kyle & jimmie started 40th & 41st are now up to 8th & 7th place.
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kyle & jimmie started 40th & 41st are now up to 8th & 7th place.
kenseth has been picking away at jr's lead by 2/10s of a sec every lap.
Lap 82 -- Jimmie Johnson grabs second place from Kevin Harvick.
Lap 81 -- Dale Earnhardt Jr. has not been able to move up from 16th place. At one point, he was three wide with Paul Menard and A.J. Allmendinger.
Lap 79 -- Jimmie Johnson is all over Kevin Harvick, working him for second place.
Lap 78 -- GREEN : Kevin Harvick, Matt Kenseth, Greg Biffle, Jimmie Johnson and Tony Stewart are the leaders. Dale Earnhardt Jr. took four tires on the stop, and that puts him 16th in the running order on the restart.
Kenseth gets the nose of his Ford out front coming through Turns 1 and 2, and takes the lead on the backstretch.
Lap 76 -- David Ragan drops onto pit road.
Lap 74 -- The leaders are on pit road. David Ragan stays on the track.
Lap 73 -- YELLOW NO. 2: David Reutimann spins while trying to get onto pit road.
being back in the pack the cars feels tight in the dirty air.
15 drivers took right side tires even with 25 laps on the previous ones.
jeff was 8th before pit stops & like jr he took 4 tires which put in back in 18th at the restart, but has fallen to 24th with the car being too tight.
Lap 96 -- This time ... nope. Jimmie Johnson still can't wrestle the lead away from Matt Kenseth.
Lap 94 -- It looks like Matt Kenseth is better on the straights, with Jimmie Johnson a little quicker in the turns.
Lap 92 -- Jimmie Johnson is still stalking Matt Kenseth, going very low in the turns to figure out a way past.
Lap 86 -- The top five are Matt Kenseth, Jimmie Johnson, Tony Stewart, Greg Biffle and Kevin Harvick.
Lap 85 -- Now, JJ is going after Matt Kenseth for the lead.
new leader at lap 101 jimmie
jimmie a pulled out a 2 sec lead over matt now.
carl who is currently in 10th is complaining about a loose wheel & a wickedly loose race car.
it's going to be about 10-12 laps befroe the next green pit stops. hopefully carl can hold on.
Lap 107 -- There's at least a second or so between each of the first five cars.
jr has worked his way up to 14th.
Lap 114 -- Jimmie Johnson leads all drivers with four victories here at Las Vegas. He won in 2005-2007 and 2010.
kahne has moved up to 7th while jeff has gone to pit road. apparently this is in his pit window.