2012 Pure Michigan 400

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2012 Pure Michigan 400
Race details [1] [2]
Race 23 of 36 in the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
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2012 Pure Michigan 400 program cover
Date August 19, 2012 (2012-August-19)
Location Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan
Course Permanent racing facility
2 mi (3.22 km)
Distance 201 laps, 402 mi (640 km)
Scheduled Distance 200 laps, 400 mi (640 km)
Weather Clear with temperatures around 76 °F (24 °C); wind out of the W at 6 mph (9.7 km/h).
Pole position
Driver
 Michael Waltrip Racing
Time 36.053
Most laps led
Driver Mark Martin Michael Waltrip Racing
Laps 54
Winner
No. 16 Greg Biffle Roush-Fenway Racing
Television in the United States
Network ESPN
Announcers Allen Bestwick, Dale Jarrett and Andy Petree
Nielsen Ratings 3.8/5.2 million

The 2012 Pure Michigan 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on August 19, 2012 at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan. Contested over 201 laps, it was the twenty-third race of the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. Greg Biffle of Roush Fenway Racing won the race, Brad Keselowski was second and Kasey Kahne finished third.

Contents

Report

Background

Michigan International Speedway, the race track where the race was held. Infield and front stretch grandstand.jpg
Michigan International Speedway, the race track where the race was held.

Michigan International Speedway is one of six superspeedways to hold NASCAR races; the others are Daytona International Speedway, Auto Club Speedway, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Pocono Raceway and Talladega Superspeedway. [3] The standard track at Michigan International Speedway is a four-turn superspeedway that is 2 miles (3.2 km) long. [4] The track's turns are banked at eighteen degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, is banked at twelve degrees. [4] The back stretch, has a five degree banking. [4] Michigan International Speedway has a seating capacity of 137,243 people. [5]

Before the race, Jimmie Johnson led the Drivers' Championship with 777 points, and Greg Biffle stood in second with 776. Matt Kenseth was third in the Drivers' Championship with 775 points, 15 ahead of Dale Earnhardt Jr. and 42 ahead of Brad Keselowski in fourth and fifth. Martin Truex Jr. with 728 was eleven points ahead of Clint Bowyer, as Tony Stewart with 716 points, was six ahead of Kevin Harvick, and 23 in front of Denny Hamlin. [6] In the Manufacturers' Championship, Chevrolet was leading with 157 points, 32 ahead of Toyota. Ford, with 109 points, was 16 points ahead of Dodge in the battle for third. [7]

Practice and qualifying

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Mark Martin won the pole position

Three practice sessions will be held before the Sunday race—one on Friday, August 17, and two on Saturday, August 18. The first session lasted 90 minutes, while the second and third are scheduled for 55 minutes. [8] Johnson was quickest with a time of 36.465 seconds in the first session, less than two-tenths of a second faster than Kasey Kahne. [9] Mark Martin was just off Kahne's pace, followed by Harvick, Truex Jr., and Carl Edwards. Ryan Newman (who was battling the flu and wasn't sure he would be able to race; Stewart-Haas had David Reutimann on standby [10] ) was seventh, still within four-tenths of a second of Johnson's time. [9]

Forty-five cars were entered for qualifying, but only forty-three could qualify for the race because of NASCAR's qualifying procedure. [11] Martin clinched the 55th pole position of his career, [12] with a time of 36.053 seconds. [13] He was joined on the front row of the grid by Edwards. [13] Johnson qualified third, Kenseth took fourth, and Kahne started fifth. [13] Trevor Bayne, Truex Jr., Marcos Ambrose, Landon Cassill and Paul Menard rounded out the top ten. The two drivers that failed to qualify for the race were Stephen Leicht and J. J. Yeley. [13] Once the qualifying session concluded, Martin said, "I've had a few years of practice. I don't need a whole bunch of practice. I need fast race cars. That's what Rodney Childers is giving me. All it is driving the car. I've been doing that since I was 15." [12]

Race

After the drop of the green flag, Martin would jump out to an early lead. However, an early spin from David Gilliland through the grass on Lap 6 would bunch the field back up again. After restarting on Lap 10, Martin would once again easily retain the lead and build another substantial gap to the second place car. The first round of green flag pit stops would begin on Lap 35. Mixed strategies would see some teams taking two tires and others four. A number of drivers, notably Keselowski and Johnson, would stay out for a few laps longer than the rest of the field while stretching fuel mileage before the lead would cycle back to Martin on Lap 46.

