2012 Tums Fast Relief 500

February 2025 NAS Tums Fast Relief 500 https://www.espn.com/racing/schedule/_/year/2012 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Schedule ESPN October 26, 2012http://www.rotoworld.com/articles/nas/41726/229/the-tums-fast-relief-500 The Tums Fast Relief 500 NBC Sports Rotoworld.com October 23, 2012 October 26, 2012 Brown, Brian https://web.archive.org/web/20121025062353/http://www.rotoworld.com/articles/nas/41726/229/the-tums-fast-relief-500 October 25, 2012 dead http://www.nascar.com/news/121026/jjohnson-pole-martinsville/index.html Johnson on M'ville pole, in position to take charge Turner Sports NASCAR October 26, 2012 October 26, 2012 2012 10 28 2012 33 36 Martinsville Speedway 2024.svg Martinsville Speedway, Ridgeway, Virginia .526 .847 500 263 423 Rain showers with the temperature around 54 °F °C; wind out of the NNW at 10 mph. Jimmie Johnson Hendrick Motorsports 19.402 seconds Jimmie Johnson Hendrick Motorsports 193 48 Jimmie Johnson Hendrick Motorsports ESPN Allen Bestwick, Dale Jarrett and Andy Petree The 2012 Tums Fast Relief 500 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on October 28, 2012 at Martinsville Speedway in Ridgeway, Virginia. Contested over 500 laps on the 0.526-mile (0.847 km) oval, it was the thirty-third race of the 2012 Sprint Cup Series season, as well as the seventh race in the ten-race Chase for the Sprint Cup, which ends the season. Jimmie Johnson won the race, while Kyle Busch finished second, and Kasey Kahne clinched third. Chevrolet clinched their 36th Manufacturers Championship with Jimmie's win.Studiobanks http://www.hendrickmotorsports.com/news/article/2012/10/28/Chevy-clinches-10th-manufacturers-championship Chevy clinches 10th manufacturer's championship | News Hendrick Motorsports 2012-10-28 2012-11-06 Report Background thumb|200px|left|Martinsville Speedway, the race track where the race was held. Martinsville Speedway is one of five short tracks to hold NASCAR races.NASCAR Race Tracks http://www.nascar.com/races/tracks/ October 26, 2012 NASCAR dead https://web.archive.org/web/20130101145548/http://www.nascar.com/races/tracks/ January 1, 2013 The standard track at Martinsville Speedway is a four-turn short track oval that is 0.526 mi km long.NASCAR Tracks—The Martinsville Speedway http://www.martinsvillespeedway.com/About-The-Track/About-The-Track.aspx Martinsville Speedway October 26, 2012 October 7, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20101007095733/http://www.martinsvillespeedway.com/About-The-Track/About-The-Track.aspx dead The track's turns are banked at eleven degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, is banked at zero degrees. The back stretch also has a zero degree banking. The racetrack has seats for 63,000 spectators. Before the race, Brad Keselowski led the Drivers' Championship with 2,250 points, and Jimmie Johnson stood in second with 2,243 points.http://www.nascar.com/races/cup/2012/32/data/standings_official.html 2012 Official Driver Standings: Hollywood Casino 400 Turner Sports NASCAR October 26, 2012 Denny Hamlin followed in third with 2,230 points, five points ahead of Clint Bowyer and ten ahead of Kasey Kahne in fourth and fifth. Martin Truex Jr. with 2,207 was four points ahead of Tony Stewart, as Jeff Gordon with 2,199 points, was four points ahead of Matt Kenseth and eight ahead of Kevin Harvick. Greg Biffle and Dale Earnhardt Jr. was eleventh and twelfth with 2,188 and 2,128 points, respectively. In the Manufacturers' Championship, Chevrolet was leading with 213 points, twenty-two points ahead of Toyota.http://www.jayski.com/stats/2012/manu2012.htm 2012 NASCAR Manufacturer Championship ESPN Jayski's NASCAR Silly Season Site October 26, 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20121130202821/http://www.jayski.com/stats/2012/manu2012.htm November 30, 2012 dead Ford, with 160 points, was twenty points ahead of Dodge in the battle for third. Stewart was the defending race winner after winning the event in 2011.http://racing-reference.info/race/2011_Tums_Fast_Relief_500/W 2011 Tums Fast Relief 500 USA Today Sports Media Group Racing-Reference.info October 30, 2011 October 26, 2012 Practice and qualifying thumb|200px|Jimmie Johnson won the pole position, his third of the 2012 season. Three practice sessions are scheduled to be held before the race; the first on Friday, which lasted 90 minutes. The second and third are both scheduled on Saturday afternoon for 55 minutes each.http://www.jayski.com/news/races/2012/story/_/page/33-Martinsville-NASCAR-Race-Info#prac Jayski's NASCAR Silly Season Site – Sprint Cup Race Info / Rundown Page ESPN Jayski's NASCAR Silly Season Site October 26, 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20121017045356/http://www.jayski.com/news/races/2012/story/_/page/33-Martinsville-NASCAR-Race-Info#prac October 17, 2012 