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[the H team]

brad is 1.02 secs behind the leader & matt is now in 4th.

[the H team]

Lap 155 -- Kasey Kahne, involved in the multicar crash earlier, is coming back into the race. He's not the sort to intentionally go over Regan Smith for revenge ... or doesn't seem to be, at the very least.

[the H team]

aj is complaining the car is very loose & he's slipping backwards.

[the H team]

Lap 168 -- Brad Keselowski's charge to the front seems to have stabilized at about a second the last few laps.
Lap 163 -- Brian Vickers picked a tough track at which to make his season debut, but he seems to be doing fine so far.

[the H team]

everyone but carl edwards is back on the track after that 1st wreck.

[the H team]

Lap 185 -- Watch out up front. Brad Keselowski has caught Brian Vickers, and is working him over to find an opening.
Lap 181 -- Early leader A.J. Allmendinger has developed a substantial vibration in his car.
Lap 179 -- Matt Kenseth and Dale Earnhardt Jr. are now running fourth and fifth.
Lap 175 -- Every lap, the gap varies between 8/10ths and a full second.

[the H team]

bowyer takes 7th from jimmie

[the H team]

Lap 196 -- The leaders are trying to work through traffic, so the battle has calmed down a bit.
Lap 189 -- Brian Vickers is better coming off the turns, and Brad Keselowski appears better going in.

[the H team]

40-50 laps away from green Fl&g pit stops.

[the H team]

Lap 203 -- Brian Vickers has led more today than in the last two years combined.

[the H team]

Lap 212 -- There are currently 21 cars on the lead lap.
Lap 207 -- Brad Keselowski is beginning to put some pressure on Brian Vickers.

[the H team]

brad takes the lead from vickers.

[the H team]

jeff has closed in on vickers for 2nd.

[the H team]

Bristol's track has 2 different pit styles. under green, there are 2 separate entrances to pit road, 1 on the front stretch & the 2nd on the back stretch. when caution comes out the 2 become 1 & you have to drive all the way around the track to get to your pit on the back stretch.

[the H team]

Lap 235 -- A.J. Allmendinger comes down the backstretch pit road. He's been wicked loose for several laps now.
Lap 231 -- There's something hanging from under Regan Smith's car, but NASCAR officials don't seem to be concerned about it.
Lap 228 -- Jeff Gordon slips under Brian Vickers for second place coming off Turn 4.
Lap 227 -- Jeff Gordon is on Brian Vickers' bumper for second place.
Lap 222 -- Brad Keselowski won the the night race here last year. Other than that, however, his best Bristol finish is a 13th in three other starts