Race #25: Atlanta II

[JamieMcMurray1Fan]

Emory Healthcare 500
Atlanta Motor Speedway
Sunday, September 5, 2010 in Hampton. GA
Scheduled Green Flag (approx): 7:46pm/et




CUP
NSCS Practice 1: 10th
NSCS Final Practice: 31st
NSCS Qualifying Order: 12th
NSCS Starting Position: 12th
NSCS Pit Stall: 7
Finish:

NATIONWIDE
NNS Practice 1: 1st
NNS Final Practice: 13th
NNS Qualifying Order: 13th
NNS Starting Position: 7th
Finish: WIN!!

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TV Schedule
(ALL TIMES EASTERN)

Friday, September 3
6:00 pm NCWTS Kentucky Qualifying SPEED
7:30 pm NCWTS SetUp SPEED
8:00 pm NCWTS: Built Ford Tough 225 at KentuckySPEED

Saturday, September 4
11:00 am NSCS Atlanta Practice SPEED
1:00 pm NASCAR Live SPEED
1:30 pm NSCS Final Atlanta Practice SPEED
2:30 pm NNS Atlanta Pole Qualifying SPEED
4:30 pm NSCS Atlanta Pole Qualifying SPEED
6:30 pm NNS Countdown ESPN2
7:00 pm NNS: Great Clips 300 at Atlanta ESPN2

Sunday, September 5
9:00 am NASCAR Now ESPN2
3:30 pm NASCAR Performance SPEED
4:00 pm NASCAR Smarts SPEED
4:30 pm NASCAR in A Hurry SPEED
5:00 pm NASCAR RaceDay SPEED
7:00 pm NSCS Countdown ESPN
7:30 pm NSCS: Emory Healthcare 500 (~7:46 green flag) ESPN
9:00 pm Wind Tunnel with Dave Despain SPEED

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Track Schedule
(ALL TIMES LOCAL TO TRACK)

Friday, September 3
5:30 pm Gates Open
6:00 - 7:30 pm Friday Fan Fest
8:45 pm Late Model 150, Southern Superstars Short Track Series Race

Saturday, September 4
8:00 - 9:00 am NNS Practice
9:30 - 10:50 am NNS Final Practice
10:30 am Gates Open
11:00 am - 1:00 pm NSCS Practice
1:45 - 2:30 pm NSCS Final Practice
2:40 pm NNS Qualifying
4:40 pm NSCS Qualifying
6:30 pm NNS Driver Introductions
7:00 pm NNS Race Great Clips 300

Sunday, September 5
11:00 am - 12:30 pm Speedway Children's Charities Track Walk
2:00 pm Gates Open
4:30 - 6:45 pm Labor Day Pre Race Party, featuring concert by Foreigner
7:00 pm Emory Healthcare 500 Driver Introductions
7:30 pm Emory Healthcare 500

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NOTES - Jamie McMurray and the No.1 McDonald’s Chevrolet

Atlanta History: McMurray will be making his 17th NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) start at Atlanta Motor Speedway (AMS) this weekend. His best start was third in the March 2009 event while his best finish of sixth came in 2005, with Ganassi. McMurray has four top-10 finishes at the 1.54-mile track. In the last four years at AMS, McMurray has made 720 total green flag lap passes, ranking second among 57 drivers.

Bristol Weekend: Jamie McMurray and the No.1 Bass Pro Shops / Tracker Boats Team headed to Bristol looking to continue their surge towards the top 12 in points-the cutoff for the chase. After starting from the seventh-position, McMurray would work his way towards the top five before the first pit stop on lap 58. Upon entering his pit stall, McMurray slid through his pit stall. The error would force McMurray to reverse his Chevrolet, and the extra time on pit road would cost him six positions. McMurray would retake the green flag in the 12th position, and quickly showed the strength of his Chevrolet, racing back to his starting position of seventh. McMurray would have another pit incident leaving his stall with a missing left-rear lug nut after a pit-stop on lap 125. McMurray would be forced to return to pit road, and the team would take the green flag on lap 131 in the 27th position. Once again, McMurray would race his way back through the field, and by lap 302 he was inside the top five, running in the fourth-position. McMurray led for 11 laps from lap 389 to lap 399 before finishing in the third-position.

