Date: July 25, 2010
Event: 17th Brickyard 400 (Round 20 of 36)
Series: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Location: Indianapolis Motor Speedway (2.5-mile oval)
Winner: Jamie McMurray of Earnhardt-Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates (Chevrolet)
SHR Finish: Tony Stewart (Started 15th, Finished 5th / Running, completed 160 of 160 laps)
Ryan Newman (Started 5th, Finished 17th / Running, completed 160 of 160 laps)
Tony Stewart, driver of the No. 14 Old Spice/Office Depot Chevrolet Impala, led the two-car Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) contingent by finishing fifth in Sunday’s 17th running of the Brickyard 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. It was Stewart’s sixth top-five finish in 12 career Sprint Cup starts at Indianapolis and his fifth top-five of 2010.
Ryan Newman, driver of the No. 39 Haas Automation Chevrolet Impala for SHR, finished 17th after battling back from two early flat tires that had him two laps down and in 37th-place just 20 laps into the 160-lap contest.
Jamie McMurray won the Brickyard 400 to score his fifth career Sprint Cup victory, his second of the season and his first at Indianapolis. McMurray also won the 2010 Daytona 500, making him just the third driver in NASCAR history to win the Daytona 500 and Brickyard 400 in the same season. Dale Jarrett first accomplished the feat in 1996, while Jimmie Johnson won both races in 2006.
Championship point leader Kevin Harvick finished 1.391 seconds behind race-winner McMurray, while Greg Biffle, Clint Bowyer and Stewart rounded out the top-five. Jeff Burton, Carl Edwards, Kyle Busch, Joey Logano and Kurt Busch comprised the remainder of the top-10.
There were six caution periods for 25 laps, with 10 drivers failing to finish.
With round 20 of 36 complete, Stewart remains ninth in the Sprint Cup championship standings. He has 2,544 points, 376 markers behind series leader Harvick and 160 points ahead of 13th-place Mark Martin. Newman gained one spot and is now 15th. He has 2,299 points and is 147 points back of 12th-place Bowyer, who holds the final spot in the 12-driver Chase for the Championship with six races remaining before the Chase begins.
The next event on the Sprint Cup schedule is the Aug. 1 Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500 at Pocono (Pa.) Raceway. The race starts at 1 p.m. EDT with live coverage provided by ESPN beginning with its pre-race show at noon on ESPN2. |
