2010 Brickyard 400

2010 Brickyard 400
Race details[1][2][3][4]
Race 20 of 36 in the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
2010 Brickyard 400 program cover
2010 Brickyard 400 program cover
Date July 25, 2010 (2010-07-25)
Location Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis, Indiana
Course Permanent racing facility
2.500 mi (4.023 km)
Distance 160 laps, 400 mi (643.73 km)
Weather Temperatures up to 93 °F (34 °C); wind speeds up to 16.9 miles per hour (27.2 km/h)[5]
Pole position
Driver Earnhardt Ganassi Racing
Time 49.375
Most laps led
Driver Juan Pablo Montoya Earnhardt Ganassi Racing
Laps 86
Winner
No. 1 Jamie McMurray Earnhardt Ganassi Racing
Television in the United States
Network ESPN
Announcers Marty Reid, Dale Jarrett and Andy Petree

The 2010 Brickyard 400, the 17th running of the event, was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on July 25, 2010, at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Indiana. Contested over 160 laps, it was the twentieth race of the 2010 Sprint Cup Series season. The race was won by Jamie McMurray, for the Earnhardt Ganassi Racing team. Kevin Harvick finished second, and Greg Biffle, who started seventh, clinched third.

There were seven cautions and fourteen lead changes among ten different drivers throughout the course of the race, McMurray's second win of the season and his first ever at Indianapolis. The result moved him up two spots to sixteenth in the Drivers' Championship, 625 points behind of leader Kevin Harvick and five ahead of Kasey Kahne. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, twenty points ahead of Toyota and fifty-three ahead of Ford, with twenty races remaining in the season.

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  5. ^ "2010 Brickyard 400 weather information". Retrieved 30 July 2013.