Hamlin completed his first full race since suffering a compression fracture in a vertebra in his lower back on March 24 and finished right behind Kenseth.

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Onions was ruled out of England's tour of Bangladesh in March 2010, and underwent surgery in the autumn to repair a hairline fracture of the spine.

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