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2012 Tums Fast Relief 500

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Type	NAS
Description
Race Name	Tums Fast Relief 500
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Year	2012
Race_No	33
Season_No	36
Image	Martinsville Speedway track map.png
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Location	Martinsville Speedway, Ridgeway, Virginia
Course_mi	.526
Course_km	.847
Distance_laps	500
Distance_mi	263
Distance_km	423
Weather	Rain showers with the temperature around 54 °F; wind out of the NNW at 10 mph.
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Pole_Driver	Jimmie Johnson
Pole_Team	Hendrick Motorsports
Pole_Time	19.402 seconds
Most_Driver	Jimmie Johnson
Most_Team	Hendrick Motorsports
Most_laps	193
Car	48
First_Driver	Jimmie Johnson
First_Team	Hendrick Motorsports
Network	ESPN
Announcers	Allen Bestwick, Dale Jarrett and Andy Petree

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The 2012 Tums Fast Relief 500 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on October 28, 2012 at Martinsville Speedway in Ridgeway, Virginia. Contested over 500 laps on the 0.526-mile (0.847 km) oval, it was the thirty-third race of the 2012 Sprint Cup Series season, as well as the seventh race in the ten-race Chase for the Sprint Cup, which ends the season. Jimmie Johnson won the race, while Kyle Busch finished second, and Kasey Kahne clinched third. Chevrolet clinched their 36th Manufacturers Championship with Jimmie's win.

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Background

Martinsville Speedway is one of five short tracks to hold NASCAR races. The standard track at Martinsville Speedway is a four-turn short track oval that is 0.526 mi long. The track's turns are banked at eleven degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, is banked at zero degrees. The back stretch also has a zero degree banking. The racetrack has seats for 63,000 spectators.

Before the race, Brad Keselowski led the Drivers' Championship with 2,250 points, and Jimmie Johnson stood in second with 2,243 points. Denny Hamlin followed in third with 2,230 points, five points ahead of Clint Bowyer and ten ahead of Kasey Kahne in fourth and fifth. Martin Truex Jr. with 2,207 was four points ahead of Tony Stewart, as Jeff Gordon with 2,199 points, was four points ahead of Matt Kenseth and eight ahead of Kevin Harvick. Greg Biffle and Dale Earnhardt Jr. was eleventh and twelfth with 2,188 and 2,128 points, respectively.

In the Manufacturers' Championship, Chevrolet was leading with 213 points, twenty-two points ahead of Toyota. Ford, with 160 points, was twenty points ahead of Dodge in the battle for third. Stewart was the defending race winner after winning the event in 2011.

Practice and qualifying

Three practice sessions are scheduled to be held before the race; the first on Friday, which lasted 90 minutes. The second and third are both scheduled on Saturday afternoon for 55 minutes each. Brian Vickers was quickest with a time of 19.386 seconds in the first session, 0.038 seconds faster than Earnhardt Jr. Hamlin was just off Earnhardt, Jr's pace, followed by Gordon, Bowyer, and Paul Menard. Johnson was seventh, still within a tenth of a second of Vicker's time.

Forty-five cars were entered for qualifying, but only forty-three could qualify for the race because of NASCAR's qualifying procedure. Johnson clinched the twenty-eighth pole position of his career and third of the season, with a time of 19.402 seconds. He was joined on the front row of the grid by Vickers. Kyle Busch qualified third, Jeff Burton took fourth, and Hamlin started fifth. Kenseth, Stewart, Bowyer, Menard] and Aric Almirola rounded out the top ten. Keselowski only managed thirty-second. The two drivers that failed to qualify for the race were Mike Bliss, and J. J. Yeley.

Once the qualifying session was completed, Johnson commented, "After qualifying as poorly as I did in the spring, I focused on these two laps pretty heavily and wanted to make sure I did my job. We just hit it [Friday], from the car standpoint, from my standpoint of driving the race track. We got it right [Friday]. The tough position there is, once we get single-file and we're about 10 laps into the show, the leaders are [caught up] to the 43rd-place car. You've got to go, and everybody around you has that same mentality, too, so it can be pretty cutthroat back there."

