during a Nürburgring 24-hour race with 4,035 km (159 laps) driven by the top two cars.


2014 24 Hours of Nürburgring
The #4 Phoenix Racing team won the race on an Audi R8 LMS Ultra.


2014 24 Hours of Spa
The 2014 Total 24 Hours of Spa was the 66th running of the 24 Hours of Spa. It was also the fourth round of the 2014 Blancpain Endurance Series season and was held on 26 and 27 July at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium. The race was won by the Belgian Laurens Vanthoor and the German duo of René Rast, and Markus Winkelhock of Belgian Audi Club Team WRT in their Audi R8 LMS ultra.


2014 24 Hours of Spa, Support races
Lamborghini Super Trofeo, Cooper Tires British Formula Three Championship, Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup and Belgian Racing Car Championship + GT4 European Series.


2014 3 Hours of Fuji
The 2014 3 Hours of Fuji was the second round of the 2014 Asian Le Mans Series season. It took place on August 31, 2014 at Fuji Speedway in Oyama, Shizuoka, Japan.


2014 3 Hours of Fuji, Race result
The race result was as follows. Class winners in bold.


2014 3 Hours of Inje
The 2014 3 Hours of Inje was an endurance motor race held at the Inje Speedium in Inje County, South Korea on 18–20 July 2014. The race was the first round of the 2014 Asian Le Mans Series season. Defending series champions David Cheng and Ho-Pin Tung of OAK Racing Team Total won the race overall after their LMP2 class competitors Eurasia Motorsport crashed in the closing stages of the race. Mathias Beche, Kevin Tse, and Frank Yu of Craft-Bamboo Racing won the first race for the CN category in the Asian Le Mans Series, while AAI-Rstrada had a 1–2–3 finish in the GT category, led by Hanchen Chen, Ryohei Sakaguchi, and Marco Seefried.


2014 3. deild karla
The 2014 3. deild karla (English: Men's Third Division) was the 33rd season of fourth-tier football in Iceland. Ten teams contested the league, which as of 2013 is no longer the lowest division in Iceland following the restructuring of the league pyramid. The fixtures for the 2014 campaign were released by the KSÍ on their website; play began on 17 May and concluded on 13 September.


2014 3. deild karla, Teams
The league was contested by ten clubs, six of which played in the division during the 2013 season.


2014 3. deild karla, Statistics, Results
Each team plays every opponent once home and away for a total of 18 matches per club, and 90 matches altogether.


2014 3. divisjon
The 2014 season of the 3. divisjon, the fourth highest association football league for men in Norway.


2014 3. divisjon
Between 22 and 26 games (depending on group size) are played in 12 groups, with 3 points given for wins and 1 for draws. Twelve group winners are promoted to the 2. divisjon.


2014 4 Hours of Imola
The 4 Hours of Imola was an endurance motor race held at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari near Imola, Italy on 17–18 May 2014, and served as the second round of the 2014 European Le Mans Series.


2014 4 Hours of Imola
Car no. 38 driven by Simon Dolan, Harry Tincknell and Filipe Albuquerque won the race overall for Jota Racing, ahead of Sébastien Loeb Racing's Vincent Capillaire and Jan Charouz and Signatech Alpine's Paul-Loup Chatin, Nelson Panciatici and Oliver Webb.


2014 4 Hours of Imola
The LMGTE category was led by SMP Racing's trio, Andrea Bertolini, Viktor Shaitar and Sergey Zlobin, while Formula Racing's Johnny Laursen, Mikkel Mac and Andrea Piccini were victorious in the GTC class.


2014 4 Hours of Red Bull Ring
The 2014 4 Hours of Red Bull Ring was an endurance auto race held at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Styria, Austria on 19–20 July 2014. It was the third round of the 2014 European Le Mans Series season and marked the first race following the 2014 24 Hours of Le Mans which many series teams participated in. This was the first race held at the Red Bull Ring in European Le Mans Series history.


2014 4 Hours of Red Bull Ring
The Signatech Alpine trio of Paul-Loup Chatin, Nelson Panciatici, and Oliver Webb won the race over recent Le Mans class winners Jota Sport. AF Corse's Matt Griffin, Duncan Cameron, and Michele Rugolo won the LMGTE class for the second time in the season. SMP Racing scored a one-two victory in GTC with the Kirill Ladygin, Aleksey Basov, and Luca Persiani ahead of their teammates.


2014 4 Hours of Silverstone
The 4 Hours of Silverstone was an endurance motor race held at the Silverstone Circuit near Silverstone, England on 18–19 April 2014, and served as the opening round of the 2014 European Le Mans Series, and the first race under the series' new four-hour format. The event shared the weekend at Silverstone with the FIA World Endurance Championship's six-hour event. The French trio of Pierre Thiriet, Ludovic Badey, and Tristan Gommendy won the race overall for TDS Racing, ahead of Race Performance's Michel Frey and Franck Mailleux and Morand Racing's Christian Klien, Gary Hirsch, and Romain Brandela. The LMGTE category was led by Duncan Cameron, Michele Rugolo, and Matt Griffin for AF Corse, while Team Ukraine's Andriy Kruglyk, Sergii Chukanov, and Alessandro Pier Guidi were victorious in the GTC class.


2014 4 Hours of Silverstone, Race, Race result
– The No. 85 Gulf Racing Aston Martin was penalized two laps by race stewards following the race for not adhering to the driver time requirements.


2014 4 Nations Cup
The 2014 4 Nations Cup was a women's ice hockey tournament held in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. It was the nineteenth edition of the 4 Nations Cup.


2014 4 Nations Cup, Statistics, Scoring leaders
Only the top ten skaters, sorted by points, then goals, are included in this list.


2014 4 Nations Cup, Statistics, Scoring leaders
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalties in Minutes; POS = PositionSource:


2014 4 Nations Cup, Statistics, Scoring leaders, Goaltending leaders
Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played at least 40% of their team's minutes, are included in this list.


