| Race details[1][2][3][4][5] | |||
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| Race 27 of 36 in the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series | |||
 The 2010 Sylvania 300 program cover, celebrating New Hampshire Motor Speedway's 20th anniversary. "20 Years of Motorsports Magic" | |||
| Date | September 19, 2010 | ||
| Location | New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Loudon, New Hampshire | ||
| Course |
Permanent racing facility 1.058 mi (1.702 km) | ||
| Distance | 300 laps, 317.4 mi (510.805 km) | ||
| Weather | Mild with temperatures approaching 75.9 °F (24.4 °C); wind speeds up to 5.1 miles per hour (8.2 km/h)[6] | ||
| Average speed | 106.77 miles per hour (171.83 km/h) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Penske Racing | ||
| Time | 28.515 | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Clint Bowyer | Richard Childress Racing | |
| Laps | 176 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 33 | Clint Bowyer | Richard Childress Racing | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | ESPN | ||
| Announcers | Marty Reid, Dale Jarrett and Andy Petree | ||
| Nielsen Ratings |
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| Radio in the United States | |||
| Radio | Performance Racing Network | ||
| Booth Announcers | Doug Rice, Mark Garrow | ||
| Turn Announcers | Rob Albright, Brad Gillie | ||
The 2010 Sylvania 300 was a stock car racing competition that took place on September 19, 2010. Held at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, New Hampshire, the 300-lap race was the twenty-seventh in the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, as well as the first in the ten-race Chase for the Sprint Cup, which ended the season. Clint Bowyer of the Richard Childress Racing team won the race; Denny Hamlin finished second and Jamie McMurray came in third.
Brad Keselowski won the pole position, although he was almost immediately passed by Tony Stewart at the start of the race. Many Chase for the Sprint Cup participants, including Jimmie Johnson, Kurt Busch, and Hamlin, were in the top ten for most of the race, although some encountered problems in the closing laps. Stewart was leading the race with two laps remaining but ran out of fuel, giving the lead, and the win, to Bowyer. There were twenty-one lead changes among eight different drivers, as well as eight cautions during the race.
The race was Bowyer's first win in the 2010 season, and the third of his career. The result advanced Bowyer to second in the Drivers' Championship, thirty-five points behind Hamlin and ten ahead of Kevin Harvick, although he fell to twelfth in the standings after receiving a post-race penalty. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, thirty-two points ahead of Toyota and seventy-four ahead of Ford, with nine races remaining in the season. Attendance was 95,000, while 3.68 million watched it on television.
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- ^ "2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup TV Ratings". Jayski's Silly Season Site. ESPN Internet Ventures. Archived from the original on December 1, 2010. Retrieved December 21, 2014.