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The race, the twenty-fifth out of a total of thirty-six in the [[2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series|season]], began at 7:30 p.m. [[Eastern Daylight Time|EDT]] and was televised live in the United States on [[ESPN]].<ref name=fx /> Before the race, conditions were sunny with a temperature of {{convert|85|°F|°C}}.<ref name="summary">{{cite web|title=Race Summary|url=http://www.nascar.com/2010/races/lapbylap/09/05/lap-by-lap-atlanta2/index.html|location=NASCAR|accessdate=5 September 2010}}</ref> [[Joe Gibbs]], began pre-race ceremonies, by giving the [[invocation]]. Next, [[Ernie Haase and Signature Sound]] performed the [[United States National Anthem|national anthem]], and Terry Green, [[Emory Healthcare]]'s 500th [[heart transplant]] recipient, gave the command for drivers to start their engines.<ref name=summary /> |
The race, the twenty-fifth out of a total of thirty-six in the [[2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series|season]], began at 7:30 p.m. [[Eastern Daylight Time|EDT]] and was televised live in the United States on [[ESPN]].<ref name=fx /> Before the race, conditions were sunny with a temperature of {{convert|85|°F|°C}}.<ref name="summary">{{cite web|title=Race Summary|url=http://www.nascar.com/2010/races/lapbylap/09/05/lap-by-lap-atlanta2/index.html|location=NASCAR|accessdate=5 September 2010}}</ref> [[Joe Gibbs]], began pre-race ceremonies, by giving the [[invocation]]. Next, [[Ernie Haase and Signature Sound]] performed the [[United States National Anthem|national anthem]], and Terry Green, [[Emory Healthcare]]'s 500th [[heart transplant]] recipient, gave the command for drivers to start their engines.<ref name=summary /> |
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Montoya, who started eighth, passed Kyle Busch for fourth, three laps later. On lap 222, Montoya moved into the third position, as Johnson showed his displeasure with him by a [[hand gesture]]. One lap later, Biffle returned to the race, seventy-one laps down in the thirty-nineth position. Four laps later, Biffle lost power to his race car. After 229 laps, Stewart had a 3.9 second lead over second placed Edwards. Eleven laps later, Johnson fell to the fifth position, after being passed by Kyle Busch. On lap 243, Menard drove to pit road because of engine problems. Three laps later, Harvick moved into fifth, after passing Johnson. Then, Edwards passed Stewart to become the leader of the race. Four laps later, Edwards was on pit road, as debris from Harvick's race car, after a tire flat, prompted the fifth caution. On lap 256, Harvick drove to pit road to repair his [[Bumper (automobile)|front bumper]] of his race car.<ref name=summary /> |
Montoya, who started eighth, passed Kyle Busch for fourth, three laps later. On lap 222, Montoya moved into the third position, as Johnson showed his displeasure with him by a [[hand gesture]]. One lap later, Biffle returned to the race, seventy-one laps down in the thirty-nineth position. Four laps later, Biffle lost power to his race car. After 229 laps, Stewart had a 3.9 second lead over second placed Edwards. Eleven laps later, Johnson fell to the fifth position, after being passed by Kyle Busch. On lap 243, Menard drove to pit road because of engine problems. Three laps later, Harvick moved into fifth, after passing Johnson. Then, Edwards passed Stewart to become the leader of the race. Four laps later, Edwards was on pit road, as debris from Harvick's race car, after a tire flat, prompted the fifth caution. On lap 256, Harvick drove to pit road to repair his [[Bumper (automobile)|front bumper]] of his race car.<ref name=summary /> |
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After Harvick drove through pit road the first time, it caused a scoring error, so he was held a lap to fix it. Edwards led on the restart, but within two laps [[Scott Speed]] had an engine failure to bring out the sixth caution. Kurt Busch stayed off pit road during the caution to become the leader. Five laps later, on lap 280, Kahne passed Kurt Busch for the first position. One lap later, Johnson passed Kyle Busch for the fourth position. On lap 283, Edwards, followed by Johnson, passed Kurt Busch for second and third. Nine laps later, Stewart passed Kyle Busch for the fifth position. Three laps later, [[Brad Keselowski]] collided with the [[SAFER barrier|outside wall]] hard enough to bring out the caution.<ref name=summary /> |
