2010 Brickyard 400
| Race details | |||
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| Race 20 of 36 in the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series | |||
Map of the basic speedway
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| Date | July 25, 2010 | ||
| Location | Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis, Indiana | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility 2.500 mi (4.023 km) |
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| Distance | 160 laps, 400 mi (643.73 km) | ||
| Weather | Temperatures up to 93 °F (34 °C); wind speeds up to 16.9 miles per hour (27.2 km/h) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Earnhardt Ganassi Racing | ||
| Time | 49.375 | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Juan Pablo Montoya | Earnhardt Ganassi Racing | |
| Laps | 86 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 1 | Jamie McMurray | Earnhardt Ganassi Racing | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | ESPN | ||
| Announcers | Marty Reid, Dale Jarrett and Andy Petree | ||
The 2010 Brickyard 400, the 17th running of the event, was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race held on July 25, 2010 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Indiana. Contested over 160 laps, it was the twentieth race of the 2010 Sprint Cup Series season. The race was won by Jamie McMurray, for the Earnhardt Ganassi Racing team. Kevin Harvick finished second, and Greg Biffle, who started seventh, clinched third.
There were seven cautions and fourteen lead changes among ten different drivers throughout the course of the race, McMurray's second win of the season and his first ever at Indianapolis. The result moved him up two spots to sixteenth in the Drivers' Championship, 625 points behind of leader Kevin Harvick and five ahead of Kasey Kahne. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, twenty points ahead of Toyota and fifty-three ahead of Ford, with twenty races remaining in the season.
Prior to the race, Richard Childress Racing driver Kevin Harvick led the Drivers' Championship with 2,745 points, and Hendrick Motorsports driver Jeff Gordon was second with 2,642 points. Behind them in the Drivers' Championship, Jimmie Johnson was third with 2,557 points, and Denny Hamlin was fourth with 2,542 points. Kurt Busch was fifth with 2,524 points. In the Manufacturers' Championship, Chevrolet was leading with 134 points, fifteen points ahead of their rival Toyota. In the battle for third place, Dodge had 84 points, three ahead of Ford.
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