2014 4 Nations Cup, Statistics, Scoring leaders, Goaltending leaders
TOI = Time on Ice (minutes:seconds); SA = Shots Against; GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO = ShutoutsSource:


2014 5-hour Energy 400
The 2014 5-hour Energy 400 Benefiting Special Operations Warrior Foundation was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race that was held on May 10, 2014, at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kansas. Contested over 267 laps on the 1.5 miles (2.4 km) tri-oval, it was the eleventh race of the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Jeff Gordon won the race, his first win of the season and 89th overall, while Kevin Harvick finished second. Kasey Kahne, Joey Logano, and Dale Earnhardt, Jr. rounded out the top five. The top rookies of the race were Kyle Larson (12th), Austin Dillon (19th), and Michael Annett (25th).


2014 5-hour Energy 400
This was the first time a Sprint Cup race had been held at night at Kansas Speedway. The previous three spring Kansas races had been held as midday races.


2014 5-hour Energy 400, Previous week's race
As the field was coming to the white flag, Alex Bowman got hit from behind by Ryan Newman and turned down into Jimmie Johnson. He then turned head on into the wall just in front of the start/finish line. Also, Justin Allgaier got turned by Cole Whitt and slid through a small section of the infield grass that destroyed the nose of his car. A big piece of it detached from the car and landed in the middle of the track just a few feet from the start/finish line.


2014 5-hour Energy 400, Previous week's race
With the field halfway down the backstretch, the caution was thrown and Denny Hamlin scored the victory in the Aaron's 499 at Talladega Superspeedway. “We really just want to win races regardless of the implications this means for the Chase,” Hamlin said. “It feels good to be back in Victory Lane. I’m just proud of our day today. We’ve come a long way. We couldn’t finish 22nd at the superspeedway races for a long time. It feels good to come to this type of racetrack and know you can win.” "It's frustrating because the simple fact is that we both felt we had the opportunity to pounce," Clint Bowyer said of the finish he’d hoped for teaming up with Greg Biffle to catch the leader. "But NASCAR did the right thing. You can't put people in danger."


2014 5-hour Energy 400, Report, Background
The track, Kansas Speedway, is a four-turn tri-oval track that is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long. The track's turns are banked from seventeen to twenty degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, is nine to eleven degrees. The back stretch, opposite of the front, is at only five degrees. The racetrack has a seating capacity for more than 72,000 spectators. Matt Kenseth was the defending race winner after winning the event in 2013.


2014 5-hour Energy 400, Report, Entry list
The entry list for the 5-hour Energy 400 was released on Monday, May 5, 2014 at 10:23 a.m. Eastern time. Forty-four drivers were entered for the race.


2014 5-hour Energy 400, Practice, First practice
Kyle Larson was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 28.560 and a speed of 189.076 mph (304.288 km/h).


2014 5-hour Energy 400, Practice, Final practice
Tony Stewart was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 28.007 and a speed of 192.809 mph (310.296 km/h).


2014 5-hour Energy 400, Qualifying
Kevin Harvick won the pole with a time of 27.799 and a speed of 194.292 mph (312.683 km/h). He also broke the previous track record in round two set last year by Matt Kenseth who started 28th. "Now, we just have to put it all together (Saturday) night when it counts," Harvick said following his record pole run. "It makes life a lot easier when you can have pit stall one. Hopefully, we can have a good night. The weekend has gone well. We had a great test here a few weeks ago and everything has carried right over."


2014 5-hour Energy 400, Qualifying
"We made the right adjustments and my car was really good through (Turns) one and two in the third round," Joey Logano said of his No. 22 Team Penske Ford. "It's a good starting spot. If you count out the restrictor-plate stuff, we're the only car to make it through every session this season. I'm proud of that and ready to go for another win."


2014 5-hour Energy 400, Qualifying
"I'm most disappointed in the first run because I thought I had a good lap but obviously didn't push it hard enough," Jeff Gordon said, "...didn't drive it well enough to get us in that first time. And when we had to go back out and put extra laps on the tires and extra heat in the tires, it affected us from that point forward. I'm disappointed that we didn't go faster." Dave Blaney was the only driver who failed to qualify for the race, while his son, Ryan Blaney made his Sprint Cup debut.


2014 5-hour Energy 400, Race
The race was set to start at 7:46 p.m. Eastern time, but the start of the race was delayed due to the weather. The cars started rolling off a few minutes after 8:00 p.m. but then rain started to pick up again. The race finally went green at 8:23 p.m. with Kevin Harvick leading the way.


2014 5-hour Energy 400, Race
Harvick surrendered the lead on lap 42 to make his first stop of the night. Joey Logano assumed the position.


2014 5-hour Energy 400, Race
Logano hit pit road the next lap and gave the lead to Carl Edwards.


2014 5-hour Energy 400, Race
Edwards ducked onto pit road and handed the lead to Jeff Gordon.


2014 5-hour Energy 400, Race
Gordon gave up the lead to pit on lap 45 and Brad Keselowski took the top spot.


2014 5-hour Energy 400, Race
The first caution of the race flew on lap 47 when Clint Bowyer got loose exiting turn 2, overcorrected and spun out on the backstretch. Because this took place during a cycle of green flag stops, everyone but Keselowski was trapped a lap down. Kevin Harvick got the lucky dog and restarted second. The rest of the cars took the wave-around and got their lap back.


2014 5-hour Energy 400, Race
The race restarted on lap 53 and Harvick shot out back to the lead.


2014 5-hour Energy 400, Race
The second caution of the race flew on lap 60 for a vicious four car wreck when David Ragan got loose, slid in front of Ryan Truex, turned to the right into Landon Cassill and destroyed the left-front of his car. Michael Annett suffered damage spinning through the infield grass.


2014 5-hour Energy 400, Race
The third caution of the race flew on lap 71 when Denny Hamlin got loose exiting turn 2 and spun out.


2014 5-hour Energy 400, Race
Kevin Harvick hit pit road on lap 102 and handed the lead to Carl Edwards.


2014 5-hour Energy 400, Race
Edwards ducked onto pit road on lap 103 and surrendered the lead to Joey Logano.


2014 5-hour Energy 400, Race
The fourth caution of the race flew on lap 110 when Marcos Ambrose got loose and spun out through the grass exiting turn 4. Dale Earnhardt, Jr. exited pit road as the leader by taking just two tires. During the caution period, the Musco backstretch lights outside the track turned off for unknown reasons. The lights inside the track were still working. The drivers told race control that the backstretch was illuminated enough to continue racing.


