NASCAR Classic Race Replay: 2009 Aaron's 499 | Talladega Superspeedway

I've been rolling here looking left at your pizza. It's a beautiful day, perhaps perfect for racing in central Alabama. 82 degrees, just a few light fluffy clouds. There is not much breeze, just enough and plenty of sun. The 43 full cars drive away. Mindful of what happened here last fall, at the top left of your screen, Carl Edwards drafted 16, teammate Greg Biffle, and in the blink of an eye most of the Roush Fenway fleet along with many other contenders are out of the

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. Bad result for Greg Biffle and yet today Biffle lines up on the front row alongside Juan Pablo Montoya, who has his first oval track poll since arriving in NASCAR fit in the safe start harness with his best starts since that came here from IndyCar in a row.

To cut out Boy and Regan Smith, who almost won this

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last year in row three and while we take a look at the rest of our starting lineup, Darrell, let's hit the brake pedal. Oh hey Greg Biffle, DW, here's a coffee buddy for you, have you made any? pre-race arrangements here with anyone, but working with you today and trying to stay up front like you are now in my race, you know, off the top of the track, it kind of depends on how it goes at the beginning. your top line has a little 5 run bar to get on the track and not give that little group of 10 right off the bat in the team meeting yesterday or this morning whatever you had, did you talk to your teammates like that maybe something about what? happened here last year last year or yesterday either of us probably yeah, you know we're going to help each other the best we can, but since we have to do it right, okay my friend, we're going to have a great day.

It's been working well, keep it in front, keep everything on your windshield or rear view mirror and keep that windshield wiper rated so good, the guys are doing a great job for me, beyond the restrictor plate the car had on ago a few years, I'm excited. today, okay, Roger, good luck. Greg Biffle's start from the pole today makes for a great race. Stay with the perfect balance between flavor and refreshment. Budweiser, the great American beer. Let's take a look at our FedEx to understand the race. What is this. The trends or patterns of the eight spring races we've been doing NASCAR on Fox here the number of cautions averaged around six the last four races we've had eight in 2001 with no cautions the first caution typically occurring on average around the lap 35 in 2002 everything went well the way to lap 116 usually the first yellow flag for the first crash the longest green race here averaged about 82 laps, about double the fuel consumption, so we'll probably see one of the two stops with at least a green flag and the last yellow flag.

You can almost count on it around lap 177. Sometimes they tend to go on the last lap. It is not unusual to have a white green box here. It is not unusual. I thought it was rule five. We had one followed by seven and we had 108, so it's like that. a car on pit road is almost expected to believe that Scott accelerates by going up the left side of his car let's go to our pit reporters and get the latest news Krista voda well Mike last week Jeff Gordon had his worst performance of the year in Phoenix.

He was sick even though his back was killing him. His back has been a problem all year. I spoke with Andy Krupp, who is in charge of the interior of his race car. He said they thought about using lumbar bags or changing the seat angle. They didn't do any of that. That Jeff said he should be good here because he only really bothers him on the short track. Jeff told me the spasms continue but he said here at Talladega it's stronger than ever. Steve, well, Krista, all of these pilots have spotters up on the roof here at Talladega. his eyes in the sky now for Ryan Newman his observer is his father Greg Greg told me this morning two things to consider here at Talladega I have to give information to Ryan very quickly the holes closed much faster than at Daytona and I I have to tell them on the muscle that comes behind him.

It's good Yocum on Saturday Dale Earnhardt jr. The cup stand or TJ's managers worked on his Saturday concert with Brad Keselowski to get Dale jr. He had to go to the bullpen for his spotter and chose his cousin for the first time in his career, Tony Eury Jr. He was an observer for the NASCAR race, he learned many different factors, the biggest problem for today, the heat fields. I can help them get to Victory Lane using their second channel, passing information to Dick Berggren from the pits to the observer, better today. Oh, jr. Well, three-time Indy Car Series champion Sam Hornish had a rough introduction to major league stock car racing yesterday, however, he put in his best time trial effort in fourth place, unfortunately he came down with the flu last night, His wife caught it.

He was sick all night and was in the infirmary twice this morning for IVs. He told me a few moments ago that he's not sure he'll make it to the end of the race, so they have a backup driver here ready to go. case Hornish can't finish the speed Scott made that pit stop, Larry and van, will hold him for a lap. Well, I think we should explain the whole procedure here. This is a seized weekend, which basically means that after yesterday's qualifying, NASCAR seizes. You can't work on the cars, you put them out there and race him with your qualifying setup.

Scott Speed ​​was one of the homecoming bloody cars among the top 35 locked in on the show. The rule is that you can change things on your car after the green flag. shown Jim Alers brought that car to the pits they were making changes that made the car run fast that would not be good for the race they will be penalized with one lap that's why Jeff Gordon in 2001 heard of 36 the starting position so you can win from anywhere place in the field and no matter how much you've won before, Talladega has been fertile ground for drivers to get their first victory.

Nine drivers have their first victory at Talladega and these seven drivers have the only victories of their career and so far. the Sprint Cup Series here at Talladega is our x-men x-factor of the race x-men origins Wolverine opens everywhere this Friday of those seven Brian Vickers is in the race today trying to win his career number two today's race will go to 500 points one mile, 188 laps and there you see at a pit road speed of 55 miles per hour, the pit window for Sunoco race fuel. From 42 to 46 laps, many cars go backwards for engine changes. You see Robby Gordon, his car was too low in qualifying afterwards. inspection their time was voided one thing if you look at those engines all four Richard Petty Motorsports cars had to be changed as they came here with a little bit different package to build a race plus tape on the nose to help with drag and it didn't work for them, so they had to change the engine and those four bones stuck to Jeff Gordon's back very quickly.

You will have more back pain here and you know where we are going, not from physical stress to stress, yeah, how difficult. You wait hard, hold on and you have to keep that right foot planted that reaches up to your back. Another driver who might be a little bruised is Matt Kenseth. David Ragan won the race yesterday. His Roush Fenway teammate wasn't so fortunate. Matt was unharmed. but that was a wild ride, yeah, and you know, when you see a car going around like that, the driver isn't really taking a very hard beating inside the car, you're strapped so tightly, as long as it keeps moving, its energy doesn't dissipate.

It hurts really bad Over 80 degrees Almost clear skies full of field and a very strong crowd in the stands ready to see the fastest speedway in the world and what has to unfold 443 great drivers Okay, sorry, go ahead, they're coming, how fast It's two hours and 39 minutes and 18 seconds in 1987, our 97, our $488, is heading towards the tri-oval and, unlike Daytona, the start/finish line is not in the center of the tri-oval, but beyond the start from pit road towards turn one. a race has been won or lost between this point right here and the start/finish line DW she's big and she's mean and she's bold and she's fast and rich once again oh, this is one of those places, Larry, what let's do?

A lot of race speeds are still building up on the backstretch, it's still too late and I know you won't believe it, but you already know how good you're going to run today or at least how good your car is going to be for my bottom three and four. via trioval car gets a push from teammate Martin tricks junior, will lead the lap behind teammate David Ragan Guess that's exactly what David Ragan is in front of you today, not behind him, now the pace outside led by Jeff Gordon. with an assist for Matt Kenseth, but they're not beating that front group on the inside, excuse me, it's Biffle and Kenseth together on the outside, Mike, a lot of these guys kill me because these cars are co t, the cars really like them I like the middle lane then. really works well in the middle Kenseth is someone who really likes his car and here comes a big suction on this car from both sides and only Jr and Biffle, Lane, connected trying to run around the front for two Chevrolet Dei Ganassi in Point, then a Richard Childress Chevy and then Hendrick's first car is Mark Martin, just looked at the race that group is doing on the high side when he lines up, he just picks up speed and now he sees Greg Biffle hanging on the outside . now he's getting some help but look at the positions he lost, when it really works outside is when the bottom is completely clogged and you open up a little bit and pass a lot of cars, small tight cars that started on the inside of the rows one. through four positions, from one to four, is the inside line.

Toya continues to lead and a lot of people wonder if he can corner an IndyCar star when in a stock car at Talladega he won at Monaco, we won at Talladega, he can win anywhere if he has a good car, but it's a lot easier here than Everywhere else we go if you have a fastball, stay there, the push he was giving in turn three, his teammate Martin Trix jr. 197 miles per hour now we're looking at Dale Earnhardt Jr. in '88 he gets that push from Denny Hamlin in '11 two cars I don't know why two cars can run so much better on that outside than a group of cars it's just something about two car speed it looked like Bart Martin went up to pick up to jr. when he reached the top lane jr.

He's been gone a long time now he's a jr. and his former teammate Martin Truex trying to take the lead from Montoya, it's like when you race that High Line, especially after finishing the term, especially if you have three or four cars or, in this case, maybe ten cars They run around that back immediately Dale. Earnhardt Jr. Talladega is in the lead Denny Hamlin is his teammate, they don't get any closer than that and the youth nation that fills this Talladega grandstand comes to life, this is what they came to see if you are 30 miles from the Speedway, isn't it? . an earthquake Dale Earnhardt jr.

Zin and let me tell you, Darryl, who you talked about here, a sight. I just think I know this is just a race, but I think if he comes out of here with a good race, you know what will build momentum. He doesn't have a good career. It could possibly be just four in the middle with Bobby Labonte up top now they separate from three in a row and the lead will change again Montoya has picked up Truex and the outside line is moving Crysta wait, let's let this chain, we don't It doesn't have to What to like when a teammate tries to give Truex those five points.

You can think like that when you're leading the race. Anyone in front of you isn't the leader for long because Truex with Kenseth and Jeff Gordon in the middle and here he comes. Yesterday's Reagan winner David Ragan at number six with rookie Joey Logano up top, where Logano comes from, that was the 22nd day they worked together yesterday, it was Logano who really gave Reagan the opportunity he needed to get more millions of Jeff Gordon recorded on the wall I think I was presiding under here we go eight nine ten cars involved man you hate to see believe that Jeff Gordon was the first car scented coffee pot on the wall someone someone hit Jeff and that started look at him it seems a junkyard garage because it's, oh boy, you're wrecked Scott Riggs is in a Jamie McMurray Kevin Harvick Mark Martin Jeff Gordon and more, let's see where, let's see where Jeff Gordon is here because first you see the smoke when he makes contact with someone and it's the car he was in now here's Gordon here's Matt Kenseth look at them both and see if there's a cloud of smoke in sight Jeff's got cars on the inside of him on the outside of him oh and Kenseth just looks like if you were leaving a little space at the bottom and moved up a little bit, you got Jeff Kasey Kahne involved, well, I think Allmendinger listen,when he passed the field, there was only about half a foot left, you can see right there, Matt Kenseth just puts on. on that left front Jeff Gordon and Gordon goes up and gets into the side of the 71 Gilliland, there's no place for Kurt Busch Brian Vickers to go and they just pile up from there look, it's a six pack against the wall, all in one move and this is the way the big one works at Talladega, I saw cars running in the top five that were involved, cars running outside of the top 25 that we're involved in, yeah hey Ted, the old Pepsi challenger , it's opening like a can of Pepsi got Gilliland like he turned around who came out of the nose of the - Harvey can look at Marc Marc took a ride in the car 5 now Kasey Kahne got out of her car, it's okay, it will be easier to list the cars that I'm Mike wasn't involved when they came through here and of course we'll see them on the track here.

