Nascar Rules

[the H team]

Lap 240 -- A.J. Allmendinger restarted fifth but is running 10th now.
Lap 239 -- Jeff Burton also gets past his teammate Paul Menard, whose two-tire call isn't working as well as Kurt Busch's. Burton is now sixth.

[the H team]

Lap 242 -- A.J. Allmendinger gets around Denny Hamlin for ninth.
Lap 241 -- Kasey Kahne gets past Tony Stewart for third. Tony Stewart wants to get a little looser, but not too much.

[the H team]

Lap 244 -- Kasey Kahne is running third, but he's 3.4 seconds behind Kurt Busch in the lead.
Lap 243 -- Carl Edwards is seven-tenths of a second behind Kurt Busch, but he was told by crew chief Bob Osborne they were 18 laps short on fuel.

[the H team]

Lap 247 -- Tony Stewart says they might have taken too much air pressure out of his right-front as he's now 5.7 seconds off the pace set by Kurt Busch.
Lap 246 -- Kurt Busch has stretched his lead out to just about one second.
Lap 245 -- A.J. Allmendinger gets around Paul Menard for eighth.

[the H team]

Lap 249 -- Marcos Ambrose is up into the top 10. Juan Montoya is back to 14th.

[the H team]

Lap 251 -- Methinks Carl Edwards is using the fact he's got a two-second lead on third-place Kasey Kahne to try to conserve fuel. I don't think he's really making an effort to cut into Kurt Busch's lead.
Lap 250 -- Kurt Busch said his car is really good, but is starting to get a little snug.

[the H team]

Lap 254 -- Kurt Busch's lead on Carl Edwards is .6 seconds.
Lap 253 -- There are only six cars within 10 seconds of the leader.

[the H team]

Lap 258 -- Kasey Kahne is also closing in third, now just 1.3 seconds off the pace.
Lap 256 -- And here comes Carl Edwards. I really am uncanny with these curses. Sorry, drivers!
Lap 255 -- Jeff Burton, David Reutimann, A.J. Allmendinger, Marcos Ambrose and Paul Menard are the second five in this race.

[the H team]

Lap 261 -- Kurt Busch: "Remind me never go to through the dogleg like I did on the previous lap EVER again."
Lap 259 -- There are eight Chasers on the lead lap, and six of them in the top 15.

[the H team]

Lap 266 -- Tony Stewart remains fourth, but he's 5.4 seconds back.
Lap 265 -- We're closing in on green- stops, probably in the next 10-15 laps.
Lap 264 -- Kurt Busch has finished in the top 10 in five of the past six races at Phoenix.
Lap 262 -- Carl Edwards is looking to close up on Kurt Busch as he's now three-tenths of a second behind as lapped traffic helps his cause.

[the H team]

Lap 267 -- Juan Montoya is up to 13th.

[the H team]

Lap 268 -- Jeff Burton is closing on Ryan Newman for fifth.

[the H team]

Lap 272 -- Carl Edwards is closing ever so much on the rear bumper of Kurt Busch.
Lap 271 -- Jamie McMurray gets past Kevin Harvick for 14th, and Clint Bowyer followed him.

[the H team]

Lap 273 -- Carl Edwards is still drawing nearer, and looks like he's going to take the outside line.

[the H team]

Lap 274 -- Green- pit stops are under way.