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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.
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
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

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.

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.

Report

The layout of Sonoma Raceway NASCAR used for the race.

Background

Prior to the race,

Manufacturers' Championship, Chevrolet was leading with 103 points, six points ahead of their rival Toyota, which had been closing the gap between the two teams in the four previous races. Dodge, with 65 points, was tied with Ford in the battle for third.[6]

Two teams chose to temporarily replace their regular drivers with road course ringers. Because of an accident at the previous race in between Scott Speed and Casey Mears,[7] Red Bull Racing Team chose to replace Mears with 2-time DTM champion Mattias Ekström[8] while Phoenix Racing chose Jan Magnussen to replace Landon Cassill.[9]

Infineon Raceway is one of two road courses to hold NASCAR races, the other being Watkins Glen International.[10] The standard road course at Infineon Raceway is a 12-turn course that is 2.52 miles (4.06 km) long;[11] the track was modified in 1998, adding the Chute, which bypassed turns 5 and 6, shortening the course to 1.95 miles (3.14 km).[11] The Chute was only used for NASCAR events such as this race, and was criticized by many drivers, who preferred the full layout.[12] In 2001, it was replaced with a 70-degree turn, 4A, bringing the track to its current dimensions of 1.99 miles (3.20 km).[13]

Practice and qualifying

Infineon Raceway
.

Three practice sessions were held before the Sunday race—one on Friday, and two on Saturday. The first session lasted 90 minutes. The Saturday afternoon session lasted 45 minutes, and the evening session lasted 65 minutes. In the first practice session,

Kevin Conway, who stopped on track, and the other was waved for Sam Hornish Jr., who had spun out and collided in the wall.[15] The Saturday evening session was held around the same time of day the race would start.[16] Once more, Ambrose was the quickest, posting a time of 1:16.82, narrowly faster than both McMurray in second and Burton in third.[16] Johnson and Harvick, rounded out the top five positions.[16] Juan Pablo Montoya, who won this race in 2007, only managed twelfth.[16]

During qualifying, forty-six cars were entered, but only forty-three were able to race because of NASCAR's qualifying procedure.[17] Kahne clinched his seventeenth career pole position, with a time of 1:16.30.[18] He was joined on the front row of the grid by Johnson.[18] Kurt Busch qualified third, Harvick took fourth, and Jeff Gordon started fifth, after being quickest earlier in the session.[18] The three drivers that did not qualify were Brian Simo, Brandon Ash, and Michael Waltrip.[18]

Race

The race, the sixteenth out of a total of thirty-six in the

back-up cars due to accidents during practice and qualifying.[19]

caution flag was waved for an accident involving Clint Bowyer, A. J. Allmendinger, Kyle Busch, and Jamie McMurray.[21] Four laps later, some teams decided to pit as Kyle Busch went to the garage for repairs. Johnson made a good restart, retaining the first position as Ambrose passed Kurt Busch for the second position.[19]

drive-through penalty for exiting pit road too fast.[19][21]

On lap 35, Johnson went to pit road and received four new tires and fuel, allowing Stewart to claim the lead. Debutant Mattias Ekström gained the lead as Stewart went to pit lane. On lap 44, Hamlin continued to have trouble; his hood began to cover his windshield under green flag conditions. Johnson soon built a 1.58 second lead over second place Ambrose. Hamlin was then given a drive-through penalty for speeding on pit road. On lap 52, Ambrose made a pit stop because of his team's three pit stop strategy.[19]

Jimmie Johnson led the most laps and won the race.

Johnson's lead—13 seconds over Truex Jr. by lap 54—was reduced to nothing when the

red flag on lap 67.[19][22]

After twenty-two minutes, drivers restarted their engines as cleanup crews were still working. Ambrose made a good restart on lap 70 to keep Johnson behind him. Six laps later, Stewart went to pit lane as Johnson was catching Ambrose. On lap 79, Johnson went to pit lane for fuel and four new tires; he was scored in seventeenth afterward. On the following lap, Ambrose went to pit lane for new tires and fuel, so Bowyer became the leader. Elliott Sadler and Boris Said both held the lead during the pit stops. The fifth caution flag came out on lap 85 because Montoya and Joey Logano collided. Boris Said led the field on the restart, but he went off track in turn two and fell to the fifth position as Ambrose, Johnson, Robby Gordon and Biffle passed him. Shortly after the restart, the sixth caution came out because Ekström and David Gilliland both spun out. Ambrose made a good restart to maintain the first position, while Johnson defended second.[19]

On lap 100, Bowyer and Sadler both spun sideways because Jeff Gordon collided with them.

cautions and twelve lead changes among eight different drivers.[3]

Post-race

"My bad, I'm disappointed. It's NASCAR's house and I'll always play by the rules. I don't agree with it, I don't like it and that's only because I lost the race because of it. I had the motor turned off trying to save a bit of fuel and just had trouble getting it fired again. That's it."

