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[ cheers and applause ]>>> joey logano is on the front row along with kasey kahne. jimmie johnson has dominatedhere in martinsville. >> some are win and some will lose and eitherway i'll be wearing this sweet jacket. >> get your tickets early and join us earlyfor race weekend at rir where everybody is a winner.>> except for the losers. >>> time for the sunoco fueling victory withjimmie johnson. off to a great start. only guy with two wins so far. one in atlanta andthen in california. he is was on our show a little bit earlier and talked about thechallenge for his car. won martinsville eight times and will we see him in victory playingagain? we welcome you back live here to martinsville,
virginia. aerial coverage provided by goodyear,tires that face challenging conditions on the track and the road. goodyear, the officialtire of nascar. with michael waltrip and chris meyers back in the hollywood hotel as driversget ready. carl edwards. 16 races this year and he has finished second or better in fourof the five races this year. >> this isn't his place. he struggles at thismartinsville speedway trying to get the rear tires hooked up with all the horsepower underneaththe hood of the toyota. the challenge and if you get too aggressive you'll get yourgoodyear tires too hat. >> kasey kahne coming off what's been a goodstart. been a rough stretch for him and good news for him and a great starting positionon the front row.
>> wants to put california behind him of thejust think about that. i mean, that was a big crash he was involved in. he wants tohave a smooth race and hopefully get a top five finish.>> jamie mcmurray starting 15th overall in the one car.>> back other last fall. >> and he's a threat to win here today.>> and jimmie johnson along with denny hamlin, the guys who have dominated in this era oncejeff thornton stepped aside. >> and neither one of them will say they havegot the car to beat and you just watch. look for jimmie johnson and denny hamlin to bereal factors. >> look to the 14 car with ryan vickers infor tony stewart. right now let's head back
to the track and hear the command. it's time,race fans and here to give the most famous command in motorsports. welcome your racemarshall from cbs' "criminal minds" a.j. cook. >> drivers, start your engines!>> all right. the great roar of the engines here and an unexpected moment of silence before.probably as quiet as you'll hear it for a while in these parts. let's bring in the guyswho will call the race as they always do. the 135th martinsville race. a season alreadyfilled with fantastic finishes. i know you're looking forward to another win. >> no interesting has as much nascar historyas the martinsville speedway. it's windy and cool. bright and sunny here but only about60 degrees, and as jimmie johnson alluded
in the pre-race, one of his big concerns.will his track take on rubber and gain trip. >> he says that's been a big part of whathe hasn't been as successful here at martinsville is how you have to manage the tires, and untilthis track temperature gets up above 85 and 90 degrees. good year has said the rubberwon't lay down so you'll real very to manage your tire wear and use the throttle like there'san egg underneath is so it will cause a lot of half okay until the race gets laid downin this race. >> as we saw here last fall, that's not allthe drivers have to imagine. once a movie. here it's a must, anger management.>> oh, yeah. you have to understand when you start this race. you're going to get bumped.you're going to get shoved and somebody is
going to run in the back of you and cut youoff. got to let it go. got to pick your fights and be sure that in you get into it with somebodyit's worth it because normally it's not. >> done that in rehearsal, would i have puton my osha belt. we'll head for the booth and call 500 laps in one of our absolute favoriterace tracks. >>> it's the nascar sprint cup series at martinsvillespeedway on fs1. on a beautiful, clear, sunny day. let's have a look at the geico startinggrid for today's race. leading off from the front row, joey logano scored his third straightmartinsville pole and penske ford and alongside kasey kahne whose best finish is tent in hishendricks chevrolet and has a runners up finish here at martinsville speedway.>> this is jeff up in the fs1 booth. you got
me?>> yeah, i got you. you look good up on that front row and had a great race car and startedin the outside line and know how important the inside lane is. got to play to get tothe inside and one of the guys, maybe vicers is going to let you in.>> well, i don't know. i hope to either get off turn two and tuck down the backstretch.i know as the race goes the outside gets a little grainy for a lap or two and reallyloose after that depending on where you are out on the track so it's a tough spot to bein once in a while. >> also, you know, it's pretty cool temperatures.i know the sun is out and we know it takes track temp to get the rubber to lay down andhow hard do you push here and how much are
you thinking about conserving the tires onthe long run? >> well, i think definitely early, you know,the first couple of runs, you're probably going to go through them as quick as you willall day long with the cold temps and the track might tighten up a touch after that. yeah.you have to conserve and don't want to lose track position either and that's a long runand if you conserve early you'll be really good the last couple of laps.>> all right, man. cope it up front and have some fun and good luck.>> sounds great, thanks. >> it has not rained here but the track dryersand jet dryers are blowing dust off the corner. it will get to 60 degrees. trying to. tracktemp 85, just a little below the level at
which the goodyear says the track will starttaking rubber. let's get stories from pit rod beginning with mike welch.>> the only pit box to produce multiple winners is pit stall win where joey logano is pittedand his crew chief told me it's definitely an advantage and the time saved on pit roadtoday could be the key to getting a grandfather clock at the end of the race. jamie little?>> denny hamlin has gotten into the habit of winning here at martinsville and he's gotin the habit of getting pit road penalties, bonehead moves and watch for him to back itdown on pit road and we'll see if that helps him get win number six. matt?>> they are carrying two martinsville clocks at day's end. kyle starts seventh on the gridand has a pit stall number 16 which he loves.
go back the past five years, really productivewith two wins and a second and likes the fact that it's level. it will be great for theguys to go over the wall and the timing line placement he says are perfect. larry mack?>> yeah, what makes this track so unique is two different surfaces and asphalt on thestraightaways and the most important part with the concrete corners. i consulted d.w.and jeff gordon. our grip level is a three but as they have been speaking as the rubberbuilds up crew chiefs have to get awfully aggressive and here's the race analysis. 500laps and pit road speeds and 30 miles per hour and the race field 140 to 150 laps andthere's the level again. mike? >> thanks, larry.>> had a little delay there getting the field
rolling as the track sweepers and the jetdry cleaners cleaned the track up. >> the rubber's got to go somewhere, you know.if it's not going to go into the track it will roll up to the top and jeff, bid, youknow when you get out of that groove you get in trouble.>> seen that in practice where that happens and seen that racing in the past and thatrubber just peels off the tires and while it doesn't stick to the racetrack for a while,it does get outside the groove, and you don't want to get a foot or two outside of thator you're going straight in the wall. >> let's have a look at today's ford performancetrack facts. of the original nascar tracks of strictly stock and the sprint cup series,only martinsville remains. 1964,es from lorenzen
got a beautiful ridgeway clack for winningthe race, and it's been a great tradition here ever since. we listened in on joey loganoand team. >> all righty. see what i need here. keepme update on distance behind, the other car behind me and the one behind him and the rovecenter and fight all hard today to get to the bott tom.>> yes, sir. copy that. >> the biggest challenge on the first fewlaps, how do the cars on the outside get to the inside?>> oh, it's such a challenge. that outside lane, not only is it further around. there'sjust something about the grip level and sets the preferred lane and these guys on the outsidehave to be real careful, not just trying to
get into a hole, but if you push too hardon the outside and we talk about tirewear and tire management you can burn the tiresup. >> and the starts and restarts, mike, arecritical. you spend the tires over. you'll lieutenants start and it's a big deal withthe restarts. >> riding over the shoulder of danica patrick,kind of a passenger's eye view from the number 10 chevrolet.>> mike, the tires are cold. got a lot of heat in them and that will make it even easierto spin them on the start of the race. >> and what happens you is actually starton the concrete and then you transition over to the pavement. there's a big change in gripwhen you do that so especially when you're
at such a high gear it will really spin themeasy. >> one more thing about tires the pressuresare real, really low. left side tires, eight, nine, ten pounds of heir in them.>> the anticipation here is very, very high as the pace car is in. we're ready.>> there's no more -- this is the most fan racetrack you'll ever come to watch a raceand to drive a race and to be a part of a race, and we're getting ready to go green.green flag is in the air! boogity, boogity, boogity! let's go racing, boys.>> joey logano shot out of turn two and kasey kahne found a gap that slides in in frontof brian vickers and holds that second spot. now, ryan blaney is the first driver stuckon the outside.
>> made a nice move and picked up a spot ortwo. >> and had his buddy chase elliott, rookiecontenders going at it that maybe could have let him in. no, no, too early for that.>> ryan is 11th on the outside of elliott and matt kenseth right behind and no gap there.>> better get down now because you're going to pay the price if you don't.>> and you'll see brad keselowski will fill that gap in a second.>> they are teammates to some degree. >> he did cut him some slack and blaney wasable to get in lane. >> a little courtesy call right there.>> jimmie johnson. kurt busch loves the outside and loves restart.>> he and kyle are two of the best on restarts.
>> he's super aggressive. and, again, you'vegot to be aggressive, and we've seen how aggressiveness on restarts and going super fast can reallyturn the tires off the cars and got to be real careful and got on the gas right there.looks like he got back to it. yeah, maybe somebody in front and jimmie johnson got inthe back of him. aric almirola slipped a little bit.>> and dale jr. is stuck on the outside here. >> whoa, whoa, whoa!>> around he goes. >> around goes the 88 car.>> hold the brake, hold the brake, hold the brake. swing it around.>> david ragan and him made contact down the middle one-two. that cut his left rear tire.that's exactly what happened.
>> he spun out. normally he wouldn't havelooped that car but that thing went around. >> tailpipe of the 23 on the left rear.>> and earlier one lap before he and aric almirola may have made contact off lap two.>> fighting for 20th here. >> david ragan got the curve a little bitand it cut the left rear tire down instantly. >> down on the corner here.>> he's going to lose laps. >> gets the tire change but he's only a lapdown. >> riding along with kevin half in.>> getting ready to swing it around. >> ragan is trying to stay off of him andhe got on the curb and knocked it right up into him.>> and just like that, you're one lap down.
now in the very first lap of the race dalejr. and kevin harvick got bottled up in it unthree and watch the 88 and four.>> starts with the 17 and one and just a chain reaction. everybody slows down, and it kindof recoils all the way back to dale jr. >> this is why qualifying is so important.when you're back there. that is all it takes. we talk about the domino effect here at martinsvilleand that's the domino effect. everybody is trying to get from the outside lane to insidelane and when it happens five cars ahead of yoere's nothing you can do.>> just like we saw with david ragan, you get on the curve and the car shoots to theoutside and then you cut your tire down. >> exciting start to this martinsville racefor dale earnhardt jr.
>> early cautions here i guess are more thenorm. six in a row where we've had a caution in the first 12 laps of the race.>> just how close you run here. i mean, we talked about contact. you're going to havecontact. normally dale jr. would not have spun out, but because it cut that left reartire down the car looped around all by itself. >> and i just throw some more -- there's somany factors that are playing out now when i see how this is unfolding up here in thebooth is where dale earnhardt jr. is going to be starting this race. he's going to behalf a lap behind the leader where he starts this race and that first lap, yeah, he hasa little bit fresher tires and we know he has a good race car, but with as much that'sgone on already, man, what a way to start.
>> but can you say lucky dog?>> oh, yeah. i have no doubt that he can get back on the lead lap with the speed of thecar. >> three of our next four races includingmartinsville are short track races. >> i love short track races, and i think it'sfun, you know, goes back to what we all started doing, you know, when we were york and wewere all geared up for short track ration and a lot of late model races here in my careerand that's why i've gotten so many laps here that the racetrack and why i feel so comfortable.>> getting ready to restart. completing lap number nine and, again, just as before, joeylogano with kasey kahne alongside brian vickers with pauly in nard and ryan newman, a.j. allmendingerand denny hamlin. here we go.
>> now it's all dinger who has to scratchand claw for a place on the inside line. he's sixth and kyle busch going to give himin room. >> he's in a tough spot right there. thatchain is lined up on the inside and he's going to have a tough time.>> three jgr cars that are on the inside that are all cars that can compete for the win.they won't give him a not. >> matt canseth is not.>> you keep losing time in the turn, one car right after another.>> might be a gap after hamlin. here comes keselowski to/fill it up.>> oh, no. they see you out there. they say sucker, we've got you.>> allmendinger did nothing wrong and came
into turn one on the restart side by sideand just could not find a gap. >> it really has everything to do with thecar that you've got on the side of you and how good does the car cut and low.>> he dove to the inside. >> see how aggressive of a move that was.>> right. see the 316 newman up high and he slipped up into the corner and kyle buschup underneath him and kyle newman lose one, maybe two spots to.>> like losing the draft at daytona or talladega and when you get out of line and don't haveanybody drafting, an even though draft has nothing to do with it, just that inside lineis so, so important and so much farther than the outside.>> i think a.j. was from us trade. a fast
race car. good in qualifying and good in practice.wants to get back up there where he belongs. >> to your point, jeff. we'll have to do anhour special on how nascar's shortest track races just like nascar's longest track.>> yeah. that could take a long, long time to explain all those things but absolutelythere are things that apply to both. >> you get a lot of body damage at daytonaand a lot of body damage here. >> third place, paul menard takes advantageof paul vickers and here calls kyle busch. >> who has to watch out for the 18, he isteammate denny hamlin. jgr sharing information, does that betterthan anybody and kyle busch has confidence from yesterday and never had a win at martinsvillebut looks like he has a $can win today.
>> i like that paint job, 75th anniversarypaint job. that's cool looking. i like old school, mike.>> tough going early on. the only car a lap down in the race. let get a nationwide dalejer performance right. >> when the series moves to short tracks theteams do not use inner liners on the goodyear ration tires but they do move the valve stemto the inside of the wheel to try to help lessen the impact when they make contact withanother car and make knocking that stem off and getting a flat tire. just some of thethings we see when we move to the short track. >> reed sorenson -- yeah, reed sorenson inthe 55 is about a third of a lap ahead of race leader joey logano. earn hard has tohope we have a caution before logano starts
lapping the lower cars. third place, kylebusch on the move. >> he's coming. he was coming so fast kaseykahne moved over and said you go right ahead, young man.>> and i think he knows tire wear is going to be at a premium right now and he checkedup and let paul menard go by him and paul is being really aggressive and is going toget the lead. >> i think joey is going to let him go. thatwill run more than the entire race and tire wear will be at its peak.>> that 27 car, paul menard has been good all weekend. the rcr cars have something reallyspecial here this weekend. >> never gone a lap here. here he goes.>> all good.
>> joey is not going to let that pass happenquite that easy later in the day. >> well, now he has. paul menard has led hisfirst lap at martinsville and taken the lead from joey logano at lap 22. let's get back to 19th place and kevin harvick.jamie? >> kevin harvick fighting just a little bitof a tight car in three and four and just like it was in practice, but the problem ishe's having a little bit of a hard time hearing the spotters. isn't feeling well and theyhave jimmy kitchens on standby just in case he needs to step in so harvick can hit him.>> tim is the former standout of the bush series and spotter and announcer can't dowell without their voice.
>> jimmy kitchens is a longtime spotter andspotted for ryan newman when he drive for stuart hass racing and a lot of spirit therestanding by for tim. >> kyle busch is going by joey logano andlets him go on the outside and we highlighted how important spotters are. talked about mattkenseth and his spotter and the track and all the action and how confined it is andall that goes in. diving underneath you, how important it is to have a spotter that youcan really not just appreciate but that you have a lot of confidence in.>> the spotter has to have experience, too. when the car starts to spin, needs to knowwhether it will go up or down and there's a pattern that these race tracks develop throughoutthe years so the more you spot it, the better
job can you do.>> martin truex moechs up on ryan blaney for 12th place. a lot of side-by-side going onhere. that's casey mears to the outside and the view out the window from danica patrick'scar. >> carl edwards now on the inside of mearsand here comes austin dillon and neither of them qualified really well. denny hamlin hashelped him trying to coach him along. carl has had -- of the four gibbs cars, he's beenthe slowest of the four. >> a car that's on the move is the 2 car.he's made tomorrow some nice moves going around kasey kahne here. the 2 cars looks prettygood. >> and putting a lot of pressure on matt kensethdriving really aggressive here.
>> those two start their trouble the lastrace between these two right here. >> it was keselowski that turned kenseth aroundinto the wall and kenseth retaliated by going after joey logano, keselowski's teammate.>> let's see how keselowski handles this situation. >> well, he's not giving matt more than acouple of inches. i would say chris osborne kenseth's spotter is pretty busy on his wayback to work. >> i'm saying let him go. that's what i'msaying. that's the classic and best way to make a pass here at martinsville. put pressureon somebody and you poke your nose out and you don't have to necessarily dive in thereat the last second. poke your nose out there and if they are willing to give it up outthere in the race they will give it up.
