TEAM CHEVY AT INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY – PAT SUHY, GM RACING NASCAR GROUP MANAGER:
“After a well deserved weekend off, Team Chevy’s Sprint Cup contingent will be arriving in Indy this week for the seventeenth running of the Brickyard 400. Chevy drivers have had great success at the track, bringing home eleven wins, including seven of the last seven. It’s not luck that got those wins, by any means. Indianapolis Motor Speedway is unique on the Sprint Cup tour, with long flat straightaways and only nine degrees of banking in each of the four corners. It takes a good car to be successful. The teams need to find that balance between drag and downforce that allows them to maximize speed on those long straightaways, and have good speed in the corners. Toward the end of the race, the pressure is really on the drivers and pit crews to have good fast stops to get the driver the best track position possible for the last fuel run of the race.
“With our proven track record in Indy, and a productive tire test in June for many of our teams, I’m looking forward to having another opportunity to “kiss the bricks” at the end of the race on Sunday with a Team Chevy driver and crew.”
TEAM CHEVY IN 2010 NASCAR SPRINT CUP SERIES (NSCS) COMPETITION:
· Race wins – 9 as of race 19 of 36
· Poles – 8 as of race 19 of 36
· Laps led – 2,822 (50.1% of possible 5,635)
· Top-five finishes – 50 (52.6% of possible)
· Top-10 finishes – 92 (48.4% of possible)
· With seven (7) races remaining in the Race to the Chase, Team Chevy has six (6) drivers in top-12 points positions:
o Kevin Harvick, No. 29 Shell-Pennzoil Chevrolet is the points leader
o Jeff Gordon, No. 24 DuPont Chevrolet – 2nd
o Jimmie Johnson, No. 48 Lowe’s Chevrolet – 3rd
o Jeff Burton, No. 31 Caterpillar Chevrolet – 7th
o Tony Stewart, No. 14 Old Spice/ Office Depot Chevrolet – 9th
o Clint Bowyer, No. 33 Wheaties Fuel Chevrolet – 12th
CHEVROLET ON THE TRACK-INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY:
Team Chevy drivers have won 11 of 16 previous NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) races at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS)
Chevrolet drivers have won the last seven consecutive Brickyard 400 races
A Chevrolet driver has won the Brickyard 400 and gone on to win the championship the same season six times in the last 12 years: Jeff Gordon (1998, 2001); Tony Stewart (‘05) and Jimmie Johnson (‘06, ‘08 and ‘09).
· Chevrolet drivers have won 7 poles at IMS
· Team Chevy drivers have scored 29 top-five finishes and 60 top-10 finishes at IMS
A Chevrolet has led 1,315 laps (51.3% of possible 2,561 ) at IMS
Jeff Gordon, No. 24 DuPont Chevrolet, has four (4) Brickyard 400 wins
Jimmie Johnson, No. 48 Lowe’s Chevrolet, has won the Brickyard 400 three (3) times
Tony Stewart, No. 14 Old Spice/Office Depot Chevrolet, has two (2) Brickyard 400 wins
Kevin Harvick, No. 29 Shell-Pennzoil Chevrolet, won the Brickyard 400 once (1)
Bobby Labonte, No. 09 Phoenix Construction Chevrolet, has one (1) Brickyard 400 win
Will make his 600th consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup Series start
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