Charlotte Recap Review

Charlotte Coca Cola 600 Qualifying Results

1. Denny Hamlin
2. Kurt Busch
3. Matt Kenseth
4. Mark Martin
5. Clint Bowyer
6. Kasey Kahne
7. Greg Biffle
8. Kyle Busch
9. Jamie McMurray
10. Ryan Newman

Prior to the race Kasey Kahne had the best car in the practice sessions.

Prior to the race Kyle Busch won the Nationwide Series race and the Truck Series race.

Matt Kenseth passed Denny Hamlin for the lead on lap #7 passing him on the high side.

Denny Hamlin was back in 4th 17 laps into the race. His day time setup wasn’t that good.

Early in the race Trevor Bayne had to make an early pit stop for debris on his grill. Because of this he went two laps down.

Kasey Kahne passed Matt Kenseth for the lead on lap #24

Danica Patrick got lapped on lap #35

Top 5 Running order 38 laps into the race…. 5,20,15,18,78

Casey Mears and David Ragan got pit penalties during the first round of pit stops

Ryan Newman got lapped 63 laps into the race.

Aric Almirola got lapped 66 laps into the race.

Kyle Busch took the lead on lap 75

Kasey Kahne retook the lead on lap 80

Running order 105 laps into the race …. (top ten) 5,20,18,11,78,48,15,24,99,88 (top seventeen) 1,56,55,29,14,9,22

Casey Mears got into the wall on lap 114

Around lap 121 Fox’s cable camera dropped and Kyle Busch and Marcos Ambrose sustained damage.