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Did Not Qualify: 30, Brian Simo
To the Rear of the Field: 33, Stephen Leicht (Engine), 38 David Gilliland (Missed Drivers Meeting)
Lap 1: Marcos Ambrose the pole sitter for two consecutive weeks brings the field down to the green flag! Travis Kvapil has a locked up left front immediately on the first lap.
Lap 10: Ambrose still leads, but Gordon is slowly closing in. The rest of the top 10 is: Johnson, Bower, Truex, Biffle, Ky Busch, Ku Busch, Kenseth, and Montoya. Joe Nemechek retired his car shortly after the green flag. It’s been a rather uneventful race so far with some good racing between the Busch Brothers, Biffle, and Kenseth.
Lap 12: Jeff Gordon takes the lead from Ambrose before the esses! Ambrose locked his breaks up which gave Gordon an advantage, told Crew Chief, “It’s going away.”
Lap 16: Pole Sitter Ambrose has moved back to 5th place. Tony Stewart is moving forward quickly and is in 13th. Marcos Ambrose: “I have no grip at all.”
Lap 20: Ryan Newman spins in turn 11. No caution. (But don’t worry, TNT hasn’t mentioned that at all and it’s now lap 23!)
Lap 24: Martin Truex Jr makes the first pit stop of this first cycle of green flag pit stops!
Lap 25: Clint Bowyer is your new leader. Gordon is losing grip!
Lap 34: Kurt Busch is your leader as Clint Bowyer pits with many other front runner!
Lap 36: Your leader is Martin Truex Jr. as green flag pit stops have cycled through. Truex did pit several laps earlier than the field.
Lap 41: AJ Allmendinger on Kurt Busch: “He’s getting wrecked if I get to him!”
Lap 48: Clint Bower takes over the lead from teammate Truex after Truex makes his 2nd scheduled pit stop! Top 10: Boywer, Johnson, Ky Busch, Ku Busch, J Gordon, Truex, Montoya, Allemdinger, Kenseth.
Lap 57: Bobby Labonte spins in the hairpin. No caution!
Lap 62: Juan Pablo Montoya pits for the second time. Having some electrical issues among other issues.
Lap 68: Jeff Gordon is back on the charge passing Johnson for third, 4 seconds behind 2nd place, Kurt Busch. Travis Kvapil falls off course, but no caution!
Lap 71: Leader Clint Bowyer comes in for his final pit stop, Kurt Busch your leader for now, but not for long! Jeff Gordon is out of fuel!
Lap 75: Clint Bowyer cycles back to the lead! Truex Jr. makes his final pit stop surrendering the lead!
Lap 82: CAUTION! #10 Tomy Drissi spins and his the tire barrier hard! Lucky Dog: Kevin Harvick.
Lap 87: RESTART! Bowyer leads followed by, 51, 48, 18, and 56! Kurt Busch is riding Bowyer’s bumper!
Lap 88: Jamie McMurray spins out, off of the rumble strip. He was 18th, now he’s the final lead lap car!
Lap 94: Joey Logano dumps his teammate Denny Hamlin. Of course Logano is the world’s cleanest racer and most popular driver! The other JGR driver, Kyle Busch is having a mechanical issue and says, “F—, It’s done!”
Lap 102: Kasey Kahne comes in for an unscheduled pit stop. Lost all of his grip and couldn’t keep up with the others.
Lap 105: CAUTION! Kyle Busch, Paul Menard, and Juan Pablo Montoya tangle up in turn 8! JPM was collateral damage as Kyle Busch wheel hopped into Paul Menard spinning all three out.
Lap 110: Green-White-Checkered RESTART #1: Bowyer leads, Kurt Busch and Tony Stewart follow! Kurt is having a suspension issue too. Dale Earnhardt. Jr. got spun out at the top of the hill by Aric Almirola.
Lap 112: Truex got run off course! Stewart just got around Kurt Busch for 2nd.
Lap 112: Checkered flag! Clint Bowyer wins his first road course race! Smoke 2nd, Kurt 3rd, Vickers, Johnson, Gordon, Biffle, Ambrose, Allmendinger.