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ALL-STAR: No. 11 JGR Team Wins Pit Crew Battle
Denny Hamlin’s No. 11 crew won the Sprint Pit Crew Challenge Wednesday night at Bobcats Arena in Charlotte...
Tom Jensen  |  Posted May 19, 2010   Charlotte, NC
The No. 11 Toyota pit crew (pictured) races the No. 31 Chevrolet pit crew in the finals of the NASCAR Sprint Pit Crew Challenge Wednesday night at Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte. (Photo: Rusty Jarrett/Getty Images for NASCAR)
Denny Hamlin’s No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing team avenged a semifinal defeat from last year as they held off the No. 31 Richard Childress Racing crew of driver Jeff Burton to win Wednesday night’s Sprint Pit Crew Challenge at Bobcats Arena in Charlotte.

The opening competitive event for the Sprint All-Star Race week featured 24 teams vying for the more than $70,000 first prize in team owners as well as a series of individual competitions. The timed event required teams to jack a car, change four tires, fill a car with gas and then push their car 40 yards. In the finals, the JGR squad won by a margin of 23.132 seconds to 23.574 seconds for Burton’s crew.

It was a long evening of intense competition for NASCAR’s top pit crews.
Fireworks erupt Wednesday night during the Opening Ceremony for the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Pit Crew Challenge presented by Craftsman at Time Warner Cable Arena. (Photo: Rusty Jarrett/Getty Images for NASCAR)

In the opening round, Bobby Labonte’s No. 71 TRG Motorsports crew bested the No. 2 Penske Racing squad of driver Kurt Busch by 28.284 seconds vs. a losing 30.972, which included 8 seconds in penalties.

The No. 88 Hendrick Motorsports team then thrilled the Earnhardt Nation by getting Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s car to the finish line ahead of the No. 1 of Daytona 500 winner Jamie McMurray and his Earnhardt Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates entry. The No. 88 team had the fastest time of the round at 22.930 seconds to 24.512 seconds for McMurray’s crew.

The third pair saw the No. 39 of Ryan Newman and Stewart-Haas Racing team reach the finish line literally inches ahead of David Reutimann’s No. 00 from Michael Waltrip Racing. The margin was just 23.860 seconds to 23.885 seconds in the closest match of the round.

In the last battle at the bottom half of the bracket, the 2008 championship team of Red Bull Racing’s No. 83 bested Martin Truex Jr.’s No. 56 MWR team. The Red Bull team had the second-best time of the round, 23.003 seconds to the 56’s 33.096.

Team Results - 2010 Sprint Pit Crew Challenge
PDF > 2010 Pit Crew Challenge Results - Rd 1
PDF > 2010 Pit Crew Challenge Results - Rd 2
PDF > 2010 Pit Crew Challenge Results - Quarterfinals
PDF > 2010 Pit Crew Challenge Results - Semifinals
PDF > 2010 Pit Crew Challenge Results - Finals

Individual Results - 2010 Sprint Pit Crew Challenge
PDF > 2010 Pit Crew Challenge Results - Front Tire
PDF > 2010 Pit Crew Challenge Results - Rear Tire
PDF > 2010 Pit Crew Challenge Results - Gas
PDF > 2010 Pit Crew Challenge Results - Jack

The first match in the other half of the bracket saw the No. 99 Roush Fenway Racing crew receive a 10-second penalty for a fuel spill, which advanced Brad Keselowski’s No. 12 Penske Dodge to the second round by a margin of 23.679 seconds to a losing 33.374.

Then it was Joe Gibbs Racing and the No. 20 crew of Joey Logano who put a hurting on Clint Bowyer’s No. 33 Richard Childress Racing crew with a winning time of 28.706 seconds to 30.185.

Tony Stewart’s crew put a second SHR car into the second round over Juan Pablo Montoya’s EGR team at 23.585 seconds to the No. 42’s 24.448.

The round ended with Mark Martin’s Hendrick Motorsports squad making up a huge deficit to push the No. 5 across the line ahead of Kasey Kahne’s No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Ford. This one was 24.522 seconds to a losing 27.585.


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