We have to feel most of the cars on the low pace until then. Oh Boyer took a hard hit in a Gilliland pile and so did the '71 I mean although there are cars that were hit in this accident, let's look from behind Jeff Gordon, that's Kurt Busch, yeah, again he completely jumps on me , let's ride with Kevin.Harvick and ride with Kasey Kahne I would like to see Kevin Harvick's angle one more time and watch Jeff Gordon's car and see if Darrell lets go before contact Jeff Gordon is up here Kurt Busch behind him, jump kinda I think this is just a contact guy from the 17 I was talking to on the right, you're right, exactly what caused these cars to be ugly, there are a lot of cars that are taking hits on this Rick, pick your favorite driver under what I heard we went in '71 to '24 in '71 here comes McMurray here comes Harvick's marks on the last 36 the car hits nine to forty-four stacks on the popular Bonnie good job braking and missing Mike, I only counted 21 cars that passed through here without damage, which is half the field and Jeff Gordon, you heard him say on the radio, we're done for the day, he's leaving, yeah, that car was hit several times, the street pits is now open, let's start with Yesterday's winner, David Ragan, and Dick Berggren, they're going to use two tires and put fuel in Reagan's car and certainly, to win the race here at Talladega, you have to avoid those kinds of problems until Now, all is well for the young 23-year-old driver. many junior fire trucks three-time winner in the NASCAR Nationwide Series does not have major chassis adjustments for the lunges four tires for Kristen Brian patty reminding Juan that his team is wearing blue this week Tom's double-action Chevy said that they will stick with their plan and go with four you want to be stricter he said no my car is a rocket David Ragan will he win or not Joey Logano wins the Verizon race out of the pits with Reagan Truex Dale Earnhardt jr. and Montoya, I think all they did to that number 20 car was just put some fuel in it to fill it up, there were no tire changes on that car, it seems like Gerald, the big one, didn't take until lap eight to develop under of the first. yellow flag of the day at Talladega Alabama for this big accident caused by Matt Kenseth entering Jeff Gore first yellow flag of the day some work on Carl Edwards claritin Ford during this everyone has been in and out of the pits at least once Bobby Labonte got a A small part looked like he stopped to avoid it, but he got a little and so did Kyle Busch.

Let's go back here are the cars involved in the accident. This is in numerical order for the drivers involved with significant damage, some like Casey Cain's car. Heading into the garage Matt Kenseth may have gone up a bit but it also looks like Jeff Gordon went down a bit as they hit turn three, yeah it looks like car 71 on the outside was next to Jeff and then it looked like the 17 crashed against each other's backsides, maybe made it move up a little bit while Jeff moved down a little bit and then we had a disaster. I mean you could look at this accident all the way to the end of the race it's just Talladega and there's the 17 right behind the one and he goes up while Jeff goes down to make a little gap there's not enough room for both of them a driver who I think got the biggest blow of all Clint Boyer is released from the spotlight where young Dick Berggren has finished 81st consecutive in this series.

Can you get back on track? Things broke down quite a bit when I got out, but it's unfortunate. You know the Chevrolet BB&T was strong. The guys worked hard to bring in fast cars. I don't know what happened it's just running too hard too soon. Is everyone okay in the spotlight? I think it's okay, thank you. Look at that strong hit on the outside barrier, safer for 33 among many strong hits, three from Richard. Childress, since four cars were involved and probably finished for the day, yeah, five to 71 to 44, I mean, eight that took, took heavy licks on the driver's side, but I think there's going to be a tremendous amount of work on the garage area so early.

In the race, when you look at it, there are about half of our teams and drivers in the top 12 and a lot of guys fighting like Mark Martin to be in the top 12. Well they didn't fix your car and go back out and do any kind of acceleration and maintain speed, look at all the cars you could be ahead of, one more lap would make a big laugh, yeah right now we have nine cars that completed just those first laps while repairs are being made on the safest barrier, now ride with Jimmie Johnson and see how he comes out ahead, yeah, because I said, "Okay, in front of him," when you see the court start to develop towards you and everyone , he's on the apron, oh man, oh man, those were simple problems and I know to talk to Chad. channels, that was his big concern about that qualifying race was starting there so close for Jimmie Johnson but so difficult for his teammate Jeff Gordon, idiot, well, Jeff Gordon stepped out of the spotlight and the active driver with the most wins here at Talladega, the points leader is There's any chance you can get that car back.

I know these guys are certainly going to work very hard on it, it's time to. I think that's how this Pepsi challenge ended, maybe three, so it sure looked good, it was driving good. and we were having a good time there. I was actually working well with Matt and getting up front through the middle and I'm not really sure what happened. I was just surfing there in the middle. Matt went up there. I think behind maybe the 11th and he came down so I was sailing down the middle and I don't know if someone had to totally show him yeah here we go I saw it there but I would like to. to see a different angle maybe in the van, but you know it's just a different angle, yeah, yeah.

Matt went down with that car and I guess what it was is who was inside. I don't think you know he went there, he just was. There wasn't enough room when he got under Matt. Matt showed up and I was already there. Sorry to find you here, we thought we'd meet you in victory lane, possibly next time, yeah, and I hoped you didn't remember that 83 run to Steve. Byrnes Mike with Mark Martin Mark just walked off and patted his teammates on the back and you got a chance to watch the

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while your teammate Jeff Gordon was talking, your race car is unfortunately a mess, yeah , it is and I hate that for our Kellogg's car.

The search team was a really nice race car, but they seemed to be experts at building them, so I'm sure they'll come back with another great car and, you know, we had a great weekend last weekend. complain and be grateful for the good things and I hope to get back on that next weekend. Thanks Marc, an early start for at least nine drivers, including two from Hendrick Motorsports and three from Richard Childress' mastermind for the Drive restart, ten very clear laps. on the line and where we are and this is a great opportunity for someone who had not won a race this year to lead the field right now eight of the tamale who has never exactly won a race for Mark Tricks Jr.

The net1 car gets the push from his former teammate Taylor and Hart Jr. they're just going to drive around Joey Logano they're going to chase these guys away they've been friends for a long time they've been roommates they're good friends they trust each other they like each other and bye they're gone at least for the moment well you'll get out there yet, but it won't take long. This pack will line up behind them and chase them back. You just can't escape it, but I think the way this plays out, this is Dale Earnhardt. jr. The race is about to be lost.

I think you have a great opportunity here to cash in. Truex leads lap 14. Back to the spotlight. The day crew tries to repair their car. Believe it or not, they are going to get it. They think they are going to do it. To get back on track, what did you think out there? You know, just from the

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s, it's like that's all I could see. Know. I saw the 24 go sideways and it looked like 17. I don't know if In fact, I'm told that in your 20s, a lot of guys smoke and it's a typical way to end this last month at Shelf Enzo, so everyone's good.

Steve Casey Casey looking, there are a lot of wrecked race cars here in the garage, how? Bad is your number nine, he's pretty good, he's pretty beat up, I think they'll fix him guys, they work really hard and I'll bring our Budweiser dogs back, but he's pretty beat up and disappointing at the beginning of the race, but he's nice. What it is I don't know, you just make such a smooth track there's so much room to race that you run three and four single wide and then if someone makes a mistake a lot of cars can fail, unfortunately yours was one of them, thanks Casey. okay, it's like dancing, it's Kenyatta dancing, a simple spy, Stefan, which made me angry.

Jimmy Johnson with Hendrick teammate Dale Earnhardt Jr. Joey Logano from the inside watching from David Ragan how about the last time you'd think this big accident would calm everyone down? I have never done it about David Ragan and Juan Pablo Montoya. I take a look at the 42 and the six with Paul Menard in 98 A lap ago, my goodness, I swam when the six hit him in the back, yeah, Reagan gave him a little chance there. I guess everyone tried to get around Logano in the 24th, man. I didn't do it the way you do it. You know Reagan had done it.

Yesterday there was a small incident and he came, he gave his teammate the opportunity for him. I have to be a little more careful with them. A softer tax day. I'm getting a little push and a boost from Kurt's guys at practice. Hamlin dated rookie teammate Joey Logano. who is running third right now and Hamlin pushed Logano all over the track so Joey would know the feeling of catching and releasing a car hit with him at these speeds in these cars and since it was practice NASCAR told him to let it go , yes and We were here about to jump out of the cabin.

I talked to Denny after that, after a practice, and he said he talked to Joy and Joy said she wouldn't bother him in the least. I know why NASCAR was upset. No, I have been. watching the outside mile course with Michael Waltrip in the 55 car right in the middle and you know, Michael Toto saw our tracks, show him speed on Friday night, he said, I know I can win this race on Sunday, well, he needs do it yesterday. Bad day, you know he's had a couple of bad weekends here, he needs to get going and this would be a great opportunity. 18 of 188 complete laps Martin Truex Jr Dale Earnhardt jr. and Montoya with that push from Hamlin takes the lead again, let's go back to the garage and Steve Mike Jamie McMurray also got caught up in the big one in Jamie's troubles at the beginning, there's a lot of damage on that 26 so I'm glad you're well with no I don't compete with the crowd anymore during the season, it may be done.

We'll try to go out at least for a lap to see if you can gain a couple of places, but a pretty big accident. I'm glad you're okay, thank you, thank God. The problem now, I mean, you can fix your car, but we have a minimum speed and you can't just get out and ride like that? You have to run at a relatively fast speed in order to stay. on the track nine cars are in the garage as a result of that accident here comes Kurt Busch too skinny and how about Jeff Burton in car 31? He actually took a little damage from that accident and here he is up there, inside, fighting for The leader usually takes a damaged race car, it will work pretty well when it's in a draft, but when you get out you won't have any significant damage. 20 full laps this time, this is the battle for the lead Jeff Burton Kurt Busch is trying to get some advantage and stay out front Jeff Burton leading Denny Hamlin, but they are three abreast, so how can you tell Fred that too is there?

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fishel coma search engine question, get the answer now and ask. Calm down and participate in Ask.com's Nascar challenge tohave the opportunity to win David prizes. The track here at Talladega. Look, when you're a driver, you know what you're thinking right now. Well, we can find out all those guys who were going to destroy. I'm not worried about it anymore, but I think there are a couple of guys who may still be anticipating that we're not done yet. I've been watching for the last few laps, they're kind of back, they're just staying behind this. big group and it's Tony Stewart in that 14 car in his teammate Ryan Newman in the 39.

I think they're exactly where they want to be right now just hanging out in the back, yeah that strategy but man at some point when you get back . There you see, you know you can see the remains of the accident and that's the problem. It would be better if you could see it in your rearview mirror. Hey, several years ago at Daytona, Tony Labonte, yes, Tony will excuse me. Tony Stewart was near the front of the group. a countdown in an accident, his teammate Bobby Labonte was behind him and they ended up on top of each other exactly, so there is no safe strategy here, well, you can't stop these cars that you know are aggressive. package here, you use a pretty small brake package, you're not going to stop the car now.

Of the nine cars involved in the accident, four are out of racing by NASCAR, the rest are off the track and under repair, we will. Update it in a moment, as some of those drivers want to get out, at least do a few laps and move up the running order. Now, Kyle Busch, you saw a little damage on the back of his car, where else and what else? Matt Mike had significant cosmetic damage, especially to the right rear quarter panel area, it was completely open, repaired the right front bumper area, they really couldn't do much with the rear bumper, you can see how it is still open, but really No He's made no comment on the car's handling twice and in practice Mike went from rear to front, he's trying to do it for the third time here in the race and they're not going to worry about that rear bumper breaking. hidden down there still, that's actually a plus, you can take out the rear bumper.

