The 2010 Carfax 400 is a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series car race held on August 15, 2010 at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan. The contest is over 200 laps, it is the twenty-third race of the 2010 Sprint Cup Series season. The race was won by Kevin Harvick for Richard Childress Racing team. Denny Hamlin finished second, and Carl Edwards, who started twenty-four, grabbed third.
Kasey Kahne's pole positioned his lead in the first corner to start the race, but Jimmie Johnson, who started in second on the grid, took the lead before the first lap ended. After that, Greg Biffle becomes the leader, and will eventually lead to a high race of 66 rounds. Tony Stewart leads after the final pit stop, ahead of Hamlin and Harvick. Harvick helped Hamlin to become a leader, but with twelve laps remaining, Harvick earned Hamlin and grabbed first place with eleven laps remaining. Harvick retained his position to claim his first Sprint Cup victory at Michigan International Speedway.
There were five warnings and nineteen lead changes among nine different racers throughout the race, Harvick's third win of the season. The result maintains the first position in the Drivers' Championship and seizes it at Chase. He remains 293 points ahead of second-place drivers Jeff Gordon and 353 ahead of Denny Hamlin. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers Championship, thirty points ahead of Toyota and sixty-one ahead of Ford, with thirteen races left in the season. A total of 105,000 people attended the race, while 4,917 million watched it on television.
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Michigan International Speedway is one of six superspeedways to hold the NASCAR race; others are Daytona International Speedway, Auto Club Speedway, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Pocono Raceway, and Talladega Superspeedway. The standard line at Michigan International Speedway is a four-lap superspeedway that is 2 miles (3.2 km) long. The track passes turn at eighteen degrees, while the front stretch, the finish line location, is twisted at twelve degrees. Stretch back, have banking five degrees. Michigan International Speedway has a seating capacity of 119,500 people for the race.
One team chose to replace their regular drivers with a replacement player. Before the first training session, Extenze decided to cancel their sponsorship with Front Row Motorsports, which prompted the team to replace Kevin Conway with Tony Raines. During the weeks leading up to the race, Gordon's wife gave birth to their son, Leo Benjamin Gordon. Gordon says that he does not plan to retire until his son can see him on the path of victory.
Before the race, Kevin Harvick led the Drivers' Championship with 3,210 points, and Jeff Gordon was second with 3,025 points. Jeff Burton is third in the drivers' championship with 2,895 points, Kurt Busch is fourth with 2,892 points, and Jimmie Johnson is fifth with 2,882 points. In the Manufacturer's Championship, Chevrolet leads with 158 points, twenty-seven points above their rival Toyota. Ford, with 102 points, nine points ahead of Dodge in the battle for a third. Brian Vickers is the reigning champion of the race.
Practice and qualify
Three training sessions are held before Sunday's race - one Friday and two Saturdays. The first session lasts 90 minutes. Saturday morning sessions last 45 minutes, and the final training session is 60 minutes in length. During the first practice session, Jeff Burton was fastest with 38,479, ahead of Juan Pablo Montoya and Kevin Harvick in second and third positions. Carl Edwards followed in fourth, in front of Greg Biffle in fifth. In Saturday morning sessions, Biffle is fastest, ahead of Ryan Newman and Kasey Kahne in second and third positions. Burton and Kurt Busch followed in fourth and fifth. In the last practice session for the race, Jimmie Johnson was fastest with a time of 38,742. David Ragan followed in second, ahead of Jeff Gordon and Harvick in third and fourth. Biffle, who was fastest in the second practice, only managed the fifth fastest.
Denny Hamlin, who won at Michigan International Speedway in the spring, had trouble trying to improve his car's handling of the race car he won. Hamlin said, "Everything's fine, we're almost like we're here [June] as far as speed, we're a little slow in terms of speed, but we feel like the race is pretty competitive." His teammate, Kyle Busch, also struggled, adding , "Our car is off, we are jumping up and down in training from tight to loose We take from practice, but we can not turn the center the way I want it."
During qualification, forty-seven cars are included, but only forty-three will be able to race due to NASCAR qualification procedures. Kasey Kahne grabbed the eighteenth pole position of her career, with a time of 38.465. After the qualifying run, Kahne commented, "[Apparently] 1 and 2 are really strong.Come to the green, I feel like I'm a bit free, and it's the same through 1 and 2, but I made it through there really good and brought a lot and when I get to Turn 3, I can not make it spin, so I just drop it and really spend a lot of horse races, get on a little track off [the corner] and definitely not as good as 3 and 4 as that At that point, I thought I might give the far post, but we could still survive only from the speed we had at 1 and 2. "He joined the front row of the grid by Jimmie Johnson. Clint Bowyer who escaped third, Tony Stewart finished fourth, and Montoya started fifth, having scored ninth in the final training session. The four unqualified racers are J. J. Yeley, Scott Riggs, Casey Mears, and Mike Bliss.
Race summary
The race, twenty-three out of a total of thirty-six in the season, starts at 1 pm. EDT and broadcast live in the United States on ESPN. The condition is partly cloudy with a height of 80Ã, Â ° F (27Ã, Â ° C). Pastor Doug Bradshaw started the pre-race ceremony with a prayer. Furthermore, recording artist Virgin Saving Abel performed the national anthem, and Virginia Craig and Evander Holyfield gave commanders to the drivers to start their engines.