Following a long green-flag run, Martin would continue to lead while having to deal with an ever-increasing amount of lapped traffic. On Lap 64, however, disaster would strike for Martin while coming up on the lapped cars of Bobby Labonte and Juan Pablo Montoya. Montoya would make contact with Labonte, turning him coming out of Turn 4. Martin, reacting to this, would spin out while attempting to avoid the two and begin to careen down pit road. After glancing off the inner pit wall, Martin's car would slam side-first into an exposed retaining wall at the garage opening midway down pit road. The exposed wall segment would penetrate deep into the car's side, puncturing the fuel tank, and causing fuel to spill around the car. The force of the impact would also cause several tires and other debris stationed on the wall to go flying back into the garage area. Luckily, track and safety officials were quick on the scene to extinguish any flames and no one, including Martin, suffered any injuries.

The race would restart on Lap 74 with Clint Bowyer taking a short-lived lead before another caution would fly after a crash from Regan Smith due to contact from Marcos Ambrose. Varying pit strategies and the timing of cautions would continue to mix the field up from its starting order. A fourth caution would come out after Joey Logano hit the wall after a tire failure from contact with Montoya. On the restart, Biffle would find himself near the front before soon fighting for the lead. He would take his first lead of the day on Lap 101 after passing Truex Jr. Biffle would hold the lead for 10 laps before pitting. Attrition and the long runs would also begin to take their toll as both Tony Stewart and Jeff Gordon would exit the race with engine failures. These engine failures, both being from in-house Hendrick Motorsports-built engines, would cause other teams running them to begin to worry about their own cars including Johnson.

The final fifty laps would be run mostly under green and would see a flurry of ten lead changes with only one driver, Johnson, leading more than ten consecutive laps during the final quarter of the race distance. Lap 182 would see the #21 car of Trevor Bayne sustain a tire failure and hit the wall in Turn 1, bringing out another caution and setting up a just over ten-lap sprint to the finish. The race would restart on lap 187 with Keselowski leading. He would hold the lead until being passed by Johnson with just under ten laps to go. Biffle would also get around Keselowski to move up into second.

Johnson, cruising to a seemingly assured win, would then suffer an engine failure (much like those of Stewart and Gordon) with only five laps to go. Oil spilling from Johnson's car would bring out the final caution and set-up a green-white-checkered finish. The final restart would lead to a final shootout between Biffle and Keselowski with Biffle edging out Keselowski to earn his third win at Michigan and his second of the season.