>> the worst information a spotter can giveyou he's looking because he's most of the time there.>> lead tightens up. >> i think menard has worn his tires out andhe got out in front and realizes he needs to conserve. started to grip the rear in thewheel and that hasn't held back kyle busch. >> i think everybody is tire management.>> kyle is going to catch lap traffic in eight or nine laps and dale jr. hopes there's acaution before that happens so he can get back on the lead lap. >>> joey logano in the last seven short trackraces has led over 100 laps. >> he just doesn't have the drive off thathe needs to prohibit other drivers getting
by, especially the first two that passed him,joey and kyle busch. kyle said i don't have near the drive off that the other guys have.>> now, kyle busch is leading this race and he's caught lap traffic. dale jr. no longerthe first car lap down, the fourth car a lap down and can't get the free pass in this position.>> one of the things really smart on kyle busch's part. ran the race and the same tirethat they ran in the truck race yesterday. the knowledge he gained and the informationhe brought from the truck race is why we see him leading the race.>> second place heating up right here. >> i'm starting to see drivers get a straightershot off the corner and it's become a premium and brad keselowski inside paul menard andwill take over second place.
>> the other thing, too, this is no time topanic. we're really, really early into this race and have to get the track revving upa little bit more before you start making changes.>> he's got a good car for the long run and he wasn't kidding.>> yes, exactly. >> brad wasn't too thrilled with it and wentto work overnight and made this car a lot better but i talked to his crew chief paulwolf and was very confident saying we should have won boat of the races and brought aboutthe same exact setup and so far so good. >> kyle busch's lead, two seconds, matt.>> mike, kyle told me before the race information gained on saturday when he competed in thetruck series race you can't measure it, because
he said the first part of the race he learnedso much as far as how aggressive to be on his tires and then to carry that into thesecond half. he says you've got to be a little bit eliot spitzer on your tires and to thattrack starts to take a little bit of rubber. >> here comes newman under joey logano andopening the door for denny hamlin who will make it through. here comes truex and logano was going to slamthe door but he does not. >> he can't.>> he's hung out there and has no choice out there and wanted to and thought about it buthe can't. >> that first long run, if you have a runlike we're having here on tires especially
when the track is green, it's brutal if youdon't have drive off, and you can tell right now joey logano just can't get back to thethrottle to accelerate off the corner. if this continues on, look for him to fall wayback. >> harvick and keselowski have gained themoment spots since the start. >> right here, this 11 car looks really good.getting under ryan newman and 11, all of a sudden, is coming alive.>> g.w., i've not seen him step out the back one time.>> right. >> it's like he's being so gentle on his tiresright now. he's just waiting for all come to him and look at how straight he came upoff that corner.
>> it's kind of interesting the cars thatwere really good in final practice and are showing up on this race.>> guys, this is a third of the way through a fuel run. i think that this is where comersand goers really start to show up. this is where it shows up in you really have a longrun car. >> yeah, i think a lot of things -- a lotof these guys. we heard denny hamlin in the pre-race talk about the feel. the feel sometimestakes 10, 15 laps to get there and then you can start moving forward. everybody else goesbackward and you start to move forward. >> and i think practice conditions here atmartinsville are really, really tricky to get it tuned in, find the balance and griplevels. you see teams run 10, 15, 20 lapse,
and we're already -- here we are at lap 50.nobody made a 50-lap run all weekend long, and you will really start to see how muchthe tires go away. >> kyle busch leading by a second now. whatare we and his team talking about? >> feeling good. drive is good. the turn isgood. that's probably the best turn right now in two right now. >> that's good information. i mean, he's prettyhappy. >> oh, hamlin slipped up.>> didn't expect this. >> turns one and two, jeff, he got off thebottom and slid up the racetrack, and there's always somebody right there to take advantage.>> oh, absolutely. you know, to me he passed
the 31 car of ryan newman and then he gotout in front of him, and i thought he was being conservative, but, i don't know, maybe-- >> what is all that?>> there's definitely some debris there. that won't affect the engine temperature, the watertemperature, but it will certainly affect the breakage right over the top of his leftside. >> don't want to have that.>> that's huge. >> you just cut it in half.>> just starting to talk about some debris. i think we just showed them the debris.>> matt kenseth and paul vickers get by paul menard. vince.>> >> talking with the crew chief jason ratcliffe
and he thought they would qualify better thanninth with what they did, but they felt like they had pretty good race speed and as he'smoved up from ninth now into the third position says it's still a little tight across thecenter and free on exit and definitely moving forward. that's a good sign.>> meanwhile, here's kevin harvick to the inside of ryan newman. this will be for sixthplace and our pole-sitter joey logano is dropping like a rock. he's in free fall. dropped allthe way back to 14th. >> not just him but look who is behind him.the disadvantage of being on the front, he and kasey kahne.>> he and joey logano in trouble. i think we'll have a battle for the lead here shortly.>> kahne has dropped back and said the car
is way too loose and not any reason to doanything crazy with it and just too free to work with it at this stage.>> if you start the race off and the car is really rolling and rotating through the cornerand you get to the gap and it's a little bit loose, you just know every lap that the lapis going to get freer and freer and freer as the tires wear. you manage it because you don't know how longthe run will be. >> don't you think the crew chiefs are thinkingabout halfway on, not the first half of the race because the track is definitely goingto go through big changes. >> we are.>> but we know how crucial track position
is.>> you don't have a choice here, real, but this race is going to change. it will shankgreat a bit >> you don't want to panic. don't want toget land but just don't panic. >> poor old carl edwards. he's going in rightnow and the 18 of kyle busch's teammate has come into turn three and kyle will go a longdown and nobody has worked harder to work with your teammate to try to gather informationand you know your teammates have run extremely well here and it's so frustrating as a driver.what are you doing? i know i've got all my ingredients and the resources. why can't imake it work like them in. >> i like what carl side. denny has been coachingme all weekend. he may not want to admit that,
but he's been trying to help me.>> kasey kahne and joey logano. >> and logano wins the pole and keselowskistarts deep in the field and here were in the first long run of the day and the twopenske cars are just the reverse. >> logano is great and this also goes backto carl edwards and the other drivers at joe gibbs racing, the difference in driving stylesand the way that you set up the cars, a certain look that you and your crew are looking forand obviously brad did a great job working with the team and did a great job gettingthe setup and at least that's the beginning. watch out. i wouldn't be surprised if the22 is back there able to make some adjustments. >> the other car is the hendrick motorsportsteam and one lap down after spinning and drawing
the first caution flag. day. kyle busch, yourleader. >>> 71 laps complete. here's how the coca-colafamily is faring, with ryan newman and denny hamlin in the top ten and paniagua patrickup ten spots and austin dillon up nine and joey logano who started on the pole is nowdown to 22nd. >> kyle busch is going in the corner rightbehind him and only him and two cars between getting lapped.>> he has no grip. he's holding on tight. he ran his fastest lap which was a 19.8 onlap four, but the leader of kyle busch didn't run his fastest lap to lap 14 so that showsyou how the first ten laps are crucial. i think that the 18 was really consevering onthe first part of the run where the 22 took
off and maybe used him up a little bit andall of a sudden it came to the 18 and now he's been able to maintain.>> jimmy johnson running tenth right now. >> got that and if i push any harder, i'mgoing to pay for it. >> 10-4. that's what i need to know. nodeto know what to do to help you. >> that's what's so frustrating.>> joey logano going a lap down to kyle busch. wow, i did not see that coming because hedominated this race the last time we were here. yeah, he wasn't maybe as good as somecars on the long run but he was able to get out front and maintain it for a pretty goodportion of the race? >> vince?>> as you talk about conserving the tires
and taking care of them, joey has been lightingup the tires the entire run and barely gets on the throttle and his spires spin and whyhe went from first to 23rd. >> look at the track surface. the asphaltlooks like a blackboard and the concrete looks like a white board. it's not taking rubberat all. >> you know, the track temperature is justnot there to get the rubber to stick down to the racetrack right now, and it's causinghavoc for these drivers and the grip level that they have, and don't you think thegersand crew chiefs are having trouble figuring that how the. >> here's a rookie running order and chaseelliott one spot there ahead of ryan blaney.
>> not know longer.>> making his second start here at martinsville. qualified on a solid friday and tried to carrythat off into sunday and right now though he's fading and the car has swung to the tightside and he needs much more help, especially on exit.>> compared to the field, he'll put a lot of guys and gals down.>> just pleased with them guys outside. >> yeah, i mean, these guys are -- kyle buschand brad keselowski, they are flying through the field and nobody can do anything aboutit. typically you hold a little bit back and here everybody has worn the rear tires outso bad on this first run they can't do anything to keep the leader behind him.>> 18 is getting off the corner so well. you're
at his mercy and have to let him go.>> guys what, else we may be at the mercy of. get nervous this long of a run and i seethis many race cars and as we talk about cooking that tire feed we could be getting into thatterritory. too much heat. >> man, some of these cars need to come inand get some tires. >> i'm more worried that they will run outof rear tires. >> erik am rolea just slid up and into clintbowyer and neither one of those cars working very well and you saw the outcome from theonboard for a different look. >> the 43 dives in the inside, he's got itchecked up to not run into the one but he just runs wide and body slams the 15. whenthe 15 got up there, there's all kinds of
loose rubber and that gets on the tires andthat caused him for another lap and a half. >> this is not a new tire. not like it wouldbe something different. same thing that they ran here last week. >> will see eight tires better than four,that was one example. >> i was always told if the left side of yourcar is beat up you're in the way and if the right side of your car is beat up, you'repassing people. >> but i think one thing we're overlookingand saw it an phoenix is this aeropackage with the small rear spoiler has made thesecars very hard to set up and drive. and i know that would be contrary to what you mightthink. you're not going very fast. that's
not the point. you're not going fast enoughto generate any real downforce. >> yeah, and i question on the action of thecorner as slow as they are going, but definitely down the straightaway as they get into thecorner and try to carry speed, i would take the rear spoiler.>> don't you agree if you get screwed up going in.>> it messes up the corner. we saw a glimpse hope in the final practice and now look athim passing denny hamlin. >> johnson moving back up. there's biggestmover since the restart, second only to kevin harvick.>> you n.o.w. know what the crew chief, may not be very good but you're better than anybodyelse.
>> and we've talked about kevin harvick. he'squietly worked his way up through the field and he has a really strong race car. sevenand a half seconds behind kyle busch, and this is what you like. if you have a goodcar. there's clint bowyer's car and let's show you his rear. right rear tire down tothe core and there's nothing left and i guarantee he's not alone. a lot dealing with that. ifi was him i'd think about getting to pit road. >> that's what i said. these cars need tiresright now. i would come in and get me four tires. you'll make up a lot of time if you did.>> you wonder why it's on the inside corner and these teams run in the inner tires.>> spin, turn two.
>> michael annett goes around.>> well, that's what you were waiting for. >> clint bowyer is happy about that, i assureyou. had to be his teammate. >> true.>> this saved a lot of people. >> let's see what happened here to bring outsecond caution of the day. >> oh, wow.>> brian scott right behind him. >> yeah.>> you can see all the marbles up there that we can talk about. see if we can get a betterview. >> here comes benard. just gets loose in thecorner. >> and correcting and got up into the leftrear corner of michael annett.
>> annett was running 35th, two laps down.ricky stenhouse will get the free pass and, remember, the unique pit road at martinsville.enter at turn three and exit at turn two. it is one long kind of u-shaped pit road.>> things aren't excited on the racetrack. they will get exciting in pit road. it's anarrow, narrow pit road. >> 30 miles an hour on pit road, so hard todiscipline yourself to hold that speed. >> 18 lead lap cars.>> here they come. jamie. >> kevin harvick started this race 19th andworked his way up to third. car is pretty good. meanwhile, brad keselowski saying heneeds a little bit of help turning but says the rear end of the car stayed with him great.very happy with it. matt?
>> unlike in the corners it's flat and straighthere where kyle busch is pitting, great for guys like t.j. ford, the jack man. no changes on the 18. he feels like this caris transitioning with how the track is changing. vince?>> matt kenseth right on the turn in pit lane and interestingly enough he says he needsto turn better. too tight in the center. his four tires and chassis adjustment for mattkenseth on pit road. >> advanced autoparts and at race off pitroad. >> change in the front three and paul menardmoved up one. >> working those timing lines is so critical.>> the lap down cars will pit this time led
by chase eeloff. we're under caution for thesecond time. >>> we're ready for the restart. brad keselowskiis dropping back. he was nabbed for speeding exiting the pet and the other denny hamlin.>> i mean, that's the one who has blown me away. he's talked about making mistakes herehon pit road in the past and how it's cost him.>> the field is coming to get the green. denny hamlin is in the middle of the back straightawayand just barely catching up to the middle of the field. kyle busch takes off from kevinharvick. here comes matt kenseth, busch's teammate trying to jump up into second, andthat's going to be tough. >> i was shocked that kyle took the outsideon that restart and wonder if he had a deal
there with kevin harvick.>> i would say he has a pretty good deal. >> matt kenseth is trying to get there. matt?>> mike, the conversation did take place between the spotters, toby hirshman and the 4 teamand that was indeed the deal they worked out. >> right now -- you make a deal with anybody,you know. it's early. >> boy.>> saw some contact further back in the field. >> kasey kahne had to lift to keep from runningover his teammate choice elliott and it cost kahne about five spots.>> won't be a problem for the 5 because he'll get to the end of the longest line.>> truex caught to the outside. jimmie johnson and kurt busch in the 41 take advantage.>> when you get up on that outside, not only
is there no grip there, but if anything happensunderneath there, somebody bams knew and pushes into the loose stuff.>> here's what it gets interesting. pass for the lead and kevin harvick going into kylebusch and kyle busch now had the lead and he can control the pace. did he feel likemaybe he was going to abuse his fires and push too hard or did kevin harvick say i'vegot the short run speed and be in control my own destiny?>> kevin harvick is right where he always is, probably will lead the most laps becausehe always does. the question is can he pull off the win?>> now, on the pit stops exiting the pit, brad keselowski and denny hamlin got nabbedfor speeding. here's the two.
>> i didn't even goat my lights. i'm not surehow that is possible. i'm not even to my lights. >> the lights on the dash that indicate thatthe rpm that would put him up against the pit road speed limit. however, we saw himside by side with and running quite a bit faster than his penske-aligned car brian blaney.>> yeah, and we've heard these teams talk a lot about the digital dash and, you know,how there's a slight delay, and i'm just wondering, you know, did they not go conservative enoughon those lights that these drivers depend on to maintain that pit road speed?>> this was always the hardest pit road because it's so slow. 30 miles an hour in second gear.you're just lugging along. and we talked about brian vickers during that 82-lap grown flagrun. he didn't start the run like a rocket.