In fact, there was a time when a guy's rear bumper fell off intentionally, Bobby Allis, right, he's the cake-damping door of the Daytona 500, yes, the resulting investigation. I tell you what, here's a guy I'm so happy for today. Joe Nemechek, he's been one of the Gorgo home run hitters all year, he's made all but two of the runs, he's got some sponsorship from our company that makes laptops and he's in the top five here. This could be a chance for him to cash in today, well, he said yesterday. on our speed qualifying show he said: I love having a sponsor so we can run all day and put on a good show for someone whose prayer was answered and you know the good things that happen to good people.

He left here Friday after practice and flew out. all the way back to North Carolina to see his daughter for a father-daughter dance and they came back for qualifying, something happened with a 31 like I think Christian knows what it is, yeah, DW Jeff Burton just appeared on the radio and said guys, I don't have everything turned off I don't have anything Scott Miller just said prepare the battery power loss now he and Denny Hamlin were attending they know each other could they have loosened something that is preventing the electric system? correctly, they were hitting each other hard enough, you know, to loosen the battery cable or any number of things, well, they were hitting each other, you know one thing and I'm sure Kristin will go into this a little bit more. of equipment, many cars have a backup battery that you can fall back on, but it seems like I think I heard you say I'm back, I think he said I got it back, well you know, that would have been a good move anyway . although with caution going back down to 8 volts on the gauge that's not good, but this lover of caution is a huge benefit to that 31 car if it doesn't stop on the backstretch, a piece of debris from these bumps and bangs . and maybe since the lap eight crash is into the wall about 300 yards past the start/finish line, we can understand the cause, we'll be happy to show you, but that puts us at the second caution flag of the day. it's against the wall in the center of your screen right there yeah i'm not sure if that's metal or a big pile of tape that was on joe nemechek scarborough's nose and you know who else isn't sure

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is safe and that is why they have to throw the yellow flag to make sure, as you have witnessed, that there is nothing that goes out of rhythm here in the entire track from top to bottom of the rhythm.

I think this comes at a very opportune time from what I think almost everyone will see. Come to the pits, you'll probably get four new tires, fill them up with Sunoco race fuel and you'll be good to go for a while, yeah, and some of the cars that maybe still have a little bit of minor damage have a chance to work on them and try to get Pepsi's old challenger. Patch again, but the car looks much better, it has a hood, it didn't when it came in, but these guys really have to criticize what they are doing here because NASCAR only gives you one chance to get the car out.

There you have it, what flew out of that is a big piece of tape and I think it's from Joe Nemechek. I think the sexy Regan Smith, the Civic, excuse me, yeah, we saw a lot of damage to her car. Now what's going on here? The battery is. Located in front of the left rear tire and there, so they are changing the battery, it has a quick disconnect. You can do it here normally and not miss a lap. Open pit roads. Matt Kenseth has a clean drive-in that he was running. in second position with that caution flag that went wrong yesterday in the Nationwide race, things are going well for him today he has a little cosmetic damage to the car Steve Kurt Busch says the number two car is a good penis with a little tape grill sticker four tires for Kurt Busch and a shim adjustment Matt no, now push the team only right side tires and a can of fuel Christa four tires for Jimmie Johnson the guy now said how is your car Jimmie said quote, feels like a dream boy Elliott Sadler jumps and takes four positions, now Matt Kenseth had a quick stop but got stuck behind the cars entering pit road and didn't have a clear lane to get there in a hurry, he killed the pace to try to get out of the pit box I have him delayed for a race break HSE NASCAR on Fox live from Talladega 11 liters 15 different lead changes and changing as we speak Kyle Busch moving to the front as we work on our second caution that we already had a big mini here on lap 7 David Ragan was leading at the time in the middle of this group Matt Kenseth the drivers are still trying to figure out exactly what triggered it all, but Mark Martin in the five cars involved, last week's winner Jeff , rose to the leader in points. in the Pepsi retro car involved, abandoned Boyer, whose 81-race series runs to the finish in danger, involved at least 14 cars, others Jeff Hammond suffered some damage and we're taking here along the journey with Jimmie Johnson, him on board, how close he came.

He got caught up in his mess, being able to get to the end of the platform right there and avoid all these cars spinning on top of him, that's not the way you want to start the race and fix the safest barrier a few moments ago as for the car. It's not the only thing damaged here at the track, maybe never getting to 190 miles per hour, so Jeff, obviously, we've got guys like Mark Martin that won't be back in the race and some other cars that won't be back, so what? happens? Is that what you heard Larry say, Dale Earnhardt Jr.? maybe it's his race to hold on here you got Tony Stewart you just talked about Jimmie Johnson working let's talk strategy so early such a big mess well I guess right now you gotta get a friend to calm down Those guys are very aggressive at the beginning of the race and from this moment on you must make sure you don't have another one and eliminate yourself.

You've got a lot of good guys that are on the sidelines now, like you talked about Jeff Gordon. We know that he will be several laps behind Mark Martin, out of the race. Jamie McMurray to name a few, so you don't want to suddenly end up being one of the victims when you just like to play it safe, let's do it. there towards the end of the race, but a lot of these guys are still racing incredibly hard. We're taking a look right now at the number 99 car of Carl Edwards, who's been at the back of the pack, you know, kind of playing around. safe along with his teammate trying to protect that race car and Jimmie Johnson, we talked about how he managed to overcome the accident he is currently in.

Remember that Hendrick has a chance to win the fourth consecutive race for his fourth driver different from him and that would mean Dale Earnhardt. jr. He would have to make it to Victory Lane still looking for that first top-five finish of the year. Fortunately for everyone, Hendrick Motorsports Dale jr. He definitely wants to win a race. It's probably not a better place to come to you than Talladega. He is an exceptionally good driver and he knows that he has a good race car, so today could end up being that day. He could probably extend that streak and make history. and he gets you back on track when it comes to the chase, that wreck that looks like survivor meets Amazing Race.

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Vote each week for the AT&T Fastest Pit Crew of the Year award. We may see more than that great team. There's a long way to go here, let's get back on top with Darrell Larry and Mike, thanks Chris, 32 laps complete, we'll get the green flag next time, bye, we still have 34 cars on the lead lap. AJ Allmendinger, 22 laps behind and nine cars off the track or Out of the race, those still trying to be repaired from that accident on lap eight, our Jeff Gordon, Clint Bowyer, Kevin Harvick and Kasey Kahne, said goodbye to the restart, we'll look for it next time, bye, you're watching NASCAR on Fox.

I know what I don't like and this is just my piece of rubble. All you do is go out and pick it up. We've been going around in training. How many turns now five was a piece of rubble? There I am with Darrell. Well, I'm with the boys, right? You said he worked on the wall. He's fine, yeah, boy. The fires hit was the hardest, my God, I mean, Jeff hit it twice, he hit a bunch, but okay, come on, Bob Ellis, yeah. I just realized that. Yes, I suppose today he is an inspector. I think he works a lot in the garage area on race day when they see my ads posted the day before.

Makes sense. 35 complete laps at Talladega. Green flag. Kyle Busch Elliott Sadler Michael Waltrip Matt Kenseth and Martin. Truex, the front five, you see Michael Waltrip there in car 55, one of the cars that chose to go with just two tires on the right side like a lot of the guys at the front of the field right now at that last caution, much more damage. That car was 18 and I thought there was a spike on the right side over the right rear tires, all taped together. I don't think, I don't think it's going to cause you any problems, but it's certainly not as good as you'd like. to be Bush he's second up front, mostly three-way in a corner, looks like the back line is moving right now with Kyle Busch leading him alone, yeah David Stremme, I was trying to bring you that outside lane in their number 12. but even with the help of teammate Kurt Busch they're not gaining any ground and Mike is just, I'm sure he's looking in their direction in the rearview mirror saying, what are we going to run into? today?

Because yesterday they ran over him and he turned around. He hit Phoenix twice last week. He just needs to get through this race without problems. How about that 82 car at the end? Remember what seemed like a total disaster for that group where they were penalized one lap before the green flag came out. well behind the big crash, didn't get involved and then got the clear on the lead lap and now he's up there running in the top ten Scott Speedman Kyle Busch David Ragan Dale Earnhardt jr. now third to the front NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races on Fox are sponsored by Budweiser Reid for balanceperfect between flavor and Budweiser soda, the great American beer, 37 of 188 laps this time and still the three-wide race at 190 miles per hour.

The hour continues as it has since the green flag, two cautions, the big one on lap eight and a quick debris warning on lap 30. You know you can't help but do this. You know you would like to be in single file. you know, calm down, but you can't, you have a fast car, you have a car that can run in front, you have to find a way to get there and they are all in pretty much the same cars, so you end up with them crumpled like this unless you whether you're like Carl Edwards or someone and this is the same strategy that I think Larry, if I remember correctly, we call it the end of the field.

I think it's the same strategy he used here last year but then at the end of the race. when he decided it was time to go was when he actually collided with his teammate Greg Biffle, a lot of the Roush Fenway cars did that and then a lot of the Roush Fenway cars got involved in that big red car of the cars that has been involved in that accident and had some nose damage a report from Dick Berggren Tony Stewart is one of those where he came in as one of the pre-race favorites. Mike made them laugh in both races here last year, winning the second of the two and the team has been working on a piece of sheet metal that they hope to put on the nose of the stewards' car at the next pit stop.

I just think that group of cars racing right there Ryan Newman Tony Stewart Greg Biffle I don't think we've heard the last of them is going to let this die down for a while. What if I tell you? I like those two young people inside. I like Kyle and I like David Ragan and he came in right behind him. You have Sam Hornish, but me. I think I think these young guys, this type of racing is what they love and just remember that Dick Berggren Berggren told us at the beginning of the race that Sam Hornish Jr was pretty sick and he actually has Travis Kvapil stopping in the pits in case that he needs relief.

Kyle Busch holds on. the leader here comes Jimmie Johnson with the help of Stremme II, let's check with Matt Busch he told his team that we will change our strategy, we were going to go behind to stay out of the big one, he goes, we get involved in it, let's go. up front it's a lot safer up there it's been the Kyle Busch Comedy Tour Mike at the beginning of the race jokingly said please move to 14 Do I need to buy him some new brakes next time I go to a plate race because he's been pushing me around quite a bit loud, everyone did it as a joke, but he also said look we're in front, what we need to do next time, we need to add some duct tape to the grill because we're running too well.

It will help us gain more speed, that's bad news if you're a competitor with the one leading the race here and you can add a little bit of tape and that's instant speed, maybe honey, I don't make you pick up tape on your nose, do you? where? Air enters the cold water in the radiator, which really slows down drag on these things last year. Kyle Busch and Tony Stewart were teammates at Joe Gibbs Racing and won both restrictor plate races at Talladega, one each in an 82-car field. Scott Speed ​​is second in the interior, so he will be one of our top performing Toyotas right now.

I mean, it was obvious that Scott Speed ​​had a fast race car and qualified eighth, but going back to the start of the race they came to the pits, worked on the car, which you can't do before the green flag of a race. impounded race, and the boy, Timmy Johnson, that fourth car had his hands crossed in the Auburn matter. I think Junior could have given him a lot of love, but Darryl in these last 10 laps that inside lane has been impossible to overcome, you can't dislodge Kyle Busch from the lead as long as he hugs that double yellow line.

I think that tells you that he has a nice fast car when you can do that, they all turn at the bottom like this, you have a pretty fast car, here comes Montoya, the pole winner and on the right of your photo, okay, the left , right, he's there somewhere in the middle with Brian Vickers. but you know, when I look at that inside line right now, the cars that are lined up behind Kyle Busch, we're talking Scott Speed, two rookies and an 82 car, how about Brad Keselowski, who drives for Dale Earnhardt jr. In the Nationwide Series we feel like somewhere my own problems travel Michael Waltrip Michael cut in front of someone I think he's going to save it, save it, brother, save it, did it Brian, save it, warns, slow down, don't start the mudguard.

