2010 Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips 400
| Race details | |||
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| Race 15 of 36 in the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series | |||
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| Date | June 13, 2010 | ||
| Official name | Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips 400 | ||
| Location | Michigan International Speedway Brooklyn, Michigan | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility 2.0 mi (3.2 km) |
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| Distance | 200 laps, 400 mi (643.7 km) | ||
| Weather | Scattered thunderstorms with a high around 82; wind out of the West at 7 mph. Chance of precipitation, 40%. | ||
| Average speed | 156.386 miles per hour (251.679 km/h) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Penske Racing | ||
| Time | 37.90 seconds | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Denny Hamlin | Joe Gibbs Racing | |
| Laps | 123 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 11 | Denny Hamlin | Joe Gibbs Racing | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | Turner Network Television | ||
| Announcers | Adam Alexander, Wally Dallenbach, Jr. and Kyle Petty | ||
The 2010 Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race that was held on June 13, 2010 at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan. Contested over 200 laps, it was the fifteenth race of the 2010 Sprint Cup Series season. The race was won by Denny Hamlin for the Joe Gibbs Racing team. Kasey Kahne finished second, and Kurt Busch, who started first, clinched third.
Pole position driver Busch maintained his lead into the first turn to begin the race, but Jamie McMurray, who started in the second position on the grid, passed him to lead the first lap. Hamlin soon became the leader and would lead a race high of 123 laps. On the final restart, Hamlin started beside Kahne. Hamlin held onto first to claim his first Sprint Cup Series win at Michigan and his fifth of the season.
There were four cautions and nineteen lead changes among nine different drivers throughout the course of the race. The result left Kevin Harvick in the first position in the Drivers' Championship, twenty-two points ahead of second place driver Kyle Busch and forty-seven ahead of Denny Hamlin. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, six points ahead of Toyota and thirty-eight ahead of Dodge, with twenty-one races remaining in the season. A total of 95,000 people attended the race, while 4.3 million watched it on television.
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