2010 Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at the Glen
| Race details | |||
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| Race 22 of 36 in the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series | |||
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| Date | August 8, 2010 | ||
| Location | Watkins Glen International Watkins Glen, New York | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility 2.454 mi (5.43 km) |
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| Distance | 90 laps, 220.5 mi (354.9 km) | ||
| Weather | Mostly sunny with a high around 84; wind out of the SSW at 6 mph. Chance of precipitation: 10%. | ||
| Average speed | 91.967 miles per hour (148.007 km/h) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Roush Fenway Racing | ||
| Time | 1:10.882 | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Juan Pablo Montoya | Earnhardt Ganassi Racing | |
| Laps | 74 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 42 | Juan Pablo Montoya | Earnhardt Ganassi Racing | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | ESPN | ||
| Announcers | Marty Reid, Dale Jarrett and Andy Petree | ||
The 2010 Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race that was held on August 8, 2010 at Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen, New York. Contested over 90 laps, it was the twenty-second race of the 2010 Sprint Cup Series season and the second of two road course competitions on the schedule. The race was won by Juan Pablo Montoya, for the Earnhardt Ganassi Racing team. Kurt Busch finished second, and Marcos Ambrose, who started eleventh, clinched third.
Conditions were sunny at the start of the race. Pole position driver Carl Edwards maintained his lead on the first lap, but Jamie McMurray, who had started in the second position on the grid, took the lead before the fifth lap was over. Afterward, Montoya became the leader, and would eventually lead to the race high of 74 laps. During the final twenty laps, Montoya maintained the lead after multiple cautions. On the final lap, Kurt Busch was gaining on Montoya, but Montoya maintained his position to win his first race of the season.
There were five cautions and ten lead changes among five different drivers throughout the course of the race, Montoya's first win of the season and second in his career. The result moved him up two spots to nineteenth in the Drivers' Championship, 774 points behind of leader Kevin Harvick and thirty-five ahead of Martin Truex, Jr. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, twenty-seven points ahead of Toyota and fifty-six ahead of Ford, with fourteen races remaining in the season.
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