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NASCAR Sprint Cup Wild Card Standings

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Wild Card Standings
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
19th Annual Crown Royal Presents the Curtiss Shaver 400 at The Brickyard 
UNOFFICIAL	Provided by NASCAR Statistics  - 	Sunday, 7/29/2012 @ 5:08 PM Eastern	UNOFFICIAL
Pos	Driver	Wins	Pts Pos	Points	Pts From 10th	Starts	Poles	T5s	T10s	DNFs
1.	 Kasey Kahne	2	13	579	-64	20	2	5	10	4
2.	 Kyle Busch	1	11	588	-55	20	1	6	9	2
3.	 Ryan Newman	1	14	573	-70	20	0	3	6	2
4.	 Joey Logano	1	17	544	-99	20	1	2	7	2
5.	 Carl Edwards	0	12	582	-61	20	1	2	9	1
6.	 Jeff Gordon	0	15	564	-79	20	1	3	8	2
7.	 Paul Menard	0	16	564	-79	20	0	0	4	0
8.	 Marcos Ambrose	0	18	519	-124	20	2	0	4	2
9.	 Jamie McMurray	0	19	508	-135	20	0	0	3	2
10.	 Jeff Burton	0	20	505	-138	20	0	2	4	2
The top-10 drivers will make the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup.  
Positions 11 and 12 in the 12-driver Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup are Wild Cards, and will 
go to drivers outside the top 10 with the most wins, as long as they are ranked in the top 20 
in points. If multiple drivers outside the top 10 tie for wins, the tie-breaker will go to the 
race winner with the highest points position.

NASCAR Sprint Cup info for Indianapolis Motor Speedway

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Crown Royal Presents the Curtiss Shaver 400
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Race #20 of 36

NASCAR Pre-race: ESPN – 12:00pm/et
TV Coverage: ESPN, 1:00pm/et
Scheduled Green Flag (approx): 1:19pm/et

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

2011 Race Winner: #27-Paul Menard, 140.752mph, started 15th

Race Record: Bobby Labonte, August 2000, 155.912mph

Slowest Race Record: Jimmie Johnson, July 2008, 115.117mph

Worst Starting Spot to Win: Jeff Gordon, August 2001, started 27th

Oldest Race Winner: Bill Elliott, 46 years, 9 months, 27 days, 8/4/2002

Youngest Race Winner: Jeff Gordon, 23 years, 2 days, 8/6/1994

2011 Pole Sitter: #6-David Ragan, 182.994mph, finished 23rd

Track Qualifying Record: Casey Mears, August 2004, 186.293mph

Oldest Pole Sitter: Mark Martin, 50 years, 197 days, 7/25/2009

Youngest Pole Sitter: Reed Sorenson, 21 years, 5 months, 24 days, 7/29/2007

Denny Hamlin, driver of the JGR FedEx No. 11 Toyota Camry, won the Coors Light Pole Award for the 19th Annual Crown Royal Presents the Curtiss Shaver 400 at The Brickyard Powered by Big Machine Records with a lap of 49.244 seconds, 182.763 mph.

STARTING LINE UP

POINT STANDINGS

No. 98 Michael McDowell’s (Phil Parson’s Racing) car failed post-qualifying inspection; qualifying time disallowed; nitrogen pressure in rear shock exceeded max limit, so the #19 will make the race and the #98 will not.

The go-or-go homers who made the race (8): #21-Bayne, #30-Stremme, #95-Speed, #26-Wise, #33-Leicht, #79-Skinner, #23-Riggs & #19-Bliss .

The go-or-go homers who failed to qualify for the race (3): #91-Sorenson, #87-Nemechek and #98-McDowell (time disallowed).