Marcos Ambrose, speaking after the race.[25]

Jimmie Johnson appeared in victory lane after his victory lap to start celebrating his fourth win of the season, and his first on a road course.[25] Before the race, he had stated, “I have a lot of confidence but at the same time, after eight years of trying, I’m hopeful we have overturned a stone that we have missed in the past. I don’t think we have forgotten any area or missed something, but we’ll go out and give it a shot and see what we can do and I am ready mentally, physically and we did some testing. I think we found a couple of small things that will bring speed to the cars.”[10] Following his win, he added, "This win is important, but it’s not what it’s going to take to win a championship."[26]

Although

press conference, Johnson said, "I feel bad for him. It was definitely a gift kind of handed to us."[25]
Johnson expressed his enjoyment of winning the race, but he also stated:

"Normally, you shut off the car downhill to save fuel. I don’t think you do that going up the hill—that’s the last place to do it. I thought he was out of fuel, or it was electrical. His car came to a stop and I just thought, ‘Wow.’ I know he is kicking himself for whatever happened there. It’s the last type of mistake I would expect to see. I was just hoping that I could stay alongside of him. You can count on some guys making mistakes, but I didn’t think Marcos would make one. To see him make that was totally off the wall."[26]

Martin Truex Jr. was furious because of the accident involving himself and Jeff Gordon. Gordon apologized for the collision, but Truex vowed, "We’ll get him."[26] From a second-place finish, Robby Gordon said, "My team needs a little bit of morale here and there. This will be a morale boost back at the workshop."[26] The race result left Kevin Harvick leading the Driver's Championship with 2,334 points.[27] Johnson, who failed to finish three of the past six races, was second on 2,194, one point ahead of Kyle Busch and eleven ahead of Denny Hamlin.[27] Jeff Gordon was fifth with 2,142 points.[27] In the Manufacturers' Championship, Chevrolet maintained their lead with 112 points.[6] Toyota remained second with 103 points.[6] Ford followed with 69 points, one point ahead of Dodge in fourth.[6] The race took two hours, fifty-six minutes and thirty-eight seconds to complete, and the margin of victory was 3.105 seconds.[28]

Results

Qualifying

Car Driver Team Manufacturer Time (in seconds) Grid
9 Kasey Kahne Richard Petty Motorsports Ford 1:16.30 1
48 Jimmie Johnson Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 1:16.37 2
2 Kurt Busch
Penske Racing
 Dodge 1:16.56 3
29 Kevin Harvick Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 1:16.67 4
24 Jeff Gordon Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 1:16.69 5
47 Marcos Ambrose JTG Daugherty Racing Toyota 1:16.80 6
14 Tony Stewart
Stewart Haas Racing
 Chevrolet 1:16.81 7
71 Bobby Labonte
TRG Motorsports
 Chevrolet 1:16.82 8
16 Greg Biffle
Roush Fenway Racing
 Ford 1:16.84 9
56 Martin Truex Jr. Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota 1:16.87 10
5 Mark Martin Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 1:16.89 11
11 Denny Hamlin Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 1:16.90 12
39 Ryan Newman
Stewart Haas Racing
 Chevrolet 1:16.90 13
42 Juan Montoya
Earnhardt Ganassi Racing
 Chevrolet 1:16.91 14
43 A. J. Allmendinger Richard Petty Motorsports Ford 1:16.98 15
7 Robby Gordon Robby Gordon Motorsports Toyota 1:17.05 16
26 Boris Said Latitude 43 Motorsports Ford 1:17.09 17
98 Paul Menard Richard Petty Motorsports Ford 1:17.13 18
99 Carl Edwards
Roush Fenway Racing
 Ford 1:17.16 19
20 Joey Logano Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 1:17.17 20
19 Elliott Sadler Richard Petty Motorsports Ford 1:17.21 21
33 Clint Bowyer Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 1:17.30 22
82 Scott Speed Red Bull Racing Toyota 1:17.35 23
88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 1:17.38 24
1 Jamie McMurray
Earnhardt Ganassi Racing
 Chevrolet 1:17.46 25
38 David Gilliland Front Row Motorsports Ford 1:17.51 26
18 Kyle Busch Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 1:17.53 27
87 Joe Nemechek NEMCO Motorsports Toyota 1:17.54 28
13 Max Papis Germain Racing Toyota 1:17.55 29
31 Jeff Burton Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 1:17.62 30
78 Regan Smith Furniture Row Racing Chevrolet 1:17.69 31
09 Jan Magnussen Phoenix Racing Chevrolet 1:17.71 32
00 David Reutimann Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota 1:17.86 33
17 Matt Kenseth
Roush Fenway Racing
 Ford 1:17.87 34
07 P. J. Jones Robby Gordon Motorsports Toyota 1:17.89 35
12 Brad Keselowski
Penske Racing
 Dodge 1:17.91 36
46 J. J. Yeley Whitney Motorsports Dodge 1:17.99 37
83
Mattias Ekstrom
 Red Bull Racing Toyota 1:18.03 38
77 Sam Hornish Jr.
Penske Racing
 Dodge 1:18.31 39
37 Travis Kvapil Front Row Motorsports Ford 1:18.74 40
34 Kevin Conway Front Row Motorsports Ford 1:18.81 41
6 David Ragan
Roush Fenway Racing
 Ford
N/A
 42
66 Dave Blaney
Prism Motorsports
 Toyota 1:18.85 43
02 Brandon Ash
Ash Motorsports
 Dodge 1:18.92
36 Brian Simo Front Row Motorsports Ford 1:18.93
55 Michael Waltrip
Prism Motorsports
 Toyota 1:19.44
Source:[18][29]