That was amazing, he came here driving right there, he thought he had to see who it was, he thought he had cleared, he's going to cut here in front of Marcos Ambrose, yeah, his teammate, God bless his teammate, that old big blue wall was getting closer. He was in a hurry though, right? But I see Tsehai in the back, he's sliding, sliding, sliding, he's heading towards the wall, he releases the brakes, the car bites and now he's saved that area towards that inside wall, I mean is that the grass these cars are going to leave wild scars? walk, normally he would have gone.

Upon arrival, he would hit that inside wall and just kill him, but he's driving and driving that baby. That's the best drive I've seen your brother do since he won Daytona. Thanks, you are right. what a salvation twice, you know, a lot of times I think people would say I was just holding on. I'm going to tell you what traveling with him allows. There's Ambrose on 47 to Sydow's left inside, my God, and then you're like, oh, look. to him, go, Mikey, go, oh, what saves, what saves, wait, watch out, what, yeah, that'll make your fool, anything hours old that'll put your stomach in your mouth faster than the ride of the Simpsons at Universal Studios.

I promise, oh God. All you'll really need is four new tires, yeah, and getting back here without breaking them, you know, without anything on the tires breaking and breaking the car, you'll be fine, so Michael Waltrip's Wild Ride puts us in third yellow flag of the day. on lap 44, yeah, maybe want to fire that thing up next time, it'll go down like the tires are flat, as expected, hood bar through the crew chief, here's another question ask calmly, easy, you can get the answer now, a task. calm down and enter the Ask Calm NASCAR challenge on the official NASCAR search engine to get Michael four new tires and stay on the lead lap.

Amazing, you know, that's one thing I'll say about this car yesterday. You think about that. Co is that. Yesterday's car is one of the old cup cars, word in the past, that car there today, that thing didn't try to roll over, it stayed planted on the ground, good trip for Michael Waltrip, pit road is open, dick Berggren, well, we were expecting Scott Speed. Was going in for a pit stop Mike and I were there, the car is fine but his foot has gotten incredibly hot Charlie Brock, the car boss was ready to make the pit stops as the first service was already completed , a slight chassis adjustment, just one fuel can the same for Dale Earnhardt jr.

Christa Jimmie Johnson takes fuel only they had tires on the wall they didn't take them said he responds well to the push jimmie johnson few we are just seeing all kinds of strategies on pit road as we anticipated so Scott's speed did not stop and he becomes in one of the 13 different leaders of this race and the Aaron's 499 Michael Walter my wild ride big save Darryl hey Mike is TW has a copy buddy we had him Mike is TW has a copy buddy Do you have any idea how close you are ? I reached those two walls.

I know you, I know you didn't close your eyes because we could see you driving that thing even when it's on a 4 wheel slide. Good job. Okay, we'll keep the camera isolated. known go green with our clean and clear reset to drive clear it up and clear get back to feeling like yourself again Kyle Busch get back into the mood to lead again Brad Keselowski Jimmie Johnson Casey Mears Dale Earnhardt jr. the top five and we have 33 cars on the lead lap Jeff Burton, who had led this race, you saw him earlier on pit road after he led the battery change, they came back to pit road the last two yellow flags with hood up, now it's down two laps on 31 Krista, yeah Jeff Burton was hanging on for dear life, we saw him do the battery change on lap 29, they looked at the hood again to change the alternator and found an alternator belt interesting in the O 7 car.

Back in the garage mirrors they thought it might belong to the 31, so they prepared another alternator and changed it. Jeff said it must have worked because his bolts were up to 14, so Jeff said: I don't know if it was the right decision, but it's definitely working for now, well the good news for him is that it would be the first car to get the free pass even though he's two laps down because we don't have a car one lap down right now. I tell you what we are going to have. A couple of cars might have trouble here because they just went under the yellow line before their position Brian Vickers and Denny Ham's 11, yeah, they jumped around the O9, Brad Keselowski and not Brad Keselowski, here you go, look, it's that.

Brad is right, yes they jumped next to him because he was so slow in the middle, but I guess we are back in front. I don't think there's a fault there, well, NASCAR is checking well, jr. going to the front roar, you hear his 88 car, he's brought her to the front being pushed by Martin Truex Jr towards one and they're standing at Talladega and he tricks his teammate, Juan Montoya, with them and then rookie Joey Logano. and series champion Jimmie Johnson with that one in 42, they're mean and fast. I tell you you can bet they know how to dance and they've been fast since these cars unloaded on Friday and it's no surprise that Dale Earnhardt has come on board even though he's now he's merged with Chip.

Ganassi Dei has a great history of bringing RocketSled restricted play cars into Darrell and I was talking yesterday during qualifying. Remember they have Earnhardt Childress engines that supply the engine to Dei with Ganassi and Childress and stuff, all the cars look like they are. Really racing here, yeah, this is the best I've ever seen in kids' cars, so the Dei cars from the old Dei cars race the Ganassi cars forty-eight full laps, this time by Dale Earnhardt jr. Leading the way, Jeff Hammond can tell us more in the four-cut car about what they did to help Jeff Burton.

Mike. What was happening was that we saw him go down to the pits and they changed the battery. Well, the battery is basically a spark storage compartment. As far as the alternator and power goes, it's already about traction in a race car, what they were having problems with was this unit here, the alternator itself, and they were talking about the belt, here's the belt, It's outside, you're locating the way it runs around the water pump and the engine has been turned off, but since the alternator isn't generating any kind of voltage, then the battery can't store it.

I mean, the battery only helps protect for a little while if the alternator goes out and that's what they had to work on. keep that grace cart running, the battery wasn't going to be able to hold it, they use a small battery, it doesn't have much reserve power so they had to work on that, thanks Jeff Kenseth leads one lap and Darryl, this looks to be the last. turn at Talladega, not just 50 on the left, look at these guys here, I mean we're talking four wide back in this group, that's almost an ingredient for a big mess, look at him there to give wide dice and cut something of time.

Were they the two at the front leading the race? What happened? Burn Darrell. They were on borrowed time. They had an accident in that first big accident. You're right. They were leading the race not long ago. The entire rear bumper. the panel is gone, it's back in the garage, there's a bear link on this number two car and she's just hanging around right now, the entire rear bumper is gone, as you can see right there, as long as he can stay There in the draft, his car is not. I don't really realize what that beatdown is, it's just that it would be hard to be out front with the car like that and that tube, which is the functional part of that bumper, is intact, so NASCAR doesn't need to come in and do a repair.

So. I've said it before and I won't repeat myself, but having the rear bumper removed doesn't hurt at all now that the front bumper is removed, that's a different story. Kenseth in yellow tries to maintain the lead against Earnhardt on the outside with Hamlin. What happens when I look at Matt Kenseth leading this race? I think that says a lot about these racing drivers. He saw it earlier in the race. Remember yesterday in the Nationwide Series race he was rolling and flipping backwards and here he is. leading the race here today, is leading it so far jr. is advancing on the outside and they have been trading the lead back and forth for the last two laps Dale Earnhardt jr. keep getting theDenny Hamlin push in the number 11 car, you know, you talk about Matt Kenseth, I mean racing drivers, the mentality of racing drivers is it was yesterday and tomorrow I don't worry about tomorrow, I'm living in the present now same 52 complete laps Dale Earnhardt jr. is the leader 20 lead changes so far in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Talladega Liggett sponsored by Pepsi taste the refreshing retro taste of Pepsi made with natural sugar in stores now by NAPA Auto Parts Napa gets the good stuff from Taco Bell Thinks Outside the Bus and for AT&T Their World Delivered 56 Full Laps of the World's Fastest Speedway Jeff Gordon may be getting ready to get back into the race, that's a good time to start playing on race day on payment presented by Pepsi in each race could win the same cash prize as the The winning driver visit Pepsi racing dotcom for all the rules and details and make your choice for next week's race, in the meantime, what this race looks like has really changed once Dale Jr.

He came out to the front and became the Pied Piper and instead of three wide around the track, he's single file around the track. Larry didn't miss anything today, a sign came out and they saw the dogs lined up and the first time. It's happened, though no, I don't know, but who made this guy, I guess '88, uh, well his teammate Jimmie Johnson was there in seventh, let's check his pits Christa, well, Mike and my section here on pit road, I was actually in Jimmie Johnson's pits. I saw all the guys on the team quickly put on their helmets.

I switched to Jimmie Johnson's radio channel and his chat can now say Jimmy. I'm saying something in the corners is loose right now and it's slowly getting worse in Maryland right away. Yes, that may remind me. I know an old wheel, but I just won't get off and we're about 30 laps away from what would be a green flag pit stop and I know Chad can eliminate one of the biggest things on his radar last week: They've had some issues. on pit road with the pit stops and I know you've definitely been shaking and moving things with your pit crew, this is not a place, I'm not anywhere, but I definitely don't want to waste time with a loose wheel. here you will be on the wall 14 different leaders so far don't worry if your favorite driver hasn't led because when Kyle Busch won here last spring he didn't lead until very late in the single file race. up dagger style Oh problem problem out of turn causal attention coach same thing Mikey did another big say who called is out of depth damn good job hurt the man any contact I think like he just said he got a little high here it is De turn here, it's a little high, passing by here, it gets a little close to the outside wall, I just turned around, bye, right at Mikey, look at his same footprints, Mikey, and then it's like no, I don't want to go down there, you know? how fast it was going down there a hundred and ninety miles there, drive, drive, wait, wait, wait, big twist of the throttle.

I feel like this precaution is the biggest break because we had just heard the report like Jimmie Johnson Chad Knaus that 48 car thinking he had a loose wheel Jeff Burton will get the free pass to solve his electrical problem. He went three laps down, now it will be two laps down and you see the floor on the left front of Kurt Busch's car and also in the last shot you saw. Kevin Harvick's car being worked on in the pit road car Harvick is the first of the drivers involved in the lap eight crash to return to the track, he is 48 laps behind and now Kasey Kahne in car 9 just got back from the garage area riding with him here he is at 53 laps just hoping wear and tear pushes him higher in the finishing order just the way he finished the day and with the history of this track they could be in the top 20 cars before it's over, three of our rookie contenders are in the top race Pappas Scott Speed ​​and Joey Logano in the 20th Home Depot in today's rookie file Joey went to visit the local Home Depot in Pail City on Thursday mixing paint at the Home Depot is a little different than mixing paint here at the Speedway in Talladega right now Logano is 11° Scott Speed ​​31° max.

Pappas 32nd, everyone's on the lead lap, yeah, he mixes it up at Home Depot, they trade paint here, that's all, but he had a great run yesterday in a Nationwide Series race. good pits to finish in the top five, open and we're going to have a lot of takers Bergy, now veteran crew chief Jimmy Fennec, has told his driver and his team that although others will use two tires, he will use four tires for this one car. Reagan is having a very good day today. Grip is no problem for Martin Truex Jr or Dale Earnhardt jr. right side tires only for both teams NASCAR has allowed the extra man, take back the call for Denny Hamlin, there are four tires meanwhile, right in front Jimmie Johnson checking said if you see anything loose, look for those loose wheel brackets, give me a sign right now.

