Nascar Rules

danica is in the garage getting the damaged fixed on her car, as well as trevor bayne getting his car fixed on the rear.

jimmie took a hard crash in the front end into the wall then as the car spun down the track, he took another hard crunch in the driver's door. he took a page from danica's book about hands off the wheel while spinning around.

green fl&g drops & biffle, edwards & kenseth out front.

regan smith takes the lead

Lap 10 -- The entire field remains door to door, just like the pace laps.

caution 2 on lap 12, for ryan newman spinning out. looks like a flat tire causing him to spin

Lap 14 -- The leaders are hitting pit road. It beats hitting each other!

they didn't get the rear tire of newman's car tightened up & as he left his pits, it fell off & allemendinger ended up in the back end of him while trying to reach his pits. now he's in the garage getting the damage fix. talk about a wrech fest with only 16 laps completed.

Lap 17 -- GREEN FL&G: Denny Hamlin and Paul Menard did not pit, and they are the leaders on the restart. Hamlin grabs the top spot in the scramble.

Lap 20 -- The first several cars in line are now single file, but they're all over each other further back in the field.
Lap 19 -- Denny Hamlin has pulled clear of the field, and he has Paul Menard in tow.

Lap 21 -- Martin Truex Jr. and Greg Biffle were the first cars side by side, but Truex clears going into Turn 1.

Lap 23 -- Greg Biffle and Martin Truex Jr. are back running neck and neck in their battle for seventh place.

Lap 26 -- It appears that the frontrunners are content to log some laps for the time being.
Lap 25 -- The top seven are Denny Hamlin, Paul Menard, Regan Smith, Joey Logano, Jeff Burton, Marcos Ambrose and Martin Truex Jr.

Lap 28 -- Trevor Bayne is about to return from the garage. He's currently shown in 39th place, 25 laps down.

Lap 32 -- According to Fox's broadcast, the last 10 Daytona 500s have had 10 different winners.