he bided his time and on the long run startedpicking him off and moved up. matt? >> mike, definitely a long run car for the14 and brian vickers today. tried playing a little bit conservative. when they tookthe tires off a number of crew chiefs told me expect possibly as we have a lead changewith the 18 and the 4, busch and harvick. except somewhere with the right front andleft rear on the first run and did see a little bit of that. an air pressure change and he'shaving a pretty solid day. >> kevin harvick did not and busch and againstyet and now menard goes sailing by. >> goes back to the game you get out frontand start running too fast and they are going to play the cat and mouse game.>> and now cat in the picture is the 42 car
and you can see here that we've worn outsideof the tire and that'sber, a little bit too much camber. >> the track is green and agreesive and eventhough the rubber isn't laid down, it should get slightly better throughout the day.>> i think you're right. historically tire wear is an issue for the first couple of stopsand then we don't talk about it much after that. that tire was off brian vickers' car.>> i can tell you who is not conserving tires and speed and that's our leader, kyle busch.he's running almost as fast as he has all day long.>> danica patrick up to 13th place, matt. >> mike, two top tens in her last six trackraces and during that run the car was too
tight in the center and wouldn't cut and itwas ruining her drive off and an air pressure change on that number 10 machine and becauseof her extensive road racing background and places like martinsville where you drive itmuch lyric a short track, as jeff and g.w. can expand on later, she's excelled at placeslike here. >> they get on the brake and off the brake.they get into the corner and release the brake and let the car roll and that's important.>> talk about driving style suiting certain race tracks and we talked about that withkevin harvick at phoenix and talked about jimmie johnson and his driving style suitinghim here. absolutely. this place seems to suit danica patrick's driving style.>> running 13th and is doing a really nice
job.>> third place. >> that car has been good from the get go.>> really aggressive at the beginning. has a short run car but does he wear the reartires out in the early stage of a run. >> a couple of drivers have gone a lap downearly. joey logano's handling went away and what changes have they made there, vince?>> went away in a big way and currently he's a lap down running 20th. just had no grip.made a big air pressure adjustment and a big wedge adjustment and, guys, there was significantwear on the outside of that left rear tire. >> what would be the effect of those adjustments?we'll get back to that. >> i'm sorry. we had a little audio issueup in the booth and neither of my analysts
heard of vince's response. what was the question?>> the air pressure and wedge is what i heard in there, so, you know, basically if you gettoo high on the air pressure, then that's going to take away the grirngs so you reallywant to get the air pressure down and that will keep the long run speed in there, andi think the biggest thing, and this is what the challenge becomes here at martinsville.can you put wedge in and tighten the car up and give it rear drive off the corner butthat's not necessarily going to make the wear of the tire be any better.>> i think if you put a little more air back in the tire you don't wear the edge of thetire out. >> these guys are -- they are playing games,you know. they do one thing and they expect
something else until you kind of get wherethey want in. >> one thing they cannot change is the rearend camber, something that's built into the rear end when it's made.>> guys, it's like walking a tight rope and we saw this in practice yesterday, and, jeff,you pointed out. the most important thing is to have drive off the corner. i think that'swhat todd gordon was trying to really help in the 22 car, and i think they also madea counter adjustment to make sure that they didn't hurt the center, hurt the rotatingthe way the car turned through the middle. tried to keep that and field some forwarddrive. >> that's a really good point, larry. youcan hurt the rear tires even though you're
pushing the front tires because the car doesn'twant to rotate and then they can snap back in around the exit so you want to do somethingto keep the drive off in there and at the same time make sure that the car is stillrolling through the center of the corner. >> and don't ever count anybody out of thisrace at 119 wills, you don't count anybody out.>> not even kyle larson who hasn't had a lot of success here but had really great practicesession here and currently is leading that three-car group in fifth. two spots further up here's kevin harvickin third. jamie? >> rodney childress told me based on the tirewear they saw in practice he dialed the right
front camber out of the tires and after thefirst pit stop they took the tires out and said it looked great. tires were tight, madean air pressure adjustment and started this run but a little too loose.>> the camber is like a knife. if you get it on the inside edge, that thing will cuton the center of the corner like cutting through birth, but if you get too much, you'll geton the edge and keep that bead heated up and blow this edge off the edge of the tire.>> i think some on the crew chiefs are going to think about taking some of the camber outof the rear tire. >> bumper clear.>> now, we restarted about lap 97 or so, so we've been green now for about 25 laps. thetwo drivers that got penalized, denny hamlin
and brad keselowski have gained little ground.they restarted 17th and 18th and they are running 16th and 17th. it's so hard to moveup here. >> but it's not just that, mike. they realizeif they push really hard to make up those spots, all they will do is hurt their tiresand on the long run they will fall all the way back. they are trying to manage trackand tire wear. >> don't want to make it worse. already duga hole. don't make it worse by running over somebody by being aggressive. a long way togo. it's a great car, i'm a great driver. it will come together.>> great battle with kyle larson. >> got caught up high and brian vickers doveto the inside and made that pass.
>> a lot of talk about camber today, larry.>> obviously camber in the front wheel helps the car handle through the corners here atmartinsville. look at the front car. we'll take a look at the rear camber and nascarmandates you can't have more than 3.5 degrees and it's positive. it's leaned out here inthe left rear and negative and leaned in on the right rear and the more camber you canput in the front tires it helps you corner but it helps to wear the edges especiallyon the right rear tire. >> we saw the inside of this right rear tire,the right rear tire that we're looking back and basically looking at the rear bumper ofthis car and this is the right we are of clint bowyer's car and that's where we saw it godown earlier when they were on the long run
and you watch. it won't be long that we'llsee it on the end again. >> our congrats to the number 15 team andthe folks at bsi who mount the on-board cameras and thanks to them for giving us great views.>> fifth place. here comes jimmie johnson on ryan newman. makes the pass. matt?>> jimmie johnson looking for another martinsville clock start at 24th. he worked his way upinto the top ten and the car a little stuck when he tried to get back in the gas checkand adjusted that when a chassis adjustment and see if it's been improved in the longrun. >> you've got to be real careful adjustingthat snugness in the middle. jimmiee is one who likes the car to rotate positive and slowand that can easily get you loose up and nobody
knows better than jimmie johnson what to dohere hat martinsville. >> some fire coming out of the 48 car.>> what's going throne. >> >> kyle busch just about stopped comingdown the front straightaway. >> matt kenseth had just been talking himand closing that gap every single lap for about the last ten laps, close the gap andfinally he close it had so much for kyle and gave up. said, okay, teammate, go on by. youlead this thing. >> i think we're going see that a lot. youknow you're wearing your tires a little too hard. got to let up a little bit.>> so glad mike pereira is here. our fox nfl rules expert and former director of officiatingfor the nfl. big race fan and in the grandstand.
i'd like his ruling on bump and run becauseif you've been watching kurt busch, oh, my goodness, the z brass would be all over himfor bump and run. >> and somebody poked his head into the booththat can tell us about bump and run, tony stewart.>> we've got officials. we've got drivers and got them all.>> matt kenseth after last fall's martinsville mayhem. he is in the lead. >>> pit stops as we're under caution. rickystenhouse went around off the front bumper of ragan.>> the 18 shot to his line and about the time that kenseth came out he shot his line andthey kind of rolled out. let's see what happened
here because it looked like the 20 was a littlebit fast to me. >> a bit of a drag race there, isn't it?>> here comes the 20 and i'm going to go right by you and to the timing line. there.>> now, you asked why can the 20 do that. it's not about the-mile-per-hour that yourun. it's a time segment loop and so what happens is when the 20 stops, the clock isstill running, but he's sitting there stopped so he can just drive all the way out to theexit without speeding. >> well, not technically breaking the speedlimit, but without limiting the amount of time in that segment.>> let's show you what happened down in turn one and rogan smith.>> there's ricky stenhouse.
>> the 17 sort of left the door open and the7 dives down in there and then makes contact. >> you know what that looked like?>> it looked like the 7 thought the 17 was going to let him go and then the 17 decidedhe wasn't going to let him go. >> that's one of those spotty things. whenhe's inside look, looking. you've got to be more specific.>> that's a harder hit. >> he got him right in the most vulnerablepart of the corner where there's just nothing you can do and the impact is going to be prettysevere. >> you can't make a wide entry here. got toget pretty tight in that corner or that's exactly what will happen if you don't.>> joey logue moe got the free pass. he was
battling jamie mcmurray very hard to be inthat free pass position and prevailed. not without a lot of contact.>> oh, yeah. >> watch this. down here in turn three. heslides him up the hill pretty good and right here they get together and that sends oneup the hill. >> he'll be out there.>> and that's jamie fighting back. and he really crowded him in there and didn't wantlogano to get position. look how important that is. the rear bumper of him and number22 and gets underneath him. >> inside the one, and he's there. are youthere inside? >> bam.>> clear. clear, clear.
>> i think -->> if there hadn't been a caution there would have been -->> good-bye one. >> as a guy that's been a lap down a few timesi can certainly appreciate the frustration of these guys battling from that position.dale earn heartjr. is trying to get himself elevated up the scoring lineup so he can startto fight for the free pass and logano and mcmurray went after it hard there, guys. that'ssome good racing. >> that was great racing.>> i'll tell you what that was right there. that was big frustration on jamie mcmurray.man, i was a lap away from getting that lucky dog.>> ricky stenhouse too fast exiting pit road.
>> look at the back of that 22. these carsare on the ground. and a great crowd here in martinsville from our aerial coverage providedby goodyear, superior performing tires to face challenging cans on the track and onthe road. good year, official tire of nascar. >> vince.>> matt kenseth pitted from the lead and said the car was turning a little bit better thanthe first run and still needed helps hon center and bert on exit for matt connectioneth.>> the car started out 40% to 50% tighter than the previous chassis adjustment on the18 to improve it. >> jamie.>> kevin harvick started off a little loose and made a wedge adjustment and once againhis tires that came off looked great.
mike?>> five tires took the wave around and michael mcdowell get back on the lead lap and at lap143 we'll restart with 19 lead lap cars led by matt kenseth who since joining joe gibbsracing in one-fourth as many starts he's led five times as many laps as he did while drivingfor rausch racing. kenseth and kyle busch side by side for this restart.>> should be a deal made here of some kind, i would think.>> yeah, definitely. >> just as on the last restart the driverfrom the outside shoots ahead and the first two go single file leaving everybody elseto fight for position. >> you can do that when it's your teammateparticularly and then it takes a little negotiating
if it's someone else.>> that was textbook, d.w. kenseth took off and kyle hesitated. didn't bother the wholelineup and whole feel as they got down into turn one and turn two. i know this was a bigthing for the gibbs drivers and last time they were here they sort of cost him betweenthe 20 and the 2 and 22 and seen some wild battling going back on in here from fourthposition between kurt busch and ryan newman. >> all wadded up.>> here comes larson on the inside and jimmy johnson.>> jimmie johnson, like one of the grandfather clocks.>> and kyle busch to the front. >> and i've seen matt kenseth here in thepast and not having a very good car on the
short run. the air pressure is real low andhis car is extremely good on the long run as we saw on that last run that we had, soi wouldn't be surprised if he let kyle go out there and set the pace.>> show you the pass for the lead. >> you can see the 20 car gets up the racetrackthere and loses the front tires, and he realizes right there that kyle busch is just betterthan me and my car is going to come to me. you go ahead.>> i think the 4 car is another car that might be a pretty good short run car because wesaw him jump out in the lead and we saw him fall back as well. here's richard childressrunning order. >> nice job by austin dillon, mike. he struggledall throughout practice and got their car
better for the race today, 39 car.>> and he said he thought he eastbound pretty good in the race.>> of course, right there he gets loose and the 4 going to second place here underneathmatt kenseth. >> i just think you're going to see that farmake some passes and be aggressor here on the shorter run. you know, we've just seenwhere it seems to -- >> look at all dinger.>> dive bombed ryan blaney in the number 3 to get alongside and now it looks like he'llmake the pass with hamlin. >> a.j. allmendinger makes his ability tobe able to outbrake anybody. the road working skills and the braking skills i understandworks well here at martinsville and usually
that will khowst in a place where patiencereally pays off and driving nice and's but he finds a good way to make it work for him.>> remember your word, modulate. those road racers are able to get that car down withthe braking. >> there's the roush fenway.>> they put a lot of work into the car this weekend and his best finish this season hasbeen 13th at atlanta so they desperately want to get a top ten and working with a new crewchief this year, of course, in brian patty. >> tenth place changes hands. hamlin movesup on newman and blaney. keselowski is coming back after that penalty. last time brad keselowskihad a speeding penalty, that was las vegas. where did he end up? victory lane?>> oh, wait. got a battle going on in that
group right there. got a battle for the lead.harv drives right around him. that was a gimme. you go ahead and lead a little while.>> here's what i'm anxious to see right here. did the 4 car of kevin harvick and rodneychildress, did they make an adjustment that will make the cars manage the rear tires alittle bit bert and doesn't push it -- doesn't mind pushing it a little bit harder at thebeginning. >> if it was good for 10, 20 laps, and nowwe can make good for 40 laps and then we get to the point where we're good for the longrun. >> harvick is the first of 19 cars on thelead lap, the first car one lap down is jamie mcmurray. we talked bump and run. wow, lookat the nose on keselowski's car. that's more
than a bump that he's been in.>> had to use a bumper to get from penalty up to 13th.>> and i think also when you're further back in traffic, look at that. that's really cavedin. that's going to make a big impact on the air flowing through the radiator, and youcan get through and some air is coming underneath the hood and that might be okay. won't reallyaffect the aerodynamics of the car in a place like martinsville and that domino effect whenyou're further back in traffic on a restart. they stack up and you have nowhere to go andyou're running the back of somewhere. it can ruin your day and i don't think that damageis going to ruin his. >> it took a big impact to make a big impact.>> oh, it was a big impact.
>> uh-oh. ryan blaney, he -- the 2 car gothim up off the bottom off two there and now he's paying the price. blaeby hung up on theoutside. >> yeah.>> keep in mind, blaney is one. only four rookies that's still on the lead lap.>> nice job. >> doing a great job. will lose a couple ofpositions here, but he can just settle back in and be patient. >> see, i think that's real smart. didn'tpanic and just fell back in line and will regroup and will go again.>> hey, who is right behind ryan that's making up some ground, danica patrick, talked aboutthis racetrack suiting her driving style.
saw her make a pretty aggressive move on jamiemacmury. >> running in 13th and 18th, right along inthere. >> now, we have found what happened to bradkeselowski to cause that nose job, if you will. that was right after the restart orsoon after the restart. >> that's greg biffle right in front of him.>> stacked right up in front of him. >> according style.>> accordion, domino. >> yeah.>> that's what happens. >> he got it front and rear.>> i think that's probably what drove him into the back of the 16.>> you just don't expect cars to stop right
in the middle of the corner, and so everybodyrolls in there and they are getting ready to get back on the throttle. obviously somebodyhad an issue further ahead. >> and where that damage is on the 2 car,that's not going to hurt anything. >> the big thing, jeff, you talked about theair flow to the radiator. we know there's duct work behind there. and as long as itdidn't damage the duct work the actual opening is way down in here. you see it right there,so i don't know that it's going to affect the cooling and to your point here, not sureabout aerodynamics either. that's what happens when both of us -- i was going to help youout, buddy. >> back when dale earnhardt ran the buschseries which is now the xfinity series.
>> he did that everywhere he drove.>> i'm going at one and two. feel like i'm losing grip on three and four.>> i need it down to help the drive. >> just remember what might affect the over.think about it. >> now, that's as nice as i've ever heardthem talk. chad was actually agreeing with him a little bit.>> sarcastically i might add. >> sarcasm is an art form.>> the track bar adjuster, something that the driver can do which is new over the lastyear or two so exactly what jimmie is saying, and chad was alluding to. if he can raisethat track bar up to help the car roll through the center, doesn't pin that right rear tireas much and helps the front tires cut. the
problem is you fight loose in and loose offand you need the track bar down for those things hand that's what jimmie was staying.i need that. >> the lead has tightened up as kevin harvickworks race traffic. 169 lapped complete. harv out front.>>> kevin harvick, only driver with a top ten finish in every race so far this season.he's currently your leader. the sprint lte plus network delivers faster download speedsthan other national carriers. sprint better for less.>>> the little 7 car took a little ride there. i think he may have gotten a little nerf fromsomeone. just got slid up into the loose stuff. >> his car is looking real, really loose.>> let's show you what happened here just
in front over race leader kevin harvick.>> oh, he got a little help i believe from the 15 car. >> that's interesting.>> well, we saw the 7 give somebody some help earlier and now -->> yeah. >> that's why you can't lead that.>> all clear, all clear, all clear. >> you've got to be really deliberate withhow you enter into the corner to make sure you don't give an inch to let that driverbehind you think that they can make that move. >> jeff, i've seen it time and time again.if you make a wide entry into this corner, somebody is going to stick the nose in thereand nerf you up the hill. got to leave a tight
line getting into both of these corners.>> up front kevin harvick trying to create a little distance between himself and kylebusch and there's a lot of race traffic, jamie. >> you mentioned top ten in nine straightgoing back to last season and also now led a lap in every race this season except daytona.jeff, you wanted to know what adjustments they made on this car. they made a wedge adjustmentand air pressure adjustment and it tightened him up just a tick and you saw him take thelead right away. >> kyle busch a car behind her.>> yeah, i don't like whatever we did from the late exit. i like the track bar goingup and over whatever we just did. >> so you raise the track bar up and for everyaction there's a reaction and so if you raise
the track bar you have to do something tocompensate that for that and you're trying to make the car do something different foryou and starting to lap cars and that takes him out of the free lap position and michaelmcdowell now holds that spot and fellows like dale jr. who got a race down early in thespin just can't get to that position and let's take a look at our nationwide dale jr. performanceposition. >> track position has been the biggest hindrancetrying to work his way back into position. the lap five spin has changed his day andthe car still has tremendous speed. no adjustments on the last stop. just mired back in traffic.>> oh, the 43 just went by and sounded like he's down a cylinder.>> a tough race for aric almirola and he had
been hung on the outside for much of the raceand real battling for anything he can get and when he came by that thing sounded likeseven cylinders at best. >> pulling the sub saw.>> i don't know what that means. >> that changed had a lap and a half ago.>> changed the ignition box. >> there, you have two of those that you canswitch back to as a backup system, and i'm sure he tried everything that the team hasbeen telling him what he can change and maybe would fix that and you go through all thechanges first before you come down pit road and actually find out what might be the problem.>> call it the ignition box and all the ecu system.>> matt kenseth coming back into battle for
the lead.>> the 20 car has been really consistent today and one issue they haven't been able to fixis matt hasn't been able to roll the center the way he would like.>> the crew chief said throughout the course of the season they have been good early inthe race and haven't made the right adjustment as the races have progressed so we'll keepan eye on this situation as the race rolls on.>> that 42 car. yesterday he ran the truck race. it really helped him. who have you got?>> right now kyle larson is trying to hold off jimmie johnson and johnson is taking himon the inside and as you mentioned he missed this event a year ago and he thought thatwas a huge advantage. right now the car is
too free on entry. >> boy, that was a close moment because justahead of him regan smith had gotten into cassill and almost stacked up the whole field fromjohnson on back and here is jimmie johnson's day after starting 24th. he made it to thesecond round of knockout qualifying but just never showed sweed.>> this is what jimmie johnson looks like anywhere he doesn't qualify good.>> exactly. >>. >> to go back to kyle larson, a great, greatrun, a big confidence booster for him if he can finish top five. getting valuable lapsand just getting 500 laps under your belt here at martins gill. all of a sudden yougain so much knowledge to not only finish
a race but to get yourself in good position.>> best finish 19th. >> and yesterday he was fastest on cars thatwere making good lap runs. >> one thing i'm a little worried about andi think it will be fine. that hard hit he had at california. he came in here, you know,a little banged up, and we had an off week for him to get well and this is a gruelingrace and you mentioned it many times about the breaking and turning and how tight thistrack s.physically i hope he hangs in there fine.>> and he loves dirt track and sprint car racing and loves to get in those cars everychance he can get and he chose not to get in those cars because of the way he was feelingafter the crash. aric almirola after the crash.
again, the car sounding off.>> as we come to 200 laps of 500 today. and contact a moment ago. regan smith and colewhitt. >> regan has hit everything but the lotterytoday. >> this time it's the opposite end.>> yeah, he's struggling with grip. no doubt about that, and i'm sure the tires are aboutshot but he let the 11 car go by him and wanted to let that get in behind him. and the 98skid no, no, i'm going to take advantage of that opportunity.>> vince reports 43, five cylinders firing. >> wow.>> five out of eight. >> not good.>> and we haven't had to debate about what
stp stood for either.>> nobody knows. >> i never knew.>> stay together please is what i always said. >> and, know, five cylinders would be reallygood if you get wide open in the middle and the problem is you need awl eight of themif you get down the straightaway. >> one of the things people love about racingat martinsville here. this is a contact sport. kevin harvick is your leader coming up onlap 200. >>> from danica patrick, here comes kaseykahne. not again. close. >> i i'll tell you there for a minute i thoughtit would be one of those paybacks but so far so good.>> the last car on the lead lap.
