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2010 Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips 400

2010 Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips 400
Race details[1][2][3][4][5]
Race 15 of 36 in the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Date June 13, 2010 (2010-June-13)
Official name Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips 400
Location Michigan International Speedway Brooklyn, Michigan
Course Permanent racing facility
2.0 mi (3.2 km)
Distance 200 laps, 400 mi (643.7 km)
Weather Scattered thunderstorms with a high around 82; wind out of the West at 7 mph. Chance of precipitation, 40%.
Average speed 156.386 miles per hour (251.679 km/h)
Pole position
Driver Penske Racing
Time 37.90 seconds
Most laps led
Driver Denny Hamlin Joe Gibbs Racing
Laps 123
Winner
No. 11 Denny Hamlin Joe Gibbs Racing
Television in the United States
Network Turner Network Television
Announcers Adam Alexander, Wally Dallenbach Jr. and Kyle Petty

The 2010 Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race that was held on June 13, 2010, at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan. Contested over 200 laps, it was the fifteenth race of the 2010 Sprint Cup Series season. The race was won by Denny Hamlin for the Joe Gibbs Racing team. Kasey Kahne finished second, and Kurt Busch, who started first, clinched third.

Pole position driver Busch maintained his lead into the first turn to begin the race, but Jamie McMurray, who started in the second position on the grid, passed him to lead the first lap. Hamlin soon became the leader and would lead a race high of 123 laps. On the final restart, Hamlin started beside Kahne. Hamlin held onto first to claim his first Sprint Cup Series win at Michigan and his fifth of the season.

There were four cautions and nineteen lead changes among nine different drivers throughout the course of the race. The result left Kevin Harvick in the first position in the Drivers' Championship, twenty-two points ahead of second place driver Kyle Busch and forty-seven ahead of Denny Hamlin. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, six points ahead of Toyota and thirty-eight ahead of Dodge, with twenty-one races remaining in the season. A total of 95,000 people attended the race, while 4.3 million watched it on television.

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  3. ^ "Kurt Busch Wins Second Pole Position". Speedtv.com. 11 June 2010. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
  4. ^ "2010 Race Information". Fox Sports.com. Archived from the original on 16 June 2010. Retrieved 14 June 2010.
  5. ^ "Denny Hamlin Wins 2nd Consecutive Race". CBS Sports.com. Retrieved 14 June 2010.