Nascar Rules

[the H team]

Lap 63 -- Juan Montoya is on pit road.
Lap 58 -- Matt Kenseth has just one top-10 finish here at Sonoma, so chances are that he would be happy with a ninth-place finish. That's where he's running now. Kurt Busch wrestles second place away from Jimmie Johnson in Turn 11.

[the H team]

Lap 67 -- Jeff Gordon trails third-place Jimmie Johnson by only a car length or two. He takes the spot in Turn 11.
Lap 65 -- Clint Bowyer's lead over Kurt Busch is about 4.1 seconds.

[the H team]

Lap 69 -- Travis Kvapil has spun off the track, but there's still not enough to bring out the caution.
Lap 68 -- Expect pit stops in just a few laps.

[the H team]

Lap 70 -- Joey Logano and Dale Earnhardt Jr. are pitting.

[the H team]

Lap 73 -- Jeff Gordon finally makes it to his pit stall, and while entering the pits, Kasey Kahne has to check up behind him.
Lap 72 -- Jimmie Johnson, Clint Bowyer, Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin and others are on pit road. Jeff Gordon is out of gas and struggling to get to pit road.

[the H team]

Lap 71 -- Matt Kenseth, Greg Biffle, AJ Allmendinger and others are pitting.

[the H team]

Lap 74 -- Martin Truex Jr. gives up the point to pit. That hands the lead over the Clint Bowyer.

[the H team]

Lap 76 -- Following the stops, the top five are Clint Bowyer, Kurt Busch, Jimmie Johnson, Kyle Busch and Martin Truex Jr.

[the H team]

Lap 79 -- Clint Bowyer had a cushion of about 2.7 seconds over second-place Kurt Busch, but he's giving up a lot of it trying to put a lap on Kevin Harvick.
Lap 77 -- Let's see ... let's see. When WAS the last caution-free race at the Sprint Cup level? Talladega, back in 2002, maybe?

[the H team]

Lap 82 -- YELLOW FL&G NO. 1: Tony Drissi has crashed. Clint Bowyer's lead had gone from 2.7 seconds to just 1 second just before the caution.

[the H team]

Lap 84 -- Brian Vickers, Tony Stewart, Marcos Ambrose, AJ Allmendinger, Matt Kenseth, Jeff Burton, Jeff Gordon, Carl Edwards Jamie McMurray, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and a few others are piting.

[the H team]

Lap 85 -- Remember ... cautions have a way of breeding cautions!

[the H team]

Lap 87 -- GREEN FL&G: Clint Bowyer, Kurt Busch, Jimmie Johnson, Kyle Busch and Martin Truex Jr. are the leaders on the restart. Bowyer is clear of Busch going into the first turn, but Busch presses him hard for most of the lap.

[the H team]

Lap 88 -- Kurt Busch is still close to Clint Bowyer ... all it's going to take will be a slip here or there by Bowyer to open the door. Jamie McMurray spins, but there's no caution.

[the H team]

Lap 89 -- Tony Stewart's car has some damage on the left rear bumper. Clint Bowyer has opened up a lead of about 8/10ths of a second over Kurt Busch.