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Jamie Mcmurray Wins Brickyard 400

Jamie McMurray pulled a win at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway this weekend July 25th, at the 2010 Brickyard 4oo Event. Jamie McMurray raced the No 1 Bass Pro Shops/Tracker Boats Chevy, and earned $438,877 for this incredible victory. He was just 1.391 seconds ahead of Kevin Harvick, which raced the No 29 Shell/Pennzoil Chevy. This was a huge victory for the team, and for owner Chip Ganassi, it was the biggest win of his life! The Brickyard 400 is NASCAR’s most–attended event, pulling in a crowd of more than 250,000 fans. It is also  NASCAR’s second highest paying race in dollars, right behind the Daytona 500. With this win(Brickyard 400) and the Indianapolis 500 Mile Race won by Dario Franchitti, and the 2010 Daytona 500 also won by Jamie, that makes 3 major sports victories in just one year. The team received a triple crown making this event a special victory in global motorsports history. Jamie now also holds history of the 3rd driver to win the Daytona 500 and the Brickyard 400 in the same year. This was achieved only twice before in NASCAR history, once in 1996 by Dale Jarrett, and then in 2006 by Jimmie Johnson. Jamie says” It’s unbelievable” as they didn’t even have one of the best cars on the track that evening. Kevin was ahead of Jamie with only 10 laps to go, and he did what he had to do and his racing skills to work! The Brickyard 400 is an annual 400-mile NASCAR Sprint Cup point race that is held at the Indainapolis Speedway. This event started back in 1994, and was the 2nd event to ever be held at the Indianapolis Speedway since 1916. The course was paved in brick back in 1909, and still has a one-yard strip of brick at the start and finish line. That is where they got the name Brickyard, as this has been the nickname for this Speedway for several years now. Jimmie Johnson and four-time Brickyard 400 winner Jeff Gordon both struggled during this event placing Johnson in 22nd and Gordon 23rd.