Nascar Rules

[the H team]

point standings

greg biffle
+2 matt kenseth
-1 dale jr
+2 martin truex jr
-- kevin harvick
+1 denny hamlin
-4 tony stewart
+2 jimmie johnson
-1 ryan newman
-1 clint bowyer
the top 10

jeff & kasey moved up 4 spots to 17th & 27th.

[the H team]

Coasting under green

Greg Biffle led early, and when he took the lead back for good at Texas he pulled away for his first victory of the year in the Samsung Mobile 500, costing Rick Hendrick his 200th again.

[the H team]

next sunday, nascar is in kansas & you thought it was windy in texas.

[rockit]

Friday

1:30pm-3:00pm (L) NASCAR Sprint Cup Practice Kansas SPEED

3:00pm-4:30pm (L) Camping World Truck Series Final Practice Kansas SPEED

4:30pm-6:00pm (L) NASCAR Sprint Cup Final Practice Kansas SPEED

Saturday

10:30am-11:30am (L) Camping World Truck Series Qualifying Kansas SPEED

12:00pm-1:30pm (L) NASCAR Sprint Cup Qualifying Kansas SPEED

1:30pm-2:00pm (L) -Pre-Race NASCAR Camping World Truck Kansas SPEED

2:00pm-4:30pm (L) -Race NASCAR Camping World Truck Kansas SPEED

Sunday

12:30pm-1:00pm (L) -Pre-Race NASCAR Sprint Cup Kansas FOX (Also on TSN2)

1:00pm-4:00pm (L) -Race NASCAR Sprint Cup Kansas FOX (Also on TSN2)

[rockit]

Friday, April 20, 2012

7:00am-8:30am (L) Formula 1 Practice Bahrain SPEED

Saturday, April 21, 2012

7:00am-8:30am (L) Formula 1 Qualifying Bahrain SPEED (Also on TSN)

Sunday, April 22, 2012

7:30am-10:00am (L) Formula 1 Bahrain SPEED (Also on TSN)

[the H team]

Lap 37 -- After giving it a couple of tries in the last few laps, Martin Truex Jr. finally gets around Kevin Harvick for second place.
Lap 35 -- It's the same story up front. A.J. Allmendinger is the leader, Kevin Harvick second and Martin Truex Jr. third., with a few car lengths between each.
Lap 32 -- The gap between third-place Martin Truex Jr. and fourth-place Denny Hamlin has stabilized for the time being. It's now just a little less than two seconds.
Lap 30 -- Martin Truex Jr. is all over Kevin Harvick for second place.
Lap 26 -- Not only have the top-three cars closed ranks on each other, Denny Hamlin and Clint Bowyer aren't that far behind, either.
Lap 24 -- Leader A.J. Allmendinger had a poor 2011 at Kansas, but he has posted a couple of top-10 finishes in five career Cup starts here.
Lap 21 -- There are only few cars lengths now between A.J. Allmendinger, Kevin Harvick and Martin Truex Jr.
Lap 20 -- Martin Truex Jr. has now joined the fight up front.
Lap 17 -- Third-place Martin Truex Jr. has closed a lot of ground on leader A.J. Allmendinger and runnerup Kevin Harvick.
Lap 14 -- The front two -- A.J. Allmendinger and Kevin Harvick -- have separated themselves from third-place Martin Truex Jr. by nearly one second.
Lap 12 -- Martin Truex Jr. goes to the high side of Denny Hamlin for third place between Turns 1 and 2.
Lap 8 -- Leader A.J. Allmendinger would probably rather forget last year's races at Kansas. He finished 27th in the spring and 25th in the track's fall event.
Lap 6 -- Running second right now, Kevin Harvick won the inaugural Cup here here at Kansas back in 2001.
Lap 4 -- Denny Hamlin takes a look under Kevin Harvick for second place at both ends of the track, but can't find a way past just yet.
Lap 1 -- GREEN : The race gets under way at 1:18 p.m. ET. A.J. Allmenginer blows very easily into the lead before the field gets to Turn 1.
1:12 p.m. ET -- The field is beginning to roll off pit road. It's go time! Joey Logano will have to go to the rear of the field due to an engine change.

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Lap 39 -- Now that he's got second, Martin Truex Jr. isn't stopping there. He's going right after A.J. Allmendinger for the lead.

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Lap 45 -- Martin Truex Jr. is on pit road for his green- stop.
Lap 43 -- Jamie McMurray, Brad Keselowski and Jeff Burton are on pit road.
Lap 41 -- On MRN's broadcast of the race, one of the turn announcers said that Martin Truex Jr. was on A.J. Allmendinger for the lead like "a rottweiler on a rump roast." Great line.

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Lap 46 -- Kevin Harvick, A.J. Allmendinger,Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Matt Kenseth, Denny Hamlin and others are on pit road.

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Lap 52 -- YELLOW NO. 1: Clint Bowyer spins coming off Turn 4.
Lap 50 -- Former leader A.J. Allmendinger had to check up getting into his stall to let Greg Biffle exit his, and then he appeared to wait for a full supply of fuel. He's no
Lap 48 -- After the cycle of stops, the top five are Martin Truex Jr., Kevin Harvick, Kasey Kahne, Brad Keselowski and Denny Hamlin.
Lap 47 -- Carl Edwards makes his stop.

[the H team]

Lap 54 -- Kyle Busch, Jeff Gordon, Brad Keselowski, Greg Biffle and a few others pit under the caution. Clint Bowyer has taken his car to the garage.

[the H team]

harvick's been having problems on restarts, so truex takes the lead o the restart. 3 wide into the corner, everybody's safe so far.

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Lap 58 -- Kyle Busch makes contact with the rear quarter panel of Greg Biffle's car in traffic, but again, they're able to keep up the charge.

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Lap 61 -- With the battles behind him, Martin Truex Jr. has been able to open up a lead of about 1.4 seconds over Kevin Harvick.

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Lap 66 -- Kevin Harvick goes back around Kasey Kahne for second place.
Lap 65 -- Kasey Kahne grabs second place from Kevin Harvick in Turns 3 and 4, but Harvick comes right back after him for the spot.
Lap 64 -- Kasey Kahne is following right in the tire tracks of Kevin Harvick.