2014 5-hour Energy 400, Race
The fifth caution of the race flew on lap 150 when Jamie McMurray slammed the wall hard in turn 3 following a cut right-front tire. “I’m not 100 percent sure,” said McMurray when asked what caused the accident. “I just entered turn three and I heard a small pop and then just lost all the steering and got into the fence and then knocked the oil lines and everything off which caused the fire. I’m not sure we didn’t really have any tire issues all weekend.


2014 5-hour Energy 400, Race
Keith (Rodden, crew chief) had been kind of reporting to me what the tires looked like after each stop and hadn’t seen any really wear issues at all. I don’t know if it was just a bad tire or if I ran over something. Just lost all the air and ended up crashing.” Kasey Kahne traded the lead with Joey Logano on pit road with the former stall being behind the start/finish line, but he exited as the leader. The backstretch lights that went out the previous caution period came back on to full power.


2014 5-hour Energy 400, Race
The sixth caution of the race flew with 88 laps to go when Kurt Busch got loose exiting turn 4 and destroyed his splitter sliding through the grass. Jimmie Johnson opted not to pit and took over the lead.


2014 5-hour Energy 400, Race
The race restarted with 83 laps to go and Kyle Busch led a lap before Johnson took back the lead.


2014 5-hour Energy 400, Race
The seventh caution of the race flew with 81 laps to go for a multi-car wreck on the front stretch that collected six cars. Exiting turn 4, A. J. Allmendinger got loose, hooked Justin Allgaier who went straight into the path of David Gilliland and both slammed the wall hard before the start/finish line. Allmendinger continued through the grass. Casey Mears also slid through the grass trying to avoid the wrecking cars. “I am okay,” said Gilliland after he left the track’s infield care center for examination. “I don’t know what happened.


2014 5-hour Energy 400, Race
It looked like the 47 (Allmendinger) and 51 (Allgaier) got together and the 51 came back up the track and I hit him and from there a lot of stuff happened. We are alright though. Just a little sore obviously. That is one of the hardest hits I have had in awhile. Hopefully it will be the hardest one for a while to come too. I am find though, just ready to get on with it.” With so much debris on the front stretch and Gilliland's destroyed car needing to be removed, the pace car brought the field down pit road.


2014 5-hour Energy 400, Race
The race restarted with 73 laps to go and Joey Logano made his way back to the front.


2014 5-hour Energy 400, Race
The eighth caution of the race flew with 65 laps to go when Kurt Busch popped the left-rear tire and spun out exiting turn 2.


2014 5-hour Energy 400, Race
The race restarted with 60 laps to go and Kevin Harvick made his way back to the head of the field.


2014 5-hour Energy 400, Race
Harvick hit pit road to make his final stop of the race with 30 laps to go and Carl Edwards moved to the lead.


2014 5-hour Energy 400, Race
Edwards surrendered the lead to make his last stop with 26 laps to go and Matt Kenseth assumed the lead.


2014 5-hour Energy 400, Race
Kenseth ducked onto pit road for the final time with 25 laps to go and Jimmie Johnson assumed the lead.


2014 5-hour Energy 400, Race
Johnson dropped onto pit road for the final time with twelve laps to go and Brad Keselowski took over the lead.


2014 5-hour Energy 400, Race
Keselowski made his final stop with nine laps to go and the lead cycled back to Jeff Gordon.


2014 5-hour Energy 400, Race
Jeff Gordon held off a hard charging Kevin Harvick in the closing laps to score the victory. “I don’t know what it is about this team, this ’24’ car and us here at Kansas on inaugural days, but I love this place,’’ Gordon said. “What an incredible job ... by this race team. They have been giving me the best racecars all year long. I’m going to be 43 this year, but I feel like I’m 25.’’ “What put us in second is I just didn’t get down pit road very good,’’ Harvick said. “I was paying attention to the fuel pressure gauge instead of the pit lights.’’


2014 6 Hours of Bahrain
The 2014 6 Hours of Bahrain was an endurance sports car racing event held on the Grand Prix Circuit, of the Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir, Bahrain from 13–15 November 2014, and served as the seventh, and penultimate race of the 2014 FIA World Endurance Championship season. The race was won by Alexander Wurz, Stéphane Sarrazin and Mike Conway driving the No. 7 Toyota TS040 Hybrid car. Their team-mates Sébastien Buemi and Anthony Davidson secured the World Endurance Drivers' Championship at the event after finishing in 11th place.


2014 6 Hours of Bahrain, Qualifying, Qualifying result
Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.


2014 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas
The 2014 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas was a six hour endurance sports car racing event held for Le Mans Prototype and Le Mans Grand Touring Endurance cars at the Circuit of the Americas near Austin, Texas on 20 September 2014. It served as the fourth of eight rounds of the 2014 FIA World Endurance Championship and was the second time the race was held as part of the championship. A total of 50,334 spectators attended the event.


2014 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas
The No. 8 Toyota TS040 Hybrid of Sébastien Buemi, Anthony Davidson and Nicolas Lapierre won the pole position with the fastest two-lap average lap time and maintained its start-line advantage until a monsoon fell on the track and stopped the race for 77 minutes. Audi's No. 2 R18 e-tron quattro of Marcel Fässler, André Lotterer and Benoît Tréluyer and Romain Dumas, Neel Jani and Marc Lieb in the No. 14 Porsche 919 Hybrid battled for the outright lead until the latter car slowed with engine problems and the former vehicle took the victory. The sister No. 1 Audi of Loïc Duval, Lucas di Grassi and Tom Kristensen finished in second place and the No. 8 Toyota completed the outright podium finishers in third.


2014 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas
The (Le Mans Prototype 1-Lightweight) LMP1-L category was won by the No. 12 Rebellion Racing Rebellion-Toyota of Nick Heidfeld, Mathias Beche, and Nico Prost. The Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2) category finished with the No. 47 KCMG Oreca 03R of Richard Bradley, Matthew Howson and Tsugio Matsuda taking the team's first class victory in the World Endurance Championship, ahead of the No. 27 SMP Racing Oreca driven by Sergey Zlobin, Maurizio and Nicolas Minassian in second and the debuting Extreme Speed Motorsports HPD-ARX 03 of Ed Brown, Ryan Dalziel and Scott Sharp took third.