>> you know, she was on the lead lap and kaseykahne was a lap down and right now kasey kahne a lap down and trying to not go a lap down.you know the frustration level is no different than it was in fontana right now.>> kahne underneath newman and then patrick and then the race leader and kevin harvicktrying to get to the bottom. >> we've got all kinds of scenarios goingon here. >> this is the area the race gets real, reallyinteresting. you get on a long run and tires are wearing out and you've got people thatare trying to stay in the lead lam. they are battling for position and you come up on themand they are maybe your teammates. >> that's it, jeff.>> let's say you're the race leader, it's
your teammate that just had the lead on thelast lap. what can you do? >> i had a big gap all the way back down tosecond place. might cut him a break but right now i've got the leaders on me and i needto get by that car. >> here he comes to the inside. patrick gibbsway. harvick didn't have enough time but this time i think he will.>> three wide in front of him. >> whoa.>> that didn't work out. >> that's just as bad.>> do have debrefz and medians where they have to sit together so you do have to becareful how you go about making that pass. >> real slow cars on the bottom. patrick isgoing to troy the outside. that might not
work too well.>> not when they get down to this. >> three wide again!>> and 32 took a bumper from danica patrick. >> i'll tell you though.>> they are high still inside. >> that didn't work out well for joey gase.>> and danica put up a heck of a fight trying to stay on the lead lap.>> the car was just too tight from center to exit. she fought back and made an air pressurechange and that didn't change it. still reversed that and trying to find god balance in the10. >> i just think teams like that when you seehow competitive she is. she could have moved over and let her teammate go and put up afight.
>> has to put up a fight because the bucklucky dog is between her and the 31 and until that 4 car can get all the way up i believeto joey logano. >> yeah.>> that's the battle on the race interesting besides the battle for the lead.>> jamie? >> guys, brian newman qualified fifth forthis race and they really thought this was the best shot at getting a run. this run,his car is not good. he's on the splitter and in really tight. the crew chief said we'llput a rubber in the right rear on the next stop and big things are coming for ryan newmanwho just went a lap down. >> and danica patrick is in the free passposition right now. we're talked a lot about
no rubber getting laid down into the concretecorners. let's look at our kfc heat map to death a better look at the temperature changes.the red surface is asphalt and taking the sun. the yellow is concrete and the temperaturesare relative and then it's roll ahead as you can see a little bit of darkness coming onwhere the right side tires are and here is where we are currently and still, not muchrubber laid down. here's what kyle busch had to say about theracing groove. >> i don't see it runering in so i'll seewhat we've got. >> i think the track is definitely tighteningup. it's weird. >> i think there's a little bit.>> we can see a track and a groove. it's not
dark, dark, like we would like to see. butthere's starting to be a line there where the cars are running the right side tires.track temperatures 91 degrees and just about at the temperature of the concrete where goodyearsay the tires should start putting rubber into the racetrack.>> if it stays green for a while here i think we'll start to see a little bit of rubberget laid down and right on the edge. i think it will take a little more temperature thanthat. >> after all the contact down in three andfour. matt? >> further update on kyle busch. he's lostthe rear security that he had in the 18 car earlier in the race. he also was comparinghis car to kevin harvick and said harvick
is much stronger in the center be a the cornerand is able to cut at the 50% mark more than the 18 can.>> that 50% mark is a crucial part of the crack at every track but especially at martinsvilleand that car has to -- >> trouble down there.>> denny hamlin hard in the wall. >> a hard hit for hamlin.>> i think something happened to the car. >> probably a tire if i had to guess.>> he was running fifth as caution comes out at lap 221.>> fourth caution flag. >> just the way the damage looked there. itlooked like that would have been a tire. >> going to the garage.>> he'll join aric almirola who pulled in
just a lap ago.>> sorry, guys. >> wow.>> wheel hot. >> unbelievable. >> you watching him come down the front here.>> oh, my. he does a heck of a job holding on to it but still carrying too much speedthere. we saw this happen in qualifying with trevayne and when you drive in and get toomuch on the rear you get what is called wheel hop and you chatter and loose control of thecar and can't slow the car down and into the wall.>> doing about what, 120, probably 25 miles an hour down the front straightaway.>> five-time martinsville winner and defending
champion denny hamlin to the garage with alot of damage. danica patrick will get the free pass. she was in the position of beingthe first car one lap down. she had repassed ryan newman to get that job back.>> she fought hard and she did. great job. >> pit road is open. jamie?>> kevin harvick led 72 laps today. the car is good. they will make another wedge adjustmentt.worked for him last time. a four-tire stop and they will fill them up.>> matt? >> adam stevens will try to fix the handlingon the 18. several adjustments. one a chassis adjustment to try to help fix the balance.meanwhile the 48 of jimmie johnson. they were talking about a possible air pressure changeon the 48 to help him.
>> matt kenseth said his rear tires held upbetter and they are going to go back on a previous adjustment that matt likes earlierin the race. four tires. >> yellow line and top of the screen and that'swhere the advanced auto parts race off of pit road is decided.>> kenseth, bush, larson. >> not a big stop and he lost it a littlebit there. >> he made up for it, jeff.>> some others had some great stops. >> fourth caution flag of the day for dennyhamlin's crash. >>> getting ready for the restart and lookat the comparison of the restart time. israel trouble getting the left side jacked up onhafrk's car. more on the reis that right for
matt kenseth, kyle busch, kyle larson, jimmiejohnson and kurt busch are the fast five coming back to the green flag and completing lap227, green flag. >> another nice restart by the gibbs teammates.what a luxury it is to have your teammate back with you.>> a little bit of contact between the 48 and the four.>> that can cut that left rear tire down. we've seen that.>> think harvick is a little bit anxious to get up to the front and race to the lead.>> not happy about the pit stop that they had.>> and here's what he had to say after his pit stop which was not a quick one.>> do this every week. every week we lose
a spot and i'll get it together.>> week six here. >> you know, kevin harvick has been a teamowner before and is a really smart race car driver and very, very involved with his raceteam and nobody is harder on their pit career than he is and that's how hard he is on himself.nobody is more vested than he is, and he's one of those drivers that can get away withthat kind of criticism and the team will still step up for him.>> they lost five positions. >> yeah, it wasn't one.>> no. >> but, you know, they are having some kindof issue with the jack in the left side. >> it looks like he's got a dire down or something.>> kyle edwards was very aggressive getting
down pit road and since the restart. he isthe first car one laugh down and he's fought hard for that position in front of joey logano. trying to stay in the pass position and getback on the lead lap. >> let's show you the contact between harvickand johnson. >> you can see jimmie is up above the 42 andis wanting to get down and harvick is on the bottom and the 48 has kind of come down onhim. >> and here's audio from the 48.>> how much left front damage. >> got into it a little good.>> nothing on the sheet metal and knocked the writing off the tire. you're fine.>> liar, liar, pants on fire.
>> he's the best at that, but i don't thinkit's damage that's going to cause any kind of issue with the performance of the car.if somebody gets up and rubs on him again it might cut the right front tire.>> what chad says is exactly nothing that should concern you.>> he asked and they gave him the right answer and carry on because you might be leadingthis thing before too long. >> i don't think chad looked at it and automaticallyhad that answer ready to go. >> yeah, you're probably right. old chad isa hawkeye, keep calm and race on. >> i am impressed with jimmie johnson herehow well he's running and i thought when the 4 car got to him, i thought he'd go rightby him and jimmie is getting his stuff tuned
up pretty good to maybe go and battle.>> you expect jimmie johnson to be in the front four and how about kyle larson sittinghere in third place. after his last few trips to martinsville speedway you would not havepredicted this. >> to me one of the great young talents inour sport today. he has such a bright future and to me today is one of the most impressiveruns. he can run good up against the wall and do wild things on restarts at a lot ofother soundtracks and when you can start to run good at a place like martinsville thattells me a lot about what you're capable of doing as a race car driver.>> got to have finesse for this joint. >> let's go down to the garage area.>> we heard denny on the radio say he wheel
hawked and what exactly does that mean andyou getting into the wall? >> my first time ever doing it here and it'sa little embarrass, and, i mean, we were the fastest car the last 30 laps and got backto the top five and making up a lot of my speed on injury, and as the tires wear, rearsget hotter and less grip. you can't brake at same amount and i didn't. it was reallyout of the blue. i never had a hint of it up until that moment, so a bit of -- bit ofa rookie move hon my part. been around here too much to do something like that but learningand really encouraged how good our car came up through the pack and i real thought wehad a car that could win. >> thanks, deny.>> in the fall it's a chase race here at martinsville
as denny hamlin gets to watch two of his teammatesbattle for the lead. kyle busch out front and he's starting to pull away.>> what a battle with the 18 to the 20 and the 42 and the 48 looking down under the 42.is he going to make it. >> an aggressive move by jimmie johnson andkyle larson had to move up the racetrack later than he anticipated.>> you always bring a friend with you, i don't know why that is.>> that hole was not open when he went into it.>> it wasn't. >> opened her up like a can opener.>> sometimes the element of tries can really help you make some moves at a road courseor here in martinsville. i don't think larson
expected him to make that dive in here andwe talk about spotters and that was a crucial movement for the spotters to tell him he'scoming back inside. >> and we asked him after how did he do that?about a quarter lap back from this group. carl edwards is still the first car one lapdown and has to have company. joey logano and dale earnhardt jr. in yellowand then in silver and blue and they are coming and edwards has really run hard to try tostay ahead of him and stay in that free pass position.>> and made that 19 car much, much better than the start of the race and i think hemight be a little quicker right now than the guys are chasing dale jr.>> got greg biffle in between them. right
now who is a lead lap car. vince?>> joey logano started on the pole but dropped like a rock at the start down a lap at onepoint as well. had to fix some front end damage and finally got the car handling better andstill don't quite have the drive off that he wants and he's so much better than whereit started and has a long race and see if he can continue to move forward.>> joey is also a lead lap car and battling biffle for position and the fight for thelucky dog is carl edwards and dale jr. >> you see that aggressive move by dale jr.ingto go inside and did you know he has to go up there and has a better race car than joeylogano and needs to get back on that lead lap.>> i'm pretty happy or pretty impressed with
the 16 car because this has not been one ofbiffle's best racetrack and is hanging in there pretty good right now and he just losta spot. >> kevin harvick coming back third place.>> and he's just been stocking jimmie johnson and rolling through the center really goodwith good drivoff. >> two laps to halfway coming up. our foxnascar mid-race report. >>> kyle busch the leader here in martinsville,virginia. time now for the fs1 nascar mid-race report and tightening up with matt kensethon his heels, 0 for 32 here, has led the most laps here today and said on the pre-race he'slearned a lot about hamlin and pole-sitter joey logano dropped back when the car gotloose and dale earnhardt jr. went a lap down
when david ragan got into him and cut a tire. who are you keeping an eye on, jeff?>> kyle busch, the leader. surprisely he's never won a race here hat martinsville untiljerod and he's out front right now and had to make an adjustment and that's got erintheir car better in the long run and one more adjustment and i think kyle busch might gethis first cup rin here at martinsville. >> after callfying 24th jeret. the questionis what is wrong with the 48 car and the answer is nothing. driven up in the top five. youhave to be pretty aggressive in the first half of the race.>> on lap four, a last tire, and i'm dale earnhardt jr. and steadily i'm getting myselfback in contention. getting that lap back
and i don't know if he can win it or not andby the way, stp stands for scientifically treated petroleum.>> information i needed, brother. thank you very much.>> hey, i think the 4 car, can't run second every week and maybe a little bit of the phoenixmagic will come out. >> and 492 kyle larson, has gone from 17 to6. says the car is great in the center and great on exit and logged extra lap time andtrying to improve his short track prowess and it shows.>> kenseth wants to reraise the memory of what happened here loft fall and what a greatway to welcome chris os boorn back up in the starter's stand with a new clock to wind.>> denny hamlin who had pit road penalties
last two races and had another one today.had worked himself up to fifth before wheel hopping and the 25-time winner is out of therace for the movement meantime, bras keselowski had a pit road penalty and dropped all theway back to 18 and he's worked his way up to fifth. already had two lengthy green flagruns, one of 82 laps and another one of 72 laps and that trend, michael wall strip unlikelyto continue in the second half of the race when things heat up and tempers have beenas cool as the temperature. >> got a couple of teammates working welltogether at the front and bush and kenseth, forget about that and the intensity will rocketup and the temperatures inside the cook pitt will get heated as well.>> and that's your fs1 mid-race report. glad
you're watching in martinsville, virginia.>> brad keselowski has snuck up on us. the last time he had a speeding penalty he woundup in verdictry lane. he just passed jimmie johnson for fourth place and here's what jimmieand team had to say about that. >> doesn't really like trail braking. theseguys brake a lot. my car just doesn't like that. slow to the center doing it.>> yeah. we talked and d.w., you mentioned modulated or trail braking. just how you dragthe brake pedal down into the center corner and the front tires don't want to turn whenyou're on the brake and here at martinsville you need to use the brakes all the way downto the center and roll out of the brakes to get the car to cut and turn and he's justseeing other people carry more speed into
the corner and yet kurn into the middle betterthan him. >> we saw he had a best car before he gotthat penalty and he's worked himself back up into fourth place and that, too, lookedpretty race to me and be careful with the brakes. you don't want to wear them out doingthe trail braking thing and all that stuff. >> i'd worry about the bumpers in this battlefrom austin dillon on back. >> dillon and crew have been chasing it allweekend. they finally put paul menard's stepup on in practice and menard has been good andit wasn't a fix for him by getting the rhythm and technique he needed to be good throughoutthe course of the weekend. found something today, much better and started into the topten and haven't had huge adjustments on the
car but it's definitely been an impressiveshowing for the 3 of austin dillon. >> two and a half seconds in front of him. also having a great day in eighth place isa.j. allmendinger. as jeff pointed out, nobody brakes harder into the corner than the dinger,but isn't it funny how drivers with a lot of road racing experience really seem to adaptwell here. >> well, we hear those terms. we talked abouttrail braking, something you do on a road course. i think road racers do a good jobstopping their car in a line and getting off the brake and letting the car roll throughthe center of the car. car won't turn if you've got the brake on and that's why they turnout to be pretty good at this racetrack.
>> in front of the dinger here's kurt buschin seventh place, vince? >> started 23rd and made his way up. the caris set up for the long run and he's been giving positions up on the restart and that's frustratingfor him and feels like santa claus and giving away so much at the start and definitely goodon the long run and as it continues to roll off, look for that 41 to remain consistentlystrong. >> all right. jimmie johnson battled backunderneath brad keselowski. >> did he learn something that brad was doing,or did he make an adjustment inside the car, and it allowed him to learn something so hecan get back by brad keselowski or maybe he's losing a little bit of grip there. jamie,you have more on that?
