The Coca-Cola 600, which is the longest race on the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) schedule, is the annual series stop for Memorial Day weekend. Jamie McMurray and the No. 1 Cessna/McDonald’s team looked to wrap up two weekends of racing at Charlotte Motor Speedway, billed “10 Days of Thunder”, with a strong run. The No. 1 Chevy started from the 22nd position and finished the 400-lap race with a 19th place result.
Jamie McMurray, making his 450th career NSCS start on Sunday in the season’s longest race, experienced a car that seemed to change considerably racing from late afternoon into the cooler evening temperatures. Crew chief Matt McCall and the No. 1 team worked tirelessly to manage the balance. Unfortunately McMurray lost a lap to the leaders on a long green-flag run and was never able to regain position on the lead lap to make a run to the front and settled for a 19th-place finish.
With his finish, McMurray maintained his eighth place ranking in the NSCS point standings.
NOTES OF INTEREST
• This was McMurray’s 450th career NSCS start at the same track where he captured his first NSCS victory in 2002
• The Coca-Cola 600 was slowed by caution eight times for 39 laps
CGRFS Quoteboard:
Jamie McMurray – No. 1 McDonald’s Chevrolet SS: – “Tough night for our Cessna/McDonald’s team. We had a difficult time finding the balance on the car tonight with the changing track conditions racing from day into night. The guys on pit road worked hard and gave it all we had. We were hoping to stretch the fuel mileage at the end and pick up a few spots, but too many others did the same thing”.
The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series will head to Dover Speedway for the FedEx 400 benefitting Autism Speaks Sunday, May 31, 2015. FOX Sports 1 coverage will begin at 1 p.m. ET, Sirius/XM Channel 90 and MRN affiliated radio stations will also have live coverage.
About Chip Ganassi Racing Teams
Chip Ganassi has been a fixture in the auto racing industry for over 25 years and is considered one of the most successful as well as innovative owners the sport has anywhere in the world. Today his teams include four cars in the IndyCar Series, two cars in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, and one Prototype in the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship. Overall his teams have 17 championships and over 160 victories, including four Indianapolis 500s, a Daytona 500, a Brickyard 400 and six Rolex 24 At Daytonas and the 12 Hours of Sebring. Ganassi boasts state-of-the-art race shop facilities in Indianapolis and Brownsburg, Ind. and Concord, N.C., with a corporate office in Pittsburgh, Pa.
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