2014 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas
Stefan Mücke and Darren Turner in the No. 97 Aston Martin Vantage won the Le Mans Grand Touring Endurance Professional (LMGTE Pro) class and the British marque also took the Le Mans Grand Touring Endurance Amateur (LMGTE Am) category with Paul Dalla Lana, Pedro Lamy and Christoffer Nygaard in the No. 98 Vantage.


2014 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas
The result of the race meant Davidson, Lapierre and Buemi kept their lead in the Drivers' Championship to 96 points, but their advantage over Lotterer, Fässler and Tréluyer was reduced to eleven points. Di Grassi and Kristensen remained in the third position with 72 points. Beche, Heidfeld and Prost maintained fourth with 48 points and Dumas, Jani and Lieb rounded out the top five with 45 points. In the Manufacturers' Championship, Audi (with 157 points) took the lead from Toyota (139 points) while Porsche remained in third with 82 points with four races left in the season.


2014 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas, Background, Entrants
Twenty-nine cars were officially entered for the 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas, with the bulk of entries in Le Mans Prototype 1 (LMP1) and Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2). The 2013 race winners, Audi Sport Team Joest, returned to defend their title. Three manufacturers were represented in LMP1, including a duo of cars entered by Audi Sport Team Joest, Toyota and Porsche. Kazuki Nakajima was not available to drive the No. 7 Toyota TS040 Hybrid because of a Super Formula commitment and was replaced by IndyCar Series driver Mike Conway.


2014 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas, Background, Entrants
After spending the last three months recovering from a heavy crash during practice for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Loïc Duval returned to Audi Sport Team Joest after doctors granted him medical clearance. The Kodewa-backed Lotus team moved up from the LMP2 category with their new CLM P1/01 but missed the first three races because the new car was not ready. In the month before its debut, Lotus named Super GT competitor James Rossiter, experienced sports car driver Christophe Bouchut and Formula Three European Championship race winner Lucas Auer as the trio to pilot the No. 9 car. Rebellion Racing was the other representative of the LMP1 privateer teams.


2014 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas, Background, Entrants
LMP2 consisted of four cars with twelve drivers. United SportsCar Championship participants Extreme Speed Motorsports debuted in the World Endurance Championship with a HPD ARX 03B-Honda driven by the team's regular drivers Scott Sharp, Ryan Dalziel and Ed Brown. Tsugio Matsuda returned from his four-month hiatus from prototype car racing and joined Matthew Howson and Richard Bradley in driving the No. 47 KCMG Oreca 03R-Nissan. After SMP Racing rearranged their driver lineups for Le Mans, the team returned to their regular driver pairings for the rest of the season starting at the 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas.


2014 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas, Background, Entrants
G-Drive Racing switched from the Morgan chassis to the new Nissan powered Ligier JS P2 monocoque. The Le Mans Grand Touring Endurance Professional (LMGTE Pro) field consisted of four manufacturers (Aston Martin, Ferrari, Porsche and Corvette Racing), while the Le Mans Grand Touring Endurance Amateur (LMGTE Am) entrants were six teams: Aston Martin Racing, AF Corse, Prospeed Competition, Proton Competition, 8 Star Motorsports and Krohn Racing. Porsche Team Manthey changed their driver roster: Richard Lietz could not recover sufficiently from a fractured arm he sustained while practising at Virginia International Raceway. As a precaution, Lietz was replaced by Nick Tandy who was paired by Jörg Bergmeister in the No. 91 Porsche 911 RSR. Patrick Pilet moved to the No. 92 car to partner regular driver Frédéric Makowiecki.


2014 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas, Background, Entrants
Corvette Racing entered a Chevrolet Corvette C7.R with Tommy Milner and Wayne Taylor Racing's Jordan Taylor and Ricky Taylor competing in the company's first World Endurance Championship (WEC) race outside of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. James Calado missed Le Mans because he suffered from two brain haemorrhages as a consequence of a heavy practice accident. He did recover sufficiently to return to sports car racing and retook his role of sharing the No. 71 Ferrari 458 Italia with Davide Rigon at the 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas.


2014 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas, Background, Entrants
Krohn Racing, who competed full-time in the 2012 and 2013 seasons, entered its No. 57 Ferrari 458 Italia for owner Tracy Krohn, his long-time teammate Niclas Jönsson and experienced racer Ben Collins. Matthieu Vaxivière returned to compete for Prospeed Competition after braking his vertebrae in a Formula Renault 3.5 Series accident in Monaco which forced him to miss Le Mans. He co-drove the Dempsey-Proton Racing Porsche 911 RSR. Enzo Potolicchio stopped driving for the rest of the season and his place in the 8 Star Motorsports Ferrari was taken by 24 Hours of Daytona class winner Jeff Segal. Nicki Thiim was absent because of a Porsche Carrera Cup Germany commitment at the Sachsenring and was substituted by Richie Stanaway.


2014 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas, Background, Preview
The 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas was confirmed as part of the FIA World Endurance Championship's 2014 schedule in an FIA Endurance Commission meeting in Paris in January 2014. It was the fourth of eight scheduled endurance sports car round of the 2014 FIA World Endurance Championship, the second running of the event, and the season's sole North American race. It was held on 20 September at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas following two days of practice and qualifying. An agreement was reached by circuit officials, the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) and International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) to run the race on the Saturday. WEC used the Circuit of the Americas' 3.427 mi (5.515 km) 20-turn Grand Prix layout.


2014 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas, Background, Preview
Before the race Toyota drivers Anthony Davidson, Sébastien Buemi and Nicolas Lapierre led the Drivers' Championship with 80 points, 20 ahead of their nearest rivals André Lotterer, Marcel Fässler and Benoît Tréluyer of Audi Sport Team Joest and a further six in front of their two teammates Lucas di Grassi and Tom Kristensen. Rebellion Racing's Mathias Beche, Nico Prost and Nick Heidfeld were fourth with 42 points and part-time driver Marc Gené rounded out the top five with 36 points. Toyota led the Manufacturers' Championship with 115 points, one ahead of their nearest rivals Audi in second; the third-placed manufacturer Porsche had accumulated 60 points.


