Nascar Rules

[the H team]

Landon said he was he was loose & didn't feel Tony tap him, so he wasn't blaming Tony & Regan Smith said he'd take the blame for hitting Tony cause he didn't realize what had happened. he thought it was just a tap & the the 2 of them would straighten out, so he went to dive under & that's when he caught Stewart & the 2 of them went spinning. the rest of the field just kept running into each other. 13 cars in all have damage & 7 of those 13 are in the garage area.

[the H team]

Under the red fl&g conditions the teams are not allowed to work on the cars, they can look without touching, try to figure out what you need, get things ready, but no repairing till the yellow fl&g comes out.

[the H team]

1:36 p.m. ET -- According to Fox, this accident involved more cars than any other wreck so far this season.1:35 p.m. ET -- Work is still going on to clear the track.

[the H team]

1:41 p.m. ET -- The cars are being refired. The caution is back out.

[the H team]

Lap 22 -- Mark Martin's first Cup start here at Dover came on May 16, 1982. He finished fifth in a race won by Bobby Allison.
Lap 18 -- Mark Martin has a lead of about half a second over Jimmie Johnson.
Lap 17 -- Clint Bowyer is racing Kyle Busch hard for fifth place. He takes the position coming off Turn 4.
Lap 15 -- Matt Kenseth gets a run on Ryan Newman to take third place between Turns 3 and 4.
Lap 13 -- GREEN FL&G: Mark Martin, Jimmie Johnson, Matt Kenseth, Ryan Newman and Kyle Busch are leaders on the restart. Johnson and Martin remain side by side until they come off Turn 4, when Martin clears for the lead.
Lap 11 -- The leaders stay on the track, but from 17th-place Brad Keselowski on back, most everyone else takes the chance to pit under the caution.

[the H team]

Lap 26 -- Hey, look at that. Dave Marcis finished second in Mark Martin's Cup debut here at Dover.

[the H team]

Lap 30 -- Jimmie Johnson goes to the outside of Mark Martin for the race lead in Turn 3.
Lap 29 -- Jimmie Johnson is closing back in on Mark Martin for the lead.

[the H team]

Jeff Gordon started 14th & he's been passing & up to 7th.

[the H team]

Lap 35 -- The top-three cars -- Jimmie Johnson, Mark Martin and Matt Kenseth -- are separated by about a second each. It's more than two more seconds back to fourth-place Clint Bowyer.

[the H team]

Lap 43 -- It's about one second from leader Jimmie Johnson back to second-place Mark Martin.
Lap 39 -- Clint Bowyer is running alone on the track in fourth place.

[the H team]

Lap 50 -- Fifty laps in, drivers appear to have settled into a nice groove following the grinding crash earlier.
Lap 46 -- Third-place Matt Kenseth has lost touch with Mark Martin, who is running in second place. He's now nearly two seconds back.

[the H team]

Lap 53 -- Mark Martin has erased a couple tenths of a second off Jimmie Johnson's lead.

[the H team]

Lap 55 -- The gap between leader Jimmie Johnson and second-place Mark Martin is now down to about half a second.

[the H team]

Lap 64 -- Mark Martin is being given time differentials between what he and Jimmie Johnson are running. Other than that, it's pretty quiet on the radio.
Lap 60 -- The lead goes to Mark Martin. He should be pitting in about nine laps.

[the H team]

Lap 67 -- Tony Stewart's crew is still working on his car in the garage.