The 2010 Emory Healthcare 500 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race that was held on September 5, 2010, at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Georgia.

Stewart retained the first position on a final restart to clinch his third win at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

The result moved him up two spots to fourth in the Drivers' Championship, 283 points behind of leader Kevin Harvick and fourteen ahead of Carl Edwards.

[10] During the first practice session, Kasey Kahne was quickest, ahead of Kurt Busch and Clint Bowyer in second and third.

[13] Denny Hamlin clinched his eighth career pole position, with a time of 29.587 seconds.

[14] The four drivers that failed to qualify for the race were Jason Leffler, Landon Cassill, Scott Riggs, and Todd Bodine.

"[15] The race, the twenty-fifth in the season, began at 7:30 pm EDT and was televised live in the United States on ESPN.

Next, Ernie Haase and Signature Sound performed the national anthem,[17] and Terry Green, Emory Healthcare's 500th heart transplant recipient, gave the command for drivers to start their engines.

Juan Pablo Montoya claimed the tenth position, as Jeff Gordon fell to eleventh.

On lap 23, Greg Biffle was scored twelfth, Gordon was fourteenth, and Kurt Busch, who won here in the 2010 Kobalt Tools 500, was running in the twenty-third position.

Kyle Busch became the leader, but because of excessive speed on pit road, he had to serve a drive-through penalty.

Once green flag pit stops were completed, Hamlin was in first, followed by Stewart, Truex Jr., Kahne, and Newman to round out the top five positions.

Kahne, who started tenth, moved Truex Jr. from the third position to fourth, after passing him on lap 62.

Six laps later, Ryan Newman fell two positions to eleventh, after being passed by Paul Menard and Kevin Harvick.

Hamlin, who started on the pole position, went to the garage, as his engine failed, which prompted the second caution.

Immediately after the restart, Biffle spun sideways, and collided with Elliott Sadler to bring out the third caution.

After struggling with car handling during the first half of the race, Kurt Busch had moved from thirty-second to sixteenth by lap 171.

Seven laps later, Jamie McMurray had a flat tire, and drove to pit road, which caused him to fall to the twenty-sixth position.

On lap 222, Montoya moved into the third position, as Johnson showed his displeasure from the previous race[18] with him with a hand gesture.

Four laps later, Edwards was on pit road, as debris from Harvick's race car, after a tire flat, prompted the fifth caution.

On lap 256, Harvick drove to pit road to repair his front bumper of his race car.

[16] After Harvick drove through pit road the first time, it caused a scoring error, so he was held a lap to fix it.

Edwards led on the restart, but within two laps Scott Speed had an engine failure to bring out the sixth caution.

[16] Edwards became the leader after the pit stops, but one lap after the restart, Stewart reclaimed the lead, as Kurt Busch and Kasey Kahne collided.

Three laps later, Kevin Harvick returned to pit road, as Jeff Burton passed Kurt Busch for fifth.

With three laps remaining, Kahne showed his anger with Newman, after the contact that sent him collided into Kurt Busch.

[16][19] "It was just a really good night overall for the entire Stewart Haas organization, just a lot of hard work we have put in over the last few months just trying to get back to where we feel like we could win a race.

[21][22] After breaking a thirty-one race losing streak, Stewart stated on the team's radio, "Ring the bell baby, woo!

This thing, it was balanced off the start of the race, and you know, I knew the first run when we were a little bit off, and the leaders were not getting away from us, I thought, we have probably got a shot at this thing tonight and a shot at a solid Top 5 or Top 3, but once we got a couple of runs in there, and it was Denny and I trading spots back and forth."

They had an awesome pit stop the last time we came in that got us that track position that I lost on the previous restart.