2010 Sylvania 300

2010 Sylvania 300

The 2010 Sylvania 300 was a stock car racing competition that took place on September 19, 2010. Brad Keselowski won the pole position, although he was almost immediately passed by Tony Stewart at the start of the race. Clint Bowyer of the Richard Childress Racing team won the race; Denny Hamlin finished second and Jamie McMurray came in third. The race was the twenty-seventh in the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, as well as the first in the ten-race Chase for the Sprint Cup, which ended the season.

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Summary 2010 Sylvania 300The 2010 Sylvania 300 was a stock car racing competition that took place on September 19, 2010. The race was the twenty-seventh in the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, as well as the first in the ten-race Chase for the Sprint Cup, which ended the season. Brad Keselowski won the pole position, although he was almost immediately passed by Tony Stewart at the start of the race. Clint Bowyer of the Richard Childress Racing team won the race; Denny Hamlin finished second and Jamie McMurray came in third. The result advanced Bowyer to second in the Drivers’ Championship, thirty-five points behind Hamlin and ten ahead of Kevin Harvick. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers’ Championship,. thirty-two points ahead of Toyota and seventy-four ahead of Ford. Attendance was 95,000, while 3.68 million watched it on television. The standard track at New Hampshire Motor Speedway is a four-turn oval track, 1. 058 miles long. Its banking in the turns varies from two to seven degrees, while the front stretch, the finish line, and the back stretch are all banked at one degree. Mark Martin was the race’s defending champion, but he was unable to win the race due to an accident on the final lap. The final race of the season was held at the Daytona 500, which was won by Jimmie Johnson, who had 18 previous wins in the Chase, and won the title in 2008 and 2009. It was the first time that the race had been held in New Hampshire, which is one of ten intermediate tracks that hold NASCAR races.

There were twenty-one lead changes among eight different drivers, aswell as eight cautions during the race, with the race being the first of the 2010 Chase for Sprint Cup to be held in the state. A number of drivers entered the race optimistic about their chances of winning the championship, including Greg Biffle, Jeff Gordon, Carl Edwards, Jeff Burton, Matt Kenseth, and Jeff Gordon. The top ten fastest drivers in the top forty-five qualifying sessions were all from the Chase. Only forty-three drivers attempted to qualify for the race because of NASCAR’s procedure to disqualify drivers who fail to qualify in the first two practice sessions. The first practice session lasted 90 minutes, and two on Saturday. The second session lasted 60 minutes. During the second practice session, Stewart was fastest, placing ahead of Edwards in second and Marcos J. Allmendinger, and Kyle Busch, David Ragan, and Brad Busch rounded out the top five. The third practice session was held on Friday, with Stewart placing ahead in second, and Marcos Ambrose placing fifth. The fourth practice session ended in a time of 515 minutes, with Bowyer joining on the front row of the grid. The fifth qualifying session was on Saturday, and Bowyer was the fastest driver in that session. The 20th qualifying session began on Sunday, and only forty-23 drivers could qualify. The 25th and final qualifying session ended on Sunday.