2012 GEICO 400

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2012 GEICO 400
Race details [1] [2]
Race 27 of 36 in the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
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Map of the track
Date September 16, 2012 (2012-09-16)
Location Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Illinois
Course Permanent racing facility
1.500 mi (2.414 km)
Distance 267 laps, 400.5 mi (644.5 km)
Weather Clear with a high temperature around 80 °F (27 °C); wind out of the WSW at 6 mph (9.7 km/h).
Pole position
Driver
 Hendrick Motorsports
Time 29.530
Most laps led
Driver Jimmie Johnson Hendrick Motorsports
Laps 172
Winner
No. 2 Brad Keselowski Penske Racing
Television in the United States
Network ESPN
Announcers Allen Bestwick, Dale Jarrett and Andy Petree

The 2012 GEICO 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on September 16, 2012, at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Illinois. Contested over 267 laps, it was the twenty-seventh in the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, as well as the first race in the ten-race Chase for the Sprint Cup, which ends the season.

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Background

Chicagoland Speedway, the race track where the race was held. Chicagolandspeedway.jpg
Chicagoland Speedway, the race track where the race was held.

Chicagoland Speedway is one of ten intermediate tracks to hold NASCAR races; the others are Atlanta Motor Speedway, Kansas Speedway, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Darlington Raceway, Homestead Miami Speedway, New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Kentucky Speedway, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and Texas Motor Speedway. [3] The standard track at Chicagoland Speedway is a four-turn tri-oval track that is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long. [4] The track's turns are each banked at 18 degrees and have a turn width of 55 feet. [4] The racetrack has a grandstand capacity of 75,000. [4]

Before the race, Denny Hamlin led the Drivers' Championship with 2,012 points, with Jimmie Johnson in second place with, 2,009. Tony Stewart and Brad Keselowski were tied with Johnson for the second position, while Greg Biffle had 2,006 points. Clint Bowyer also with 2,006 points was one point ahead of Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Matt Kenseth, as Kevin Harvick and Martin Truex Jr. rounded out the top ten with 2,000 points each. [5] In the parallel Chase for the Sprint Cup, Kasey Kahne and Jeff Gordon both started with their points total reset to 2,000. [5] In the Manufacturers' Championship, Chevrolet was leading with 179 points, twenty-four points ahead of Toyota. Ford, with 129 points, was twenty points ahead of Dodge in the battle for third place. [6] Stewart was the race's defending winner. [7]

Practice and qualifying

Jimmie Johnson (shown here in 2011) won the pole position with a time of 29.530 Jimmie Johnson, Richmond 2011 (cropped).jpg
Jimmie Johnson (shown here in 2011) won the pole position with a time of 29.530

Two practice sessions were held in preparation for the race; both on Friday, September 14, 2012. The first session and second session lasted for 90 minutes each. [8] During the first practice session, Truex Jr., for the Michael Waltrip Racing team, was quickest ahead of Earnhardt Jr. in second and Keselowski in third. [9] Trevor Bayne was scored fourth, and Hamlin managed fifth. [9] Jamie McMurray, Mark Martin, Jeff Burton, Carl Edwards and Ryan Newman rounded out the top ten quickest drivers in the session. [9]

Kyle Busch was quickest in the second and final practice session, ahead of Aric Almirola in second, and Martin in third. [10] Edwards was fourth quickest, and Hamlin took fifth. [10] Kahne, Johnson, Bayne, Kenseth, and Gordon followed in the top ten. [10] Of the other drivers in the Chase for the Sprint Cup, Stewart was scored fourteenth fastest, while Truex Jr. was scored twenty-fifth. [10]

Forty-seven cars were entered for qualifying, but only forty-three could race because of NASCAR's qualifying procedure. [11] Johnson clinched his second pole position in the season, with a time of 29.530. [12] He was joined on the front row of the grid by Almirola. [12] Kenseth qualified third, Earnhardt Jr. took fourth, and Edwards started fifth. [12] Biffle, one of the drivers in the Chase for the Sprint Cup, qualified twenty-second, while Harvick was scored thirty-fifth. [12] The three drivers that failed to qualify for the race were Scott Riggs, Reed Sorenson, J. J. Yeley, and Jason Leffler. [12]


Results

Race results

Brad Keselowski won the race. Brad Keselowski at Las Vegas 2012.jpg
Brad Keselowski won the race.
PosGridCarDriverTeamManufacturerLaps runPoints
1132 Brad Keselowski Penske Racing Dodge 26747
2148 Jimmie Johnson Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 26744
365 Kasey Kahne Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 26741
42118 Kyle Busch Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 26740
52039 Ryan Newman Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet 26739
62914 Tony Stewart Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet 26739
71020 Joey Logano Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 26737
8488 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 26736
91856 Martin Truex Jr. Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota 26735
10915 Clint Bowyer Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota 26735
111622 Sam Hornish Jr. Penske Racing Dodge 267-
123529 Kevin Harvick Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 26732
132216 Greg Biffle Roush Fenway Racing Ford 26731
141555 Mark Martin Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota 26730
151127 Paul Menard Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 26729
16811 Denny Hamlin Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 26729
17243 Aric Almirola Richard Petty Motorsports Ford 26628
18317 Matt Kenseth Roush Fenway Racing Ford 26627
19599 Carl Edwards Roush Fenway Racing Ford 26625
201421 Trevor Bayne Wood Brothers Racing Ford 266-
21121 Jamie McMurray Earnhardt Ganassi Racing Chevrolet 26624
223734 David Ragan Front Row Motorsports Ford 26623
232842 Juan Pablo Montoya Earnhardt Ganassi Racing Chevrolet 26521
243231 Jeff Burton Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 26520
254110 Danica Patrick Tommy Baldwin Racing Chevrolet 265-
262347 Bobby Labonte JTG Daugherty Racing Toyota 26418
27179 Marcos Ambrose Richard Petty Motorsports Ford 26317
284038 David Gilliland Front Row Motorsports Ford 26316
292683 Landon Cassill BK Racing Toyota 26215
303932 T. J. Bell FAS Lane Racing Ford 261-
313893 Travis Kvapil BK Racing Toyota 25913
323051 Kurt Busch Phoenix Racing Chevrolet 24512
334236 Dave Blaney Tommy Baldwin Racing Chevrolet 19911
34778 Regan Smith Furniture Row Racing Chevrolet 19710
351924 Jeff Gordon Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 1909
362713 Casey Mears Germain Racing Ford 1468
373633 Cole Whitt Circle Sport Chevrolet 70-
384326 Josh Wise Front Row Motorsports Ford 666
393130 David Stremme Inception Motorsports Toyota 605
403387 Joe Nemechek NEMCO Motorsports Toyota 52-
412595 Scott Speed Leavine Family Racing Ford 493
423419 Mike Bliss Humphrey-Smith Motorsports Toyota 41-
432498 Michael McDowell Phil Parsons Racing Ford 381

Standings after the race

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