Nascar Rules

[the H team]

Lap 122 -- This the longest stretch of green- racing in a Sprint Cup race at Auto Club Speedway.

[the H team]

Lap 123 -- YELLOW NO.1: There's rain in Turn 3.

[the H team]

Lap 124 -- Tony Stewart throws a wicked fake on Denny Hamlin, and at the very last second, veers back onto the track without committing to pit road. Hamlin, Jimmie Johnson and Mark Martin pit.

[the H team]

Kenseth's team leaves a tire unsecured.

[the H team]

Lap 126 -- A NASCAR official reports that the rain is beginning to pick up in intensity.

[the H team]

Lap 127 -- Pace-car driver Brett Bodine says that the track has not yet changed colors due to the rain, but adds that it's getting close.

[the H team]

Lap 128 -- Jimmie Johnson's car is smoking heavily. He is 10th on the leaderboard.

[the H team]

4:56 p.m. ET -- Let's get Night Ranger back out here. Sister Christian, baby!!!
Lap 129 -- RED : Cars are being stopped on pit road at 4:52 p.m. ET.

[the H team]

either a piece of debris hit the oil line on jimmie's car or the oil cooler split, but jimmie is hoping for a rain shorten race cause he's now in 10th, but if the race continues, he'll have to get that fixed before he can go on.

[the H team]

5:06 p.m. ET -- The rain is picking up.

[the H team]

5:21 p.m. ET -- Tony Stewart won five of the last 10 races last year, and he's already won once already in 2012. Just sayin' ...
5:18 p.m. ET -- Pet peeve ... drivers not holding their own umbrellas.

[the H team]

it's official, tony stewart has won the rain shortened auto club 400.

[the H team]

Smoke in the rain

Tony Stewart stayed out of the pits on the lone caution of the race and the rain stayed around, making him the winner of Sunday's shortened Auto Club 400.

[the H team]

the top 10

tony stewart
kyle busch
dale jr
kevin harvick
carl edwards
greg biffle
ryan newman
martin truex jr
kurt busch
jimmie johnson.

[the H team]

next sunday is martinsville for the goody's fast relief 500 starting at 12:30pm.