2010 Coca-Cola 600
| Race details | |||
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| Race 13 of 36 in the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series | |||
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| Date | May 30, 2010 | ||
| Official name | Coca-Cola 600 | ||
| Location |
Charlotte Motor Speedway Concord, North Carolina |
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| Course | Permanent racing facility 1.5 mi (2.4 km) |
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| Distance | 400 laps, 600 mi (970 km) | ||
| Weather | Partly cloudy with a high around 84°; wind out of the ESE at 3 mph; 10% chance of precipitation. | ||
| Average speed | 144.966 miles per hour (233.300 km/h) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Stewart Haas Racing | ||
| Time | 28.793 | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Kurt Busch | Penske Racing | |
| Laps | 252 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 2 | Kurt Busch | Penske Racing | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | Fox | ||
| Announcers | Mike Joy, Darrell Waltrip, and Larry McReynolds | ||
The 2010 Coca-Cola 600, the 51st running of the event, was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race held on May 30, 2010 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina as the 13th race of the 2010 Sprint Cup season It also was the longest race of the 2010 season, having consisted over 400 laps and 600 miles (970 km).
Kurt Busch, driving the No. 2 car for Penske Racing, won the race while Jamie McMurray for Earnhardt Ganassi Racing (whose team won the Indianapolis 500) finished second. The race had 17 different leaders, 34 lead changes, and eight cautions.
Charlotte Motor Speedway is one of ten intermediate tracks to hold NASCAR races; the others are Atlanta Motor Speedway, Kansas Speedway, Chicagoland Speedway, Darlington Raceway, Homestead-Miami Speedway, New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Kentucky Speedway, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and Texas Motor Speedway. The standard track at Lowe's Motor Speedway is a four-turn, 1.5-mile (2.4 km)-long, quad-oval track. The track's turns are banked at twenty-four degrees; both the front stretch (the location of the finish line) and the back stretch (opposite the front) have a five-degree banking.
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