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Edwards became the leader after the pit stops, but one lap after the restart, Stewart reclaimed the lead, as Kurt Busch and Kasey Kahne collided. On lap 302, the eighth caution was given because Kahne's tire deflated. The restart was on lap 307, with Stewart the leader. Three laps later, Kevin Harvick returned to pit road, as [[Jeff Burton]] passed Kurt Busch for fifth. On lap 314, Kyle passed his brother Kurt Busch for sixth. By lap 316, Stewart had a 1.2 second lead over Edwards. With three laps remaining, Kahne showed his anger with Newman, after the contact that sent him collided into Kurt Busch. Tony Stewart crossed the line to win the race, over a second ahead of second place Carl Edwards. Jimmie Johnson maintained third while Jeff Burton and Kyle Busch finished fourth and fifth.<ref name="nascarresults">{{cite web|title=NASCAR Race Result|url=http://www.nascar.com/races/cup/2010/25/data/results_official.html|publisher=NASCAR|accessdate=8 September 2010}}</ref><ref name=summary /> |
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| Race 25 of 36 in the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series | |||
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| Date | September 5, 2010 | ||
| Location | Atlanta Motor Speedway, Hampton, Georgia | ||
| Course |
Permanent racing facility 1.54 mi (2.48 km) | ||
| Distance | 325 laps, 500.5 mi (805.5 km) | ||
| Weather | Partly cloudy with a high around 84; wind out of the NE at 4 mph. Chance of precipitation: 0%. | ||
| Average speed | 129.039 miles per hour (207.668 km/h) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Joe Gibbs Racing | ||
| Time | 29.587 | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Tony Stewart | Stewart Haas Racing | |
| Laps | 175 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 14 | Tony Stewart | Stewart Haas Racing | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | ESPN | ||
| Announcers | Marty Reid, Dale Jarrett and Andy Petree | ||
The 2010 Emory Healthcare 500 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race that was held on September 5, 2010 at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Georgia. Contested over 325 laps, it was the twenty-fifth race of the 2010 Sprint Cup Series season. The race was won by Tony Stewart, for the Stewart Haas Racing team. Carl Edwards finished second, and Jimmie Johnson, who started seventh, clinched third.
There were eight cautions and twenty-seven lead changes among nine different drivers throughout the course of the race. It was Tony Stewarts's first win of the season and the thirty-eighth of his career. The result moved him up two spots to fourth in the Drivers' Championship, 283 points behind of leader Kevin Harvick and fourteen ahead of Carl Edwards. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, thirty-two ahead of Toyota and sixty-six ahead of Ford, with eleven races remaining in the season. A total of 93,200 people attended the race, while 5.516 million watched it on television.
Report
Background
The track, Atlanta Motor Speedway, is one of ten intermediate to hold NASCAR races, the others being Charlotte Motor Speedway, Chicagoland Speedway, Darlington Raceway, Homestead Miami Speedway, Kansas Speedway, Kentucky Speedway, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, New Hampshire Motor Speedway, and Texas Motor Speedway.[4] The standard track at Atlanta Motor Speedway is a four-turn quad-oval track that is 1.54 miles (2.48 km) long.[5] The track's turns are banked at twenty-four degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, and the back stretch are banked at five.[5]
Before the race, Kevin Harvick led the Drivers' Championship with 3,521 points, and Jeff Gordon stood in second with 3,242 points. Kyle Busch was third in the Drivers' Championship with 3,170 points, Carl Edwards was fourth with 3,113 points, and Denny Hamlin was in fifth with 3,108 points.[6] In the Manufacturers' Championship, Chevrolet was leading with 173 points, twenty-seven points ahead of their rival Toyota. Ford, with 110 points, was eleven points ahead of Dodge in the battle for third.[7] Kasey Kahne is the race's defending champion.[8]
Practice and qualifying
Two practice sessions was held before the Sunday race—both on Saturday. The first session lasted 120 minutes, while the second session lasted 45 minutes.[9] During the first practice session, Kasey Kahne was quickest, ahead of Kurt Busch and Clint Bowyer in second and third.[10] Jeff Burton was scored fourth quickest, while Denny Hamlin was fifth.[10] In the second and final practice session, Ryan Newman was scored quickest, as Carl Edwards and Juan Pablo Montoya followed in the second and third positions.[11] David Ragan was scored in the fourth position, while Bowyer followed in fifth.[11]
