2010 Toyota/Save Mart 350

2010 Toyota/Save Mart 350

Race details[1][2][3][4]
Race 16 of 36 in the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
The 2010 Toyota/Save Mart 350 program cover, featuring Kyle Busch and Jimmie Johnson.
Date	June 20, 2010 (2010-June-20)
Official name	Toyota/Save Mart 350
Location	Infineon Raceway Sonoma, California
Course	Permanent racing facility 1.99 mi (3.2 km)
Distance	110 laps, 218.9 mi (352.285 km)
Weather	Sunny with a high around 85; wind out of the SW at 13 mph. There was a 10% chance of precipitation.
Average speed	74.357 miles per hour (119.666 km/h)
Pole position
Driver	Kasey Kahne	Richard Petty Motorsports
Time	1:16.30
Most laps led
Driver	Jimmie Johnson	Hendrick Motorsports
Laps	55
Winner
No. 48	Jimmie Johnson	Hendrick Motorsports
Television in the United States
Network	Turner Network Television
Announcers	Adam Alexander, Wally Dallenbach Jr. and Kyle Petty

The 2010 Toyota/Save Mart 350 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on June 20, 2010, at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California. Contested over 110 laps, it was the sixteenth race of the 2010 Sprint Cup Series season and the first of two road course competitions on the schedule. The race was won by Jimmie Johnson, for the Hendrick Motorsports team. Robby Gordon finished second, and Kevin Harvick, who started fourth, clinched third.

Conditions were sunny at the start of the race, making the track potentially slippery. Pole position driver Kasey Kahne maintained his lead into the first corner, but Johnson, who had started in the second position on the grid, took the lead before the first lap was over. Kahne suffered an ill-handling car during the beginning of the race, causing him to fall to seventh by the sixth lap. Seven laps before the finish, race leader Marcos Ambrose, turned his car off to try to save fuel, but he could not refire the engine and subsequently stalled. He dropped back from the lead to sixth place with seven laps remaining, allowing Kahne to finish fourth and Jeff Gordon fifth.

There were eight cautions and twelve lead changes among eight different drivers throughout the course of the race, Johnson's fourth win of the season and his first ever at Infineon. The result moved him up four spots to second in the Drivers' Championship, 140 points behind of leader Kevin Harvick and one ahead of Kyle Busch. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, nine points ahead of Toyota and forty-three ahead of Dodge, with twenty races remaining in the season.