Welcome Back McDonald’s: McMurray and the No. 1 team will carry the “Golden Arches” of McDonald’s for this weekend’s event at Atlanta. McDonald’s was last on the No. 1 Chevrolet four weeks ago at Watkins Glen, as McMurray finished sixth. This will mark the eighth event of 2010 for McDonald’s as the sponsor on the No. 1 Chevrolet. McMurray has enjoyed quite a bit of success with the “Golden Arches” thus far this season, with two pole awards (Darlington and Chicago), one outside pole starting position (Watkins Glen), two top-five finishes (Darlington 2nd and Chicago 5th), and a sixth-place finish at Watkins Glen.

Race to the Chase: After a third-place finish at Bristol, McMurray advanced two-positions to 13th in the 2010 NSCS point’s standings. The finish marked McMurray’s third top-five and fourth top-10 finish in the last six races. The No. 1 team now sits just 100 points and one spot back from 12th- the cutoff to the Chase.

2010 in the Numbers: With 12 races remaining this season McMurray has already surpassed previous single-season records. His two wins this season, the Daytona 500 and the Brickyard 400, mark the first time he has won multiple NSCS races in a season. McMurray currently has three pole awards in 2010, never before having more than one in a season and doubling his career total NSCS poles. He has led 244 laps, beating his previous season best of 224 in 2004. He also sits in the top-10 among the following performance-generated categories:
• 207 fastest laps run (tied for 10th with points leader Kevin Harvick)
• Laps led (10th)
• Miles led (10th)

Inside View: McMurray and the No. 1 McDonald’s Chevrolet will carry an in-car camera this weekend at Atlanta. Fans be sure to pay attention for the multiple angles and views offered by this camera in this Sunday’s 500-mile event as McMurray drives 325 laps around the 1.54-mile oval.

Visit McDonald’s: Stop at the local McDonald’s to curve your hunger tastes for breakfast, lunch or dinner. The McDonald’s closest to the speedway is just 1.8 miles north located at 11281 Tara Boulevard, Hampton, GA 30228.

Georgia on His Mind: Larry Hart, transporter driver for the No. 1 team, is a Georgia native hailing from Chatsworth, Georgia.

CHASSIS INFO

No. 1 McDonald’s Chevrolet (NSCS): Chassis #1016. Crew Chief Kevin “Bono” Manion has elected to bring a brand new chassis #1016 this weekend to the Atlanta Motor Speedway.

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NATIONWIDE

Jamie McMurray No. 88 Hellmann’s Chevrolet “Atlanta is big, fast and wide enough to give you plenty of different options on where to run your car. The last time I ran the Hellmann’s paint scheme was back at Charlotte and we struggled a bit in that race. I’m looking forward to getting another chance to get the Hellmann’s Chevrolet up front. It’d be great to get Pops (Tony Eury Sr.) and the entire 88 bunch their first win of the season this weekend. We’ve been close over the past couple months. I’m sure there will be some tough competition with a lot of the Cup guys running this race, but we’re ready for the challenge. We’re here to win races, so that’s what we need to be doing.”

JR MOTORSPORTS NOTEBOOK – EIGHTH FOR McMURRAY – McMurray will compete in his eighth race in the No. 88 Hellmann’s Chevrolet for JRM this weekend. He amassed three top-five and five top-10 finishes in his previous seven starts (Texas, Talladega, Richmond, Darlington, Dover, Charlotte and Chicago) for the team. McMurray’s average finish in those races is 7.0. The Hellmann’s team finished fourth in the Atlanta race one year ago.