They are putting four tires on the 48. He felt alone at his last stop. There was no doubt that they had no choice if they wanted to make sure they got that vibe. If it was a loose wheel, we're going with 462 full turns in about one. -third distance here in Talladega, looks like you'd have to wait for the other nine, well that's not going to go well now, nine can't, he's on a block, I 9 couldn't get out, he couldn't get out either. what a mess hmm, what a terrible mess I said what the hell let me go down to the office but let me go, find me a name, let me go there, no, it's okay, I don't trust you guys, no, no, I see you, I thought I was going To do it. well you're actually looking to see if it shows signs of a loose wheel it's a short track check your move turned grass turned into 3 digger see you next saturday in the bunker with us next saturday night night, click warrior who won at Richmond last year involved in the accident. currently out of the race here at Talladega Jeff Hammond Elliott Sadler involved in that melee of at least 14 cars, has led 12 consecutive races at Talladega and is near the front, yes, and in fact, coming off pit road, he is second right now, but very Impressive, I guess you could say adjustment on Elliott Sadler's part because he was back on lap 7 in that accident moments ago, Jimmie Johnson in the pits, so more on that, not necessarily a loose wheel, but right now we're getting ready to go green, let's join Darrell again. area thanks Chris Chris Krista reported that there were no elongated lug nut holes in the wheels or blisters on the tires for Jimmie Johnson, so before he was back under green, Brian Vickers had two wheels under the yellow line that passed his red , they issued a warning to the vicars, but no. he penalized teammate Reed Sorenson and the 43 cars that finished fifth.

Both teams had great races in the Daytona 500, a small finish though it made those cars have to change engines a lot to start this race at Richard Petty and that's a good decision by NASCAR. because Vickers in car 11 we're going up in Keselowski 10 miles per hour 20 can be common sense called yeah it works thirty three drivers on the lead lap Martin Truex, the call attendant for the Daytona 500, shuttles them around this two point six mile Superspeedway, you've seen how you basically run wide on this race track, the MA or the RPM never changes and normally this right here doesn't change much, it's going crazy for the club one hundred percent, but if you look that step.

Now, if you're behind someone and you're dragging on the brakes a little bit, and I'm not so sure it's not Jimmie Johnson's problem, at some point you drag those brakes in the corners to avoid hitting the guy in front of you. of you guys, you're going to warp the brake rotor a little bit, you're going to create some worrying vibration and the reason you don't hit the gas is because with this carburetor restrictor plate that we use here, you're going to lose boost, yeah, just let your left you you have your right foot planted on the firewall just use that left foot to take advantage of that break a little bit there is plenty of room here at Talladega the infield is huge the stands are the race track is wide and the pits are big enough until it happens something like this, here's Jimmy Johnson coming in, he has to go around Denny Hamlin's team and then Brad Keselowski parks in such a way that Johnson won't be able to get out.

There is access in front of Brad Keselowski, the O.9 car that had Lo almost blocked, you can see that Denny Hamlin just came out now, just as the night ends his stop, they start to back up car 48 and you see that they don't know he had to stop . Jimmy Johnson came out. Kezelowski was. Reserved at Bala Bonnie, there are said to be 28 cars on pit road at a time, but the good thing here is that it's not as expensive as some no-pass tracks are, the other thing is that Chad is usually Pretty good to find a place. pit road follows his to 18 Kyle Busch in trouble on the backstretch let's say about Chad his pits he looks around until neither of my sides usually tries to find someone he thinks could go down a lap and open that box from now on, but what hurts him is that you choose them because of how you qualified, he qualifies 36, he had to take what was left himself, but Kyle Busch got 80 100 rpm and found a place that you already know in the outside line, not sure why it would fall off. back, but maybe you want to get to the back and ride for a while, now the RPM is going back up, oh yeah, but it had dropped considerably, so you see something like what happened in it can only be one or two things, maybe add a power up. from the switch boxes, the boss fired only for both of them momentarily or perhaps decided to back up and watch his car merge into traffic.

I mean, look at that right there, how about 201 miles per hour hit him at the end, on the backstretch, Matt. Could he have a problem? The Vatican says that he did not repeat anything. It seems to him that Kyle Busch's 18, who talked about it before, is his ex. Absolutely what he did right, he picked up his older brother, Kurt, and ran. How about our outside post? Babysitter Greg Biffle, there's the three M's for ninth place for a guy who has 14 career wins of his. Greg Biffle has never finished in the top 10 at Talladega, he said earlier this week.

They ruined me, front runner. They rented me. The rear is the only place where your pit lane isn't ruined and you can't win the race from there right now. He's playing a conservative Mike who just takes his time to stay out of trouble. That's what he was trying to do in the fall race. might be running into this debate Truex Adler Earnhardt Sorensen and Hamlin are the top five, there you see Elliott Sadler trying to push a little and Earnhardt has a little cushion on both ends Matt and Mike are doing something that is talked about a lot on DW when he was driving he wants to know about jr's story. he told 22 and the last stop why more people don't use the bottom when they do is that maybe the best place he felt for him great Sorenson 17 in the bottom you know it's the easiest thing in the world to do here particularly not You know nobody Really wants to run down, it's at the top of this joint, right next to the wall, it's pretty easy, no pressure, lots of turns down, Martin Truex Jr of Bayonne, New Jersey, who got the Daytona 500 pole in front. here at Talladega 75 laps completed Talladega is more Pablo Montoya receiving an assist from Dale Earnhardt jr.

Martin Truex was moved back a bit without any help in the draft and is now on the outside third in line, about 8th overall. This is from Denny Hamlin, looking at Matt Kenseth from the front of the group when you look at the back of this. group, in fact, just made a move out Jeff Burton in the 31 car, this team better not make up those next two laps because by then he'll be a player, look at him, just slow him down a little. Thanks to the help of David Reutimann in the double zero car, he's actually trying to make up one of the laps from him driving to the front of the pack.

He definitely got the car running at this point. Martin Truex was leading comfortably when we went to half-time. Elliott Sadler was. He didn't push it much and that frustrated Dale Jr. another one where they push, move it and act like you think you should try to do it, jr. He took matters into his own hands and jumped out of the line and left with his backpack in the back. Di Lo Jr. I knew he was holding back a lot, any kid forgot that a while ago, that's why I asked him to want Eliot Buzzelli at that speed and when everything shook, Montoya, who the junior fell to the draft with, ended up with the lead if you look. in the middle of the screen here, remember that guy we said something wrong to whose car fell backwards, maybe he has a fish changing our way 18 in the front, another guy who is in second place right nowDavid Stremme II, he may have a problem Steve, yes he sure did, Mike, he just told a McAuley, he said: I feel like I have a loose wheel.

Roy said: Keep me posted, dick Berggren, you were briefed at the beginning of the broadcast about Sam Hornish, who had put in the best qualifying effort of his career. fourth year, but it was until last night Hornish in the car he runs so fast he is telling his team but he feels good Travis Kvapil in the Box with his uniform you may not have the opportunity to race because I want to tell you that these give me cars race because I've seen people from the side that look like they're going to turn and they say the car and they keep digging, okay, mom had two great examples here in front of us with Michael Waltrip, it's amazing that they're doing it in the in the curves you know what happens when you do that and you do it too much getting away with it right now Montoya coming back on the outside it was the junior leader took it but Montoya is flying back to the front Christa with a lot of help from Jimmie Johnson that's right Mike and Juan Pablo Montoya have always been good at Talladega.

He said he was surprised with the pole. He thought his car was in the top five in the standings. In reality, he wasn't even following it as hard as the surf team. I guess this is a bit like windsurfing, you wait for that big wave I said on your board, you wait for it to come in and then you just fall into that thirty or thirty quarters, suddenly you have no friends, what happened, what was amazing, talk about windsurfing, that push that Jimmy Johnson gave him. He went down into turn three last time it was over two hundred and three miles an hour, but he went around it and left it and now Juan is running 15, now he dropped it like a hot potato, it's like he works with you as much as you can. help me, I'll help you, there's a lot of guys right now, I guarantee it, and the cow made me realize that bush in the middle, there you are playing a little bit, how far back can I go and then how fast can I go ?

Back up front, Dale Earnheardt used to be the master at it, he would fall to the back of the pack for later in the race, but the couple of those guys are in danger of losing the draft lead and they include Junior. in danger of losing the entire card without saying that he was wobbling in turn one. I thought he was getting a little braver all the time. They have always been bold. Now they are going crazy. Kozlowski brought Junior right under. together and couldn't let go, thank you, right. Darryl, now a junior, was mixed up again as to where he was running, but James Finch's car for Keselowski, which is a car purchased from Hendrick Motorsports, is now slipping to the back of the pack, but that car was a little slow before, they stopped and had nowhere to go.

Here's another look at what happened when Dale Jr. and Brad Keselowski got together, I think you see they're both going the same way, you say without the 12, there's nothing in front of that, oh, cute as ducklings, they get excited, you know, I'm hearing right, you're good, three in a row he. right Dale Earnhardt Jr. there under the bumper, but I don't think he's in front of there's really no grill opening at the moment. I don't think there is any danger, probably a piece of duct tape. It's something very light. We start spinning in the air and the backstretch area is a tear like a windshield - yes, that's off one of the cars, it won't hurt you, think about that, get close to someone and the Airwolf will take it off the car by Sam Hornish Jr 277.

Understand, what if Hornish had his best career? ended last week he has the best start of his NASCAR career here, now he has the opportunity to lead this racer and Mike is one of the reasons why Dale jr. A few laps ago he was ducking inward and then also trying to get some clean air. The water temperature had risen to just above 260 degrees. He told his team that's what I've been trying to move to get it down. On the temperature, here comes Hornish, you have the ball in this mirror, these cars can run at that temperature, 260 degrees is not a problem as long as you don't start shooting water, put pressure on the system and your water well on the radiators , that's not a problem.

Hamlin has to run on the outside, yes, Denny Hamlin was getting a big push from that number 31 car of Jeff Burton and David Reutimann, that double 0 car, Hornish got credit for leading that lap, there are twenty-nine lead changes among 17 drivers until now. not even halfway through he hit the star at the back of the field, he actually blew a motor qualified guy, Timmy Johnson 277, around the turn so fast we got a caution, guys yeah debris on the backstretch , they entered third turns and quickly washed over the Hornish tips from the east. track now Stremme II was trying to get to Hornish on the 12th in '77 our teammates Roger Penske Kurt Busch what a great race for the sudden Sam here at Talladega this will be the fifth caution flag of the day we've already had 30 lead changes In this race, which is the biggest race this year, we have a long way to go, the big one already hit the last seven Matt Kenseth, who did some work to get points leader Jeff Gordon to at least 14 karts and Duncan recovers the ball. of the race Mark Martin involved there look at the view aboard Jimmie Johnson somehow surviving this we've already had some tremendous saves in this race we got Michael Waltrip to somehow hold off Kurt Busch one day with his car to start with but with spectacular saying and at this point we've always seen a driver while the chat channels have a little fun cooling the temperature into the 80s, only two drivers have had consecutive laps and that's Kyle Busch who's going to have 13 laps in a row so Leaders change, guys. moving from front to back, how about this recent round of pit stops under our fifth yellow flag?

Well, right now you've seen some of the guys that have been running towards the back of the pack, some of the electives come with the throttle that they're back on. the head of the pack like Joe Nemechek and be generous with what he's doing, he's leading the pack right now, but guys like Elliott Sadler, all of a sudden you see Kyle Busch's number 18 car never works in these race cars. trying to get it. I better have the rear bumper repaired. I think they probably feel like I'm giving up a little bit aerodynamically and they're trying to figure out if they're going to make it or what they have to do to make it work like that.

