Lap 264 YELLOW FL&G: Carl Edwards' engine finally gives up the ghost just as Martin Truex Jr. was trying to go to the high side of Denny Hamlin for the lead.
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Lap 264 YELLOW FL&G: Carl Edwards' engine finally gives up the ghost just as Martin Truex Jr. was trying to go to the high side of Denny Hamlin for the lead.
Lap 266 It's going to be iffy ... very, very iffy ... to see whether teams will be able to make it the rest of the way without stopping.
Lap 265 The leaders are on pit road.
Lap 269 GREEN FL&G: Denny Hamlin, Martin Truex Jr., Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch and Brad Keselowski are the leaders. Harvick dives under Hamlin for the lead.
Lap 267 Kevin Harvick has been told that he's about eight laps short on fuel of making it the rest of the way.
Lap 269 YELLOW FL&G: There's a crash on the backstretch involving Jimmie Johnson, Ryan Newman and Sam Hornish Jr. The 5th caution of the night.
Lap 273 How will this caution play into fuel-mileage strategy? We'll have to wait and see!
Lap 276 Kevin Harvick, Brad Keselowski,Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Mark Martin, Jeff Burton and a few others are pitting under the caution.
Lap 281 Martin Truex Jr. sails past Denny Hamlin for the lead on the backstretch.
Lap 279 GREEN FL&G: Denny Hamlin, Martin Truex Jr., Kyle Busch, Matt Kenseth and Kevin Harvick lead the field to the green. The first four cars did not pit. Hamlin gets a great start and is clear of the field in Turn 1.
Lap 285 Jeff Gordon grabs third from Brad Keselowski.
Lap 282 Brad Keselowski gets under Kyle Busch for third place. Kevin Harvick has fallen back to seventh place.
Lap 289 Matt Kenseth appeared to have Kyle Busch passed for fifth place, but then Kenseth slipped to allow Busch to maintain the position.
Lap 288 Martin Truex Jr. leads Denny Hamlin by nearly a second. Jeff Gordon is charging hard from third place
Lap 295 Thirty laps to go. Leader Martin Truex Jr. has just two top-10 finishes here at Atlanta, and zero top fives.
Lap 291 Jeff Gordon passes Denny Hamlin for second place. He's 1.8 seconds down to Martin Truex Jr.
Lap 297 Kasey Kahne is on pit road with an apparent engine problem.
Lap 298 Jeff Gordon is 3.1 seconds behind Martin Truex Jr., a margin that has remained steady the last couple of laps.
Lap 304 Martin Truex Jr. is being told to conserve fuel. He's got enough, supposedly, to make it just past the checkered .
Lap 300 Leader Martin Truex Jr. and third-place Denny Hamlin are running on older tires and less fuel than runnerup Jeff Gordon. Twenty-five laps to go.
Lap 307 Martin Truex Jr. now has a 3.4-second cushion over second-place Jeff Gordon.
Lap 305 Twenty laps to go.
Lap 309 Martin Truex Jr. is asking why he has to save fuel if he's got enough to make it to the end.