2010 Toyota/Save Mart 350

2010 Toyota/Save Mart 350
Race details[1][2][3][4]
Race 16 of 36 in the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season

Date June 20, 2010 (2010-June-20)
Location Infineon Raceway Sonoma, California
Course Permanent racing facility
1.99 mi (3.2 km)
Distance 110 laps, 220 mi (350 km)
Weather Sunny with a high around 85; wind out of the SW at 13 mph. There was a 10% chance of precipitation.
Avg Speed 74.357 miles per hour (119.666 km/h)
Pole position
Driver Kasey Kahne Richard Petty Motorsports
Time 1:16.30
Most laps led
Driver Jimmie Johnson Hendrick Motorsports
Laps 54
Winner
48
Jimmie Johnson
Hendrick Motorsports
Television
Network Turner Network Television
Announcers Adam Alexander, Wally Dallenbach, Jr. and Kyle Petty

The 2010 Toyota/Save Mart 350 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on June 20, 2010 at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California. Contested over 110 laps, it was the sixteenth race of the 2010 Sprint Cup Series season and the first of two 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. Pole position driver Kasey Kahne maintained his lead into the first corner, but Johnson, who had started in the second position on the grid, took the lead before the first lap was over. Kahne suffered an ill-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.

Contents

Report

Background

Prior to the race, Kevin Harvick led the Drivers' Championship with 2,169 points, and Kyle Busch stood in second with 2,147 points. Denny Hamlin was third in the Drivers' Championship with 2,122 points in a Toyota, Kyle Busch's brother Kurt was fourth with 2,051 points, and Matt Kenseth was in fifth with 2,019 points.[5] In the 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 Mattias Ekström[8] while Phoenix Racing chose Jan Magnussen to replace Landon Cassill.[9]

The course, 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

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, Marcos Ambrose was the quickest, leading Clint Bowyer, Ryan Newman, Kasey Kahne, and Kevin Harvick, who were in second, third, fourth, and fifth, respectively.[14] In the second practice session, Ambrose was again the fastest with a fastest lap time of 1:16.40, less than seven-tenths of a second quicker than second-placed Jeff Burton.[15] A. J. Allmendinger took third place, ahead of fourth-placed Jimmie Johnson and Martin Truex, Jr..[15] There were two cautions in the second session; one of them was caused by 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 season, began at 3 p.m. EDT and was televised live in the United States on TNT.[1] Conditions were sunny with a high of 80 °F (27 °C), making the track potentially slippery.[19] Infineon Raceway volunteer coordinator Tim Boeve[20] began the pre-race ceremonies by giving the invocation. Next, news anchor Robin Meade performed the national anthem, and former NFL running back Roger Craig and Northern California Toyota Dealer Association's Henry Hansel gave the command for drivers to start their engines. On the pace laps, Sam Hornish, Jr. and David Ragan had to go to the rear of the starting grid because they switched to back-up cars due to accidents during practice and qualifying.[19]

Kasey Kahne held the lead going through the first corner with Jimmie Johnson behind him. Going through turn seven, Kurt Busch went three-wide with Kahne and Johnson for the lead, and Kahne slowed as Johnson claimed the lead.[21] Kahne's vacated third position was filled by Kevin Harvick. Marcos Ambrose moved into fifth, passing Jeff Gordon on the sixth lap. After starting in the pole position, Kahne lost six positions in the first seven laps. Johnson continued to increase his lead over Kurt Busch to 3.17 seconds. On lap 11, the first 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]

Tony Stewart also improved his position by passing Harvick for fourth when McMurray spun out on the restart. Johnson built a lead of one second over Ambrose within two laps of the restart. On lap 17, Jeff Gordon improved his position to sixth after passing Martin Truex, Jr., and Johnson continued to pull away with a three second lead after lap 21. On lap 23, Denny Hamlin reported that he was struggling due to damage on the hood of his race car. A lap later, Biffle passed Ryan Newman for ninth while Jeff Gordon emerged in third after passing Juan Pablo Montoya and Kurt Busch. On lap 27, green flag pit stops began when Ambrose came to pit road for fuel and four new tires. A few laps later, Bobby Labonte received a drive-through penalty for exiting the pits 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 pitted because of his team's three pit stop strategy.[19]

Johnson's lead—13 seconds over Truex, Jr. by lap 54—was reduced to nothing when the safety car was deployed on the fifty-eighth lap. Dave Blaney had spun out and his car stopped in the middle of the track. After pit stops were completed, the top five positions were filled by Boris Said in first, Stewart in second, Ambrose in third, Ekström in fourth, and David Ragan in fifth. Said made a good restart, but because of his older tires, Ambrose passed him. One lap later, Johnson had all ready passed four cars and was in the third position when Truex Jr. spun going through turn eleven. The third caution flag was waved because Brad Keselowski turned sideways at turn ten; he had major damage to the splitter from going through the dirt off the track. Said made a slow restart, making cars collide with each other, prompting a 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.[23] Three laps later, the seventh caution came out because Keselowski had fluid coming out of his race car after being spun around by Gilliland. Under caution, Ambrose turned off his engine to save fuel[24] and came to a stop going up a hill; he lost six positions and would restart in seventh with Johnson in the lead. Johnson restarted well to keep the lead. On the final lap (110), Matt Kenseth spun and collided with the tire barriers after his brakes failed. Johnson crossed the finish line in first to take his fourth win of the season and his first ever at a road course.[24] Robby Gordon followed in second, ahead of Harvick in third, Kahne in fourth, and Jeff Gordon in fifth.[19][23] The race had a total of eight 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 Marcos Ambrose was leading near the end of the race, he stalled his car while going uphill when coasting in order to conserve fuel.[25] NASCAR ruled that he had failed to maintain reasonable speed under the caution which caused him to drop to seventh.[25] In the subsequent 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]

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][28]

Race

Pos Grid Car Driver Team Manufacturer Laps Points
1 2 48 Jimmie Johnson Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 110 195
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 110 155
7 9 16 Greg Biffle Roush Fenway Racing Ford 110 146
8 17 26 Boris Said Latitude 43 Motorsports Ford 110 147
9 7 14 Tony Stewart Stewart Haas Racing Chevrolet 110 143
10 14 42 Juan 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 110 117
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 110 105
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 75
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 42
43 29 13 Max Papis Germain Racing Toyota 65 34

Standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings[27]
Pos Driver Points
1 Kevin Harvick 2,334
2 Jimmie Johnson 2,194
3 Kyle Busch 2,195
4 Denny Hamlin 2,183
5 Jeff Gordon 2,142
Manufacturers' Championship standings[6]
Pos Manufacturer Points
1 Chevrolet 112
2 Toyota 103
3 Ford 69
4 Dodge 70

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