McMURRAY AT ATLANTA – McMurray has one win (2002), one top-five and three top-10s at Atlanta Motor Speedway with six laps led. His last NNS start at the facility was in 2008 driving for Roush Fenway Racing. WISE AT ATLANTA – Wise will make his track debut at Atlanta Motor Speedway behind the wheel of the No. 7 JRM Chevrolet. He has previous experience at other 1.5-mile facilities, including Kentucky Motor Speedway, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Texas Motor Speedway and Chicagoland Speedway.

SEASON UPDATE FOR HELLMANN’S TEAM – The No. 88 Hellmann’s team has earned six top-five and 11 top-10 finishes in 2010 with 34 laps led. Jamie McMurray has secured three top-five and five top-10 finishes, with Ron Fellows earning one top-five and two top-10 finishes. Elliott Sadler notched one top-10 finish and team owner Dale Earnhardt Jr. contributed one top-five and one top-10 finish. Aric Almirola’s impressive run at ORP added one top-five and one top-10 to the team’s tally. Kelly Bires also put in a single top-10 finish on the season.

TEAM POINTS POSITION – The No. 88 Hellmann’s team are ranked eighth in the 2010 owner points.

[JamieMcMurray1Fan]

if your interested:

Watch for Crew Chief Kevin "Bono" Manion on NASCAR Race Hub tonight! Race Hub will air from 7pm-8pm (ET) on SPEED.

[jamiefan]

Good luck,Jamie!!!!

[JamieMcMurray1Fan]

Jamie McMurray (DIRECTV Channel 795) will make his 283rd career NSCS start and his 17th at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

[JamieMcMurray1Fan]

Jeff Owens picked Jamie to win!

THIS WEEK’S WINNER
Jamie McMurray



Isn’t this a big race? And doesn’t McMurray win most of the big races these days?

Well, it’s almost a big race. Or at least it used to be, way back when the Labor Day weekend event was called the Southern 500 and held at Darlington Raceway.

Now it’s at Atlanta, but it’s still a pretty big event. It’s the next-to-last race before the Chase and some drivers need to step up, either in a last-ditch effort to make the Chase or to earn valuable bonus points by winning a race.

McMurray is one of those drivers scrambling to make the Chase, and he’s proven this year that he can step up in big races.

He has three other things going for him:

• He participated in a tire test at Atlanta in June, perhaps giving him a slight advantage on the competition;

• He finished second earlier this year at Charlotte, a track similar in size and shape to Atlanta;

• His Earnhardt Ganassi Racing team has a strong record of late at Atlanta, where teammate Juan Pablo Montoya has finished third in the past two Atlanta races.

McMurray will step up again, outrunning Montoya and Kevin Harvick for his third win of the season.

Top Five:
1. Jamie McMurray
2. Kevin Harvick
3. Juan Pablo Montoya
4. David Reutimann
5. Kasey Kahne

[JamieMcMurray1Fan]

Jeff Owens picked Jamie to win!

THIS WEEK’S WINNER
Jamie McMurray



Isn’t this a big race? And doesn’t McMurray win most of the big races these days?

Well, it’s almost a big race. Or at least it used to be, way back when the Labor Day weekend event was called the Southern 500 and held at Darlington Raceway.

Now it’s at Atlanta, but it’s still a pretty big event. It’s the next-to-last race before the Chase and some drivers need to step up, either in a last-ditch effort to make the Chase or to earn valuable bonus points by winning a race.

McMurray is one of those drivers scrambling to make the Chase, and he’s proven this year that he can step up in big races.

He has three other things going for him:

• He participated in a tire test at Atlanta in June, perhaps giving him a slight advantage on the competition;

• He finished second earlier this year at Charlotte, a track similar in size and shape to Atlanta;

• His Earnhardt Ganassi Racing team has a strong record of late at Atlanta, where teammate Juan Pablo Montoya has finished third in the past two Atlanta races.

McMurray will step up again, outrunning Montoya and Kevin Harvick for his third win of the season.

Top Five:
1. Jamie McMurray
2. Kevin Harvick
3. Juan Pablo Montoya
4. David Reutimann
5. Kasey Kahne

[Lizzie]

Jamie starting 7th in tonights Nationwide race.