>> talking to him this morning. he said thistrack and this place is a mental endurance and you're exhausted because it throws somuch at you. good early and got a pit road speeding penalty and he's fought his way backand his only complaint, just a little loose into one and his last adjustment, the wedgeadjustment seemed to help that a bit. >> jeff, we talked about this. these turnsare so different. i mean, this track looks symmetrical, and it is in design and the corners,you drive them totally different. one is a little flatter getting in and use a littlemore brake and get a little wide swing and the corner is acting different on both endsof the speedway. of the top five, only the top thai two havenot been to victory lane. 225 laps to go,
how about a beautiful spring sunday. fox nascarcranking it up. no audio. >> hoping you're enjoying 500 laps on martinsville,virginia, on fs1 on this beautiful sunday. 220 laps to go. kyle busch out in front of matt kenseth by.7of a second. >> hold the brake.>> that's what i need to know. need to know what to do to help you.>> good job, boss. take care of your stuff. >> 211 laps to go in southern virginia. kylebusch winner of yesterday's truck race, first checkered flag in 31 attempts in nascar'smajor national touring series, hoping to complete the clean sweep today. two seconds on teammatematt kenseth and two toyotas leading, kevin
harvick's chevrolet and brad keselowski'sford, back in fourth and jimmie johnson six seconds back of the lead in fifth.>> when we were watching the crank it up there, jeff, we noticed in the right rear of the15 car we saw this -- we saw this spring rubber right here hanging in our earlier shot andthat's a great tuning tool to be able to shove that thing in there on a pit stop. there yousee it hanging in there in the pits. reaches in and shoves that baby in place.>> guys, what that will do, that increases the rate of that right rear spring but it'snot like putting a stiffer spring in there because that spring is linear as far as ratebut when you put that rubner there it actually makes it a progressive rate spring. the springdoesn't acknowledge the rubber is in there.
>> the 1 car, took a packer out of the rightfront and those things are in hundreds of thousands and very small. that's how sensitive a driver that kyle buschis. >> but, remember, he said his car startedrotating not as good as kevin harvick in the center corner and that lets that car rotateand turn better. >> second place, kevin harvick, moving pastmatt connectioneth. >> of the four-car teams, hendricks, gibbsand stuart hass, only stuart hass has all their cars on the lead lap. jimmie johnsonpassing brad keselowski, the two penske cars and the wood brothers. those three are alsostill on the lead lap.
>> jimmie johnson and bred keselowski, can'tdecide who wants to be in fourth or fifth. keep learning from one another and burningthe limits and all of a sudden they seem to find something and shoot by the other oneand the next thing you know they are shooting by them.>> all that back and forth bring kyle larson and a.j. allmendinger right up to them.>> i'm not sure keselowski didn't wear his tires out quicker because he drove so hardto get in the position and really passed a lot of cars to get up there and may have wornhis tires out. >> and as tires wear and the air pressurebuilds up you have to constantly serb around the racetrack and the balance changes andthe grip laugh shakes and every 10 to 15 laps
you make a change.>> we've seen how the winner gets one of the most coveted races in trophies and let's goto brad keselowski's pitt. >> some wives suggest they put the grandfatherclock in the work office but not samantha busch, budget of and joking on kyle ever sincehe won the saturday truck race. she says not to be greedy, i know where in our home i wantto put it and if he won a second one that helps to balance out the wall well. nine winsand 11 with d.w. up there, a lot of locations to find for clocks. >> a lot of feng shway.>> ryan newman is one lap down and right in the middle of the mix. still trading places,jimmie johnson and brad kes lousky.
>> brad is not letting him get away with anything.seems like one is better than the other at the other end and brad keselowski closes rightup on jimmie and kind of pushes him through the corner and they go to the next cornerand pushes away a little bit. >> the 47 and comes to the 42. king?>> allmendinger in the 47, 300 laps started sixth and running sixth and could use a littlebit more forward drive, but the car is the best it has been all day long. they are comingoff an eighth place finish in the most recent race at california to see that passing goingon in front of a.j. he's looking to pass on it as well. they feel like they have beenbetter than the results indicated. they thought if they could put it all together today theymight have their best shot at a top five.
>> every time he saw the two cars side byside in front of them he said i'll be there in a second and he's done it. he's moved upto fifth place. >> another battle here for the lucky dog.dale jr. got himself around carl edwards to put him in that position.>> enough of that. >> he's up to fourth place.>> an extremely impressive run by a.j. allmendinger. >> the whole team has been gelling this yearat 47. >> dibenedetto slow on straightaway. flat tire i think.>> changed batteries. >> oh, worse.>> no problem.
>> and all of a miss and pop real bad.>> makes it to pit road without incident and 19949 laps to go. let's go and take an insideride, a nationwide inside ride with dale earnhardt jr.>>> note junior's blue gloves. they are blue for autism awareness month, and they willbe on ebay after the last race in april being auctioned off to benefit the dale jr. foundation.>> you know, if dale jr. can get back on the lead lap he might have something to say. he'sputting something down for great lap times when you look at the timing chart so i havea feeling that, you know, if the caution comes back out and he can stay in this positionhe can still be a factor in this race. >> a real battle going on amongst the 21 carwho is running 14 and 78 to 16 and that's
what they say about the old 21 car tied.>> just looking for grip and kind of hung in there and hasn't been terrible but he'sjust too loose to really go forward way they want and he's hanging in there. another teamthat's run better than the vults have shown. >> we'll be watching for comers and goersnow because we're in the longest green flag race of the race. there goes the 30. had hada little help getting up. >> caution is out.>> and that's brought out the caution for the fifth time today. lap 312.>> definitely had a little help. >> that's how you get a caution right there,brother. need a caution. watch this. >> oh, this is going to come maybe from arookie ryan blaney.
>> oh, no, the 78. martin truex jr.>> stone, you're in my way. >> guess who is back on the lead lap. auctioningoff his gloves at the end of the month for charity. dale jr. good for him.>> working hard to get that back. >> and well deserved to. your pain, jeff,the last several laps he and kevin harvick had been the fastest cars on the racetrack.>> nobody right in front of him. >> he's been a lap down to get that lap back.that was hard work. baseball is back and fs1 starts the season with two great games onthursday, prince fielder and the rangers take on mike trout and the angels and on saturdayone of baseball's most historic heated rivalries dodgers/giants. owl an america's home forbaseball all season long. fs1 or watch live
on fox sports go.>> 187 laps to go, pits will be open this time.>> cautions are falling just right. >> just about out of tires.>> kyle busch leads them on to pitt road, jamie?>> kevin harvick had had a little bit of right front damage from getting together with jimmiejohnson earlier. the crew will take a look at that and he's tight entire run and theywill take wedge out and audioad four fresh >> a little tight outon the track due to allthe adjustments and said it looks like they need to work more on the center of the corners.that will continue to tighten up. >> a great one from a.j. allmendinger. canuse a little bit more forward drive but they
are not going to change anything and no changeson the 47 and matt kenseth a little bit slow on the stop and gets away. kenseth is justlooking a little grip. >> and kyle busch lets him go.>> i'm not sure. >> takes advantage of the timing line.>> matt knows where that is. >> he rocketed it out of his hit and gainstwo positions in the race off pitt road and here it is. >>> pit stops are key every week but in thetight confines of martinsville's narrow pitt road, maybe there's nowhere that they aremore important. jimmie johnson's been working it to try to move towards the front.>> guys, look right there at that stop four.
yeah, he gained two spots. they really didnot have that quick of a stop. 13.24, but i was watching jimmie johnson and his pittingstop in segment four so he's working the scoring loops on pit road. the big advantage of thatpit stop is what jimmie johnson did working the scoring loops on pit road.>> that's our advance auto parts pit performance and here's some audio from team 48.>> just when you let those guys go, they seem, to i don't know, it's a weird thing. not likeyou're saving your tires when you let them go because you drive right back up on themso maybe this time try to run hard and stay with them the whole time.>> 10-4. hard that the 2 was friendly to the other end and couldn't go anywhere and thendrives right back up to you.
>> yeah. i mean, this is the challenge thatyou have here when you know you'll have a long run and the tires fall off a lot andyou use them up, especially that you get nervous and scared after that first run where we sawtires go down to the course and this time maybe they will try a little different strategyand there's more speed in the 48 car is what i'm hearing except that he's trying to manageit. >> getting ready for the stop. goodyear, theofficial tire the nascar. >> 180 to go when they come to the line andmatt kenseth on the outside of teammate kyle busch and then kevin half vic and jimmie johnson.allmendinger, keselowski, keselowski and logano. >> watch jim geeionson squeeze down in thefour. harvick didn't get off into the two
and the last thing he wants is jimmie to getdown in front of him and allmendinger and keselowski did not get down front. i don'tsee an opportunity to get down. >> allmendinger trying to move into fifth,and right behind him is kyle larson. >> just keep closing that hole. here comeskurt busch. hard tore the 2 and 22 to get to the inside for a while.>> if you're on the inside the job is to fill that gap. we saw the 3 of logano and dillonmake contact. >> i would like to get right in here and hesaid, no, you don't. >> clear, clear, clear. clear, clear, clear.>> we're turned left and seeing if that driver will let you in.>> you hope, you hope.
>> well, he didn't.>> that was keselowski's spot. >> still inside. 27.>> and every lap you're on the outside fighting with those cars on the inside, you're usingup your tires more and more and more. >> still going to be down there.>> ump abouter to bumper. >> wow, after the green.>> they will be down there. >> nascar re-mined a couple of drivers tokeep it closed up on the restarts, particularly keselowski and johnson.>> noticed on the restart keselowski was hanging way back and had a big run. doesn't pay offhuge here like it does on a mile and a half racetrack or some of the bigger race tracks,but, still, you're not supposed to do that.
>> i think if if goes somewhere, that wouldbe great and the outside is so much better than the inside.>> this is going to cost logano huge. >> truex up to 12th and biffle to 13th andlogano still can't get in and for the lead. >> looking at bottom. inside, inside.>> here comes kyle. >> back to the 38. going inside. going inside.>> that's chris osborne back ato the spotter's stand for the first time this season for mattkenseth. >> this is one of those situations where matthas to give up the two spot or three spots all together with kyle busch as well and fallin line. a great race car and great long run car and just get back into a rhythm.>> he had a good spot right behind the 4 car
and logano finally worked his way to the insideand got inside his sort of teammate the 21 car.>> where did he start this like sixth or eighth or he saw all the way back to 15th.>> frahm 7th to 15th. >> we heard chad knauss saying to jimmie johnson,let's see if we can't run harder at the beginning of the run.>> and harvick is thinking the same thing. >> you know what i liked about chad, he thinksabout the whole race. not just tires and wedge and pit stops. he's trying to help jimmieon the track and every way he can. >> kenseth coming for third.>> d.w., i mean, they, he has so much passion and desire.>> not just adjustments and building race
cars.>> trying to get back into the top dozen. just ahead of this group and looking backfrom patrick's on board. >> she's had a nice race so far running inthe 13th spot and had a good day and ran hard. >> that's a great day.>> i mean, i can't tell you how tough and demanding and challenging this racetrack is.that tells you what kind of race car driver and what kind of race team danica is and has. >> she's a very, very competitive person.>> eighth place, a.j. allmendinger and austin dillon.>> whoa, that was close. >> got to be real careful there because somebodygets into that left rear, we saw it earlier
with dale earn heartjr. in the very beginningof the race, made contact with somebody and cut the left rear tire down.>> mike, this is a normal situation. you get about 150 laps to go and you start turningup the heat, and you start being a little more aggressive and bumping and running alittle bit more and giving less and taking more>> and here's kurt bush up into the top five after the pass of kyle larson. 3.2 secondsoff the lead. >> what's impressive about that is if he startedtenth, that means he was on the outside lane so he was able to get down and make up thespots up like joey logano who went backwards. >> fifth is a good number for gene hass.>> wow.
>> fifth in formula one at bahrain.>> what a great team. >> think he qualified ninth so great car.>> josh wise slow on the back straightaway goes to the garage. no caution. he will joindenny hamlin and eric almirola there the only cars out of race. almirola engine troubleand hamlin crashed after wheel hopping in turn one.>> he knows one got away from him today and blamed himself quite a bit. i don't know whyhe would, but he did. >> d.w., you know as well as anybody. it'sthe ones that got away that keep you up at night.>> the top four cars right now, you can just throw a blanket over their lap times, theyare within thousands of a second, couple hundreds
of a second. >> 14, 11, 12.>> guys, i know we still have 16 a 0 laps to go, when i look at danica patrick, beingone of her best race tracks running in the top 15. talk about top 5s and top 10, thecompetition in my book warrants documenting top 15s. she's not had a top 15 finish sincedover the end of last may. >> wow.>> she may change that today. >> paul menard made a nifty move to get pasthis richard childress racing there. didn't get back inside after menard makes that pass.>> i think austin dillon might think, hey, he got in the back of me and in reality austinsort of closed up in the car off the front
of him. sort of had nowhere to go and alreadycommitted and made a lot of contact and ended up getting by him.>> martin truex and danica patrick and joey logano.>> you can get freight-trained here to your point just like you can at talladega.>> logano fighting back. >> hung up on the outside.>> and got by kyle edwards who is a lap down and is trying to get back up front and herecomes keselowski. >> up to fifth place and kurt busch slidesto fifth. >> and remember how you guys made up so manypositions at the restart and we talked earlier about the restarts were going to be his achilles'heel, we thought, because they had the car
set up for the long run and how kurt referencedthat he was like santa claus that he was giving up so many spots on the restart. maybe a goodsign that they may drown on that most recent restart. hanging around today and kurt buschknows how to get it to the front. >> now this, battle has been going on forsome time. danica patrick moves past the 14 of brian vickers who started this race third. matt?>> a concern for vickers. he continues to fade. he came on the radio and told the crewchief that i believe the right rear tire is going down. bob jeffry, spotter, has takena look at it several days. he says it looks up to him but something feels amis.>> there's damage on the body on the left
rear, and i can't tell from here, but i knowhe's gotten hit in the left rear. you can see the damage there and the goodyear rubbedoff the tire. could be the left rear tire going down. could be a slow leak.>> somebody scraped up the whole left side of that car.>> goodyear's completely taken off of it and definitely made contact with somebody andmaybe that's what caused him to make that comment.>> he's still on the lead lap. he's in 14th place. there are 17 lead lap cars back todale earnhardt jr. and junior is about half had a lap ahead of the race leader kyle busch.>> lots of racing on fs1 today. final round coverage of the nhra in las vegas comes upright after the race here in martinsville.
beautiful weather.>> ryan vickers lose another position here to ryan newman.>> newman is a lap down. >> that's just track position for right now,but i wonder how much concern. the next car, greg biffle, that is a lead lap car behindvickers and then it will be ryan blaney and earn hard.>> 150 laps to go in the martinsville speedway. first short track rafts three and the firstof three among our next four races. now, this is for position. blaney just in front of earnhard. a little wiggle there.>> yeah. >> almost old up the door for 16th place.>> now it's open.
>> yeah, blaney is such a smart driver.>> you're clear. >> i would think dale earnhardt jr. has tobe happy making passes for positions on the lead lap rather than trying to stay on thelead lap. >> the rookies are in great shape, all fourof them with a lot of experience but how many of them have ever run a 500-lap race before?>> exactly. >> and things have changed a lot in the shorttoday. unless you're going to be like denny hamlin and you grew up racing in late models,other than the truck series, the xfinity series doesn't race here and you don't get to testhere either unless you're in a tire test so it's real, really difficult to get good atthis racetrack because you can't make the
laps that you really need to before you comehere to race. >> there's brian scott 29 and chris bueschernumber 34. >> blaney will limp how the of here becausehis leg will be giving out from working that brake pedal.>> we saw the pass that paul menard put on austin dillon that left dillon up on the highside and then unable to get in after everybody else swarmed to the back bumper of paul menardand here's dillon's audio. >> see what happens when you try to help people.i let 27 in. >> yeah. we forgot about that already. we'vemoved on. moved on. we'll save that for later hon in the race. just keep doing what you'redoing.
