CUP: Josh Wise’s Vibration Results In 2012 LASTCAR Cup Series Lead

SOURCE: motorsport.com

Josh Wise picked up the 3rd last-place finish of his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career in Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600 at the Charlotte Motor Speedway when his #26 Morristown Drivers Service Ford fell out with a vibration after 15 of the race’s 400 laps.

The finish was Wise’s third of the 2012 season and his second in a row, following a 43rd-place finish at Darlington two weeks ago.

Wise qualified 33rd at an average speed of 187.259 mph, ranking him fourth among the twelve "go-or-go-homers" who attempted to qualify.

LASTCAR STATISTICS
*The last time the #26 finished last in a Cup race at Charlotte since 1993, when Brett Bodine’s Quaker State Ford lost the engine five laps into the Coca-Cola 600. Bodine was the outside-polesitter of that race.
*The last time a Ford finished last in a Cup points race at Charlotte was in 2007, when Greg Biffle’s Dish Network Ford was involved in a single-car crash after 45 laps of the Coca-Cola 600.
*This was the third straight Cup points race at Charlotte where the last-place finisher fell out with a vibration.

THE BOTTOM FIVE
43) #26-Josh Wise / 15 laps / vibration
42) #74-Cole Whitt / 33 laps / vibration
41) #87-Joe Nemechek / 47 laps / vibration
40) #36-Dave Blaney / 54 laps / engine
39) #33-Stephen Leicht / 74 laps / vibration

LASTCAR CUP SERIES DRIVER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Josh Wise (3)
2nd) Michael McDowell, Scott Speed (2)
3rd) Brendan Gaughan, David Ragan, Scott Riggs, Reed Sorenson, J.J. Yeley (1)

LASTCAR CUP SERIES OWNER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) #26-Front Row Motorsports (3)
2nd) #95-Leavine Family Racing, #98-Phil Parsons Racing (2)
3rd) #23-R3 Motorsports, #33-Richard Childress Racing, #34-Front Row Motorsports, #49-Robinson-Blakeney Racing, #74-Turn One Racing (1)

LASTCAR CUP SERIES MANUFACTURER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Ford (8)
2nd) Chevrolet (3)
3rd) Toyota (1)