For the second time in less than 60 days the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) visited Pocono Raceway, this time for the Windows 10 400 at the “Tricky Triangle”. As the season winds down to the last six races before the cutoff to make the 2015 Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup (Chase), the No. 1 Lexar team looked to secure a spot in the field. Jamie McMurray started from the 17th position and stretched fuel mileage after the final pit stop of the day to record a 15th-place result.
From the drop of the green-flag, McMurray and team worked on the handling of the No. 1 Lexar Chevrolet and started working their way into the top-10. As pit stops began to cycle through just past halfway of the 160-lap race, McMurray was running second when the final caution flag of the day came on lap-93. Most of the lead lap cars had already pitted, placing the No. 1 behind a majority of the lead lap cars on the ensuing restart. The No. 1 team worked to regain the lost track-positon as the remainder of the race ran under green-flag conditions. Following the final pit stop of the day on a lap-123, the Lexar Chevy stretched fuel mileage to the end, running out of fuel on the last lap en route to the 15th-place finish.
With his finish, McMurray gained one position, moving up to eighth-place in the NSCS point standings.
NOTES OF INTEREST
· McMurray remains the highest seeded driver currently without a win in the Chase standings, with just five races left before the cutoff
· This was the first race in his last four starts at Pocono where McMurray has failed to finish in the top-10
· The Windows 10 400 was slowed by caution eight times for 32 laps
CGRFS Quote board:
Jamie McMurray – No. 1 Lexar Chevrolet SS: – “Long day for the No. 1 team today. I think our car was better than where we finished. We got caught on a long green flag run when the caution came out and it cycled us back behind a lot of other cars. We played catch-up the rest of the afternoon and even attempted to stretch fuel mileage at the end, but things just didn’t go our way. Great effort by everybody on this Lexar Chevrolet today.”
NSCS teams will run the Cheez-It 355 at The Glen Sunday, Aug. 9. NBC Sports Network, Sirius XM NASCAR Channel 90 and MRN Radio will have live coverage at 2 p.m. EDT.
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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