page_title: 2010 Lenox Industrial Tools 301
section_title: Practice and qualifying
hierarchical_section_title: 2010 Lenox Industrial Tools 301 / Report / Practice and qualifying
caption_attribution_description: NASCAR and former Formula One driver Juan Pablo Montoya at the August 2007 NASCAR race at w:Bristol Motor Speedway. Cropped from original.
context_page_description: The 2010 Lenox Industrial Tools 301 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race held on June 27, 2010, at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway; contested over 301 laps, it was the seventeenth race of the 2010 Sprint Cup Series season. The event began at 1 p.m. EDT on TNT. It was also broadcast on the radio station Performance Racing Network at 12 p.m. EDT. The race was won by the Jimmie Johnson, driving for Hendrick Motorsports. Chevrolet driver Tony Stewart finished second, and Kurt Busch, was third driving a Dodge.
  The race was Johnson's fifth win of the season, his third at New Hampshire, and the result meant that he would be second in the Drivers' Championship, 105 points behind of Kevin Harvick and six ahead of Kyle Busch. Chevrolet maintained their lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, 14 points ahead of Toyota and 47 ahead of Dodge, with 19 races of the season remaining.
context_section_description: Three practice sessions will be held before the Sunday race—one on Friday, and two on Saturday. The first session will last 90 minutes. The Saturday morning session will last 50 minutes, and the afternoon session will last 60 minutes. During the first session of practice, Juan Montoya was quickest, ahead of Jimmie Johnson and Kurt Busch in second and third. Tony Stewart followed in fourth as his teammate, Ryan Newman was scored fifth. In the morning session, Johnson was quickest. Kyle Busch, and Newman followed in third, and fourth while Kevin Harvick was fifth. In the third and final practice, Johnson was again quickest with a time of 29.166, over three tenths of a second faster than Jeff Burton in the second position. Kyle Busch was scored fourth, and Johnson's teammate Jeff Gordon was fifth.
  During qualifying, forty-five cars were entered, but only forty-three was able to race because of NASCAR's qualifying procedure. Montoya clinched his third career pole position, with a time of 28.78. He was joined on the front row of the grid by Kasey Kahne. Kurt Busch qualified third; Rick Hendrick's driver Mark Martin qualified fourth. Newman started fifth, after keeping his speed from first practice. David Reutimann, Joe Nemechek, Sam Hornish, Jr., Clint Bowyer and Johnson rounded off the top ten. The two drivers that did not qualify were Travis Kvapil and Mike Bliss.
caption: Juan Pablo Montoya sat on the pole with a qualifying time of 28.78.
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