>> i love the way -- he gets all excited andthey just talk slugger or the spotter. yeah, that's okay. we've got that.>> that's what it takes. takes a team.>> tune on the car, takes a team to calm down the race car driver, but to me the 47 was,you know, checking up there and the three got in there a little bit deep and the 27had no idea he was going to check up like that so i think he'll look back on that andsay, okay, that was an innocent mistake. >> i agree. menard couldn't get away to letaustin dillon in before the next car got there. vince?>> it's funny, you know. they told austin, hey, if the 31 catches you, let him go byto help out a team member and austin said
if we're supposed to help our team memberswhy hasn't anyone told the 27. >> and the 27 of paul menard. he was a topfive contender earlier in the race and after the second stop they lost a handle on therace car. it would start out tight and then just build free. they have worked it backback into his liking and the track many people think is starting to take a change.>> here comes allmendinger. wow. he has had a heck of a day. i'm telling you. that 47car has been fast, qualified well and racing well and doing a heck of a good job.>> i keep saying this, i'm so impressed, every time he makes another pass i'm more and moreimpressed and i remember here in november i had to race a.j. for the win here. theystayed out on tires, and you're not going
to stay out on tires late in the run.>> get off a little bit better later on. >> i knew when he took that hat off of michaelin the pre-race show. >> he was feeling good.>> he was feeling his oats. >> confident.>> that's a bit aggressive, right? looked like kyle busch had a way and punt it haddown pit road. >> that's a goal.>> nice kick. >> really got ahold of that hat.>> i played a lot of golf with a.j. as competitive on the golf course as he is on the wheel.having some fun and this kid felt good about the 47 car today and had a great feeling whenhe went into this race.
>> we know why now. he's up into seventh place. >> this is a single car team. yes, they havean alliance with a bigger group but the one-car team here is really having a great job inseventh place. >> kicked michael's hat today. i'm not surewhat he kicks on the golf course. they are the best of the single car teams right now.as you have a look down the order with martin truex also in the top ten for furniture row.>> well, that's impressive, you know, company to be in. martin truex jr. with their alliancewith jgr and another with penske. no slouches to be ahead of.>> michael mcdowell running in 24th. several cars having good runs today. we mentionedallmendinger certainly, but danica is back
there. she's in 11th now and doing a nicejob. you know, a lot of fellows come here and they fight for a clock. carl edwards hasbeen fighting all day. all he wants is a pass. and he's in -- he's in the free pass positionahead of ryan newman and jamie macmury. >> they made his car a lot better for surethan what it started off. >> what makes this so tough for carl, a verycompetitive individual and great race car driver and his two teammates are running firstand third and have been all day long and very, very competitive and that has to be reallyfrustrating for him. this battle continues between keselowski and jimmie johnson. don'twait. before long he'll drive it back by the two car here in five laps.>> took a while after the restart for this
to develop again. i think that's a littlebit better this time. >> he's gapping him an getting away from him.>> and we heard chad knauss saying to jimmie trying to get harder at the beginning of therun. doesn't seem to be working out for him on this run. >> but the 2 does seem to be moving up tomatt kenseth in third place, looks quicker than kenseth and may be able to catch him.>> and they will be able to catch him because the leaders are getting into lap traffic.>> 131 laps to go as the little short track in virginia that thinks that's a super speedway. >>> how many wins at mayor tinsville doesour fox nascar booth? how many grandfather
clocks to wind? 11 plus 9 plus 1 for larrymcreynolds. that's 21 are wins among the four of us. well done. whoa now, what happenedhere? >> one last lap pass for the win.>> literally just trying to help terry. i said if i bump terry, he was mad at dale andi thought he'd get dale out of way. >> there you were.>> they were all mad at me when it was over with. i didn't do anything.>> switch to sprint and save 50% on more verizon or at&t race. sprint, better for less.>> buddy, why if i would say i didn't do anything. >> meanwhile, very little to do with it.>> while these two hot dogs next to me were enjoying martinsville hot dogs brad keselowskihas motored his way around kevin harvick in
second place.>> a look first at how he got into third and remember what happened last fall here betweenhe and matt kenseth. >> came up on lap traffic. the 6 car was reallybattling hard against the leaders and brad just makes an aggressive braking move andyou can see where matt didn't really want to give it to him and crowded him a littlebit and realized he was there and had to give it up.>> and here's the pass for second. >> look at him roll through the center there.you can hear the 4 car kind of spin the tires there, and he realizes the 2 is better thanhim and doesn't want to push it harder and lets it go to the outside. brad, the lastdriver to one after suffering a speeding penalty.
>> i sntsed on that shot that the left frontcorners and the hood is body up on the back there. that's not hurting him. it will could be helpinghim. >> is it helping him?>> trouble turn two. >> michael annett goes around. sixth cautionflag of the day. and the second one involving annett. didn't see if he had any help whichhas been the case in all but denny hamlin's crash today. well, that's pilot. maybe hada co-pilot. >> a lot of helpers out there.>> he needed a co-pilot. and carl got the pass!>> welcome back, carl. welcome back.
>> celebrate, my gosh.>> he worked hard for that. >> yes, he did.>> and long and hard for that. >> here's what happened to michael annettat turn two. what do we see here? we see annett loose.>> just gets loose there. could have been contact with the 32 maybe earlier back inthe corner and just gets loose, it looks like. >> boy, i'll tell you.>> wow, look at the 15 get into the 32 and turn him sideways.>> didn't want to hit his teammate. >> yeah, he's trying to get by that wreckbefore he gets caught up in it. >> see what happens here.>> the 32 got in the back of it.
>> whoa!>> i love that, hey, hey, hey. >> what kind of advice was that?>> jamie? >> kevin harvick said he was losing grip andair pressure adjustment and four tires and chassis.>> previous stop and an issue on the right front with the lug cost them just a coupleof seconds and had to hesitate for danica patrick. air pressure change on the 18, vince.he's away. >> matt kenseth from four said it's prettygood on the front of the run. four tires and air pressure for kenseth.>> kyle, brad, matt and kevin coming off pit road.
>> found that really interesting. i thinkthe 20 could have driven by the 2 but knew he'd be in thinked players and chose to checkup. >> a lot of that going on. 2 might have beenplaying that game. 115 laps to go. we're under caution. >>> 112 laps to go. with michael waltrip,chris rose. dale earnhardt jr. in the fifth lap david ragan clipped him and sliced histire. kevin harvick was leading and had problems with the jack on pit road and they fall backto sixth and kyle busch, 0 for 2 is in his career in cup races has led 240 races andis your leader over brad keselowski as we get red for the restart and, michael, forone of the few times today this joe gibbs
tandem on a restart is broken up by keselowskiin between kenseth and kyle busch. >> choreographed every restart letting eachother in line and that can't help. he's got his teammate behind him. let's rejoin darryl,jeff and mike. >> the 2 car is in trouble here because hegot the 18 and the 20 on the inside there, and you got the 48. no one is going to cuthim any slack >> you know how hard and how aggressive bradis on the restarts. you just watch. he might get down right here.>> no? >> i wouldn't.>> >> a little stut irthere by cule busch on the takeoff but it did not fool keselowskiwho now has to battle with matt kenseth on
the inside.>> whoa. >> they made contact.>> made a little contact and matt got underneath the 2.>> remember me the last time we were here. >> you said that's what happened to you, ifi remember right. >> now it's kyle larson on the outside infifth with jimmie johnson. we're told that nascar is reviewing the restart, but as wesaw, it kyle accelerated within the zone. >> yeah.>> and got out of that zone ahead of kes lousky. >> it's true and they shouldn't do anythingabout it but the 2 did jump and jack rabbited and took off in that zone and i don't thinkthey like to see you do in a.
>> austin dillaman got into paul menard. achance to get underneath him going into three. there was a little conversation between thosetwo, between the spotters. >> i think what they were looking at is, youknow, the -- it was a dead heat across the finish line. looked to me, i don't think thetwo -- i don't think they did. >> let's visit are the restart and show youthe restart zone as they come up to it. >> we know there's games played here.>> the 2 jumped right there. >> yeah, but no harm, no now.>> you know, i think they are reviewing how big of a jump the 18 got out there but itwas really because the 2 car went ahead and backed up a little bit.>> exactly.
>> i don't think they will do anything aboutthat. >> i like that restart.>> i think you're right though, jeff. they are totally looking at what kyle bush didthat, because i saw that car kind of go down on the nose like he hit the brake pedal andwe're hearing nascar saying now restart clean. >> they warned him yesterday in the truckrace. did something very similar to that and they warned him about it. i don't know ifthey warn you over here in the cup series. >> little intramural battle. the review decidedin favor of menard right now as the third place battle gets pretty close. >> looks like jimmy harvick's car is a littlebit better. keselowski wants to be better
on the short run. made an air pressure adjustmentas the 4 ducks to the inside for position. brad saying his car was a little tight and wanted to help himon the short run and seems to be good but not good enough to hold off the 4.>> i'll tell you what. i know danica has done such an ajds uniphasing job an running ineighth place and challenging kyle larson for seventh and has driven a perfect race so farand hope she can close it out. >> might be able to get by kyle larson.>> she's kicker. >> i think she's quicker. the most impressiverun, talking about danica patrick, is she ready to step up? and i'll tell you what,she's stepped up today and it's impressive.
>> all four of the stuart haas cars in 10.>> the car is clean. hasn't been in any real close calls.>> got a little throttle happy once in a while is all.>> yeah, 10-4. >> guys, just think about how tough this girlis, that big crash. we talked about kyle larson and remember how hard she hit out in california.she's a very physically fit woman. she does a lot of yoga, and her yoga poses are thingsi couldn't even attempt to try and i just think that her spirit and her energy behindthat wheel along with her physical fitness makes this a special place for her.>> up ahead of her in fifth place, kurt busch moving past jimmie johnson. now, that battleis 2.3 seconds behind the leader. kyle busch
is out front, matt.>> they are following the 18 as far as kyle's comments concerning a slight vibration. theylooked over the video from the stop and the tire changers, that looked load but seeingif it's going to get any worse. at this juncture it's stayed have i brace. >> oh, wow, ryan blaney slows coming off four.>> got really loose. he and chase elliott and jamie mcmurray were having a heck of abattle there banging off of each other. >> sixth place kyle larson jens jimmie johnsonand danica patrick. >> don't look now but danica's coming.>> and she's in there. >> jimmie giving her room.>> got on the gas and got a little bit loose
there. all she's got to do is be patient.i think she has a better car than jimmie but larson as well.>> jimmie better check on that left rear tire again because there was a little bit of contacton that left rear. there's chris buescher in the 34 inside of ryan blaney. two rookiesbattling. >> they have been having a battle, i'm tellingyou. banging into each other. >> let's take a look at this.>> looks like the 24 chase elliott got in back of the 1 and here comes ryan blaney givinga little laugh tap to his buddy down the back straightaway.>> vince? >> been a good run for ryan blaney as youguys have noticed towards the tail end of
that lead lap and trying to hang on and justtrying to get it to turn a little bit better. that's what the crew chief has been challengedwith and certainly a special race for blaney and grew up 45 minutes from here and watchedhis dad race here and the legendry ward brothers are based out of stuart, virginia, so thisis a special day and special place. >> danica going by.>> doing a great job and got pushed up and they are they all went by.>> jimmie johnson slid the right rear a little bit and i think she needed to take a breathand calm down there and, unfortunately, all that -- just that little bit can change yourmomentum and get you back to the cars behind you as we see a change for 13th position betweenmartin truex jr. and dale earn yort jr.
>> he was a lap down and took him some 300laps to get back on the lead lap. he's got a good race car.>> i would like to see him battle up front for the win here. 9 a 0 laps to go. race summary.18 cars on the lead lap, five drivers have led. 11 lead changes and six cautions for37 laps. notably denny hamlin, one of the favorites out of the race after wheel happeninginto turn one and hitting the wall. eric almirola out wedgin trouble and josh wise also withelectrical problems in the garage. >> 18 and 20, they look identical around theracetrack and they come off the corner and look about the same and enter about the same.cars are pretty equally set up and pretty equally matched right now.>> 9, is 10 and 11 as again austin dillon
moves past the teammate paul menard. what'sup there, matt? >> add another driver to the list of complaintsof a vibration. paul menard says we have a vibration again. second time today on the27. >> as long as that vibration doesn't continueto get worse on the run then they will be fun. yeah, it's irritable and it might takeaway from the performance a little bit but the big vibration you're looking sfoor loosewheel, and if it's a loose wheel it's going to continue to -- the vibration is going tocontinue to get worse and worse as the run goes on.>> the 16 car. all of a suswhere did he come from?>> been pretty solid.
>> you mentioned about his crew chief brianpatty who has had good runs. one thing i want to make sure you understand.pit stop at 385 and going back to 390 with 110 to go. if we stay caution free there willbe no more miss stops and looking at the ration trends at martinsville, the last caution flagscoming at 27 laps to go and twice in those ten races did we have overtime.>> about 60 laps from now. >> i'd be surprised if we got to the finishwithout another caution. >> there's no way, no way.>> i'll bet you on that one. >> there's a way.>> ricky stenhouse off pace coming down the back straightaway.>> might have been a couple of lead lap cars.
letting some guys go by.>> had a tough day after getting spun at will 137. kurt busch working traffic. kyle larsonis all over him and here's danica a little earlier against ryan newman who is run lapdown. >> whoa.>> whoops. >> contact there and moved her up the hilla little bit. >> junior said thank you very much, i'll takethat spot. >> had a front row seat for that one righthere. >> you know, i've been watching danica. shedrives in really easy and then she rolls -- she released the brake early and rolls throughthe center and gets the straight shut off,
and i'm just wondering if that caught up toher right there. >> i'm not sure. 78 with him.>> and this is all for position. biffle and then truex. david ragan is two laps down.>> a bit ago, it looks like she's gone away. >> such a rhythm racetrack.>> going to run out of line inside. inside 23. still inside.>> if you get out of that rhythm, d.w., as you know so well. it's all about how you carryspeed in the corner and you rotate and get back to the throttle and it seems like she'sgotten out of rhythm and may have run too hard at the beginning getting closer to thefront. >> battle for seventh and fifth, allmendingersix seventh and here for in the is kirt busch
and kyle larson in the 42. talk about sixlaps of hard work by kyle larson to get past the elder of the bush brothers.>> just got to put the pressure on him. force him to make a mistake and wear him down alittle bit. >> used my favorite word. had to force yourway in there. >> we asked about our rookies and if any ofthem had ever gone 500 laps before and choice elliott was in this race last year and hadtrouble early and completed 427 laps and ryan blaney ran bristol, the night race last year,and ran 496 of 500 laps so those two at least have gone this distance before.>> third place here about 1.7 behind the leader is kevin harvick. chef and a ford trying tocatch the two toyotas which have maintained
a pretty even gap for the last 26 or 27 lapsor so. >> i think it's pace. i think they are pacingthemselves. >> as somebody who would like to see thisgo all the way to the end and going all the way to the end could be really, really interestingbecause tires will be completely worn out at that point and it's going to be a realdriver's race and track at that point and keselowski seems to have one of the bettercars on the long run so he would like to see this go all the way to the end. >> we talk about kyle busch and the wins hehas in other trucks and in the xfinity series. you think about the conditioning, and he hasto be in great shape and he ran 250 laps here
yesterday and here he is today going to run500 laps here today. >> that's a lot of racing in one weekend.>> you know who else did a lot of racing. matt kenseth and jimmie johnson. 160-milerace on bicycle. that's the longest distance either of them have ever gone.>> yeah. i asked why. >> conditioning.>> i think that's fantastic, and it was for a great cause also. it was about, you know,icicle safety with the bike path on the road for more cycling and it was a great cause.jimmie and matt have been riding a lot lately and their fitness have become a big part whathave they are doing on race day. >> in phoenix, jimmie rode up the big hillon the backstretch and did that between practice
and qualifying.>> the monument run. >> yeah, and then you look at kyle busch outfront. d.w. talking about him running the truck race yesterday and this race today.he's in what i call race shape. doesn't look like he's a guy in the gym or riding his bicycle100 miles, but i'll tell you what, i've never seen him fall out of a seat in a race car.>> i like a bicycle built for two, slow ride. >> nothing slow about kyle bush's ride today.>> still maintaining that gap. >> success of about a second in front of mattkenseth and one of our rookies just had a moment with jeramie. something earlier inthe race? >> got in the back of jamie and right theregot real loose getting into the corner and
got freight trained. >> and the freight train isn't even runningtoday. >> saw one of the best in denny hamlin wheelhop and get loose and tear his race car up. even the best in the business can do thatand so can the best rookies out there. >> yeah. this race has been -- we've had alot of green flag runs here. not like we've had cautions where you can kind of get yourbreath, regroup and go again. we've been under green quite a bit here.>> haven't laid rubber down and not going to lay rubber down so tire management hasbecome a big, big issue. >> at 435 now. getting down to it.>> look who is coming again. is that a.j.
all dinger?>> fifth place. >> going up to fifth place?>> a really good long run car? >> for what, about 55 laps into this greenflag run, vince? >> this team believes that it's dramaticallyimproved from a year ago, but they haven't put the full race together yet and comingin they felt like they had everything in place, the car to do it, and they believed that ifthey did put the race together and didn't beat themselves they were going to be capableof exactly the kind of run they are having. the crew chief for a.j. allmendinger toldhim just a bit ago you've got a car capable of winning this race. we'll see if the carsfall their way to give him a shot.
