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CUP: McMurray Tops List Of Great Moments
Jamie McMurray delivered some amazing clutch performances in 2010...
Tom Jensen  |  Posted December 30, 2010   Charlotte, NC
Jamie McMurray shows emotion after winning the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Daytona 500. (Photo: LAT Photographic
In just three weeks, the NASCAR Sprint Cup boys will be back testing at Daytona International Speedway and the 2011 season will be on before we know it.

With that in mind, and the clock winding down on 2010, here are the top 10 good, bad and ugly moments that were:

1. SUNDAY MONEY — No one rose to the big races like Jamie McMurray and the crew of the No. 1 Earnhardt Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates Chevrolet. Jamie Mac won the two biggest races of the season – The Daytona 500 and Brickyard 400, and claimed victory at Charlotte Motor Speedway, too. He also had runner-up finishes at Darlington, Talladega and Charlotte. That’s cash money, peeps. Who needs the Chase?

2. MAD SKILLZ — What can you say about Jimmie Johnson that hasn’t been said 100 or 1,000 times already? Chew on this little nugget: Johnson — a/k/a Superman or Vanilla Ice — has won more consecutive championships than any other NASCAR drivers except for Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt have won in total. He will be remembered as the best ever.

3. HOLY COW! — NASCAR’s most embarrassing moment happened on its biggest stage, as a pothole at Daytona International Raceway wound up with the Daytona 500 being red-flagged for 2 hours, 25 minutes and 20 seconds. Worse yet, NASCAR officials had to go from team to team and get Bondo — yes, Bondo! — to patch the hole. The goober-ish moment of the year cost track President Robin Braig his job. And you know what? It should have.
Denny Hamlin ices his left knee during practice for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Subway Fresh Fit 600 at Phoenix International Raceway on April 9, 2010. (Photo: Getty Images)

4. MAN UP AWARD — Denny Hamlin stayed in his damaged race car at Phoenix International Raceway even though he was two laps down and had no prayer of a good finish in the Subway Fresh Fit 600 in April. Hamlin went the distance at Phoenix, finishing 30th in a race extended for the first time to 600 kilometers. And he did so just 10 days after having surgery on a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee. His courage inspired the entire team.


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