Nascar Rules

[the H team]

jamie's vibration that he was feeling before the last pit stop seemed to be caused by the left front tire. the left side tires had been on the car for 90 laps. no complaint about vibration now.

[the H team]

Lap 128 -- Matt Kenseth remains about six-tenths of a second behind race leader Tony Stewart.
Lap 127 -- Dale Earnhardt Jr. is running 26th, the last Chaser in the field.
Lap 126 -- Jeff Burton is slowly closing on Brad Keselowski for fifth, now .4 seconds behind.
Lap 125 -- Regan Smith is returning to the track after his Lap 2 accident.

[the H team]

Lap 132 -- Marcos Ambrose is running eighth.
Lap 130 -- Kurt Busch picked up speed by dumping that on his radio. He's up to ninth now.
Lap 129 -- Kurt Busch is being a peach on the radio again. If you're not listening to his in-car audio on PitCommand, you're missing out.

[the H team]

Lap 135 -- There are 31 cars on the lead lap, Robby Gordon last among them.
Lap 134 -- Kevin Harvick remains in 12th, one spot behind Martin Truex Jr.
Lap 133 -- Tony Stewart's lead is right around a half-second.

[the H team]

harvick on pit road early due to a very bad vibration.

[the H team]

Lap 142 -- Kurt Busch gets past Marcos Ambrose for eighth.
Lap 140 -- Matt Kenseth is now just about two-tenths of a second behind race leader Tony Stewart.
Lap 139 -- Martin Truex Jr. got around David Reutimann to climb back into the top 10.
Lap 138 -- Eight Chasers now in the top 15, two of them from Stewart-Haas. Denny Hamlin is the last-place Chaser in 26th.
Lap 137 -- Matt Kenseth is slowly closing on Tony Stewart.

[the H team]

Lap 152 -- Kasey Kahne has recovered up to 14th.
Lap 151 -- Kurt Busch is up to seventh as Jeff Burton hits the pits. Busch says he doesn't want to short-pit.
Lap 150 -- Green- pit stops are drawing closer, and teams are hashing out their strategy.
Lap 148 -- Brad Keselowski gets past A.J. Allmendinger for fourth place, and Jamie McMurray passes Jeff Burton for sixth.
Lap 147 -- With Kevin Harvick's pit stop, Kyle Busch is now up to 14th.
Lap 146 -- Tony Stewart and Matt Kenseth both get past Robby Gordon and Kenseth continues to try to chase the race leader down

[the H team]

lap 158 matt passes tony as the race get half way
caution out for geoffry bodine/

[the H team]

bodine cut a r/f tire.

[the H team]

Lap 156 -- HALFWAY! Jimmie Johnson takes four tires and an air pressure adjustment. Dale Earnhardt Jr. gets four tires and fuel.
Lap 155 -- Marcos Ambrose pits for four tires and fuel. Jeff Gordon takes four tires and fuel.
Lap 154 -- Five of the top seven cars are Chasers.

[the H team]

Lap 161 -- Brad Keselowski was second off pit road and will restart outside of Matt Kenseth. Carl Edwards and Tony Stewart will restart side-by-side.
Lap 160 -- Pit road is open. A.J. Allmendinger takes four tires and an air pressure adjustment. Tony Stewart gets four as well as a track bar and air pressure adjustment. Wedge and air pressure to the front tires plus four new ones for Carl Edwards. Matt Kenseth wins the race off pit road. Again.

[the H team]

green fl&g & brad went from 2nd to 9th when he went very wide going into the corner on the restart.

[the H team]

caution 6 out for a spin by 84.

[the H team]

Lap 168 -- YELLOW NO. 6:
Lap 167 -- Carl Edwards is now the race leader, with Tony Stewart running second. Then it's Kyle Busch, Kurt Busch and Matt Kenseth.
Lap 166 -- Matt Kenseth went wide and lost several spots.

[the H team]

the wave around cars from last times caution are the only cars going into the pits for tires & gas.