The car can run up front like it really wants to, but the key is now I'll remind you of one thing we talked about at the beginning of this race, you've got to be thinking, you've got to have some patience and luck. and so far I think you've seen examples of all three. Why Kyle Busch in Saturday's race remember that he was going to fall behind but he was back in front in a matter of time didn't mean much and I want to ask you. Regarding Carl Edwards' strategy, for example, it seems that he has been left behind.

That strategy is that he resolves things in his car. I really think he's trying to play it a little bit patiently right now to see if it works or not. Pay off in the end, try to keep the car as clean as possible and then when it comes to the end of the race week, Chris, we still have a hundred and one laps left in this race. I mean, you still have to figure out what you want. I'm going to do this, Carl, in the hopes of that clean, clear reset that we'll get to in a moment, but today NASCAR fans celebrated KFC's new grilled chicken launch by attempting to break the show's world record. chicken dance bigger than Colonel Sanders hasn't been all.

Tom, who works early at the Hollywood Hotel and don't forget to get a free piece of rotisserie chicken tomorrow and try the non-fried side. I take it as an exchange with one of our best cameramen who likes to have something to eat with Drano, he will dance the chicken. he dances and then we set the world record I think we did well, we needed you one more time, oh that was amazing, do it here. I'm going to have something about, you know, but people get confused. I'm talking about you. I'm also a chicken. dancing chicken you turned it into a bad wedding reception today NASCAR fans can vote on AT&T Tex the car number for the pit crew you think will be the fastest and most valuable increase from two to five eight is where you send a quick text to ACNC AT&T Pit Crew of the Year Award Fastest 3G Network in the Country Kyle Busch has led the most laps so far, followed by Dale Earnhardt jr.

Mike Paul Menard has become the 19th different leader in this race. He accomplished this by not pitting at this yellow flag. He was last in the pits 24 laps ago. We are back under green. He says this guy is really getting better and better and he really enjoys working with 3/4 of his crew chief every 20 to 30 laps and that's what Larry Carter relies on because you don't want to have to stop here just with a green flag or They will leave you in a hurry. I talked about Elliott Sadler being right up there with Denny Hamlin, how about Joey Logano, the rookie after a good run yesterday in the Nationwide Series race, and David Reutimann is also in the top five?

Yeah, you know, I'm not really surprised because we saw in practice, he had a good, solid race car, he's been at the bottom and even in this race today, that car looks pretty good for this young rookie and I think we must remember that Tony Stewart won the race the last time we were there. Here to fall last year, Dick Berggren, Greg Zipadelli, is not trying to lead this race, because he is a rookie and they would just ignore him. They have told him to stay in second position or further back and push, keep going, he learns all day.

I don't think if I said he had to do that at the end of the race, he would hit the wall hard every time we went out on the track. Daytona is intimidating, it really is a difficult track, this place here is actually quite easy to focus on. more about what you're doing behind the wheel. I like what Logano is doing right now. Darrell, he's not down, but he's picked up his mentor Hamlin wherever Denny goes. Joey follows him and the two are able to get ahead a little. You remember the practice we were talking about in 2011, the lemon was wearing out on the back 20, maybe it's like, I'm going to pay you a little bit, bro.

You know, Tony Stewart may have won the race when we were here in the fall, but the guy he thought. won the race, look at Emma on the bottom right, behind Casey Mears, that o7 car, Regan Smith in '78, she actually has a lot of damage on that car from that accident early in the race and she had some damage on the front and here it is. leaned there in the top ten and the way Smith lost the race he was driving for a different team than he is now that double yellow line means he didn't pass, he went below the line Stewart went down to the line to block NASCAR ruled that Smith had made an illegal pass and instead of putting him in second place where he was running at the time, the rule required that he be put at the end of the lead lap and Tony Stewart took the win, NASCAR officials go to great lengths to Explain this rule to all pilots. at Daytona and Talladega, if you go below the yellow line, the double line ahead of your position, you will be penalized.

If you are forced down below the yellow line, you will still be penalized, but NASCAR will consider penalizing the car that forces you down as well. There I tell you, talking about the background, the juicy Jimmie Johnson in the 48 below, in turns one and two, he went from top to bottom and Sam Hornish Jr 277 said: I'm going with him down there, yeah, that last pit stop. I don't know if he's healthy for his knee now Logano came out to dry out the rookie is on the high tempo just now he'll get some help in the draft from behind but he's out of this leading group.

I'll tell you who he's getting help from, it's a car that this group doesn't want to see Jeff Burton recover on the next lap in 31 three laps down because he has problems with the bottle, he has the next yellow flag and will return to the leading lap. There we saw the group of 18 working on the rear bumper. Now, if that rear bumper cover was off that race car, that rear bumper cover is why they put it back on. They fixed it? Matt DW, the biggest problem they had with the rear bumper. The bar was sticking out there too, they were worried about other cars bending them, pushing them and shoving them because they thought they might, and then the third cars they worked on pushed that bar back, put a bear link on the back and They sent him back in which Darrell is talking about the reason why you would love to have that when you let the air out from under the car, it makes the car go faster, reduces the resistance of the car, and bye-bye, the accident is over with many good cars at the beginning.

It didn't affect this race one bit. The audience quite naturally probably doesn't remember who is in it right now, they only cared about the cars in their race. Everything went well, we have 33 cars on the leading lap and they areabout 2 and a half seconds separate those 33, no one has really lost the graph, you pile up behind like Lucy, called Edwards, does all day and back up whenever you want. Now Denny Hamlin leads the middle lap in the number 11 FedEx Toyota. We have a new challenge for everyone watching it's called NASCAR know it all and you'll find it on foxsports.com keywords know it all answer our questions about next week's rates and the winner will be announced the following week in Darlington so if You know everything will make you famous on foxsports.com.

Keywords know Denny Hamlin trying to win a third straight race with three different drivers here at Talladega for trainer Joe Gibbs 99 laps at Talladega 89 to get to lap eight. nine cars were eliminated in a crash, five of which returned to the track, so out for the day David Gilliland Scott Riggs Jamie McMurray Clint Bowyer That ends the boys racing in the final streak of 81 races. I think his exes are out of the track, but I'm not officially out of the race returning to the track with major damage AJ Allmendinger Kasey Kahne, but I had such a big accident that I only have four cars out of five cars out of one in the area of ​​the garage.

It's amazing, Larry, what do you do when you go? On the way back, your car is totaled and you're down 50 laps or down 40 laps if you get back on the track, go around it just so you can get a little bit, it's like they disappear and yeah, all 44, all nine. They're three or four seconds off the pace of the leaders, but they're rafting around trying to make sure they stay above the minimum speed so NASCAR doesn't send them to the garage. They're pushing each other and it's me and Larry. I've been watching, they just laugh because in some laps they never let go.

This is a battle for position right now. Yes, 37th place. We never show the battles at the back of the group. Here you have them. Both are 56 laps away running hard. for the position and if Jeff Gordon passes Kevin Harvick, you know what he gets, he regains the points lead right now, he would be a second behind Jimmie Johnson or Kurt Busch. I think it's a bad weekend to have a yellow car, mark 100, Denny. Hamlin, that number 11 car, leading David Reutimann, David Stremme II, Brian Vickers and Reed Sorenson, well, we're going to have a points shakeup, who's the points leader, Kurt Busch, Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Burton will probably come out of the first twelve Terminators.

Salvation presents our top 12 these are the pilots who at this moment would be qualified for the chase according to the way they race Montoya, they are eleventh, they made the big jump this week who are in the classification for the positions in East Asia Terminator Salvation opens May 21 according to The way these guys have been racing with Mike, I don't know if we'll worry, the racers don't worry. Oh, Saturday night under the star race lights, you know what the easy way is, I'll say the easy way, but that's winning Talladega. something those guys could achieve here if they could win here today, mention the all-star race which is certainly a race for the fans.

This is a race for the fans. Also Denny Hamlin is putting on a great show right now. He is very calm on the radio. Curtis Markham a place which line to take now Steve Burns FedEx Toyota fan Christa David Stremme II doing a good job he is in third position remembers before the pit stop he had been complaining about a loose wheel after the stop McCauley David said that I feel that vibration again and feel like I'm in the engine. I feel it with my feet. It could be an exhaust problem. The exhaust system goes right through the right side of the car and sometimes the header breaks, that'll make you because, like me. mentioned that he lost an Indy qualifying yesterday Denny Hamlin David Reutimann David Stremme Eidos are his leaders 104 laps after the mark Aaron's 499 May 1997 Barton one of the fastest 500-mile NASCAR races in history, his Valvoline Ford number six in front the race was postponed two weeks until weather problems when the cars returned, they came back fast racing Dale Earnhardt in two hours 39 minutes without caution average speed one hundred eighty-eight miles per hour twenty-six lead changes mark led the last 31 laps do you want win a Ford Fusion log in, we run minutes without a plane and in a car, you know, Matt Kenseth has been starting at the front of the research tenants working his way back to the middle of the pack, Dick Berggren, what about a 17, is it up to the tenth, a tenth?

The place is coming back forward now, well he would like to have someone who wants to run from the bottom with him, like he just isn't able to run up where a lot of people are and he just hasn't found a friend he can with. I'll run fast enough to run to the back, so his crew chief, Quicken Stafford, just said they're hanging out now that we're about 20 Dale Earnhardt jr. In that '88 car it seems he found a friend with Jeff Burton, '31 Jeff is the steel pusher Earnhardt Jr. look at the push they're getting in turns one and two, you can see it right there, 197 miles per hour, he's got a pin on the hood, remember they had to go under the hood to change the alternator.

I saw that, Larry, but it's like that, there's something about this race car and two cars when they connect now, we just talked about Lynn Kenseth hanging out in the back, look at Matt Kenseth, he's third, but look at these two cars here , how can they open that gap, what if this was him? On the last lap of the race, you'd be very happy with that look, as it was about six or seven miles per hour faster than that. I don't think it has a hood pin. I think they should have it. Oh, boys, they had it. one in his hand and they just slid it in there and left the other one, I left it hanging, the one hanging on the back of the back is Carl Edwards, like he's been one step away from the main draft for about the last 50 laps, idiot, what is that about?

Well, the thing about Mike is that he was involved in that very early skirmish, the big one that happened at the beginning of the race, he didn't want to get involved in any of that kind of stuff. Fronteras can now stay behind, whatever problem may occur, and then try again at the end of the race. She has a much better car than the one he is showing off now. Well, it looks like that strategy maybe bothered Larry Carter at Paul Menard. Remember that they stayed. At the last stop they have not been in the pits since lap 62, they have a green flag, they are going to have to try to hold their breath for about 18 or 20 laps.

I've seen something right now that I haven't seen here in twenty years. I don't think two connected cars have any left to pack. and they definitely did, they're junior in the 31 car, they pulled away completely and left that group of cars that were running together behind, I just want to say, they just stopped in the middle of the turn, it looks like Reed Swords and then the 43 car, Sorenson. it was on the wall right in front of the whole group it had a right rear down look at that right rear tire and it looks like it escaped the wall there is no damage to the right side of this car it sure was close it was close to not being hit There is no caution for Reed Sorenson, we stay under Green and Dale Jr. leading Martin Truex Brian Vickers Martin Truex Jr leading moments ago Joey Logano was in front but as you know in Talladega falling quickly back we have had 19 liters in 36 feet of changes in the that is year and moments ago Elliott Sadler who had been involved in the previous rack and has led 12 consecutive races here at Talladega scraping the wall at high speed but somehow maintaining position Kyle Busch up there, right behind Martin Truex Jr and David Stremme, as we speak on lap 7, if you work with Us a little bit earlier with David Ragan leading at the time, at least 14 cars involved others sustaining damage.