2014 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas, Background, Preview
Going into the race the FIA Endurance Commission altered the balance of performance in LMP1 and LMGTE. The two Audi R18 e-tron quattro cars had their engine power altered by 0.3% but had a one percent in fuel flow per hour along with a small increase of fuel capacity by 0.1 litres (0.022 imp gal; 0.026 US gal).


2014 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas, Background, Preview
The minimum weight of the LMP1 privateer cars was reduced to 800 kilograms (1,800 lb) from the Le Mans limit of 810 kilograms (1,790 lb) as the CLM P1/01 and Rebellion R-Ones received a four percent increase in maximum fuel flow rate and a fifteen percent break in fuel energy per lap to increase their performance. In the LMGTE category the commission added an additional 20 kilograms (44 lb) of ballast to the Aston Martins to lower their performance.


2014 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas, Practice
Three practice sessions—two on Thursday and a third on Friday—were held before the Saturday race. The Thursday afternoon and evening sessions lasted 90 minutes; the third, one-hour session was held on Friday afternoon. The first practice session took place in overcast and cool weather conditions. The No. 2 Audi R18 e-tron quattro driven by Fässler led with the fastest lap time of the day, at 1 minute and 51.136 seconds, one-tenth of a second quicker than teammate Kristensen in second whose best lap was recorded late in the session.


2014 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas, Practice
Brendon Hartley's No. 20 Porsche 919 Hybrid was third-fastest after leading the session in its opening minutes and both Toyota TS040 Hybrids rounded out the top five in LMP1-H. Davidson stopped his car near the exit of pit lane in the closing minutes of the session with a systems problem but continued after he restarted his vehicle. Olivier Pla was first to lead LMP2 but Dalziel ended as the fastest driver with a lap of 1 minute and 58.111 seconds. Pla fell to second and Howson was third. Darren Turner's No. 97 Aston Martin was the quickest car late on in LMGTE Pro while Stanaway helped the British marque to be fastest in LMGTE Am.


2014 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas, Practice
The second practice session was delayed for an hour because of an electrical thunderstorm that caused localised flooding around the circuit and it also prevented trackside marshals from taking up their posts due to local bylaws governing safety. Once the rain had abated enough to allow for cars to circulate the track, the session commenced and several drivers reported aquaplaning over the multiple heavy puddles that had formed on the circuit. The first red flag came out after seventeen minutes when Rigon beached the No. 71 AF Corse Ferrari off course between turns 17 and 18.


2014 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas, Practice
The car was recovered back to the pit lane. After the restart, the rain let up and Davidson's No. 8 Toyota recorded the best lap of the session with a time of 2 minutes and 1.333 seconds. Kristensen placed the No. 1 Audi in second and Wurz's No. 7 Toyota was third. In LMP2, the No. 47 KCMG of Bradley was fastest with a time of 2 minutes and 17 seconds. Makowiecki topped the LMGTE Pro time sheets in Porsche Team Manthey's No. 92 and the No. 95 Aston Martin of Stanaway paced the LMGTE Am category.


2014 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas, Practice
In the final practice session, Kristensen put the No. 1 Audi at the top of the time sheets and Duval improved on his co-driver's form with a lap of 1 minute and 49.480 seconds. The No. 2 Audi of Fässler was second fastest and Toyota's No. 8 car of Davidson was third. The fastest Porsche was fourth courtesy of a lap from Neel Jani's No. 20 entry. Pla in the No. 26 was again the fastest driver in LMP2 with a lap of 1 minute and 56.601 seconds, eight-tenths of a second faster than Bradley's No. 47 KCMG vehicle.


2014 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas, Practice
In LMGTE Pro, Aston Martin's No. 99 Vantage driven by Fernando Rees was quickest by four-hundredths of a second from the sister No. 97 entry of Stefan Mücke. Aston Martin was also the fastest manufacturer in LMGTE Am with Pedro Lamy's No. 98 Vantage from Paolo Ruberti in second place, driving the No. 90 8 Star Motorsports Ferrari.


2014 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas, Qualifying
Friday's late afternoon qualification session was divided into two groups lasting 25 minutes each. Cars in LMGTE Pro and AM were sent out first and, after a five-minute interval, LMP1 and LMP2 vehicles drove on the track. All cars were required to be driven by two participants for one timed lap each, with the starting order determined by the competitors' fastest average times. The fastest qualifier was awarded one point which went towards the Drivers' and Manufacturers' Championships.


2014 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas, Qualifying
Toyota chose to keep the No. 8 car in the garage before venturing onto the track with Davidson, who slid on a wet patch at turn 11 and aborted his first attempt. He subsequently set a lap time of 1 minute and 48.900 seconds and then recorded a 1-minute and 49.000 seconds effort. Buemi later relieved Davidson and his lap of 1 minute and 49.156 seconds gave the No. 8 entry a two-lap average effort of 1 minute and 49.093 seconds. This earned Buemi, Davidson and Lapierre their first pole position of 2014 and Toyota's third.


2014 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas, Qualifying
They were joined on the grid's front row by Jani and Romain Dumas's No. 14 Porsche whose two-lap average was 1.190 seconds slower because Jani's best lap was disallowed transgressing energy recovery system limits that dictated the maximum amount of fuel each car could use. Hartley and Mark Webber qualified the No. 20 Porsche in third and Fässler and Lotterer put the No. 2 Audi in fourth from a second attempt by Fässler.


2014 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas, Qualifying
Toyota's No. 7 car driven by Conway and Stéphane Sarrazin took fifth and di Grassi and Duval's No. 1 Audi completed the top ten after one of di Grassi's laps was deleted for violating energy recovery system limits because of a computer glitch. The LMP1-L class pole position was taken by Dominik Kraihamer and Fabio Leimer in the No. 12 Rebellion R-One with a two-lap average of 1 minute and 54.665 seconds, and was joined by the sister No. 13 entry of Heidfeld which stopped with a broken fly-by-wire throttle and halted the session for 4½ minutes. The No. 9 Lotus CLM P1/01 did not set a lap because of a gearbox selector failure although the team were granted dispensation to start the race but began one lap behind the rest of the field from the pit lane.


