Nascar Rules

[the H team]

Lap 16 Carl Edwards is back on the track, currently shown in 41st place, two laps down. Jamie McMurray short pits.

[the H team]

Lap 19 Jimmie Johnson has gained a few tenths of a second on leader Denny Hamlin.
Lap 17 Aric Almirola is in ninth place, driving the Richard Petty Motorsports Ford. Seeing his No. 43 car in green will take some getting used to!

[the H team]

Lap 20 The gap between leader Denny Hamlin and second-place Jimmie Johnson is now down to less than a second

[the H team]

Lap 22 Carl Edwards thinks the headers might be broken on his car. The team will try to stay on the track as long as possible.
Lap 21 Regan Smith, in the Aurora tribute car, is now in 10th place.

[the H team]

Lap 23 Jimmie Johnson is still closing on leader Denny Hamlin. There's less than half a second between them now.

[the H team]

Lap 26 Joey Logano is in his pit stall.
Lap 25 Kevin Harvick is not happy with the handling on his Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet, and he hasn't been for most of the weekend. Brad Keselowski is pitting.


Lap 24 There's a small piece of paper covering part of the grille opening on Jimmie Johnson's car, but it doesn't appear to be slowing him down any.

[the H team]

Lap 28 Jimmie Johnson, Denny Hamlin, Matt Kenseth, Marcos Ambrose, Martin Truex Jr. and Matt Kenseth are pitting.
Lap 27 Mark Martin and Greg Biffle pit, while Jimmie Johnson continues to move in on leader Denny Hamlin.

[the H team]

Lap 30 After the cycle of green-fl&g pit stops, the top five are Jimmie Johnson, Denny Hamlin, Kyle Busch, Jeff Gordon and Greg Biffle.
Lap 29 Kyle Busch, Jeff Gordon and Sam Hornish Jr. are on pit road.

[the H team]

Lap 31 After dominating the first portion of the race, Denny Hamlin now trails Jimmie Johnson by 1.5 seconds.

[the H team]

Lap 36 Kyle Busch has caught Denny Hamlin for second place.
Lap 35 Jimmie Johnson has picked up another few car lengths on Denny Hamlin.


Lap 34 Dale Earnhardt Jr. is now in 10th place, 28 seconds behind leader and teammate Jimmie Johnson.

[the H team]

Lap 38 Jimmie Johnson's cushion up front continues to grow.
Lap 37 Kyle Busch is maybe two car lengths behind his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Denny Hamlin in the chase for second place.

[the H team]

Lap 40 Jimmie Johnson has three wins here at Indy, in 2006, 2008 and 2009.

[the H team]

Lap 41 YELLOW FL&G: The race's first caution is out for Travis Kvapil's mishap in Turn 2.

[the H team]

Lap 43 Jimmie Johnson leads the field down pit road.

[the H team]

Lap 46 GREEN FL&G: The leaders on the restart are Brad Keselowski, Denny Hamlin, Jimmie Johnson, Greg Biffle and Joey Logano. Keselowski did not pit under the caution. Hamlin gets way high entering Turn 1, while Johnson takes the lead.
Lap 44 One to go at the stripe. The field is entering Turn 3 now.