Results

Qualifying

No.DriverTeamManufacturerTime (s)Speed (mph) [ cleanup needed ]Grid
55 Mark Martin Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota 36.053199.7061
99 Carl Edwards Roush-Fenway Racing Ford 36.249198.6262
48 Jimmie Johnson Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 36.283198.4403*
17 Matt Kenseth Roush-Fenway Racing Ford 36.330198.1834
5 Kasey Kahne Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 36.386197.8785
21 Trevor Bayne Wood Brothers Racing Ford 36.404197.7816
56 Martin Truex Jr. Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota 36.428197.6507
9 Marcos Ambrose Richard Petty Motorsports Ford 36.457197.4938
83 Landon Cassill BK Racing Toyota 36.468197.4339
27 Paul Menard Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 36.518197.16310
24 Jeff Gordon Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 36.527197.11511
15 Clint Bowyer Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota 36.546197.01212
16 Greg Biffle Roush-Fenway Racing Ford 36.568196.89313
14 Tony Stewart Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet 36.571196.88714
39 Ryan Newman Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet 36.598196.73215*
20 Joey Logano Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 36.641196.50116
22 Sam Hornish Jr. Penske Racing Dodge 36.688196.24917*
78 Regan Smith Furniture Row Racing Chevrolet 36.694196.21718
2 Brad Keselowski Penske Racing Dodge 36.701196.18019
29 Kevin Harvick Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 36.725196.05220
11 Denny Hamlin Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 36.743195.95621
88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 36.768195.82222*
18 Kyle Busch Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 37.248193.29923
1 Jamie McMurray Earnhardt Ganassi Racing Chevrolet 37.254193.26824
42 Juan Pablo Montoya Earnhardt Ganassi Racing Chevrolet 37.279193.13825
51 Kurt Busch Phoenix Racing Chevrolet 37.308192.98826
91 Reed Sorenson Humphrey Smith Racing Ford 37.362192.70927
47 Bobby Labonte JTG Daugherty Racing Toyota 37.384192.59628
13 Casey Mears Germain Racing Ford 37.391192.56029
93 Travis Kvapil BK Racing Toyota 37.395192.53930
30 David Stremme Inception Motorsports Toyota 37.430192.35931
31 Jeff Burton Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 37.445192.28232
19 Jason Leffler Humphrey Smith Racing Ford 37.460192.20533
26 Josh Wise Front Row Motorsports Ford 37.465192.17934
87 Joe Nemechek NEMCO Motorsports Toyota 37.477192.11835
38 David Gilliland Front Row Motorsports Ford 37.541191.79036
34 David Ragan Front Row Motorsports Ford 37.554191.72437
23 Scott Riggs R3 Motorsports Chevrolet 37.906189.94338
10 David Reutimann Tommy Baldwin Racing Chevrolet 38.088189.03639
32 T. J. Bell FAS Lane Racing Ford 38.894185.11840
43 Aric Almirola Richard Petty Motorsports Ford
—
—
41
36 Dave Blaney Front Row Motorsports Chevrolet
—
—
42
98 Mike Skinner Phil Parsons Racing Ford 37.907189.93943
Failed to Qualify
33 Stephen Leicht Circle Sport Racing Chevrolet 38.006189.444
37 J. J. Yeley Max Q Motorsports Chevrolet 38.266188.157

Race results

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Greg Biffle won the race.
PosGridCarDriverTeamManufacturerLaps RunPoints
11316 Greg Biffle Roush-Fenway Racing Ford 20147
2192 Brad Keselowski Penske Racing Dodge 20143
355 Kasey Kahne Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 20141
42288 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 20141
589 Marcos Ambrose Richard Petty Motorsports Ford 20139
6299 Carl Edwards Roush-Fenway Racing Ford 20139
71215 Clint Bowyer Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota 20138
81539 Ryan Newman Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet 20136
91027 Paul Menard Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 20136
10756 Martin Truex Jr. Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota 20135
112111 Denny Hamlin Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 20134
121722 Sam Hornish Jr. Penske Racing Dodge 2010
132318 Kyle Busch Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 20131
14241 Jamie McMurray Earnhardt Ganassi Racing Chevrolet 20130
153093 Travis Kvapil BK Racing Toyota 20129
162029 Kevin Harvick Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 20128
17417 Matt Kenseth Roush-Fenway Racing Ford 20128
183638 David Gilliland Front Row Motorsports Ford 20126
193231 Jeff Burton Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 20125
204143 Aric Almirola Richard Petty Motorsports Ford 20124
213910 David Reutimann Tommy Baldwin Racing Toyota 20023
222847 Bobby Labonte JTG Daugherty Racing Toyota 19922
233734 David Ragan Front Row Motorsports Ford 19921
24621 Trevor Bayne Wood Brothers Racing Ford 1990
25983 Landon Cassill BK Racing Toyota 19820
262542 Juan Pablo Montoya Earnhardt Ganassi Racing Chevrolet 19718
27348 Jimmie Johnson Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 19518
281124 Jeff Gordon Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 16716
291878 Regan Smith Furniture Row Racing Chevrolet 15415
302651 Kurt Busch Phoenix Racing Chevrolet 13514
311620 Joey Logano Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 13213
321414 Tony Stewart Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet 10912
334032 T. J. Bell FAS Lane Racing Ford 10811
343130 David Stremme Inception Motorsports Toyota 7210
35155 Mark Martin Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota 6411
363587 Joe Nemechek NEMCO Motorsports Toyota 380
372913 Casey Mears Germain Racing Ford 367
384210 Dave Blaney Tommy Baldwin Racing Chevrolet 346
394398 Mike Skinner Phil Parsons Racing Ford 255
403426 Josh Wise Front Row Motorsports Ford 244
413823 Scott Riggs R3 Motorsports Chevrolet 203
422791 Reed Sorenson Humphrey Smith Racing Ford 150
433319 Jason Leffler Humphrey Smith Racing Ford 140

Standings after the race

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