You saw Jeff Gordon, the points leader, go to the world championship. Mark Martin on vault too. Gordon is back. Mark Martin is ready for the race along with David Gilliland. Scott Riggs Jamie McMurray had abandoned the boys because of this crash, that's what Talladega is the big road, definitely for the biggest bear, this is on board with Jimmie Johnson who does a great job getting to the end of the track and avoiding all this. Currently fifth is Jeff Burton, who led five laps at the beginning of this race, as we mentioned, currently one lap down and the four lap summary of the move and leading consecutive laps is a tough short today with the cars coming and going, they have the five flags yellow and as we said.

Nineteen different leaders so far, the record for any cup race over the course of this race, definitely says that right now and you have one car in front right now, there's still one lap less, but to be a wildfire leader in this moment, which is an important trick. Junior drawing the name of a goat. Davis is creamy, but you see Jeff Burton in that car 31 up front and overall Denny Hamlin has led the most laps today 27 Jeff Burton is leading this train but he is at the end of an electrical problem lost three laps in the pits got two The back five is a lucky dog ​​and is now ahead of Martin Truex, which would put him at the bottom of the lead lap if the caution brings Kyle Busch back up there, Jimmie Johnson along with Brian Vickers and Kurt Busch and They're about eight to ten turns away from what they would be and Jeff Burton is one of those types of people that everyone is aware of his situation, they knew he was back behind, he's also the type of person that everyone works with, Let's cut him some slack. safe tricks sitting there saying you know well leave it we'll let him out of here maybe you'll get his turn back well he's in position in case the warning comes out to get the free pass right now he just turns around because it is the head. from the race leader, who is now Brian Vickers, that if they could get a long yellow flag and do little, they could be very fast.

Look at the right front of the number 83 Vickers, so 121 complete laps at Talladega Vickers led pit stops for that lap coming soon. We are under yellow for the sixth time today, the debris on the backstretch has put us under yellow and here it goes, it looks like that may have come off 78 as well now that one was cleared under the yellow, it's not a claret nor clear. Even though it's Carla who broke her car in the photo, no matter what it was for Carl, she's very happy about it, yes, the kids lost the draft. That helps Carl because he recovers with a group.

Jeff Burton was right at the front of the race. Leader Martin Truex, so Burton can return, has now made up three laps and Paul Menard will get the free pass three laps here which you would never make up all of them in one day as we would like to have seen. Today, with the 31-car crowd, we didn't have a free pass several years ago either, and like I said, I'm not sure these guys are really happy that Jeff Burton is back on the lead lap, not the way they had been running. go back to the pits dick Berggren Brian Vickers will come out of the pits from third position he has been running towards the front all day after being involved in a previous accident they are looking for a shoe they can do some body work on this car Steve Kurt Busch says his car it's running a little hot, they're going to change four tires and remove some tape from the front right of the nose, four Earth Martin Truex Jr tires and Kyle Busch's 18 Jeff Dickerson was looking at the rear. bumpers to see if they needed to work on it a little more Krista Johnson says she wishes she could take advantage of the push tracking outside without some tape for straight line speed for the Tigers Jimmie Johnson is on the road and here they come Jimmy dirt tracks he takes him out of the pits he doesn't beat Kyle Busch now Carl Edwards did not enter the pits he stayed on the track to get five bonus points leading one lap Edwards becomes 21 different leaders in this race under yellow flag in 126 laps we return to Kyle Busch Leading Jimmie Johnson Martin Truex, they learn Hart Jr. and Brian Vickers Now, earlier we documented an issue Jimmie Johnson had entering his pit and exiting the proximity of other cars, let's take a look later in the race at today's State Farm pit road spotlight Without the support of Chad and his team Jimmy could not offer this type of performance like the support you can expect from your local State Farm agent, like a good neighbor.

State Farm has sticky tires and adjusts two pounds of air, will get a small loose green flag on lap 127 of a long pit stop for Kurt Busch returning him to 17th place and cleaning up some fender damage on Montoya's car got him back to 27th on this restart, we have 61 laps to go so we know we still have to do it all, this job is for keyword anticipation we're starting to anticipate what you're going to do at the end of this sucker come out winner inside Steve what happened in theKurt Busch stop yes Mike, they had a slow stop I heard Pat three times and tell Kurt Busch one of the tires where the wheels were clogged by a crash and there was a mistake on the left front of Casey Cain's car, the crews fell and will try to get an update on that situation, yeah bring the brown here's Brian Vickers he sweeps to the outside and there's just Barely enough room to see if the handle goes three wide no he goes with his teammate in a turn, he barely slid down, you know, that was close, that was very close.

I bet Jimmy Johnson is ready to jump from his seat to three wide in the middle. in the middle or Kyle Busch says whoa hey, up to pick up that Jimmie Johnson draft, you tell the truth to everyone else, he's got three sides to himself, there he goes, he knows what I'm doing and he does it so easily that someone he asked me on our Fox Sports chat the other night on foxsports.com instead of Jeff Gordon, look at the years, he'll be 24 next month. It's a great help? You know, here, the driver with the best chance of achieving David Pearson's 105th victory is second on the all-time list how to tell a guy, get back to me when you have 82 wins in your pocket like you do Jeff and I'll let you know, but surely time is on his side, well that's the perfect answer, I mean, you know, just a lot closer and he doesn't have much time, but he's a good seven, eight years old.

I hit him if he made it there in third position. Remember it was on lap 42 when he was sliding sideways across the finish line. just missing the inside wall Mikey and Jimmie Johnson thought they had to say Mike thought he had the same one last year here in the engine blew up late Mikey knows how to handle this joint I promise you it's three tall, wide and handsome Getting it going sounds like a plan for me, my teammates Denny Hamlin in the 11 and Kyle Busch in the 18 have fast cars and are both capable of leading, but will they ever work together?

Yes, but you know if you are at home. a little shot they're back on scene it's at 0 7 that black casey mears remembers that he was involved in that big truck at the beginning of the race and fought his way back to the top 10, it seems to me that these routes the teammates are trying to come together - here comes Reagan's car in 16 trying to get to the lead here Kasey Mears has damage to her right side from the accident on lap 7 Elliot is on the right side when he hit the wall a while ago, but they are fine there up fighting for the lead looked like David Ragan in that six thinking for a moment of trauma jumping in front of Michael Waltrip in the 55 Carlton thinking twice about the set is not there when people saw that e-commerce did you see David?

Ragan all the way out there in exchange for this kind of race that you expect to see with five to go, not fifty-five to go with fifty-five, you know, the first, the first hour of practice looked a lot like this when we arrived. here on Friday, well now is when you have to decide what I'm going to do, what I have to do to win this, I have the car, I need to make some changes, tell them in the pre-race about the way you drive a race car oh yeah, that said this why does he live here if there's a hole I'm going for it that's what he said great observer and Jeff Dickerson are like one and that's the reason why Kyle can do some of the moves that he also does now, like Brad Keselowski's co9 car right behind Elliott, he knows his bumper like a dog on a mailman, yeah, and there they go to the front.

I haven't seen that kind of speed in this car all day. For a long time, it's caused a couple of guys to go out of their heads by hitting the apron with cosmetics to get around it, but there's another example: those two cars hooked up and just drove away, drove through the group and drove away for a moment, here comes Burton in car 31. he's back on the lead lap three laps down many laps ago look at everyone backing up while that accordion effect happens Stremme crashed him he went back to Montoya back back back it's almost another big thing to say once again now but that is what I say about the old man, his car shouldn't be driven exactly why the car just got pushed up the hill.

Burton is trying to get off of him and when he did, he put the twelve behind him and then forty-two got on the back of the twelve. maybe I said you want to play 190, be careful because this table has a lot of fins, you better be a pinball wizard. Welcome back to Talladega. There are 50 laps left and Kurt Busch is in the lead today among the 22 drivers that Dale Jr. has. trying to push him, but Darryl, what's junior?, he's going to push again, that's what I said, the two of them don't have a rear bumper look.

I know where the bumpers are. I guess he's pushing this fuel sale, you're going to catch on too quickly, the butler tube. there so functionally it's a bumper even though here goes, here goes a freight train at the bottom, but how about David Reutimann in that double zero car, those two Toyotas connected together? Danny Hammond seems to be one of the best pushers he has here today. a push, Reutimann, get closer to the link or he's going to push Reutimann, he actually thinks he was just pushed out of the way. spot rude rude I'm going to get back in line behind him, but Denny Hamlin will lead the way around him wherever you can get. very far, but it's not really worth it for home, here these guys count probably about 10 miles our way as the official communications search engine of NASCAR, who was Ricky Bobby's sponsor in the movie Talladega Nights, in fact, you can find the answer task calmly and enter. the NASCAR stop NASCAR casey mears in car zero seven he wants to lead this he wants to be that racist he did it 45 lead changes among more than half the field but look at momma toy up there in car 42 remember they had a loan, it's back to the front I like the way it's the kind of work on the fenders that I like to do right there, yes sir, that fixed that fender.

Casey's mirrors at Devanagari will completely change teams, cars, parts, pit crews, shop crews, crew chiefs, everything but the spotter will be swapped between those two coverage retail teams. Return that card 29 to my new event. It will be my new car. I have to function. The kids just felt like they got better. You felt that I have good drivers. I'll have to face the team leaders and the pigs. dad's just done it before with good results change the chemistry change the outcome but you know, we talked about all of Talladega, you know, from three laps down trying to find the lead right here and there's a good chance he'll get it.

That's a very fast cat car, but you know, we talked about the handling. It's not a big deal here. You better have a car that handles well when you're pushed around a corner at over 200 miles. I was someone on your back bumper, not since Bill Elliott. I came from five laps down to win here and someone doesn't like this just became the 24th different leader of this race. I think you have to admit that the Larry the Childress cars came here this weekend, the best I've seen them in a long time. and of course the Ganassi, the engine package they have in the 42 and the only car, plus those engines are making good power and Jeff Burton led this race before the electric almost bit the back wall when the juniors were Not by doing it, we get the teammates to the top, we get to the bottom, they have those two Joe Gibbs cars at the bottom.

The Kyle Busch v8 team drove in the 11, here comes junior with the middle, looks like the teammates are starting to really work together Larry son Childress couldn't cars a pony out kasey kahne update spit shaunGuerra, the car carrier front tires fell off the jack on his foot, he approached and they entered the spotlight, but it's okay, 44 laps to go Dale Earnhardt jr. Additionally, NASCAR Sprint Cup races on Fox are sponsored by Verizon Wireless. Get Penske Racing's inside track and race analysis, plus highlights some Eisley action, all in D broadcast from Verizon Wireless' largest, most reliable wireless network in the United States.

Some say this track is haunted where it was built. an old Creek Indian burial ground strange things happen here and there is one of the strangest pieces of debris that has put us under caution and you are about to see where it came from, not from one of the cars, but from the shadow of one. Due to the caution lights, these cars generate a lot of turbulence. This area was originally known as tality ghee but that was the name of the creek indian village near tala tiga wharf and then dalit egos as the locals call it now but when bill france senior in 1968 announced that with the help of the state of Alabama was going to build a super race track, he said we were going to build it in Talladega and for everyone in racing the name stuck, yeah, yeah, now, here's what's interesting, guys.

I think it will be time to feed on pit road because we have about 40 laps left when they do this pit stop, everyone can go all the way on fuel so there is a good chance that there will be green flag stops scheduled for the window, okay, dick Berggren, what are you going to do right? Brian Vickers is going to use only two tires and not four to get better track position. Here they are going to try to fill the fuel and they have asked him for a little help, but pushing people wants to know how hard he can push them see making a track position without tires for Kurt Busch gets it Michael Walter Mack Dale Earnhardt jr.

