Nascar Rules

Lap 33 -- It's a sea of yellow on the leaderboard just outside the top 10 as Brad Keselowski, Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon are running 13-15.
Lap 32 -- Kurt Busch is back up to eighth, a nine-spot improvement from the start of the race.
Lap 30 -- A.J. Allmendinger gets past his teammate, Marcos Ambrose. And now he's passed David Reutimann for fourth.
Lap 28 -- And just like that, my curse continues. I say Matt Kenseth is stretching the lead, and Tony Stewart wakes up and starts slicing into it. At this rate, Tony should be the leader before too long.
Lap 26 -- Jeff Gordon has climbed to 15th after starting 23rd. Another big climber is Clint Bowyer, up 10 spots to 18th.

competition yellow out. should be interesting on how many take 2 tires or 4

leaderboard says matt just got out of pit road ahead of stewart. 99 took 2 tires.

carl went up 4 stops from taking 2 tires & was trying to take 2nd from tony but is content with 3rd for now

tony regains the lead & carl takes 2nd from matt.

Lap 49 -- Joey Logano has climbed to 13th, up from 25th at the start.
Lap 48 -- Brian Vickers is up to eighth, one spot ahead of Kurt Busch.

kyle has moved up 26 positions from 42nd to 16th so far.

Lap 55 -- Kyle Busch has picked up 26 spots after starting in the rear of the field for his engine change.
Lap 54 -- Jeff Gordon is running 14th.
Lap 53 -- Jamie McMurray is up to 10th.
Lap 52 -- A.J. Allmendinger ges past Martin Truex Jr. for fourth, and Marcos Ambrose follows him

Lap 60 -- A.J. Allmendinger gets past Matt Kenseth for third place.
Lap 59 -- Brad Keselowski has designs on the top 10 as he runs in 11th.
Lap 58 -- David Reutimann is in seventh.
Lap 56 -- Jeff Gordon gets past Joey Logano for 13th, and Kevin Harvick follows him for 14th.

Lap 62 -- Tony Stewart leads Carl Edwards by nearly 1.4 seconds, but A.J. Allmendinger is just behind Edwards.
Lap 61 -- After losing a couple spots, Martin Truex Jr. is holding on to sixth.

kenseth complaining they should have done the track bar adjustment, cause he's going backwards.

Lap 66 -- Jimmie Johnson, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Denny Hamlin are running 24th through 26th, the last Chase drivers in the field.
Lap 65 -- Mark Martin has dropped to 12th.
Lap 64 -- Brad Keselowski gets around Brian Vickers for that 10th-place spot.
Lap 63 -- A.J. Allmendinger takes over second from Carl Edwards.

Lap 76 -- Brad Keselowski gets past his teammate Kurt Busch for ninth place.
Lap 75 -- Tony Stewart's lead over A.J. Allmendinger is now .7 seconds.
Lap 73 -- Kasey Kahne and Paul Menard started 10th and 11th. They're currently running 19th and 20th.
Lap 72 -- Marcos Ambrose remains in fifth.
Lap 70 -- It's a two-car race out front as Carl Edwards is nearly a second and a half behind A.J. Allmendinger.
Lap 69 -- A.J. Allmendinger is slowly cutting into Tony Stewart's lead, but he's still nearly a second behind.
Lap 68 -- Both Jeff Burton and Jeff Gordon get past Mark Martin.
Lap 67 -- It's a battle of Jeffs as Burton is 13th and Gordon is running 14th

Lap 78 -- Jamie McMurray is up to eighth.

Lap 85 -- A.J. Allmendinger is just more than a half-second behind Tony Stewart.
Lap 84 -- Brad Keselowski gets past David Reutimann for eighth place. Jamie McMurray is up to seventh.
Lap 82 -- Jeff Burton and Jeff Gordon both get past Brian Vickers, putting Burton into 11th.
Lap 81 -- His lead might not be as large as it had been, but Tony Stewart is taking names out there. It's early, but if you'd told me someone would possibly win five races in this Chase, I'd have called you loco.
Lap 79 -- Brian Vickers is still running 11th.