>> another guy has a pretty darn good charactersthe 14 car, brian vickers. been in the hunt pretty much all day.>> two stuart haas cars and two childress cars behind him and nobody giving anybodyextra room. >> the 3 and 27 had issues a couple of timesalready today. >> we talk about a reek crew chief on the14 characters and i saw tony stewart and i said your 14 car is pretty fast and he saidthat group needs a good run. if nothing else, just to build the confidence of that crewchief that's a rook they year >> you know, i was surprised to read, brianafter next week in texas, doesn't know what his future with stuart haas is.
>> kind of week to week after that.>> depending on tony stewart's recovery. >> talking about running iny?>> ty dillon has been filling in with that team depending on the sponsors and at somepoint we'll get closer to tony stewart making the return ant getting back in that car.>> probably why there's some uncertainty. >> yeah.>> ninth place here. >> this is what impresses me about austindillon. i think richard childress racing has picked up their racing and performance thisyear. he gets excite on the radio and they calm him down. you know what? he never stopsfighting and always finds a way to keep moving forward.>> you can slow him down and can't speed him
up so he's pretty much in -- in go fast mode.>> and ahead of him at sixth place jimmie johnson applied what is called a chrome hornfor kyle larson. did he? >> yes, he did.>> look what kyle larson does. >> okay, okay.>> that's two smart race car drivers right there.>> exactly. >> that's morse code.>> we saw danica patrick slide back to 16th. >> her car has begun to fade and billy scotttold her to put the track bar down as much as she can. the car has swung big time tothe free said. it's totally out of racetrack. >> that's what happens when you run too farup front.
>> it's not just about lap time.>> oh, sorry, paul menard just gave it to austin dillon.>> not getting along today. >> he's right -- right about -- i'm trying,i'm trying. >> right back to you. 41 at the back is done.>> settled down for the moment. >> i think that's great. they are teammates,but, hey, man, we're racing. >> what i love about this place as opposedto a lot of southern short track racing is you can have a lot of contact without by lostcarnage. >> i've seen a lot of carnage here.>> i'm thinking, mike, knew i would get a rise out of somebody here.>> the lack of carnage, i said this the other
day and i'll say it again. these guys makeit look way too easy from up here. it is -- there's so much more going on inside the cars downthere than we can ever capture. >> this is big for the free pass position.ryan newman trying to hold it and jamie mcmurray trying to take it. what i meant was in southernlate model racing there's so much more bump them and dump them and even in the legendcars. it's like can't we just race. in a truck race, not a lot of cautions until the end.have these guys bunched up withy 20% there will be hey lot of cautions.>> as a race car driver what i loved the most in racing was the challenge of making a cleanpass. i didn't always do that. >> whoa, turn two.>> ryan blaney got into casey mears to move
him because kyle busch was trying to moveblaney out of the way. >> and they have got the leader coming, too,so they have got to go. >> kyle busch needed to make some runningroom. >> blaney, what is he doing?>> does he have a problem? >> well, he let the two leaders by.>> he let the leaders by and here's what we saw a lap or so ago.>> i see it. his car really rolled through the center and then the leader and 18 of kylebush said go a little faster if you don't mind and bumped into him.>> excuse me, pardon me, coming through. >> and then he just lets the 18 go by him.>> and he's like i've got to get out of way.
>> 49 laps to go, and you'll see them allright here on fs1. >> smith reports that the earningin blew outto bring out seventh caution flag of the day with 43 laps to go.>> definitely locked up. i don't know what's going on there.>> yeah, that's a strange set of circumstances. i don't think i've ever heard about that before.>> ryan blaney who has courteous to the leaders let them go by after that little dustup andgot himself in the free pass position as a result and now he'll get back on the leadlap. >> never used to look at my pit crew and saymake this the best stop of your day and everybody will be on pit road because we're going togo back racing with somewhere around 37, 35
laps to go.>> bert make this a good one. >> there will be some more of them.>> do they make adjustments? >> i think the pits are closed right herebut do you make an adjustment to be better for a majoritier run. a little bit of a wedgeadjustment. >> had to be minor i think.>> one thing they do not need is fuel so that will help a pit stop especially if they needan adjustment. >> yeah, larry, i don't think we talked aboutespecially in the short track the weight of fuel per gallon and how much of a role thatplays in the cornering of these cars so absolutely you want the minimum amount of fuel to makeit to the inn and have it for overtime if
you need it and want a car that gets up andgo and be a little fast for a short run and maybe not play around with air pressure alittle bit and adjustment and the lack of fuel. saves a lot of weight.>> kurt busch's pit crew has picked up the most spots on pit road. jamie?>> kevin harvick led 72 laps and the handling has gone away a bit and couldn't put the throttledown off the corner and they will make be a adjustment and four tires and bras keselowskiwas on early in the run and needs more air tire pressure.>> a money stop for one of the best on pit road and been together for so long and t.j.forward came on with a 13-year vet and these
guys have been together since '08. the carwill not turn to the center of the corner and had to make an adjustment to improve it.>> vince. >> another great pit crew is this 22 of mattkenseth and four tires and no changes and pretty good and coming to me.>> kyle busch leads them off pit road and matt kenseth and kevin harvick and the jimmiejohnson and allmendinger and larson, wow. >> it's a mad house getting out of the pit.holy smoly. >> what you're supposed to do is wait forthe end of the field to pass by and then you blend into the back side of the field, butwhat's happened is there's a paddle person over there has a stop sign and go sign. theyare telling them to stop. you can't stop.
you've got 15 cars behind you.>> he's holding up what we used to call the lollipop, red on one side and green on theother. >> everybody knows you fall in line behindthe end of the field so, you know, if you stop them, all you're going to do is causea domino effect coming off pit road. >> that's crazy.>> watch from our goodyear aerial coverage. >> here they all come right back here.>> and look how narrow it is right here where that pit wall comes out. now, they may havebeen jockeying a little bit for being on an old number on the inside lane.>> i don't know. >> there's the damage.>> cause and effect.
there's the effect.>> kyle larson is 7. >> and there's the cause.>> yeah. >> that's what it looks like when the rearbumper goes into your grip. >> chase elliott too fast entering the pits.>>> texas will break up our short track swing saturday night.>> we're going to be swinging. we ain't going to be on the front porch either. aerial coverageas we watch drivers taking the wave around. they face challenging conditions on the trackand on the road. goodyear, the official tire of nasdaq.>> all these drivers have extremely old tires
but they know this is the only chance to geta lap back and getting back on the lead leap and hoping that this goes green and the cautioncomes out because fell be a lap down if they don't.>> i think it will work out just fine for them.>> you know something i don't know? >> the pit stops compare like this.>> i have a pretty good feeling. >> pretty close.>> have a pretty good feeling that somebody is going to win their first martinsville racetoday. >> could be one of those two. >> n.o.w., we've had teams finish one-twoat martinsville ten times in history. first
time it happened here was p.k. racing andbaker and bid thompson finished one-two in 1986.>> kyle busch's team preparing forry are the start.>> not that we did anything wrong the last restart, they wanted it under review to seeall what happened there. it kind of looked funky. just like we've done all weekend, niceand smooth, good launch. >> look how roles are reversed. last timewe were here it was the penske cars up on the front row and not in the final restartand earlier in the race it sort of caused all that calamity that ended up taking mattkenseth out and now we've got the jgr teammates orchestrating the same thing.>> kyle busch takes the outside soy know that
the 20 is going to let him in.>> yeah. that tells you how much confidence and trust you have in your teammate rightthere. >> combined they are 0 for 53 at martinsvillein the cup series. >> and kyle has led over 300 laps today. thelast driver to lead more than 300 laps here and not win, sorry, jeff, march of 2012.>> i knew i had one or two get away. >> watch for brad keselowski to be real aggressive.>> kind of back a little wei bit and is close out. here we go.>> matt may not have taken off. here we go. >> plenty of room so he would get down infront. >> almost gave up a little bit too much timethere, but it will end up working out for
him.>> i think that's pretty good. >> got a feeling they will get a chance todo it again. >> here comes brad trying to keep harvickto the outside. >> and he will.>> and watch jimmee johnson will do the same thing there on halfic.>> boy, did you see that move that the 47 allmendinger, just swung down in front ofthe 42 of larson this. >> man. for fifth place. >> not going to outdrive a.j. allmendingerin the corner. >> no way.>> took that baby in there.
>> is that carl edwards.>> is that june? down most of this race and now they are fighting for eighth.>> unfortunate for harvick to get hung up. >> he's going the wrong way.>> might be able to get down. >> get in the hole and the teammate lets himin. >> kurt busch.>> look at -- look at dale jr. right here. i mean, he's got a car that could get up hereand challenge for the win. >> whoa kenseth.>> did he get a bump. >> the 2 got him.>> i don't know if he got loose. >> he got him.>> bad blood right there.
>> jimmie is coming in there and going toget up the 2. moved him up the racetrack. >> comes down.>> brad comes down and they trade some more paint. it ain't over, boys. this is goingto get big. >> here it comes again. bam.>> allmendinger is going -- >> here comes the 47.>> do it, all dinger. >> look how deep allmendinger drives in righthere. got in front of him there. >> and vickers just got moved by carl edwards.>> everybody is getting moved by somebody right now.>> a lot of movement. >> kyle busch, he drives away.>> he's loving it.
>> oh, gosh.>> with you believe kenseth in the 20. >> you know what happened. of the 2, the spotsback to the 20 and i think he let the 20 go because he didn't want to have a problem andthen it caused him a problem. >> but i really think the 20 drove in reallydeep and good loose and a little bit what have happened to denny hamlin early in therace. got in there and got loose and the 2 was able to make contact.>> from that replay, i'm not sure brad even bumped in.>> come on, boys. i'm pretty sure he did. >> that's why you two are the experts. >> one of those guys.>> look at a.j. allmendinger making a move
on the two car here.>> just cut right under keselowski. >> don't worry about that. don't have to tellfor him to go. >> got to work for the little guy.>> the little single car team of a.j. allmendinger. >> man, they are all making contact.>> and bouncing off of each other every corner. >> jamie mcmurray with a tire rub.>> yeah. >> 25 to go.>> and the beat goes on. and the beat goes on.>> the 1 car, i don't think he's going make it to the end with the left rear tire. it'sreally smoking getting down in the corner. look at this.>> if we stay green, if you'll give us about
eight minutes we'll give you a checkered flag.>> well, it's going to come down to that left rear tire whether it is going to stay therefor eight minutes. >> i think the question for the 47 is canhe stay there? did he use his stuff up, because he made some bold moves?>> i would like to see a caution right now and get him up to a third position on therestart. that could get really exciting. >> vince?>> for the short run to the finish a.j. allmendinger told his crew chief randall burnett need tosnub me up a little, told him he could do it. told him he had a car that they can taketo victory lane but keselowski getting up under neat the spot.>> brad really came back on him right there
and got him back. got a heated up battle herefor the lead, boys. >> yeah, we do. kenseth is just stalking him.>> these two here are wearing each other out, yellow against yellow and green against green.>> sometimes drivers underestimate how far 30, 35 laps is when you're running as hardas you have to run in the close laps of this race and so i don't know if snugging thatcar was the right thing for them to do on a.j. all dirng and look at this lead. >> that 20 car. i think he's got the bestcar. >> matt kenseth has led 45 laps here todayand he's a car length behind kyle busch as we watched this great battle go on for eighthplace.
>> and jimmie johnson.>> harvick getting to the outside. >> i'm glad we've got all these. they areracing everywhere. >> here comes allmendinger back on the 2 carfor third place. >> got him back.>> yeah. >> a little kyle larson right there behindhim and watching this whole thing unfold. >> a.j. allmendinger who finished second herefour years ago trying to duplicate that. he'll have to get that.>> brian vickers underneath the 48. >> yeah, i don't know if they made an adjustmentthat isn't working out here on the short run or maybe he didn't have the short run carhere.
>> the 83 and the 4 got together and the 55and the 6 get together and the one is up in the marble.>> that's going to bring out a caution. >> should be able to get out of the way.>> got a long way to go. >> mcmurray has not been in the pit sincelap 385 and took the wave around and looks like now he's got a tire down. left rear andsaw that smoking early. >> spun out.>> here comes the caution. >> caution out.>> caution is out. >> just as matt kenseth was about to makehis move. >> are we going to play nice with each otherteammates with just a few laps to go.
>> eighth caution flap, lap 485, jamie mcmurrayspins at turn two when a tire went down. i believe chase will get the free pass.>> you'll have 18 and 20 on the restart. what are they going to do?>> before that, larry, what are we going to do? we going to pit and if so for what?>> 19 drivers ran 17 laps, the top five, issics seven, they have to stay out but somewherethere's going to be a cutoff, guys about mid-pack on back, four tires coming into pitt road. >> denny hamlin did that four years ago andrestarted like eighth or ninth. he's done. he won that race. i'm going to tell you rightnow. there's no way the front row is coming. they are staying. jimmie johnson and myselfstayed out, a longer run and all is takes
is third on back.>> here's the leader. >> shaking so bad. i can't stop and i justfeel loose. >> manage your fans and your switches andkeep some neat there. >> kes lucky is the first of the leaders topit from third. >> hmmm.>> jamie? >> keselowski said just two moves and he saidwe want to win. we don't care about top ten. let's do something. started using toe birds,a four-tire stop. >> back into contention and they are goingto make a change of the tires and trying to help the beginning of the run and the 42,he's already been completed with his service
as well as carl edwards.>> both cars at some point in time have battled back from issues today.>> one to go at the line. >> going to be a quick caution. coming next,the nhra final round coverage from las vegas live right here hon fs1. got our own dragrace. >> and on fox sports go. a lot of auto racingfor you. nascar and nhra, doubleheader on fs1 today. keselowski was the first to pit,and he'll line up -- no, 11th. larson beat him out and so did dale jr.>> didn't the 42 and the 88 come in and take two.>> they are ninth ant tenth. brad is 11th with four tires.>> yeah, guys. we had eight drivers that stayed
out and those fresh tires. i think that'sgoing to be too little too late to win the race.>> agreed. >> i don't think it will win the race. getthem position but not the win. >> unless those guys up front desize theywill battle it out. >> i think the question is what are the twoguys on the front row going to do. >> play nice like they have all the otherrestarts? >> and i'll throw one more in there, mightnot be our last caution. >> well, that's entirely possible. okay. penalties.martin truex, kasey kahne and ricky stenhouse, too fast exiting the pits.>> wow.
>> and ryan blaney's team, the wood brothers,over the wall too soon. >> okay. there's a little pep talk for a.j.all dinger. >> oh, good. a handful of laps. a buffer behindit and go after the two in front of you. let's win this thing.>> remember last restart, kyle started on the outside and matt led him in. this timeit looks like it's every man for himself. >> they might have something in place thatsays 15, 20, 25 to go. can't be playing those games. got to win the race.>> i remember one time when clint bowyer was restarting third.>> oh, boy. >> he had fresher tires.>> eight cars on old tires and 11 laps to
go. green flag.>> whoa. >> boy, matt better do something quick. betternot stay out there very long. >> got to got on by him.>> if kenseth doesn't get down. he's going to go. bad move.>> now dillon for third. >> certainly going to be a discussion forthose teams on monday and tuesday in their meeting on whether or not they should havemaybe still done it on that restart. >> now kyle larson is the first car with newtires. he's got a pair and he's seventh.>> and there's no more mr. nice go. it's go for it.>> eight to go.
>> eight tires are better than four righthere. >> austin dillon fighting hard goes thirdand brian vickers who started the race third is battling kenseth for fourth.>> if you're kyle busch you've got to be thinking my biggest competition is matt kenseth. ifi put him on the outside and he goes back i've eliminated one of my fiercest competitorsfor this win and i think he's just done that. >> menard trades a little paint with kurtbusch. menard and the 20 car get together. >> look at them three wide into turn three.>> keselowski and edwards. >> if there's a crack you're going to stickthat nose in there and go through. that's what brad keselowski did right there.>> all the guys on knew tires got right to
him. best thing was up front in clean airand now he has everybody going to eat him up. he moves to fourth and six laps to gothis time. >> allmendinger is driving the wheels offthat thing in second trying to get that first win.>> you know who reminds me. >> at martinsville.>> last year when jacmurray was trying to catch at the end of the race. same kind ofscenario. >> and such a huge advantage when you're insecond. you can carry more speed getting in there.>> spot in the chase at stake with five laps to go.>> and as a leader all you want to do is hit
your marks, don't overdrive it. don't gettoo much wheel spin up off the corner and you'll give off a little bit of speed.>> keselowski gets under menard and takes a spot.>> logano. >> look at that.>> the extra nose that got taped on there may not stay there for long.>> i don't know if he can see, guys. >> he lost his nose.>> he can't see around that. >> that's got to be blocking his vision.>> the roof cam can. >> three to go this time.>> just drive the track. >> how close can a.j. allmendinger get withthree to go?