Kasey Kahne led the lead through the first corner but was ratified by Jimmie Johnson before the second lap. Tony Stewart then passes Kahne for second place. Five laps later, Greg Biffle came in third. On lap ten, Johnson has built a 1.7 second advantage over Stewart, who was authorized by Biffle for the second. Biffle caught Johnson on lap 14, but he did not seize the lead until lap 15. On lap 18, Stewart took second place from Johnson, when Kevin Harvick emerged in fourth. Harvick moved into third position after passing Johnson in the next lap. On lap 23, Michael McDowell and P.J. Jones drove to the garage, followed by Joe Nemechek two laps later. On lap 28, Harvick starts to approach Biffle, but before he can get past it, the first warning is called because Kurt Busch's engine has failed. On lap 39, Biffle leads the driver on the restart. Juan Pablo Montoya moved into fifth after Clint Bowyer on lap the next. Johnson regained third place on lap 41 but was ratified by Harvick after five laps. On lap 48, Harvick has caught and passed Stewart for second place, and on lap 55, Harvick has captured Biffle. Five laps later, light rain fell in three turns (substitution after stretching back) pushing the second warning. On lap 61, the team made a pit stop for fuel and tires. Biffle remains the leader when the green flag waves on lap 66.
On lap 70, Joey Logano collided with Paul Menard, and both suffered minor damage. After starting thirty-six, Jeff Gordon moved into tenth position with a lap 73. Eleven laps later, Stewart led from Biffle. On lap 92, Harvick passes Biffle to claim the second position. Gordon passed Johnson to seventh as Montoya and David Reutimann started the pit pit stop green on lap 98. They were followed by Johnson, Kyle Busch, and Denny Hamlin two laps later. When Stewart went to the next lap pit, Harvick became the leader. Stewart reclaimed the lead on lap 103. Seven laps later, Bowyer passed Kahne to fourth, and Harvick moved into first place.
On lap 116, Gordon comes in fourth while Harvick leads 1.5 seconds over Stewart. Ten laps later, Gordon moved into third. With lap 129, Harvick leads 6.45 seconds over Biffle, who has passed Stewart for second. On lap 137, the green pit stop pit starts for the second time. Two laps later, Biffle made his pit stop. Harvick stays on track for another lap before pitting fast enough to hold Biffle, thus keeping the lead at the end of the pit stop. On lap 148, Logano and Ryan Newman collided, causing the Newman car to turn sideways, causing a third warning flag waved. On lap 152, Harvick leads the driver to the green flag. Two laps later, the fourth alert came out because Jeff Gordon and Jeff Burton suffered damage to their race car. Most drivers make a pit stop just for fuel, but Elliott Sadler remains on track to lead the race. Sadler leads on the restart, but Martin Truex, Jr. and David Ragan passed him in the next round, placing him in third.
In round 166, Ragan passed Truex, Jr. to lead. The next lap, Stewart appeared in the first position as a fifth warning out due to the debris on the track. On lap 169, Stewart, Harvick, Regan Smith, Scott Speed, and Hamlin remain on the track while the rest of the field pit stops. Stewart leads on the restart, followed by Harvick. On lap 174, Hamlin passed Harvick for second place and Biffle moved into fourth. Harvick helped Hamlin lead four laps later, but passed it to take the lead on lap 189. On lap 193, Harvick took a 1.35 second lead over Hamlin. Carl Edwards passes Stewart for third on the next lap. Kevin Harvick crossed the finish line first to clinch his third win of the season. Denny Hamlin followed in second, ahead of Edwards in third, Biffle in fourth, and Matt Kenseth fifth. The race has five warnings and ten lead changes among five different racers.
Post race
Kevin Harvick emerged on the winning track after his victory to start celebrating his third win of the season, and his first Sprint Cup victory at Michigan International Speedway, ahead of a crowd of 105,000 people. "Our cars have been running well here before, but I have not.Several times we last committed to driving at different places on the race track and doing different things from the car and trying to manage this exercise as as good as we can to not fool ourselves, "Harvick said of his victory.
Despite Denny Hamlin leading the race nearing the end, Harvick passed it with eleven laps remaining. Hamlin, who finished second, said, "He will arrest me in three turns, I will withdraw in three and four.He is slightly better than me in one and two.So it's sort of a split.This is pretty much all that we It's clearly the fastest car that wins today, so at least it's good to see that. "In a subsequent press conference, Harvick stated," A lot of places we will classify as places we do not run well, we have run as well in places. place this year as we did on short tracks, road courses, where you can usually count on us walking well. "Richard Childress, owner of Richard Childress Racing, expressed his pleasure in winning the race after recalling one of his other victories on the track:
"I remember winning here and how proud we won for GM Goodwrench back then and to win in GM products here." There is a lot of pride, happy to be here today and win. "
Harvick talks about the difficulty of winning on the track, saying "It's only been defeated for years by people who ran there to be honest with you.I never really knew about it.So maybe late last year. I went home and watched some Dale tapes [Earnhardt] Jr., some of the previous races here, because he always seemed to have a good handle to run the top groove.That's just more of a rhythm thing and some things I need. a change in my approach to running there.For us, I think the biggest change is not just a good race car, but just an approach to where we raced on the race track during the race and made that commitment out for us today. "The race results left Harvick leads the Driver Championship with 3,400 points, assuring him a position at Chase for the Sprint Cup. Jeff Gordon, who finished twenty-seven, was second in 3.107, sixty points above Hamlin and eighty-seven in front of Tony Stewart. Jimmie Johnson is fifth with 3,014 points. Chevrolet maintained their lead in the Manufacturers Championship with 167 points. Toyota came in second with 147 points, and Ford followed with 106 points, ten ahead of Dodge in fourth. 4,917 million people watch the race on television. The race takes two hours, forty-six minutes and thirty-eight seconds to complete, and the margin of victory is 1.731 seconds.
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