Nascar Rules

[the H team]

Lap 193 Wow. Tony Stewart is working on Kevin Harvick to make it into the top 10.
Lap 192 Brad Keselowski has scooted out to a lead of about half a second over Denhy Hamlin.

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Lap 182 A fan's recent Facebook featured an image of Kyle Busch's face superimposed on Superman's body. While you're coming to grips with that image, he's running in fourth place!

I did not need that visual...

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Green Fllog pit stops starting

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Gordon's car getting real loose... Seems to be everyone's problem now

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Caution Flug debris

Gordon penalized too fast on pit road

[the H team]

Lap 200 Denny Hamlin has dropped to about 8/10ths of a second behind leader Brad Keselowski.
Lap 199 Jimmie Johnson is in sixth place, but he appears to be fighting his car. A great camera angle showed his hands sawing back and forth as he charged off Turn 4.


Lap 196 Leader Brad Keselowski has just one top-10 finish in six previous Cup starts at Charlotte. He finished fifth here in the spring.

[the H team]

Lap 206 ESPN's Rusty Wallace says that Saturday's race is a make-or-break night when it comes to Jimmie Johnson's title hopes. Interesting!
Lap 204 The top five are Brad Keselowski, Denny Hamlin, Kyle Busch, Greg Biffle and Mark Martin.


Lap 202 Kyle Busch is in third, about four seconds off leader Brad Keselowski's pace.

[the H team]

Lap 212 If the race ended right now (which it's not going to!!!), Brad Keselowski would lead Jimmie Johnson by 23 points in the standings.
Lap 210 Third-place Kyle Busch is about 5.4 seconds off leader Brad Keselowski's pace.


Lap 208 Denny Hamlin might be closing a little bit on leader Brad Keselowski.

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Kenseth back on lead lap

Johnson and Hamlin pitting to get more gas to make it to the finish

[the H team]

Lap 216 Expect the leaders to pit in another four laps or so.
Lap 215 Martin Truex Jr. is pitting.

[the H team]

It's just what you would expect: the top three Chase drivers have traded places leading the race. Brad Keselowski is the one being chased right now. Follow with Live Leaderboard.

[the H team]

Lap 219 Jimmie Johnson, Greg Biffle, Kasey Kahne, Matt Kenseth and Aric Almirola make their stops.
Lap 218 Joey Logano, Kurt Busch and Kyle Busch pit.


Lap 217 Kevin Harvick and Mark Martin are on pit road.

[the H team]

Lap 222 Brad Keselowski gives up the top spot to pit.
Lap 221 Denny Hamlin drops into pit lane.


Lap 220 Tony Stewart, Jeff Gordon and Carl Edwards stop. Gordon will be penalized for speeding on pit road!

[the H team]

Lap 225 Jimmie Johnson, Kevin Harvick, Denny Hamlin, Kasey Kahne, Sam Hornish Jr. and Aric Almirola are pitting under the caution.
Lap 223 YELLOW FL&G: There's debris on the frontstretch.This is the fifth caution of the race.


Lap 223 Clint Bowyer completes the cycle of stops to make his stop.

[the H team]

Lap 227 Will the teams that stopped be able to make it the rest of the way on one more stop? That's what they're hoping!
Lap 226 Matt Kenseth, who got the free pass on this caution, is on pit road.