NASCAR Sprint Cup Series 2010 31 2010-10-16 2010-10-16 https://r2.thesportsdb.com/images/media/event/thumb/rvsqqy1471749033.jpg https://r2.thesportsdb.com/images/media/event/poster/quyrwq1471749048.jpg The 2010 Bank of America 500 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race that was held on October 16, 2010, at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina. Contested over 334 laps, it was the thirty-first, and the fifth race in the Chase for the Sprint Cup during the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. The race was won by Jamie McMurray, for the Earnhardt Ganassi Racing team. Kyle Busch finished second, and Jimmie Johnson, who started tenth, clinched third. Pole position driver Jeff Gordon maintained his lead on the first lap to begin the race, as Carl Edwards, who started in the second position on the grid, remained behind him. Afterward, Busch became the leader of the race. Some of the Chase for the Sprint Cup participants, such as, Gordon was in the top-ten for most of the race, but halfway through the race he started to have electrical problems. Busch maintained the lead most of the race to lead the most laps of 218. After the final caution, Busch led on the restart, but McMurray passed him. McMurray maintained the lead to be the first driver not in the Chase to win a race. There were nine cautions and twenty-seven lead changes among nineteen different drivers throughout the course of the race. It was McMurray's third win in the 2010 season, and the sixth of his career. The result moved him up to thirteenth in the Drivers' Championship, 75 points ahead Ryan Newman in fourteenth. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, forty-five ahead of Toyota and eighty-five ahead of Ford, with five races remaining in the season. 512584