2010 TUMS Fast Relief 500

2010 TUMS Fast Relief 500
Race details[1][2][3][4]
Race 32 of 36 in the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
The 2010 TUMS Fast Relief 500 program cover, featuring Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin.
The 2010 TUMS Fast Relief 500 program cover, featuring Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin.
Date October 24, 2010 (2010-10-24)
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.

The race logo for the TUMS Fast Relief 500.

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.

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  2. ^ "The Tums Fast Relief 500". rotoworld.com. Archived from the original on 15 June 2011. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
  3. ^ "Hamlin claims Martinsville pole". In Racing News. 22 October 2010. Archived from the original on 2013-01-26. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
  4. ^ "Race Information (Racetrax)". Fox Sports. Archived from the original on 24 October 2010. Retrieved 24 October 2010.