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[MD24]

Brickyard 400

Qualifying: Saturday, July 30th 2:10 pm pm/et


Green Flag : Sunday, July 31st 1:15 pm/et


Track Specs:
Superspeedway: 2.5 mile quad-oval
Track/Race Length: 160 laps, 400 miles
Banking: turns: 9 degrees, 12 minutes; straights: 0 degrees
Frontstretch: 3,330 feet
Backstretch: 3300 feet
Short Shute(between turns 1 and 2/3 and 4) - 660 feet
Max Attendence: ~350,000
Grandstand seating capacity: 257,325
First NASCAR race (Brickyard 400): 1994
Track Opened: 1909

[00steven]

Good to be back at Indy. Hopefully a ton of side by side racing.

[MD24]

Usually not the most exciting race

[MD24]

1 6 David Ragan
2 4 Kasey Kahne
3 48 Jimmie Johnson
4 22 Kurt Busch
5 2 Brad Keselowski
6 43 A.J. Allmendinger
7 42 Juan Montoya
8 24 Jeff Gordon
9 17 Matt Kenseth
10 99 Carl Edwards

11 13 Casey Mears
12 5 Mark Martin
13 31 Jeff Burton
14 11 Denny Hamlin
15 27 Paul Menard
16 1 Jamie McMurray
17 47 Bobby Labonte
18 16 Greg Biffle
19 29 Kevin Harvick
20 20 Joey Logano

21 9 Marcos Ambrose
22 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr.
23 39 Ryan Newman
24 14 Tony Stewart
25 21 Trevor Bayne
26 33 Clint Bowyer
27 78 Regan Smith
28 00 David Reutimann
29 18 Kyle Busch
30 56 Martin Truex Jr.

31 83 Brian Vickers
32 51 Landon Cassill
33 36 Dave Blaney
34 37 Scott Speed
35 66 Michael McDowell
36 87 Joe Nemechek
37 34 David Gilliland
38 60 Mike Skinner
39 71 Andy Lally
40 150 T.J. Bell

41 7 Robby Gordon
42 32 Mike Bliss
43 223 Terry Labonte

Did Not Qualify
44 30 David Stremme
45 38 Travis Kvapil
46 46 Erik Darnell
47 55 J.J. Yeley
48 177 Scott Wimmer

[tstran17_88]

Wow...awesome job by Rascal Flatts on the national anthem!

[00steven]

A very good race today! Good to see the Menard family get one at the speedway.

[harvick#1]

Outside of Harvick winning the 600. Could we have gotton any 3 more random first time winners in the 3 other major races this year, holy cow

[call_me_andrew]

So which part of today's race was more boring: Jimmy Johnson's almost crash, Joey Logano's almost crash, four-wide racing into turn 3, or Jeff Gordon chasing down Menard?

[wedge]

Congrats to Paul and the Menard family.

Paul has had his critics, some are critical of fuel mileage wins but Paul really deserved that win and you cannot say the guy was lucky because Paul has been RCR's top driver recently.