During qualifying, fourty-seven cars were entered, but only forty-three will be able because of NASCAR's qualifying procedure.[12] Denny Hamlin clinched his eighth career pole position, with a time of 29.587 seconds.[13] He was joined on the front row of the grid by Newman.[13] Kyle Busch qualified third, Edwards took fourth, and Tony Stewart started fifth.[13] The four drivers that failed to qualify for the race were Jason Leffler, Landon Cassill, Scott Riggs, adn Todd Bodine.[13]
Race
The race, the twenty-fifth out of a total of thirty-six in the season, began at 7:30 p.m. EDT and was televised live in the United States on ESPN.[1] Before the race, conditions were sunny with a temperature of 85 °F (29 °C).[14] Joe Gibbs, began pre-race ceremonies, by giving the invocation. Next, Ernie Haase and Signature Sound performed the national anthem, and Terry Green, Emory Healthcare's 500th heart transplant recipient, gave the command for drivers to start their engines.[14]
Denny Hamlin retained his pole position lead into the first corner, followed by Ryan Newman in the second position. Newman was challenging Hamlin, on the first lap. Tony Stewart maintained his starting position of fifth on the grid, as Jimmie Johnson was seventh. Kyle Busch was passed by Carl Edwards, two laps later. After starting seventeenth, Mark Martin had fallen to twenty-seventh by the sixth lap. Busch reclaimed third, passing Edwards, one lap later. After eight laps of continuous racing, Hamlin had a lead of eight tenths of a second, as Johnson moved to fifth. Martin, then fell to thirtieth because of car handling problems. On lap 13, Johnson, followed by Stewart, moved into the fourth and fifth positions, after passing Edwards.[14]
Two laps later, Martin Truex, Jr passed Edwards for fifth, as Newman became the leader, passing Hamlin for first. Juan Pablo Montoya claimed the tenth position, as Jeff Gordon fell to eleventh. On lap 23, Greg Biffle was scored twelfth, Gordon was fourteenth, and Kurt Busch, who won here in the 2010 Kobalt Tools 500, was running in the twenty-third position. Hamlin moved back into the lead position from passing Newman. After thirty laps of green flag racing, lap times fell considerably because of tire wear. On the same lap, Kyle Busch, who started third, passed Neman for second. Seven laps later, Paul Menard passed Gordon to move into thirteenth. On lap 39, Michael McDowell and Joe Nemechek drove their cars to the garage, as Hamlin had a 1.9 second lead over Kyle Busch in second. Mike Bliss followed Nemechek and McDowell into the garage two laps later.[14]
On lap 44, green flag pit stops began, as Sam Hornish, Jr. drove to pit road. Five laps after the pit stops began, Hamlin and Kyle Busch, who were first and second, made their pit stops. Kyle Busch became the new leader, but because of exessive speed on pit road, he had to serve a drive through penalty on pit road. Afterward, Stewart became the leader, as J. J. Yeley drove his car to the garage. On lap 55, Hamlin moved into the first position, after passing Stewart. Once green flag pit stops were completed, Hamlin was in first, followed by Stewart, Truex, Jr., Kahne, and Newman to round out the top five positions. Kahne, who started tenth, moved Truex, Jr. from the third positionto fourth, after passing him on lap 62. Two laps later, Stewart passed Hamlin to move into the first position.[14]
On lap 70, Kyle Busch drove to pit road, because of a loose wheel. Six laps later, Ryan Newman fell two positions to eleventh, after being passed by Paul Menard and Kevin Harvick. Afterward on lap 80, Edwards passed Kahne to move into the third postion. Five laps later, Menard moved to seventh on the grid, after passing Biffle. Afterwards, more green flag pit stops began. On lap 88, Stewart, who was the leader, gave the position to Hamlin. The lead only lasted three laps before Stewart reclaimed the lead. Stewart only led three laps untill he returned the lead to Hamlin for one lap. Stewart pitted on lap 97, as pit stops continued. Afterward, Stewart remained first, ahead of Hamlin, Edwards, Truex, and Kahne.[14]
On lap 127, Hamlin reclaimed the lead, as debris in turn four (the last corner before the finish line) prompted the caution out. Hamlin led on the restart, but three laps later, he fell to fifth, as Edwards claimed the lead. Hamlin, who started on the pole position, went to the garage, as his engine failed, and prompted the second caution. Stewart became the new leader, after pit stops completed. Immediately after the restart, Biffle spun sideways, and collided with Elliott Sadler to bring out the third caution. Both obtained excessive damage, and went to the garage for repairs. Stewart remained the leader on the restart, but Johnson moved quickly into the lead. Kyle Busch, who was a lap down after a pit road speeding penalty had recovered to sixth. One lap later, Gordon moved into the sixth position, after passing Busch.[14]