Race

Pos Grid Car Driver Team Manufacturer Laps Points
1 2 48 Jimmie Johnson Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 110 1952
2 16 7 Robby Gordon Robby Gordon Motorsports Toyota 110 170
3 4 29 Kevin Harvick Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 110 165
4 1 9 Kasey Kahne Richard Petty Motorsports Ford 110 160
5 5 24 Jeff Gordon Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 110 155
6 6 47 Marcos Ambrose JTG Daugherty Racing Toyota 110 1551
7 9 16 Greg Biffle
Roush Fenway Racing
 Ford 110 146
8 17 26 Boris Said Latitude 43 Motorsports Ford 110 1471
9 7 14 Tony Stewart
Stewart Haas Racing
 Chevrolet 110 1431
10 14 42 Juan Pablo Montoya
Earnhardt Ganassi Racing
 Chevrolet 110 134
11 24 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 110 130
12 32 09 Jan Magnussen Phoenix Racing Chevrolet 110 127
13 15 43 A. J. Allmendinger Richard Petty Motorsports Ford 110 124
14 11 5 Mark Martin Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 110 121
15 25 1 Jamie McMurray
Earnhardt Ganassi Racing
 Chevrolet 110 118
16 13 39 Ryan Newman
Stewart Haas Racing
 Chevrolet 110 115
17 21 19 Elliott Sadler Richard Petty Motorsports Ford 110 1171
18 23 82 Scott Speed Red Bull Racing Team Toyota 110 109
19 26 38 David Gilliland Front Row Motorsports Ford 110 106
20 33 00 David Reutimann Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota 110 103
21 38 83 Mattias Ekström Red Bull Racing Team Toyota 110 1051
22 18 98 Paul Menard Richard Petty Motorsports Ford 110 97
23 8 71 Bobby Labonte
TRG Motorsports
 Chevrolet 110 94
24 40 37 Travis Kvapil Front Row Motorsports Ford 110 91
25 42 6 David Ragan
Roush Fenway Racing
 Ford 110 88
26 37 46 J. J. Yeley Whitney Motorsports Dodge 110 85
27 30 31 Jeff Burton Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 110 82
28 41 34
Kevin Conway
 Front Row Motorsports Ford 110 79
29 19 99 Carl Edwards
Roush Fenway Racing
 Ford 110 76
30 34 17 Matt Kenseth
Roush Fenway Racing
 Ford 110 73
31 22 33 Clint Bowyer Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 110 751
32 3 2 Kurt Busch
Penske Racing
 Dodge 110 67
33 20 20 Joey Logano Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 108 64
34 12 11 Denny Hamlin Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 103 61
35 36 12 Brad Keselowski
Penske Racing
 Dodge 102 58
36 39 77 Sam Hornish Jr.
Penske Racing
 Dodge 93 55
37 43 66 Dave Blaney
Prism Motorsports
 Toyota 86 52
38 31 78 Regan Smith Furniture Row Racing Chevrolet 86 49
39 27 18 Kyle Busch Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 76 46
40 28 87 Joe Nemechek NEMCO Motorsports Toyota 71 43
41 35 07 P. J. Jones Robby Gordon Motorsports Toyota 68 40
42 10 56 Martin Truex Jr. Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota 66 421
43 29 13 Max Papis Germain Racing Toyota 65 34
Source:[3][28][30]
1 Includes five bonus points for leading a lap
2 Includes ten bonus points for leading the most laps

Standings after the race

  • Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

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