Jamie McMurray took his No. 1 Bass Pro Shops/Tracker Boats Impala to victory lane in the 52nd running of the Daytona 500. It is his first victory in the Great American Race, but his second at Daytona International Speedway (DIS), his first in July, 2007.
Today’s race was McMurray’s debut behind the wheel of a Chevrolet in NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) and his first race back as a driver for Earnhardt Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates (EGR). He led once for just two laps, the least led by the race winner in Daytona 500 history.
The race ran eight laps beyond the scheduled 200 laps as the result of two green-white-checkered attempts at the finish. Red flags delayed the race twice for approximately two (2) hours and 25 minutes when issues with the surface of the track forced track officials to halt the action and make repairs. There were nine cautions for a total of 40 laps and 52 lead changes among 21 drivers.
McMurray’s margin of victory over fellow Team Chevy driver Dale Earnhardt, Jr., No. 88 AMP Energy/National Guard Impala, was just eleven one-hundreths of a second. Junior led once for a total of four laps. The runner-up run was his 12th top-10 finish in 21 DIS races.
Clint Bowyer, No. 33 Cheerios/Hamburger Helper Impala, finished fourth to give Team Chevy three of the top-five finishers. He led a total of eight times for 37-laps in the season opening race of the 2010 NSCS season.
Kevin Harvick, No. 29 Shell-Pennzoil Impala, finished seventh after leading seven times for 41 laps.
Juan Pablo Montoya, No. 42 Target Impala, McMurray’s EGR finished 10th, the fifth Chevy driver in the top-10 finishers. He led twice for two laps during the three hour, 47-minute race.
Greg Biffle (Ford) and David Reutimann (Toyota) completed the top-five finishers.
FIN CAR DRIVER MAKE 1 1 Jamie McMurray Chevrolet 2 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Chevrolet 3 16 Greg Biffle Ford 4 33 Clint Bowyer Chevrolet 5 0 David Reutimann Toyota 6 56 Martin Truex Jr. Toyota 7 29 Kevin Harvick Chevrolet 8 17 Matt Kenseth Ford 9 99 Carl Edwards Ford 10 42 Juan Montoya Chevrolet 11 31 Jeff Burton Chevrolet 12 5 Mark Martin Chevrolet 13 98 Paul Menard Ford 14 18 Kyle Busch Toyota 15 83 Brian Vickers Toyota 16 6 David Ragan Ford 17 11 Denny Hamlin Toyota 18 151 Michael Waltrip Toyota 19 82 Scott Speed Toyota 20 20 Joey Logano Toyota 21 71 Bobby Labonte Chevrolet 22 14 Tony Stewart Chevrolet 23 2 Kurt Busch Dodge 24 19 Elliott Sadler Ford 25 26 Boris Said Ford 26 24 Jeff Gordon Chevrolet 27 21 Bill Elliott Ford 28 7 Robby Gordon Toyota 29 37 Travis Kvapil Ford 30 9 Kasey Kahne Ford 31 38 Robert Richardson Jr. Ford 32 43 A.J. Allmendinger Ford 33 55 Michael McDowell Toyota 34 39 Ryan Newman Chevrolet 35 48 Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet 36 12 Brad Keselowski Dodge 37 77 Sam Hornish Jr. Dodge 38 34 John Andretti Ford 39 78 Regan Smith Chevrolet 40 13 Max Papis Toyota 41 47 Marcos Ambrose Toyota 42 36 Mike Bliss Chevrolet 43 87 Joe Nemechek Toyota
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