2014 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas, Qualifying
In LMP2, Roman Rusinov and Pla drove the No. 26 G-Drive Oreca to its third class pole position of the season and the team's second consecutive at the Circuit of the Americas with an average effort of 1 minutes and 58.075 seconds. Howson and Tsugio Matsuda joined them on the grid's front row in the No. 47 KCMG vehicle which was almost three-tenths of a second slower. The No. 30 Extreme Speed Motorsports HPD ARX-03b of Dalziel and Sharp began from third in the team's first World Endurance Championship race after Sharp appeared to struggle with the track conditions.


2014 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas, Qualifying
Gianmaria Bruni and Toni Vilander, competing in AF Corse's No. 51 Ferrari, took the squad's fourth LMGTE Pro pole position in a row with a two-lap average effort of 2 minutes and 6.456 seconds, in a rain-affected session that made portions of the track dump. The two qualified 0.638 seconds in front of Mücke and Turner in the No. 97 Aston Martin. Makowiecki and Pilet's No. 92 Porsche Manthey car took third and their teammates Tandy and Bergmeister were fourth. Alex MacDowall and Rees' No. 99 Aston Martin completed the top five in class.


2014 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas, Qualifying
Vaxivière was chosen to go a long stint and Emmanuel Collard drove on a drier track, enabling the duo to claim their first LMGTE Am pole position in the No. 75 ProSpeed Competition Porsche with a two-lap average time of 2 minutes and 8.271 seconds, less than a tenth of a second faster than Stanaway and Kristian Poulsen's No. 95 Aston Martin.


2014 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas, Qualifying, Qualifying results
Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.


2014 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas, Race
Weather conditions at the start of the race were dry and clear. The air temperature ranged between 27 to 32 °C (81 to 90 °F) and the track temperature was between 28 and 38 °C (82 and 100 °F). It had a two-day attendance of 50,334 spectators. Buemi maintained the overall lead going into the first corner. He extended the No. 8 Toyota's lead to 40 seconds before he lost 13 seconds because he half-spun. That allowed the sister No. 7 Toyota to reduce the gap to Buemi as the Audis got ahead of both Porsches.


2014 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas, Race
With four hours and 41 minutes left, light rain was reported as falling in turn 11, and it then turned to a monsoon that flooded the track. Although drivers were circumspect en route to having wet-weather tyres installed in the pit lane, five of the six LMP1-H cars and several other vehicles from the other three categories aquaplaned off the track. That caused race officials to stop the race after an hour and 35 minutes, and most cars were ordered to stop on the start/finish straight. Race officials allowed open-cockpit vehicles to be covered, and teams were permitted to demist their cars windscreens for improved visibility.


2014 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas, Race
Racing resumed 77 minutes later in safety car conditions and in fading light as some teams chose to make tyre changes. The change in positions meant both Audis led from the No. 14 Porsche and both Toyotas were a lap behind. The No. 2 Audi had been switched to the intermediate compound tyres after a strategy call from its race engineer Leena Gade, and the sister car was on dry compound tyres. Jani took the outright lead but a lack of engine power put his No. 14 Porsche behind Audi's No. 2 car of Fässler and later Lotterer.


2014 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas, Race
After establishing large enough of an advantage, a final pit stop for fuel for Fässler allowed the No. 2 Audi to win the entry's second consecutive win of the season after the 24 Hours of Le Mans. He was 53 seconds in front of di Grassi's No. 1 car in second and Buemi took the No. 8 Toyota to complete the outright podium in third. LMP1-L was dominated by Rebellion's No. 12 car ran without trouble and took the class victory.


2014 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas, Race
KCMG won a race-long battle between Extreme Speed Motorsports, SMP Racing and G-Drive and took its first class victory in the World Endurance Championship with the No. 47 Oreca. Aston Martin took both GTE classes with the No. 97 car winning in Pro and 98 entry took the Am class honours.


2014 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas, Standings after the race
The result of the race meant Davidson, Lapierre and Buemi kept their lead in the Drivers' Championship to 96 points, but their advantage over Lotterer, Fässler and Tréluyer was reduced to eleven points. Di Grassi and Kristensen remained in the third position with 72 points. Beche, Heidfeld and Prost maintained fourth with 48 points and Dumas, Jani and Marc Lieb rounded out the top five with 45 points. In the Manufacturers' Championship, Audi (with 157 points) took the lead from Toyota (139 points) while Porsche remained in third with 82 points with four races left in the season.


2014 6 Hours of Fuji
The 2014 6 Hours of Fuji was an endurance sports car racing event held at the Fuji Speedway, Oyama, Japan on 10–12 October 2014, and served as the fifth race of the 2014 FIA World Endurance Championship season. Sébastien Buemi and Anthony Davidson won the race driving the No. 8 Toyota TS040 Hybrid car.


2014 6 Hours of Fuji, Qualifying, Qualifying result
Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.


2014 6 Hours of Shanghai
The 2014 6 Hours of Shanghai was an endurance sports car racing event held at the Shanghai International Circuit, Shanghai, China on 31 October–2 November 2014, and served as the sixth race of the 2014 FIA World Endurance Championship season. The race was won by Sébastien Buemi and Anthony Davidson driving the No. 8 Toyota TS040 Hybrid car.


2014 6 Hours of Shanghai, Qualifying, Qualifying result
Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.


2014 6 Hours of Silverstone
The 2014 6 Hours of Silverstone was an endurance sports car racing event held at the Silverstone Circuit near Silverstone, England on 17–20 April 2014. The event served as the opening round of the 2014 World Endurance Championship, and overall race winners were awarded the annual Tourist Trophy by the Royal Automobile Club. Toyota became the first Japanese manufacturer to win Silverstone's endurance race, with Anthony Davidson, Sébastien Buemi, and Nicolas Lapierre leading the team's second TS040 Hybrid to a 1–2 finish. The race, which had run under mixed weather conditions, was stopped in the final half-hour of competition due to heavy rains and not restarted.