In the second practice session, Vickers remained fastest with a time of 19.732 seconds, less than two-hundredths of a second quicker than second-placed Gordon. Juan Pablo Montoya took third place, ahead of Johnson, Kyle Busch and Bowyer. Earnhardt Jr. followed in second, ahead of Gordon and Kyle Busch. Hamlin was fifth quickest, with a time of 19.830 seconds. Johnson, Menard, Ryan Newman, Kenseth, and Bowyer rounded out the first ten positions.

Results

Qualifying

No.	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Time	Speed	Grid
48	Jimmie Johnson	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	19.402	97.598	1
55	Brian Vickers	Michael Waltrip Racing	Toyota	19.415	97.533	2
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Failed to Qualify
19	Mike Bliss	Humphrey Smith Racing	Toyota	20.015	94.609
37	J.J. Yeley	Tommy Baldwin Racing	Chevrolet	20.015	94.609

Race results

Pos	Grid	Car	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Points
1	1	48	Jimmie Johnson	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	500	48
2	3	18	Kyle Busch	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	500	42
3	15	5	Kasey Kahne	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	500	42
4	10	43	Aric Almirola	Richard Petty Motorsports	Ford	500	40
5	8	15	Clint Bowyer	Michael Waltrip Racing	Toyota	500	40
6	32	2	Brad Keselowski	Penske Racing	Dodge	500	39
7	11	24	Jeff Gordon	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	500	38
8	2	55	Brian Vickers	Michael Waltrip Racing	Toyota	500	37
9	17	47	Bobby Labonte	JTG Daugherty Racing	Toyota	500	35
10	30	16	Greg Biffle	Roush-Fenway Racing	Ford	500	34
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Standings after the race

;Drivers' Championship standings

Pos	Driver	Points
[[File:1uparrow green.svg	10px]] 1	1	Jimmie Johnson
[[File:1downarrow red.svg	10px]] 1	2	Brad Keselowski
[[File:1uparrow green.svg	10px]] 1	3	Clint Bowyer
[[File:1uparrow green.svg	10px]] 1	4	Kasey Kahne
[[File:1downarrow red.svg	10px]] 2	5	Denny Hamlin
[[File:1uparrow green.svg	10px]] 2	6	Jeff Gordon
[[File:1downarrow red.svg	10px]] 1	7	Martin Truex Jr.
[[File:1uparrow green.svg	10px]] 1	8	Matt Kenseth
[[File:1uparrow green.svg	10px]] 2	9	Greg Biffle
[[File:1downarrow red.svg	10px]] 3	10	Tony Stewart
[[File:1downarrow red.svg	10px]] 1	11	Kevin Harvick
[[File:1rightarrow.png	10px]]	12	Dale Earnhardt Jr.

;Manufacturers' Championship standings

Pos	Manufacturer	Points
[[File:1rightarrow.png	10px]]	1	Chevrolet
[[File:1rightarrow.png	10px]]	2	Toyota
[[File:1rightarrow.png	10px]]	3	Ford
[[File:1rightarrow.png	10px]]	4	Dodge

Note: Only the first twelve positions are included for the driver standings.

References

"2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Schedule". ESPN.
Brown, Brian. (October 23, 2012). "The Tums Fast Relief 500". NBC Sports.
(October 26, 2012). "Johnson on M'ville pole, in position to take charge". Turner Sports.
Studiobanks. (2012-10-28). "Chevy clinches 10th manufacturer's championship | News". Hendrick Motorsports.
"NASCAR Race Tracks".
"NASCAR Tracks—The Martinsville Speedway". Martinsville Speedway.
"2012 Official Driver Standings: Hollywood Casino 400". Turner Sports.
"2012 NASCAR Manufacturer Championship". ESPN.
(October 30, 2011). "2011 Tums Fast Relief 500". USA Today Sports Media Group.
"Jayski's NASCAR Silly Season Site – Sprint Cup Race Info / Rundown Page". ESPN.
"Practice One Timing and Scoring". Turner Sports.
"Qualifying Order". Turner Sports.
"Race Lineup". Turner Sports.
"Practice Two Timing and Scoring". Turner Sports.
"Practice Three Timing and Scoring". Turner Sports.
"2012 Official Race Results : Tums Fast Relief 500". Turner Sports.
"2012 Official Driver Standings: Tums Fast Relief 500". Turner Sports.

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