Nascar Rules

[the H team]

bogity, bogity, bogity, let's go racing boys.

[the H team]

hamlin leads lap 1 just by inches over kyle

[the H team]

kyle takes over the lead, followed by biffle

[the H team]

denny takes 2nd away from biffle

[the H team]

Lap 6 -- Ryan Newman moves to the inside of Greg Biffle in a bid for third place.
Lap 5 -- Kyle Busch has a lead of about a second over Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Denny Hamlin.

[the H team]

Lap 11 -- Hold that thought. Kyle Busch has now extended his lead over Denny Hamlin by a couple of tenths.
Lap 9 -- Denny Hamlin is cutting into Kyle Busch's advantage out front. It's now down to 6/10ths of a second.
Lap 7 -- Fox mentioned an interesting stat just before the green . In 22 previous races here, the leader of Lap 1 has never went on to win.

[the H team]

stewart has passed his teamate for 4th

[the H team]

Lap 13 -- Kyle Busch's spotter is giving him the differences between his and Denny Hamlin's lap times. Last time by, he said, "Nothing's coming."

[the H team]

Lap 15 -- Nothing's coming is right, at least for the time being. Denny Hamlin now faces a deficit of more than two seconds to Kyle Busch.

[the H team]

Lap 21 -- At least a second or more separates each of the top-five cars.
Lap 19 -- Tony Stewart gets a great run off Turn 2 on Greg Biffle for third place.
Lap 18 -- The top five are currently Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin, Greg Biffle, Tony Stewart and Ryan Newman.

[the H team]

tony takes 2nd away from denny.

[the H team]

kyle's lead is shrinking with tony on the way.

[the H team]

Lap 31 -- Tony Stewart is closing on Kyle Busch.
Lap 30 -- Like Kyle Busch, Tony Stewart also has a single Sprint Cup victory here. Stewart's came in October 2010.

[the H team]

Lap 39 -- On the track, Kyle Busch's lead equates to about a quarter of a straightaway.
Lap 38 -- After the cycle of stops, the top five are Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin, Tony Stewart, Greg Biffle and Kevin Harvick. The margin between first and second went from about half a second before the stops to 3.3 seconds afterward.
Lap 37 -- David Ragan, who stayed out to lead a lap, rolls down pit road.
Lap 36 -- Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick, Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon and others are making their stops.
Lap 35 -- Greg Biffle and Matt Kenseth are stopping.
Lap 34 -- Several cars -- including Kasey Kahne, Regan Smith and others -- are on pit road.

[the H team]

Lap 45 -- Tony Stewart is all over Denny Hamlin for second place.
Lap 42 -- Getting into the turns here, the leaders are traveling well in excess of 200 mph.