Nascar Rules

[the H team]

Lap 187 Kevin Harvick puts Dale Earnhardt Jr. a lap down. Junior is in 18th place.

[the H team]

Lap 189 Brad Keselowski had pulled up on Kyle Busch's bumper for fourth place, but has since backed off some.

[the H team]

Lap 193 The gap between Kevin Harvick and Denny Hamlin continues to shrink. It's down to 1.2 seconds.
Lap 190 Denny Hamlin continues to close on Kevin Harvick, whose cushion is now down to less than two seconds. Giddyup!

[the H team]

Lap 208 Mark Martin is making his pit stop. So is Jeff Burton.
Lap 205 Denny Hamlin is now just a few car lengths behind Kevin Harvick.

[the H team]

Lap 211 Jeff Gordon is pitting.
Lap 210 Jimme Johnson and Carl Edwards are pitting.


Lap 209 Matt Kenseth brings his car to a stop on pit road.

[the H team]

Lap 217 Kevin Harvick drops out of the lead to pit.
Lap 215 The first six cars in the running order have not pitted yet in this round of stops.
Lap 213 Dale Earnhardt Jr. makes his stop.

[the H team]

Lap 219 Kyle Busch and Martin Truex Jr. stop.
Lap 218 Teammates Sam Hornish Jr. and Brad Keselowski are pitting.

[the H team]

Lap 224 Kevin Harvick, Denny Hamlin, Martin Truex Jr., Jimmie Johnson and Kyle Busch are the top five after the stops. Harvick is 6.5 seconds ahead of Hamlin.
Lap 221 Denny Hamlin finally slows his pace to drop onto pit road.

[the H team]

Lap 230 Denny Hamlin is zeroing in on Kevin Harvick for the lead. The margin between them is down to about three seconds.
Lap 225 One hundred laps to go.

[the H team]

Lap 237 Kevin Harvick is hanging on to the top spot for the moment.
Lap 235 Denny Hamlin is there.


Lap 234 Two seconds. Denny Hamlin is flying!

[the H team]

Lap 239 The fight for the lead has settled down. Denny Hamlin may just be letting his tires settle in for another charge at Kevin Harvick.

[the H team]

Lap 242 The leaders are on pit road. Everyone should be able to make it the rest of the way on just one more stop. Denny Hamlin's crew rolls him out in first place.
Lap 241 YELLOW FL&G: The caution is out for Juan Montoya's brush with the wall. It's just the third caution of the night.

[the H team]

Lap 248 Martin Truex Jr. goes around Kevin Harvick for second place.
Lap 247 GREEN FL&G: Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch, Martin Truex Jr. and Brad Keselowski bring the field to the green . Hamlin easily clears for the lead in Turns 1 and 2, but then has to fend off a charge from Harvick at the other end of the track.

[the H team]

Lap 255 Carl Edwards is off the pace.
Lap 250 Seventy-five laps to go. David Gilliland is very slow on the backstretch.

[the H team]

Lap 261 Carl Edwards is expecting his engine to detonate any time now. It's definitely down at least one cylinder. NASCAR has told him to pick up the pace.
Lap 258 Martin Truex Jr. is about 8/10ths of a seocnd behind Denny Hamlin. Drivers are reporting oil coming from Carl Edwards' car.