[tyecopeland]

Jamie won!!! good sign for 2moro night.

[JamieMcMurray1Fan]

WHOO! JAMIE WINS NATIONWIDE

[1McMurray]

haha wow... and i missed it. Awesome job.

[KBfan#1]

That was awesome tonight! I just happened to turn it on. I wasn't even sure how late the race would be on, so I checked and he had just gotten the lead!! woohoo...any win works for me! This is actually the first Nationwide race i've ever seen him win. I always missed his other wins in this series.

[jamiefan]

Congratulations Jamie!!!!

[mcmurrayrocks1]

Nice run in the Nationwide series tonight! May only be a Nationwide win, but a win is a win. Should give Jamie some good confidence and momentum for tomorrow night. A weekend sweep would be great... Oh, and this is the first year he's won in the Cup and Nationwide series since 2002. And his first year ever with multiple Cup wins. Good year keeps getting better. Maybe we'll pull a rabbit out of his hat and make the Chase. That'd be magic. (Kudos to anyone who remembers that Sprint commercial with Jamie and Kasey Kahne)

[tyecopeland]

Nice run in the Nationwide series tonight! May only be a Nationwide win, but a win is a win. Should give Jamie some good confidence and momentum for tomorrow night. A weekend sweep would be great... Oh, and this is the first year he's won in the Cup and Nationwide series since 2002. And his first year ever with multiple Cup wins. Good year keeps getting better. Maybe we'll pull a rabbit out of his hat and make the Chase. That'd be magic. (Kudos to anyone who remembers that Sprint commercial with Jamie and Kasey Kahne)

oh I remember that commercial... its on youtube too...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laOXpDDbLjQ

[Lizzie]

That move Jamie made on the last restart was amazing! I am so excited for him and the year he is having!

[KBfan#1]

That was awesome! He took that race and won it on purpose! I likey what I see

[JamieMcMurray1Fan]

JAMIE McMURRAY (No. 88 Hellmans/BJ's Chevrolet, Great Clips 300 winner):
"We unloaded today and pretty much had the fastest car on the track. We just had a really good day. Pops (crew chief Tony Eury, Sr.) did a good job adjusting the car. I felt like at the beginning of the race I had the best car and it felt like we had a second- or third-place car in the middle. At the end, it just had tons of speed and certainly getting out in front on that last restart was critical. I really thought when we came to the green there, whoever got in front it was going to be hard to pass that guy. Fortunately we got a jump there and got ahead of Kyle [Busch]. It's the same thing every week -- for the car out front, the clean air is huge."
Q: What did you learn for the Cup race tomorrow: "My comfort level (for Sunday) is pretty low. We didn't have a very good day today. What we've been doing at the mile-and-a-half track just didn't work for us. We struggled here today; we qualified OK, just not where we needed to be. But the track changed -- and man, the cars are so much different, but the track's going to change the same."

TONY EURY, SR. (No. 88 crew chief): "We wanted to save all we could until the end. We knew there would be a couple of cautions at the end -- we wanted to make sure we had tires at the end -- so we stayed out that one stop when [Kevin] Harvick stopped. We knew how big tires were going to be at the end. We got in front in that clean air and set sails."

[Miss Nascar]

Hey Everyone! Hope all is well, have not been on here in awhile, between work, life and keeping up with my fellow Jamie fans and friends on FB and Twitter, I have been a bad JMCSGARAGE member! Shame on me! lol.. Glad to see everyone on here is as as happy as myself with these past few wins! A quote from Twitter yesterday... Jamie is the feel good story of 2010. :-) Hell Yeah it is! Can't wait for today's race! Congrats to Jamie & Jr Motorsports for yesterdays win and here's to another with EGR today! :-)

[Lizzie]

Jamie to be interviewed on Race Day per Wendy Venturini tweet this morning.

[jamiesthebest]

The hotel staying at this weekend didnt have the race on......wellm I should say I could hear it but couldnt see so had to watch on computer and so happy HE WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!! better be no issues with the race tonight on tv