2014 6 Hours of Silverstone
Porsche, making their return to the prototype categories with the debuting 919 Hybrid, completed the overall race podium with third place. Accidents ended the race of both Audi R18 e-tron quattro cars after the World Champions had started strongly. Rebellion Racing's Nicolas Prost, Nick Heidfeld, and Mathias Beche were the only team to reach the finish in the LMP1-L category, while G-Drive Racing's Morgan-Nissan won the LMP2 class. Lock-out 1–2 victories were also earned by Porsche in LMGTE Pro and British marque Aston Martin in LMGTE Am.


2014 6 Hours of Silverstone, Qualifying results
Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.


2014 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps
The 2014 WEC 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, formally known as the WEC 6 Heures de Spa-Francorchamps, was an endurance sports car racing event held at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Spa, Belgium on 2–3 May 2014. Spa-Francorchamps served as the second race of the 2014 FIA World Endurance Championship. Toyota's Anthony Davidson, Sébastien Buemi, and Nicolas Lapierre led the field to the checkered flag for their second consecutive victory of the season, ahead of Audi and the sister Toyota. The LMP2 category also had its second consecutive winner with G-Drive Racing ahead of Jota Sport's guest entry in the series. AF Corse Ferrari held off Porsche Team Manthey in the LMGTE Pro class, while another AF Corse Ferrari won the LMGTE Am category ahead of two Aston Martins.


2014 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, Qualifying, Qualifying result
Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.


2014 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, Qualifying, Qualifying result
– The No. 37 SMP Racing Oreca-Nissan was allowed to grid at the back of the LMP field.


2014 6 Hours of São Paulo
The 2014 6 Hours of Sao Paulo was an endurance sports car racing event held at the Autódromo José Carlos Pace, Sao Paulo, Brazil on 28–30 November 2014, and served as the eighth and last race of the 2014 FIA World Endurance Championship season.


2014 6 Hours of São Paulo, Qualifying, Qualifying result
Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.


2014 7-Dorpenomloop Aalburg
The 2014 Rabobank 7-Dorpenomloop Aalburg is a one-day women's cycle race held in the Netherlands on 31 May 2014. The race had a UCI rating of 1.2.


2014 A Lyga
The 2014 A Lyga, also known as SMSCredit.lt A Lyga for sponsoring purposes, is the 25th season of the A Lyga, the top-tier association football league of Lithuania. The season starts on 8 March 2014 and ends on 29 November 2014. VMFD Žalgiris Vilnius are the defending champions.


2014 A Lyga, Changes from 2013
The league changed its number of teams for the fifth time in a row, increasing it from nine teams in 2013 A Lyga to ten sides, because it 2 new clubs from I Lyga, it is FK Trakai and FK Klaipėdos Granitas. As a consequence, the schedule increased from 32 to 36 matches per team, with each team playing every other team four times in total, twice at home and twice away.


2014 A-League All Stars Game
The 2014 A-League All Stars Game was a football match that took place on 10 August 2014 at ANZ Stadium in Sydney, contested between the A-League All Stars and Italian Serie A champions Juventus.


2014 A-League All Stars Game, Background
On 20 December 2013, it was confirmed that Juventus would compete against the All-Stars team on 10 August 2014, again hosted in Sydney. On 18 February 2014, it was announced that former Juventus and current Sydney FC captain Alessandro Del Piero will captain the All-Stars squad. It will be the first time Del Piero has played a match against his former club. On 7 April 2014, it was announced Adelaide United coach Josep Gombau will coach the All-Stars squad, chosen by fans who voted.


2014 A-League All Stars Game, Background
Matthew Spiranovic was ruled out of the A-League All Stars squad due to an ankle injury.


2014 A-League All Stars Game, Broadcasting
In Australia, the match was broadcast live by the Seven Network on their channel 7mate.


2014 A-League Grand Final
The 2014 A-League Grand Final was the ninth A-League Grand Final, and was played on 4 May 2014, at Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane. The match was contested by the two winning semi-finalists, Brisbane Roar and Western Sydney Wanderers, who finished first and second respectively in the 2013–14 A-League regular season. The match was won by Brisbane Roar, who beat Western Sydney Wanderers 2–1 in extra time, after the game was drawn at 1-1 at full-time.


2014 A-League Grand Final
That match was played in front of a sold-out crowd of 51,153 people. It was Brisbane Roar's third Grand Final victory in as many attempts whilst the match was Western Sydney Wanderers' second Grand Final loss.


2014 A-League Grand Final, Route to the final
After the completion of the 2013–14 A-League regular season, the top six teams qualified for the Finals Series. Teams finishing 3rd-6th placed (Central Coast Mariners, Melbourne Victory, Sydney FC and Adelaide United) would have to begin the series in the elimination-finals, with the top two teams (Brisbane Roar and Western Sydney Wanderers) receiving byes into the semi-finals.


2014 A-League Grand Final, Route to the final
The first match of the elimination-finals saw 4th placed Melbourne Victory defeat 5th placed Sydney FC 2–1 on 18 April 2014, at Docklands Stadium. In the second elimination-finals match Central Coast Mariners defeated Adelaide United 1–0 on 19 April 2014, at Central Coast Stadium.


2014 A-League Grand Final, Route to the final
Central Coast Mariners progressed to play Western Sydney Wanderers at Pirtek Stadium on 26 April 2014. The match ended 2–0, with Western Sydney Wanderers progressing to their second consecutive A-League Grand Final. In the other semi-final, Brisbane Roar hosted and defeated Melbourne Victory 1–0 at Suncorp Stadium on 27 April 2014, to continue to the Grand Final, which Brisbane Roar hosted as the higher ranked team.


2014 A-League Grand Final, Pre-match
On 29 April it was announced that American singer Jason Derulo would perform during the pre-match show.


2014 A-League Grand Final, Pre-match
A-League 2013–14 Referee of the Year, Peter Green, was confirmed as the match referee, with David Walsh and Nathan MacDonald assisting and Kris Griffiths-Jones as the fourth official.


