2002 Brickyard 400
| Race details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Race 21 of 36 in the 2002 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season | |||
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2002 Brickyard 400 program cover | |||
| Date | August 4, 2002 | ||
| Official name | Brickyard 400 | ||
| Location | Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 2.5 miles (4.023 km) | ||
| Distance | 160 laps, 400 mi (643.737 km) | ||
| Weather | Hot with temperatures approaching 91.9 °F (33.3 °C); wind speeds up to 20.8 miles per hour (33.5 km/h) | ||
| Average speed | 125.033 miles per hour (201.221 km/h) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Joe Gibbs Racing | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Bill Elliott | Evernham Motorsports | |
| Laps | 93 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 9 | Bill Elliott | Evernham Motorsports | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | NBC | ||
| Announcers | Allen Bestwick, Wally Dallenbach Jr. and Benny Parsons | ||
| Nielsen ratings | 6.3/16 (10.2 million) | ||
The 2002 Brickyard 400, the 9th running of the event, was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race held on August 4, 2002, at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana. Contested at 160 laps on the 2.5 mile (4.023 km) speedway, it was the twenty-first race of the 2002 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season. Bill Elliott of Evernham Motorsports won the race.
This was the first race to feature the Steel and Foam Reduction (SAFER) barrier at Indianapolis that would be used to make racing accidents safer.