On lap 170, Stewart passed Johnson to move into the first position. After struggling with car handling during the first half of the race, Kurt Busch had moved from thirty-second to sixteenth by lap 171. Seven laps later, Jamie McMurray had a flattened tire, and drove to pit road. By lap 182, Stewart had a 2.1 second lead over Johnson in second place. After McMurray's unscheduled pit stop he fell to the twenty-sixth position. On lap 191, Kevin Harvick moved into the fourth position, as Stewart puts his teammate, Ryan Newman, a lap behind. Eight laps later, the fourth caution came out because David Ragan spun sideways on the back stretch. All the drivers on the same lap as the leaders pitted under the caution. Stewart retained the first position on the restart. On the restart, driver were racing furiously, by going three wide (three cars side-by-side) around the track. On lap 207, Johnson claimed second away from Edwards, as Gordon was falling toward the eighth position.[14]
Montoya, who started eighth, passed Kyle Busch for fourth, three laps later. On lap 222, Montoya moved into the third position, as Johnson showed his displeasure with him by a hand gesture. One lap later, Biffle returned to the race, seventy-one laps down in the thirty-nineth position. Four laps later, Biffle lost power to his race car. After 229 laps, Stewart had a 3.9 second lead over second placed Edwards. Eleven laps later, Johnson fell to the fifth position, after being passed by Kyle Busch. On lap 243, Menard drove to pit road because of engine problems. Three laps later, Harvick moved into fifth, after passing Johnson. Then, Edwards passed Stewart to become the leader of the race. Four laps later, Edwards was on pit road, as debris from Harvick's race car, after a tire flat, prompted the fifth caution. On lap 256, Harvick drove to pit road to repair his front bumper of his race car.[14]
After Harvick drove through pit road the first time, it caused a scoring error, so he was held a lap to fix it. Edwards led on the restart, but within two laps Scott Speed had an engine failure to bring out the sixth caution. Kurt Busch stayed off pit road during the caution to become the leader. Five laps later, on lap 280, Kahne passed Kurt Busch for the first position. One lap later, Johnson passed Kyle Busch for the fourth position. On lap 283, Edwards, followed by Johnson, passed Kurt Busch for second and third. Nine laps later, Stewart passed Kyle Busch for the fifth position. Three laps later, Brad Keselowski collided with the outside wall hard enough to bring out the caution.[14]
Edwards became the leader after the pit stops, but one lap after the restart, Stewart reclaimed the lead, as Kurt Busch and Kasey Kahne collided. On lap 302, the eighth caution was given because Kahne's tire deflated. The restart was on lap 307, with Stewart the leader. Three laps later, Kevin Harvick returned to pit road, as Jeff Burton passed Kurt Busch for fifth. On lap 314, Kyle passed his brother Kurt Busch for sixth. By lap 316, Stewart had a 1.2 second lead over Edwards. With three laps remaining, Kahne showed his anger with Newman, after the contact that sent him collided into Kurt Busch. Tony Stewart crossed the line to win the race, over a second ahead of second place Carl Edwards. Jimmie Johnson maintained third while Jeff Burton and Kyle Busch finished fourth and fifth.[15][14]
Post-race
Results
Qualifying
Race Results
Standings after the race
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- Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
- * – This driver clinched a position in the Chase for the Sprint Cup.
- ^ – This driver is in the Chase for the Sprint Cup.
References
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- ^ "Emory Healthcare 500". rotoworld.com. Retrieved 2 September 2010.
- ^ Pearce, Al (4 Spetember 2010). "NASCAR: Denny Hamlin wins pole for Cup race at Atlanta". Auto Week. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
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- ^ "Driver's Championship Classification". NASCAR. Retrieved August 31, 2010.
- ^ a b "Manufactures' Championship Classification". Jayski.com. Retrieved August 31, 2010.
- ^ "2009 Pep Boys Auto 500". racing-reference.com. Retrieved August 31, 2010.
- ^ "Event Schedule". Motor Racing Network.com. Retrieved 2 September 2010.
- ^ a b "Practice 1 Timing and Scoring". NASCAR. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
- ^ a b "Practice 2 Timing and Scoring". NASCAR. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
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- ^ "MRN Race Results". Motor Racing Network. Retrieved 6 September 2010.