>> he's inching in, but i don't think he has-- i think kyle is just being real conservative. don't make a mistake, keep him at bay.>> last single-car team to win here was 2001, ricky craven for ppi. two to go. kyle buschtrying to win here for the first time as is a.j. all dinger.>> i can't help but look at second, third, fifth and fifth. i mean, these are some driversthat these finishes would be huge for their season. a.j. allmendinger and kyle larsonand austin dillon and brian vickers. >> off turn four comes kyle busch and onelap to go sponsored by credit one bank. >> lardon has the fresh tires but he's a secondand a half back. too far, and for the first time ever in a track that has bedeviled himkyle busch completes the weekend sweep and
wins at martinsville.>> get out the broom, boys. >> i think that's the sixth time he's donethat on a truck weekend. >> allmendinger second by.6 of a second andbrad keselowski the top five. >> look at that top ten.>> i mean, you've got edwards who struggled all day long and menard who has been up thereall day long. i mean, what a great run for some of these guys.>> keselowski had rebounded from a penalty and edwards came from a lap down and vickers,menard, johnson and newman who was a lap down at one time. sunoco's fueling victories. bringskyle busch to another win. >> he knows how to do that.>> well, yesterday, kyle busch and the truck
series beat john hunter nemechek and billbyron and today he beat all of nascar's best. >> well, he sure did. when a great job. thisguy amazed me. everything he did last year to accomplish that championship and come throughadversity and become a new dad. he's a whole new type of race car driver that has a lotmore patience than i've ever seen and, boy, is it paying off in a place like here at martinsville.>> just be careful jumping around like that, kid. made a lot of noise for him in pre-race.probably as many boos as cheers but you have to respect what kyle busch has respected today.>> we know his feet and ankles aren't all that great and legs. be careful, man.>> let 352 of 500 laps. >> his hands and feet and driving skill arecertainly impressive.
>> what a deal.>> that means a lot to him. i think he's battled hard at this place and this -- this is goingto be one of the most meaningful wins of his career to this point.>> certainly our five-hour energy big most race is the final restart where kyle tookthe inside for i believe the first time today and beat matt kenseth down into turn one withallmendinger coming through for second. >> and kyle busch just drove away and mattended up fighting for 15th. >> unbelievable.>> that's all it takes. >> wow.>> with dale earnhardt jr. and danica patrick. >> look how close that's going to be.>> whoa.
>> just lifted danica there at end.>> here's matt. >> so much effort has been but into the 2016season. new personnel and new race cars. is this a culmination of all the hard work.>> i hope we've got one more spot for a culmination. passed jimmy johnson five times at martinsvilleand that's pretty cool. can't thank everybody on the team and they put a lot of effort onthe team. weren't where we wanted to be about six months ago. brought in randall burnettand randy coach and kept the same core group and tony burns and brian palmer stepped upto embrace their new roles. can't that i kroger, coffee mate, butterfinger. bush's beans, louisianahot sauce, kingsford. >> i think you've got just about everybody.>> what about you, though? you're the hardest
on yourself. what does this do for your confidenceespecially heading into spring and summer. >> just getting better every week. i'm tryingmy butt off. i didn't like myself last year. i didn't like when i was for the team. i wasfrustrated, and i want to be better for these guys,fies that when they step up, they makeme better. i haven't -- i'm trying to be different but i'm not doing a lot of different stuff.they are just building me ate lot better race cars and everybody back at the shop puttingthe 80-hour weeks in, i hope you understand how important it was. god, i wish he withone more spot but that was pretty doorn cool. >> second here in martinsville. jamie?>> kyle larson made it happen. previous best here what is 19th. you ran the track seriesrace yesterday to help you. what was the biggest
difference today to bring it home third?>> had a really good target chevy. it was real fun the whole weekend to be competitiveevery time i was on the racetrack. normally i'm very, very bad here and to finish topthree is like a win for me. never would i have thought i'd finish top three and nowi can feel like i see a clock in my future. had a lot of fun. well inside the top fiveand the top seven the whole race and learned a lot. spent a lot of time behind jimmie johnsonand i felt like i just followed his tracks there and got a lot better throughout therace and chad did a good job, took two tires on the end and lined up on the inside rowand pretty good. hats off to everybody on the target chevy.cool to get a good chevy. been a while and
fun to put on a good performance and wishchip was here, rob, thanks for helping out and everybody at target, you know, as well.>> chip ganassi. >> here's what they chased so hard today.the ridgeway clock that awaits with the winner of each major race at martinsville speedway.a two-clock weekend for kyle busch. vince? >> it is indeed, mike, and we talked beforethe weekend started. 0 for 32 for kyle busch here at martinsville and 0 for 32 until yougot here and now you've won two in the same weekend. what took you so long?>> certainly helps when you get to run other divisions and that's why i do it to pay offon sundays and doesn't work every single weekend and works more times than it doesn't. can'tsay enough at kbm for giving me a great piece
to help me learn and teach me more thingsabout martinsville i didn't already know and i can't say enough about the jgr team. hada real good car through practice and adam made some real good adjustments overnightto be able to run up front, probably led the most laps there and to win here at martinsvilleis pretty cool. finally get to take a clock home. a lot of people said i didn't deserveyesterday and maybe i don't but i got one today.>> you had the prefer lane on your teammate on the restart. how big was that?>> that was huge. thanks to my guys, flawless today on pit road and made a few adjustmentsto the car throughout the day and kept getting me out and not even losing a spot on pit road.did a job for me. that was the key being able
to restart on bottom and talked as a groupearlier this morning about how we would be able to do that and said with ten to go it'spretty much off-limits and no more and 12 to go so pretty much right on the bring there. sorry, and i can't say enough about my teammates.denny hamlin most importantly, a huge key to our success and getting me bert and continuingto evolve our program an matt kenseth coming on board and a huge influence for me to getbert. he came over and was really good right off the bath. awesome day for m & m. jgr,trj engines, can't say enough of those guys. >> congratulations, kyle busch is the winner.he sweeps martins sglil with michael waltrip and chris myers back in the hollywood hotel,his family, braxton who we saw on the pre-race
show and nascar's reigning sprint cup championand he's won on 20 different tracks and that was interesting, michael, and he moves intothe group here of drivers that have locked themselves into the chase.>> that's what that win is all about. martinsville getting that look was amazing and now he knowshe'll try to defend his championship. he'll be in the chase for the championship, andthis team has so much momentum, chris. the pit stops are right on target and the gibbscars seems to be fastest in all the garage areas and those toyotas are rolling.>> interesting what he said about teammates. talked about it with ten to go. all bets areoff. five different times that joe gibbs toyotas controlled the restart and in the end differentfor kyle busch but good enough.
>> they discussed that. tip your cap to joegibbs. he's a leader and the coach of that organization. he brings those guys togetherand says if you're on the front row give the guy a break and we know we've got a race andkyle got real fortunate. matt had a better gar and got the inside line.>> and for kyle busch and the victory, let's check in with jamie little.>> what an eventful day, brad keselowski. your car heating up, still smoking, speedingpenalty in pit road earlier, how hard did you have to work today? >> a blue collar day for penske and the ford.came home with a fifth. team put a good effort. kind of like i told michael before the racestarted. couldn't put together the short run
to really run with 18 or 20. kept trying,kept trying but never really found t.been really good the last few times and if we cankeep knocking on the top five door that we'll break through and get a win so on to the nextone. >> brad said he'd stick to doing four tiresall over again because that's what they needed. >> first short track race of the season andteammates even at the finish with kyle busch and kenseth and then what we saw throughoutand our guys did a good job in the booth. paul menard and austin dillon saying, okay,we're teammates and what took place on the track we forgot because we're all trying towin and matt yocum caught up with austin. >> old-school run for austin dillon, blisterson his hands, a great run and a lot of people
are going to be talking about teammates, yourselfand the 27. conversations on the radio. you two spoke after the race. how was it?>> it was good. we had fast race cars. i've got to learn to keep my mouth shut on theradio. i'm a fire guy. it was fun today. nice to see a race at short track like that. sometimesyou've got to grow up a little bit. nice to be running up front. thanks to dow, aaa, allthe people that support us. you know, it's fun. i'll talk to paul. me and paul are fun.that's the small part and slugger made a good call and pit crew made a great recovery. brokea jack and were able to recover from that. martinsville, your head is hot and say thingsyou don't want to mean. monday morning i'll talk to everybody and figure it back out.got to thank the good lord above and blessed
us with another great one.>> continue to build on that momentum all year long in 2016. >> there's joe gibbs. michael said, he coachesthe guy with the winner on the phone and calming down matt kenseth a little bit. 0 for 33 nowand it was terrific. two teammates with kyle busch and kenseth, past champions, and theyhad never won here. kyle busch started seventh and never out of the top seven and was ableto pull this off. >> just a dominating performance and getsto celebrate in victory lane with that beautiful clock. austin dillon struggled with his teammateand worked it out at the end. tip your hat to austin. went through a lot emotionallyand came back to finish in the top five. says
he needs to learn how to keep his mouth shot.>> his crew chief will teach him that. >> jimmie johnson was the favorite, ham lip,logano, kyle busch at 7-1 breaks through for victory and let's welcome in the guy upstairsand get some final thoughts. >> two things i love about martinsville andalways have, the casual contact and the gouging for position. when austin dillon gets firedup he gets faster, see it on the stop watch and you never know who you're going to rationfor the win until the last restart. >> absolutely no. boy, i just love short trackracing especially here at martinsville. saw a little bit of everything. tire conservation,gouging, moving people out of the way and pit strategy, tires, no tires there at theend as well as some great, great finishes.
by guys like austin dillon and a.j. allmendinger.kyle busch has done it all. hard to believe he hadn't won here.>> i love what he shade. why did you run yesterday, why did you run saturday's race? because ilearned so much and here particularly it paid off big and you know who coach was talkingto. >> matt kenseth.>> dr. phil. >> yeah, you're right.>> a look at carl edwards. spent almost the whole day a lap down, so if you left tv early,you didn't see carl rebound for a fine sixth place finish. that's determination. again,that's what i love about this place. >> so many impressive finishes and certainlyone of them with sglarl on to texas saturday
night and that's back on fox with a stringof races. fs1 an exciting show, three of the first six overtime races in the nascar seasonand this one a tight finish, and the unofficial result. kyle busch finishing fourth or betterin five of the six races this season. >> and jimmie johnson a hard cat to figureout as was brad keselowski. could charge up but couldn't quite get there.>> paul menard first top ten finish this continue and brian blaney first martinsville race heappeared in and carl edwards seventh or better now in five of six races so far this.>> what about a couple of rookies, elliott and blaney, sicking together, 19th and 20thand trevor bayne in the backup car back in 27th.>> carl edwards part of the joe gibbs racing
team and jamie little spoke with him momentsago. >> carl edwards, talked a lot about him. thefirst half the race and stalled out in the back and then it seemed like you just workedyour butt off to bring it home. >> first half was honestly pretty embarrassing.we just missed it and worked on some things in practice with shouldn't have. my guys donot quit. it's unreal. that's what i'm learning about my team. they make good adjustmentsno matter if i'm 30th or 3rd and my pit crew has great stops. to the grand stands earlyon, embarrassed and saved a little pride for the end and really proud of our recovery.>> carl edwards brings it home sixth. >> david ragan gets into dale earnhardt jr.cutting his tire and was land out.
>> had a fast car and worked and worked andworked and over 300 laps to get back in the lead lap and had a shot at the top five inthe end. >> denny hamlin had to work his way all theway back up to fifth and for a guy -- he blamed himself, i guess for a rookie mistake andwheel hopping and wrecking here. [4:52:29 pm] >> he made up all that ground and had thefastest car on the track and another mistake on pit road for harvick. heard him say wecan't keep doing that. left side didn't get up in time and they lost some critical timeon the track. >> chris osborne and the spotter for mattkenseth this season, and matt certainly had
a good run in here as he had a chance to winthis, and you even said maybe one of the fastest cars here as you see on the restart. mattled 45 laps and with 11 to go inside the 12 kyle busch made that decision with his teammateon the restart and pulled into victory lane. >> but he was being heated up by a.j. allmendinger.nobody can drive further and in the middle of that race he was doing everything he couldand he came up a bit short. >> brian vickers in that 14 car for tony stewartwound up seventh and matt yocum caught up with him.>> impressive day with brian vicious and the 14 team and best finish with the team thisyear. did you get out-tired there near the end?>> a little bit. pleased but not satisfied.
we had such a good car yesterday, so fast.i don't know if the track changed. tire change not quite as good as practice but proud ofthe guys' effort. we wanted to win this race and for arnie's army and everybody this isa bitter suite track, lost my best friend. 7 was ricky's number so we'll take a 7 tomove hofnlt the team is getting strong every week and really proud of those guys and goingto be a strong team this year. >> this is a place where 18 hall of famershave won and whatever good you do you can carry it a long way.>> the race started out. third straight martinsville pole with kasey kahne and neither one of themthreatened at end. >> talk about how have to start up front andyou need a good handling car. early on logano's
car went away and casey kaib never could getahold of his track and those guys struggled and you can also fight from the back. saw junior do that and carl all the way upto sixth and you can real, but it's better to start -- makes your day much less eventisrael. >> joey logano started on the pole for thethird consecutive time at martinsville and just seemed like something went away earlyin the race, joey. what was it? >> the right rear tire. that's what that was.gosh, such a different race. the race played out a little different that be we would andthe way the tires were completely opposite of what it was in the past. got some homeworkto do to understand why that happened. something
that was seen all the way up and down withthe pit road with the nuts not wearing like they usually do. interesting for all of usto see and go back and understand why that happened hand how to make our car fast likethat. figured ow ways to crutch our car and get better, so we know where we missed it,but we didn't have the right tools during the race to fix it. points that we were maybesearch the or eighth place car and just didn't get everything we needed to the at the endthere. >> at the end, i don't know what it was, thebumper that flipped up on the hood, could you even see?>> no, pretty much blindfolded. i relied on my spotter to tell me where cars were in frontof me so i didn't run over somebody and we
were lucky to be able to limp it home afterthat, you know. maybe we could have finished a couple spots better but that doesn't happenbut that weak the difference today, that's for sure.>> thanks, joey. >> you can hear the disappointment in thevoice of joey logano. for kyle busch at age 30, the reigning sprint cup champ, think aboutthat he missed this race last year recovering from that injury, obviously had his son whowas born in the last year and here's a guy who has struggled at this place and at theend in terms of having decisions to make he ended making the right one.>> hand his team did, too. you've got to figure 500 laps, the track not taking rubber anddid it much different than the crew and team
thought. joey logano said that. team had to be justright on the gas, changing the wet settings all day long to stay on top of it or it couldhave gotten away in a hurry. >> the crew chief adams there to help himout. let's go to our crew chief and larry mcreynolds.>> to me, chris and michael, that's what impressed me with kyle busch, led 318 laps and kylebusch knew when ketch harvick drove by him at the halfway point of the race his car wasnot turning as good in the corner. told adam stevens that and adam stevens made an adjustmentand if you have that dominant of a car, pretty aggressive and risky when you make a changebut that's what they needed to do to win this
race.>> thanks very much, larry. said before how difficult, two rookies in the history of now135 races have won here, ryan blaney and chase elliott gave it their best shot and let'scheck in with jamie little who is with brian blainy.>> a lot of talk about the rookies. how did reality compare to your expectations of runninga cup cop. >> >> some runs were really good and otherruns we just lacked a little bit and couldn't really find that balance.>> that downhelp us, i think we were on the lead lap and learned a lot we can apply tothe fall race, both myself and the car, so just -- not the best day and came home onthe lead lap. nice to be back in martinsville
and the home track and i grew 45 minutes fromhere so it's neat to come here and have a fun race, but can't take the motorcraft quicklyenough for the fast forward fusion and real excited to race in texas next week.>> the wood brothers you saw there on the shirt, mentioned texas. he and chase wouldbe in the chase, chase elliott if we were to stop now given to where they are rightnow. let's talk about texas saturday night on fox.jimmie johnson has won the last three races there. it's a mile and a half.>> the last mile and a half race here in atlanta, georgia, jimmie johnson goes to victory lane.they are obviously strong on that program and look for them to be the real guy to beaton saturday night.
>> jimmie is the only driver slow far thisyear to have won two races. jimmie, kevin harvick, keselowski and kyle busch. only dennyhamlin has not won a sprint cup championships so four of the drivers with champions andare setting an early tone, if you're an a.j. allmendinger or rookie right to make yourmove, the guys who know how to win are stepping their best foot forward.>> they have experience and most of the experience is good experience and to be able to use thatand put people away. saw that in atlanta with jimmie johnson and seen some great finishesand today kyle busch outlasted the field. >> time was right for kyle busch on the shorttrack and a milestone accomplishment with his first victory here. for michael wall stripand our entire gang. i'm chris myers. thanks
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