2014 A-League Grand Final, Match, Summary
The match began with Western Sydney controlling the ball early on, not allowing the hosts to settle while threatening Brisbane's defence with a series of balls into the area. Wanderers had a claim for a penalty in the 15th minute when Mark Bridge's pass struck Ivan Franjic's arm in the box but referee Peter Green waved away the opportunity. Brisbane's first clear chance at goal came to the feet of Besart Berisha, but the Wanderers' defence was quick to close the striker down.


2014 A-League Grand Final, Match, Summary
The visitors had another scare in the 27th minute when Thomas Broich broke through the defence before producing a long-range drive which went just wide of the post. Wanderers continued to push back as the first half progressed and they were almost made to pay in the 44th minute, when Franjic's cross from defence clipped the crossbar before Luke Brattan curled a shot straight at Ante Covic as the first half came to a close with no goals scored.


2014 A-League Grand Final, Match, Summary
The second half of the match was much more open with both teams pressing high to take shots in the opening few minutes. It did not take long for Wanderers to capitalise on an attempt when Matthew Spiranovic headed Shinji Ono's corner kick at the near post in the 55th minute. Roar responded positively and Berisha soon had a chance to level the score in the 67th minute when he was played in by Broich, only for his effort to be deflected just wide.


2014 A-League Grand Final, Match, Summary
Two minutes later and the player had another opportunity when he was found Broich's free-kick, but he headed the ball wide. Keen to turn their dominance into a goal, Brisbane coach Mike Mulvey brought on Henrique and Steven Lustica. Roar continued to commit players forward in their attack, however it almost became their downfall when Youssouf Hersi went close to settling the match in the 84th minute after he collected a deflected ball in the six-yard box but was immediately closed down by a desperate Roar defence. It proved significant as the Roar went on to equalise a minute later thanks to the combination of Broich and Berisha to send the match into extra time.


2014 A-League Grand Final, Match, Summary
The first half of extra time was a back-and-forth affair. The match was settled three minutes into the second half of extra time when James Donachie cut back the ball to a waiting Henrique in the box. The Brazilian who, after settling, found the top of the net to give Brisbane the win.


2014 A-League Grand Final, Broadcasting
As well as being broadcast in Australia on Foxtel, the 2014 A-League Grand Final was the first to be broadcast on Australian free-to-air TV, with SBS showing the game on a one-hour delay. The Grand Final was also Broadcast live on SBS Radio for the first time. It was also the first A-League Grand Final to be broadcast live into major European, North American and Asian markets, with a total of 57 countries showing the game live, including Italy, the UK, Ireland, USA, China, Singapore, Mexico and South Africa. In addition, highlights of the match were shown in 53 countries throughout Asia and the Middle East, including Japan and South Korea. The match was also live streamed internationally.


2014 A-League Grand Final, Broadcasting
The match was the most watched game in the nine season history of the A-League, setting records for both Fox Sports and SBS. The game attracted an average audience of 334,000 on Fox Sports 2, with peak of 524,000 viewers. Although on a one-hour delayed coverage, SBS 2 received an average audience of 358,000, with a peak of 772,000, the biggest audience ever achieved on the channel. Total viewer numbers were substantially higher than the 308,000 from the previous year's Grand Final.


2014 AA
2014 AA was a small Apollo near-Earth asteroid roughly 2–4 meters in diameter that struck Earth on 2 January 2014. It was discovered on 1 January 2014 by Richard Kowalski at the Mount Lemmon Survey at an apparent magnitude of 19 using a 1.52-meter (60 in) reflecting telescope at Mount Lemmon Observatory. 2014 AA was only observed over a short observation arc of about 70 minutes, and entered Earth's atmosphere about 21 hours after discovery. Nonetheless it remains one of only a few asteroids observed before impact (see Asteroid impact prediction).


2014 AA, Entry
Using a poorly determined orbit, the JPL Small-Body Database listed a 3-sigma solution with impact occurring around 2 January 2014 02:33 UT ± 1 hour and 5 minutes. The Minor Planet Center listed impact as occurring around 2 January 2014 05:00 UT ± 10 hours. Independent calculations by Bill Gray, the Minor Planet Center and Steve Chesley at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory verified that impact was virtually certain.


2014 AA, Entry
The impactor would have been roughly the size of 2008 TC3, which exploded above the Nubian Desert in Sudan on 7 October 2008. Calculations by Chesley suggest the impactor fell somewhere on an arc extending from Central America to East Africa, with a best-fit location just off the coast of West Africa. Calculations by Pasquale Tricarico using the nominal orbit show that 2014 AA entered Earth's shadow cone approximately 40 minutes before entering the atmosphere.


2014 AA, Entry
Infrasound was detected by three stations of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization. Peter Brown and Petrus Jenniskens located weak signals from infrasound stations in Bolivia, Brazil and Bermuda. 2014 AA entered Earth's atmosphere around 03:06 ± 5 min UT, 3,000 km from Caracas, Venezuela, far from any landmass. No ships or planes reported witnessing the event.


2014 AA, Entry
A recalculation of the impact parameters of this meteor based on infrasound recordings puts it in the Atlantic Ocean about 1900 km (1030 nautical miles) east of Port of Spain in Trinidad, at a longitude of impact of nearly 44º West and a latitude of 11º North, the impact time being 2456659.618 JD UTC. Extensive numerical simulations indicate that, prior to impact, 2014 AA was subjected to a number of secular resonances and it may have followed a path similar to those of the NEOs 2011 GJ3, 2011 JV10, 2012 DJ54, and 2013 NJ4; NEOs in this transient group experience close encounters with the Earth-Moon system at perihelion and Mars at aphelion and could be a dynamical family.


2014 AA, Other discoveries
Kowalski previously discovered 2008 TC3, the first asteroid discovered before Earth impact, using the same telescope in October 2008. There are about a billion near-Earth objects in the size range of 2014 AA, and impacts of comparably-sized objects occur several times each year.


2014 AA, Other discoveries
Several years later, 2018 LA was also discovered by the Mount Lemmon Survey, and ended up impacting Earth in southern Botswana in June 2018.