2012 Aaron's 499

2012 Aaron's 499
Race details[1][2][3][4]
Race 10 of 36 in the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Date May 6, 2012 (2012-05-06)
Location Talladega Superspeedway, Talladega, Alabama
Course Permanent racing facility
2.66 mi (4.28 km)
Distance 194 laps, 516.04 mi (830.824 km)
Weather Overcast with a temperature around 90 °F (32 °C); wind out of the W at 4 mph.
Average speed 160.192 miles per hour (257.804 km/h)
Pole position
Driver
Hendrick Motorsports
Time 49.973
Most laps led
Driver Matt Kenseth Roush Fenway Racing
Laps 77
Winner
No. 2 Brad Keselowski Penske Racing
Television in the United States
Network Fox Broadcasting Company
Announcers Mike Joy, Darrell Waltrip and Larry McReynolds

The 2012 Aaron's 499 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on May 6, 2012 at Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Alabama. Contested over 194 laps (with a green-white-checkered finish), it was the tenth race of the 2012 season. Brad Keselowski of Penske Racing took his second win of the season, while Kyle Busch finished second and Matt Kenseth finished third.

There were five cautions and thirty-five lead changes among nineteen different drivers throughout the course of the race.[5] The result moved Keselowski into the twelfth position in the Drivers' Championship. He remained seventy-nine points behind of first place driver Greg Biffle and thirteen ahead of thirteen placed Ryan Newman. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, five points ahead of Toyota and ten ahead of Ford, with twenty-six races remaining in the season.

  1. ^ "Sprint Cup Series Schedule". ESPN. Retrieved April 29, 2012.
  2. ^ Brown, Brian (May 2, 2012). "The Aaron's 499". Archived from the original on May 5, 2012. Retrieved May 5, 2012.
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  5. ^ "RaceTrax: Aaron's 499". Fox Sports. Retrieved May 7, 2012.