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Race 32 of 36 in the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series | |||
Date | October 24, 2010 | ||
Location | Martinsville Speedway, Martinsville, Virginia | ||
Course |
Permanent racing facility 0.526 mi (0.847 km) | ||
Distance | 500 laps, 263 mi (423 km) | ||
Weather | Partly cloudy with a high around 75; wind out of the WSW at 9 mph. | ||
Average speed | 71.619 miles per hour (115.260 km/h) | ||
Pole position | |||
Driver | Joe Gibbs Racing | ||
Time | 19.518 | ||
Most laps led | |||
Driver | Jeff Burton | Richard Childress Racing | |
Laps | 134 | ||
Winner | |||
No. 11 | Denny Hamlin | Joe Gibbs Racing | |
Television in the United States | |||
Network | ESPN | ||
Announcers | Marty Reid, Dale Jarrett and Andy Petree |
The 2010 TUMS Fast Relief 500 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race that was held on October 24, 2010, at Martinsville Speedway in Martinsville, Virginia. It was contested over 500 laps, and was the thirty-second race of the season and the sixth race in the season-ending Chase for the Sprint Cup for the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. The race was won by Denny Hamlin for the Joe Gibbs Racing team. Mark Martin driving for Hendrick Motorsports finished second and Richard Childress Racing's Kevin Harvick, who started thirty-sixth, came third.
During the race there were fifteen cautions and twenty-four lead changes among thirteen drivers. It was Hamlin's seventh win in the 2010 season and the fifteenth of his career. The result left him second in the Drivers' Championship, six points behind Jimmie Johnson. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, forty-two ahead of Toyota and eighty-seven ahead of Ford, with four races remaining in the season.