Nov 21
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Denny Hamlin clinched the overall WIX Filters Lap Leader Award in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series today in Ford 400 and earned $75,000 for his efforts.
- Hamlin led 20 times in 20 races for a total of 1,184 laps this season. He has led 89 times in 187 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races for a total of 4678 laps. He edged Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch by one race (8-7) in the overall WIX Filters Lap Leader standings.
- Hamlin scored a 14th-place finish in today’s race and finished in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship standings, 39 points behind Jimmie Johnson and two ahead of third-place Kevin Harvick. He finished this season with eight wins, 14 top-fives and 18 top-10 finishes plus two pole positions.
- DID YOU KNOW? BOTH Hamlin and Busch use WIX Filters on their race cars.
- Martin Truex Jr. earned WIX Filters Lap Leader of the Race honors in today’s race at Homestead. Truex Jr. led six times for 62 and claimed the honor for the first time in 2010. UNOFFICIALLY he scored an 11th-place finish. < /FONT>
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WIX Filters Lap Leader News & Notes
Ford 400
Homestead-Miami Speedway
November 21, 2010
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- HAMLIN QUOTES: TALK ABOUT YOUR RUN THIS AFTERNOON. “Well I mean it was a fight. You can kind of maybe contribute it to a bad qualifying but our car was really fast at the beginning. I mean just unbelievably fast at the beginning and I knew we had a car that could contend for a win and obviously when we got in that incident on the back straightaway it tore up the front and knocked the toe out and obviously the car didn’t drive as well for the rest of the day. We just tried to patch it and work on it the best we could but just wasn’t the car that it was the beginning. It’s just part of racing. There’s a lot of circumstances in which where we had an opportunity to win the championship. By the numbers fuel mileage was one contributor factor but it’s part of racing. Strategy is part of racing. It’s not just about the fastest car and best dr iver. There’s a whole lot that goes into the sport and that’s what makes it as good as it is. We’ll just keep fighting and get ‘em next year.” DOES THE FACT THAT JIMMIE FINISHED SECOND TAKE A LITTLE BIT OF THE WOULDA COULDA SHOULDA OUT OF WHAT HAPPENED TODAY? “Not really. I felt like as soon as we dropped the green I thought we could win the race but obviously them not having to back into it is good. We all had to race the entire race. Everyone was racing extremely hard. It doesn’t satisfy you.” YOU’VE SHOWN ALL YEA R THAT EVERY TIME YOU GET BACKED INTO A CORNER IT’S FUEL FOR YOU. ARE YOU ALREADY USING THIS AS MOTOVATION FOR NEXT YEAR? “Anybody would. There’s 42 other race teams that have got work to do so for me it is. Coming this close it tough, especially of all the little things that could have changed the outcome of this Chase in one lap. That part of it hurts but you’ve got to get better at all aspects and I feel like that’s where that team, the 48 team, has been strong over the last few years. They really have no weak spots. We know there are several parts of our car, there several parts of our team that we can improve on and that’s a good thing. As competitive as what we are right now I know I need to get better in qualifying. I said that last year at this time and there’s lots of things that I could do to be better and there’s lot of things we can do as a team to be better. My focus when Monday comes around is what I need to do to execute all those things.”
WIX FILTERS LAP LEADER AWARD STANDINGS
Denny Hamlin 8
Kyle Busch 7
Tony Stewart 4
Kevin Harvick 3
Juan Pablo Montoya 3
Jeff Burton 3
Kasey Kahne 2
Clint Bowyer 2
Marcos Ambrose 1
Jamie McMurray 1
AJ Allmendinger 1
Martin Truex Jr. 1
WIX FILTERS LAP LEADER AWARD WINNERS BY RACE
EVENT DRIVER
Daytona 500 Kevin Harvick, 41 laps
Auto Club 500 Jeff Burton, 46 laps
Shelby American Tony Stewart, seven laps
Kobalt Tools 500 Kasey Kahne, 144 laps
Food City 500 Juan Pablo Montoya, 29 laps
Goody’s Fast Pain Relief 500 Denny Hamlin, 172 laps
Subway Fresh Fit 600 Kyle Busch, 113 laps
Samsung Mobile 500 Tony Stewart, 74 laps
Aaron’s 499 Jeff Burton, 28 laps
Crown Royal 400 Kyle Busch, 226 laps
SHOWTIME Southern 500 Denny Hamlin, 104 laps
Autism Speaks 400 Kyle Busch, 131 laps
Coca-Cola 600 Kyle Busch, 36 laps
Gillette Fusion ProGlide 500 Denny Hamlin, 88 laps
Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips 400 Denny Hamlin, 123 laps
Toyota/Save Mart 350 Marcos Ambrose, 35 laps
LENOX Industrial Tools 301 Kasey Kahne, 110 laps
Coke Zero 400 Kevin Harvick, 28 laps
LifeLock.com 400 Jamie McMurray, 72 laps
Brickyard 400 Juan Pablo Montoya, 86 laps
Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500 Denny Hamlin, 19 laps
Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen Juan Pablo Montoya, 74 laps
CARFAX 400 Kevin Harvick, 60 laps
IRWIN Tools Night Race Kyle Busch, 282 laps
Emory Healthcare 500 Tony Stewart, 176 laps
Air Guard 400 Denny Hamlin, 251 laps
Sylvania 300 Clint Bowyer, 177 laps
AAA 400 AJ Allmendinger, 143 laps
Price Chopper 400 Tony Stewart, 76 laps
Pepsi MAX 400 Clint Bowyer, 40 laps
Bank of America 500 Kyle Busch, 217 laps
TUMS Fast Relief 500 Jeff Burton, 134 laps
AMP Energy Juice 500 Kyle Busch, 20 laps
AAA Texas 500 Denny Hamlin, 31 laps
Kobalt Tools 500 Denny Hamlin, 190 laps
Ford 400 Martin Truex Jr., 62 laps
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