Coke 600 Racethread

[slorydn1]

THE RACE: Coca Cola 600
TRACK: Charlotte Motor Speedway
NASCAR Sprint Cup Race #13 of 36 for the 2010 season

Track Specifications:
Superspeedway: 1.5-mile quad oval
Race Length: 400 laps, 600 miles
Banking: turns: 24 degrees; straights: 5 degrees
Straights: Frontstretch - 1952.8 feet; Backstretch - 1360 feet
Grandstand Seating: 171,000
Pit Road Speed: 45mph
Pace Car Speed: 55mph
Opened: 1960

Track Record: Elliott Sadler, Oct 2005, 27.948sec @ 193.216mph

Race Record 600 miles: Bobby Labonte, May 1995, 151.952mph

Most Wins: 6 - Darrell Waltrip, Bobby Allison, Jimmie Johnson;

Most Poles: 14 - David Pearson

Most Laps Led [600 mile race]: 335, Jim Paschal, 5/28/1967

Most Lead Changes: 59 - 5/27/1979

Fewest Lead Changes: 2 - 5/21/1961

Most Cautions: 22, 5/29/2005

Most Caution Laps: 113, 5/25/1980

http://jayski.com/next/2010/13cms2010.htm

[slorydn1]

Last year's race:

NASCAR Sprint Cup race number 12 of 36
May 25, 2009 at Lowe's Motor Speedway, Concord, NC
400 laps* on a 1.500 mile paved track (600.0 miles)
* Race shortened to 227 laps due to rain.

Time of race: 2:48:59
Average Speed: 120.899 mph
Pole Speed:28.651 sec @ 188.475 mph
Cautions: 6 for 40 laps
Margin of Victory: under caution
Attendance: 100,000

Top 10 Finisher's (quals in parentheses)


01 David Reutimann (21)
02 Ryan Newman (1)
03 Robby Gordon (37)
04 Carl Edwards (19)
05 Brian Vickers (8)
06 Kyle Busch (2)
07 Kasey Kahne (6)
08 Juan Montoya (9)
09 Joey Logano (14)
10 Matt Kenseth (30)


To the back: Scott Riggs (#36) engine change

Cautions: Laps: 8-11 (rain), 18-20 (#29 accident turn 1), 42-44 (competition), 72-79 (rain), 164-179 (competition), 222-227 (rain)

Lap leaders: R. Newman 1-2, Ky. Busch 3-42, J. Johnson 43-48, Ky. Busch 49-72, R. Gordon 73, M. Waltrip 74, S. Riggs 75-77, Ky. Busch 78-119, B. Vickers 120-130, J. Logano 131, D. Blaney 132-133, Ky. Busch 134-144, B. Vickers 145-166, Ky. Busch 167-222, D. Reutimann 223-227

Points standings (top 20) after this race:


Rank Driver Points Diff
+----+-----------------------+------+-----+
1 Jeff Gordon 1722
2 Tony Stewart 1678 -44
3 Kurt Busch 1607 -115
4 Jimmie Johnson 1594 -128
5 Denny Hamlin 1575 -147
6 Kyle Busch 1540 -182
7 Ryan Newman 1538 -184
8 Jeff Burton 1472 -250
9 Matt Kenseth 1460 -262
10 Greg Biffle 1448 -274
11 Carl Edwards 1431 -291
12 Mark Martin 1428 -294
13 David Reutimann 1422 -300
14 Juan Pablo Montoya 1397 -325
15 Kasey Kahne 1351 -371
16 Brian Vickers 1348 -374
17 Clint Bowyer 1319 -403
18 Martin Truex, Jr. 1238 -484
19 Dale Earnhardt, Jr. 1225 -497
20 Marcos Ambrose 1216 -506
+----+-----------------------+------+-----+

http://racing-reference.info/race/2009-12/W

[dunes]

Lets see Kyle blame Kesloski for this one let alone still come back to win the race.How did he get a speeding penelty that close to the line anyways
I mean really where the spotters on that pit stop.
Poor Johnson. I thought he was going to pull out of the slump this weekend.