dead Brian Vickers was quickest with a time of 19.386 seconds in the first session, 0.038 seconds faster than Earnhardt Jr.http://www.nascar.com/races/cup/2012/33/data/practice1_speeds.html Practice One Timing and Scoring Turner Sports NASCAR October 26, 2012 Hamlin was just off Earnhardt, Jr's pace, followed by Gordon, Bowyer, and Paul Menard. Johnson was seventh, still within a tenth of a second of Vicker's time. Forty-five cars were entered for qualifying, but only forty-three could qualify for the race because of NASCAR's qualifying procedure.http://www.nascar.com/races/cup/2012/33/data/qual_order.html Qualifying Order Turner Sports NASCAR October 26, 2012 Johnson clinched the twenty-eighth pole position of his career and third of the season, with a time of 19.402 seconds.http://www.nascar.com/races/cup/2012/33/data/lineup.html Race Lineup Turner Sports NASCAR October 26, 2012 He was joined on the front row of the grid by Vickers. Kyle Busch qualified third, Jeff Burton took fourth, and Hamlin started fifth. Kenseth, Stewart, Bowyer, Menard] and Aric Almirola rounded out the top ten. Keselowski only managed thirty-second. The two drivers that failed to qualify for the race were Mike Bliss, and J. J. Yeley. Once the qualifying session was completed, Johnson commented, "After qualifying as poorly as I did in the spring, I focused on these two laps pretty heavily and wanted to make sure I did my job. We just hit it [Friday], from the car standpoint, from my standpoint of driving the race track. We got it right [Friday]. The tough position there is, once we get single-file and we're about 10 laps into the show, the leaders are [caught up] to the 43rd-place car. You've got to go, and everybody around you has that same mentality, too, so it can be pretty cutthroat back there." In the second practice session, Vickers remained fastest with a time of 19.732 seconds, less than two-hundredths of a second quicker than second-placed Gordon.http://www.nascar.com/races/cup/2012/33/data/practice2_speeds.html Practice Two Timing and Scoring Turner Sports NASCAR October 27, 2012 Juan Pablo Montoya took third place, ahead of Johnson, Kyle Busch and Bowyer. Hamlin only managed eleventh place, while Keselowski was only quick enough for twenty-seventh position. In the third and final practice, Vickers was quickest with a time of 19.751 seconds.http://www.nascar.com/races/cup/2012/33/data/practice3_speeds.html Practice Three Timing and Scoring Turner Sports NASCAR October 27, 2012 Earnhardt Jr. followed in second, ahead of Gordon and Kyle Busch. Hamlin was fifth quickest, with a time of 19.830 seconds. Johnson, Menard, Ryan Newman, Kenseth, and Bowyer rounded out the first ten positions. Race results Pos Grid Car Driver Team Manufacturer Laps Points 11 48 Jimmie Johnson Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 500 48 23 18 Kyle Busch Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 500 42 315 5 Kasey Kahne Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 500 42 410 43 Aric Almirola Richard Petty Motorsports Ford 500 40 58 15 Clint Bowyer Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota 500 40 632 2 Brad Keselowski Penske Racing Dodge 500 39 711 24 Jeff Gordon Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 500 38 82 55 Brian Vickers Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota 500 37 917 47 Bobby Labonte JTG Daugherty Racing Toyota 500 35 1030 16 Greg Biffle Roush-Fenway Racing Ford 500 34Only the first ten positions are listed.http://www.nascar.com/races/cup/2012/33/data/results_official.html 2012 Official Race Results : Tums Fast Relief 500 Turner Sports NASCAR October 30, 2012 November 1, 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20121101024348/http://www.nascar.com/races/cup/2012/33/data/results_official.html dead Standings after the race Drivers' Championship standingshttp://www.nascar.com/races/cup/2012/data/standings_official.html 2012 Official Driver Standings: Tums Fast Relief 500 Turner Sports NASCAR October 30, 2012 Pos Driver Points 10px 1 1 Jimmie Johnson 2,291 10px 1 2 Brad Keselowski 2,289 (–2) 10px 1 3 Clint Bowyer 2,265 (–26) 10px 1 4 Kasey Kahne 2,262 (–29) 10px 2 5 Denny Hamlin 2,242 (–49) 10px 2 6 Jeff Gordon 2,237 (–54)10px 1 7 Martin Truex Jr. 2,228 (–63) 10px 1 8 Matt Kenseth 2,226 (–65) 10px 2 9 Greg Biffle 2,222 (–69) 10px 3 10 Tony Stewart 2,220 (–71) 10px 1 11 Kevin Harvick 2,203 (–88) 10px 12 Dale Earnhardt Jr. 2,151 (–140) Manufacturers' Championship standings Pos Manufacturer Points 10px 1 Chevrolet 22210px 2 Toyota 197 (–25) 10px 3 Ford 164 (–58) 10px 4 Dodge 143 (–79) Note: Only the first twelve positions are included for the driver standings. References Sprint Cup Series 2012 2012 Hollywood Casino 400 2012 AAA Texas 500 collapsed Category:NASCAR races at Martinsville Speedway Tums Fast Relief 500 Tums Fast Relief 500 Tums Fast Relief 500