page_title: 2010 Air Guard 400
section_title: Standings after the race
hierarchical_section_title: 2010 Air Guard 400 / Standings after the race
caption_attribution_description: English: NASCAR driver en:Denny Hamlin in August 2007 at en:Bristol Motor Speedway
context_page_description: The 2010 Air Guard 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race that was held on September 11, 2010 at Richmond International Raceway in Richmond, Virginia. Contested over 400 laps, it was the twenty-sixth and final race leading into the Chase for the Sprint Cup in the 2010 Sprint Cup Series season. Denny Hamlin won the race for the Joe Gibbs Racing team; his teammate, Kyle Busch, finished second while Jimmie Johnson clinched third.
  Carl Edwards won the pole position, holding the lead until lap 51 when Johnson passed him. Hamlin, however, was the dominant driver for most of the race, taking the lead on lap 110 and leading the most laps throughout the race. There were three cautions and fourteen lead changes among six different drivers throughout the course of the race.
  It was Hamlin's sixth win of the season and the fifteenth of his career. The result of having six wins moved him into first in the Drivers' Championship, ten points ahead of Johnson and thirty ahead of Kevin Harvick to begin the 2010 Chase for the Sprint Cup.
context_section_description: Note: Only the top twelve positions are included for the driver standings. These drivers qualified for the Chase for the Sprint Cup.
  Note: Drivers are arranged in order of points after the Chase reset, although their point totals before the Chase are also included. All drivers qualifying for the Chase have their point totals reset to 5,000, with a 10-point bonus for each race won during the season before the Chase. Ties are broken on a countback system, with the first tiebreaker being top-5 finishes, followed by top-10s, races finished, and pole positions.
caption: Despite being 9th before the reset, Denny Hamlin (pictured in 2007) assumed the points lead by virtue of earning the most wins throughout the regular season.
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