Heels maybe a couple spots on pit road, they'll go for four tires, so that way, go all the way krysta believably Jeff Burton again on the lead lap fighting for the win a four tire stop for Bernie while Both Jimmie Johnson thinks his car is pretty good, they added a little tamer than four tires for the 48 and Kurt Busch with that strategy wins the race out of the pits. Watch Sam Hornish down to second with 40 laps remaining at the Aaron's 499 at Talladega. He may not be playing. cheese shards about the race, well everyone made what could be their last stop of the day, we're ready to go green with 39 laps to go, but Larry's strategy at this stop everywhere, yeah, I mean, We had a few cars, it felt lonely. like a Kurt Busch david reutimann no hamlin sam hornish tony stewart many cars with only two tires we bought our cars before Darrin I was talking before the tea to go I think I want a full of fuel and four new tires let me maneuver that the short run to the right and then I can stay out if they have another yellow flag here before too long, but that would possibly happen with 38 laps to go as they take green, Sam Hornish, Casey Mears, sinner Juan Montoya and outside pole sitter Greg Biffle are your front five, remember.

He had the flat tire and turned three and four, which leaves us now at 33 laughs with 38 laps to go. A big train comes from below as a push and Hornish has the advantage that it was Tony Stewart at the head of that group on the inside. with the help of Dale Jr. he just has a poor salmon hanging out to dry he got in line Kurt went to pick up the other car ex-teammates Kyle Busch Tony Stewart in the bottom lane Casey Mears leads look at that train on track two on the other side, but already You know.

Seeing Kurt Busch with those two cars, I think it's a given how poorly Trace played. I remember him pushing his teammate Ryan Newman to win the 2008 Daytona 500. I think he is the absolute best race driver in restrictor plate racing who hasn't won a restrictor plate race. Roger Pitts has only won one race with a restrictor plate and that was in the 500 with Ryan, a big improvement in two pits to keep the cars overall this year, his three cars are very powerful, the cars are running a lot, all three cars They're working much better, you know, Sam has led the way this far. here comes kyle busch tony stewart dale jr.

Jimmie Johnson there, in two laps, they went from the middle of the pack to competing for the lead. Well the games are over, it all comes down to him being dirty and depressed. From here everyone think about Tony Stewart who was behind the pack for 3-4 in this race, he was one of the fuel only cars and here he is in the top five of these 14 cars with 36 laps to go and you know how she knows the games are over and probably someone to start doing it. Listen a little before this goes any further, I've been riding in the back, a man who wants to crawl before that caution before the last one for now, I'll look at the 22, 24, 25 back in the 22 and I won't do it wrong, Kyle Busch now with That Fall of Dale Junior, Tony Stewart, now is when you look for that magic guy, that magic car that will get behind you and really make you go fast like we've seen two cars separate from the field.

I think we like these, right? look exactly at the race, no guys again, just look at the speedsright there and they have to have a car that handles well, they can't run into that curve at 200 miles an hour and not have a car that they can have. fully open p.m. his boat is clear, he is six to seven miles per hour faster than the other group. Here they come Bertrand Val Darrell Waltrip won many races by showing patience and that is exactly what Carl Edwards is doing. He is convinced that the guys up front are competing hard. enough that they're going to crash, he's falling behind, well, he's convinced some other guys to stay with him because the salmon 55 and some other cars are falling behind with him, which in your chat can ask, they say millions of fans are confused.

Well, they did 33 laps in total, I think he was singing, the satellite chat sounded like something he would say, yeah, absolutely, that's your man up there on the high side, fourth place in the 48 car, Jimmie Johnson, right on Behind him, Jeff Burton, Kristen, what? one day due to problems with Jeff Burton's battery Jeff said that he is always nervous too, but once the race starts, he calls me and told me until the laps end and that's where the intensity level shoots up, yeah, but sometimes, with turns down, you just do things you really didn't intend to try to get those labs back.

He needs to play like he's still three laps down because that worked a while ago because he got one of them back by being in front of the leader when the cops arrived exactly now. in eighth place with four cars trying to escape, it's not the time to be conservative, it's when you put everything on the line right now and honestly, with 33 laps to go, I'm not sure I agree with Carlin. at the front or close to that he needs to get going because this is not going to give results, it is not going to give results thirty-three laps to go 33 cars on the leading lap 24 drivers have led this race but who is the last lap 28 to go laps to go boom Someone clipped I see that piece of debris right back there, it came off whoever is the last car in that group, it's a piece of tape, but if someone at the tailor that line over there cuts through the wall, well, Kyle Busch is our leader Denny.

Hamlin was ejected for drowning and Martin Truex in three laps went from 17th to 26th place, just outside the top 12 that would make the Chase for the Sprint Cup. Kasey Kahne has dropped to 13th based on where they are right now. junior has gained five positions during the race of this race Mark Martin in bed the early accident has lost five places 15 cars that have been singing it seems that they are now lining up in single file all as if they are about to leave Yes, right now someone decided to jump out of the line the last time this happened in this racing engineer driving the Kyle Busch train when everyone lined up single file for a while, yeah, and he had said that, jr.

He must have been some kind of prognosticators of this one thing, we just tell him there is no mass at the moment. I see that everything is in a single row, nice and orderly. I just don't think it's going to stay that way for long. Can? you know someone is going to get impatient that's what's wrong with you you just sit there you say I'm tired of this we're going to have to mix it up a little we're not going to win like this place came Joe Nemechek in '87 here, Mr. Unturned He didn't know if he could run the entire race based on the finances of his sponsored Toyota.

He got a sponsor after qualifying for the race excellently. He's right there in the middle of this league. He may have a chance to win it. I know, Mike, you and I were talking before our show today that a lot is written and said every week about outreach. 43 of our cars that started this race, their plan was obviously that the first accident would be solved somehow. Yes, Jo ran very well yesterday in the Nationwide races, today is good for him, assuming we have had our last stop, let me ask Jeff Hammond his picks for the microphone today.

I've been watching these guys all day and now I'm impressed with the fact. What they did on pit road for some of the repairs also damaged the rear end. That car worked all day. The team worked all day to get it right. Races that have been playing on pit road. They have not made mistakes. able to make the right tire calls when they needed to and how they put themselves in a great position right now to possibly get their first win and maybe make history by making their AT&T the fastest of the most valuable pit crew of the year from your AT&T phone text the pit crew car number two two to five he's looking at the 11 and the six and the 99 went to the bottom we know the 11 is a fast car they went to the bottom they couldn't go nowhere they couldn't To make any progress I had to give up that line so it's going to take some good fast cars up front here to create another line and Carl Edwards right now is running in 22nd position let's see if we can get it some partner on the track.

Big deal we've been lapping back, great we'll see how many cars Carl Edwards can pass before the checkered flag Mike Edwards runs 22nd, 22 laps left Kyle Busch designs freight train Draft around Talladega Cowboys leading with 19 laps to go, let's get to today's monster moment with simple and mobile apps from the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Matt Kenseth jumped on Jeff Gordon and half the field piled in, nine cars went to the garage area, five of them They did not return from this huge pile. after seven laps, stay tuned and ask questions on our site seven days a week with live stats and more from the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.

Volvo visit print.com slash speed for more information only on Now Network three races he didn't always agree with his brother thigh high on the racetrack I don't think his brothers are going to agree with what ends up to do oh no, he left a guy, he just left him and now he goes to the two cars Kurt goes dead backwards paka regained the lead, yeah, this It's dirty laundry time here someone's about to be hanged in Toronto, it they just did. I tell you one thing: Car 18 is determined to stay ahead. Kyle's done everything, I mean, he's locked in, he's been really low.

Everyone is still looking around, but they can. I didn't completely clear it, the same group that was dragging at the top of the track are now lined up at the bottom of the track seven days ago went up to block Matt Kenseth and came down to block Jeff Burton Darrell as you say. he's running three lines wide alone now here they are once again watching they're going to run they're redheads they're going to have to get there oh, he turned it, oh, I can't save him, the tribe is coming, he tried, he tried. he just couldn't hold on to it, yeah, but it wasn't bad, I don't think, and the tricks are like it's badder than this, but he's not bad either and then we'll come to you, you're okay.

Come on XE four tires, come on, let's go down to the lead lap, it'll be fine, turn it back on, do all that spinning a little bit, that's your Kyle Busch, the car won't start, let's show you how it all started. Well it's kind of inevitable you know block block block block just block so many places so many times down here in the corner you see that 31 gets behind 18 he lets it go how he got from how he got to where he did it and he didn't hit anything he ever I will know and Martin Truex simply kept the words directed.

He was right in front of Carl Edwards, who had been trying to avoid all of this. He just checked too much on the apron on the Apron, neither car was needed once except when they were beaten 31st to 18th. I know it's unbelievable, there's no contact now. Jeff Burton had become frustrated with Kyle Busch from where Kyle attempted to run him to the ground a few times. laps before, this is an incredible level of driver, my main joy. Wow, Regan, the sick car may have gotten to the back of Montoya just a little bit, but I don't think it was bad and now we hear that they know the 18 doesn't have it. starter motor can't start it, it'll go a lap down, you know the fact that this ended up being just two individual cars, they spin around silly, yeah, go figure, well we've seen it all day, you know, it's a 55 of the two here . in the test, but we've seen some incredible driving on these guys today, 18 young guys on there, kind of turned off all their lights, that's what started the sentinel routes for yellow, yeah, bye, you know, nothing intentional.

Martin lifted so he was in front. He and Reagan couldn't react fast enough and there's more bad news with 18, it's now a lap down and we don't have double line restarts within 20 laps, that won't help them with anything that happens next. We have to stay for the last 15 laps to find out that there are 31 cars on the lead lap. This is the eighth yellow flag of the day. We want to give you the rest commercial-free, so let's take a quick break. We will be right. back to finish, they will restart this time with 13 laps remaining. Ask.com asks why the South is called Dixie, but the answer is now a quiet task and enters NASCAR's Ask Calm Challenge in NASCAR's official search spotlight.

Well, here we go, 31 up. lap cars There are 13 laps to go Kyle Busch will be behind those 31 cars because within 20 laps of the end of the race the leading lap cars restart in a single file and at the front their only hope is a yellow flag before Since he got the tenth, he got the free pass. Bart's safety remained on the lead lap after his spin. Here we go, the third team is Matt Kenseth Dale jr. and again and again in this one it's so tempting you just have to work hard not to get out of line right now you have to get going you have to get things going here before you make a move a lot of pushing behind the front eight cards now these guys here could do that because they have to try to get here and get in line, yeah, it's those top six cars from day ten, they have to be careful, they have a little bit of their P's and Q's, but Just thinking about Matt Kenseth, won the first two races of the season at Daytona in California, a dismal 17th for that team since those two weeks, so yesterday it ended up in the center of the field, so it would be a big change, not a big change, It's a nine-car getaway and look who's in the caboose of that train.

Carl Edwards, who was behind all day, is now with the draft leader, but they are going to get caught, look at the career Stuart has. in that red number 14 and Ryan Newman with Jimmie Johnson have caught the leading guy in the draft, not anymore Jim, he's in big trouble here, he has to get someone to connect with so he can get back in with those leaders, but when you lose your money right there, hey Justin, right, but remember what two cars have been able to do, we've been watching it all day look at Ryan Newman in 39, Denny Hamlin in 11, you can see his 67 and Matt Kenseth leading the career.

I know he's been the best to do that's 11, I mean, he's been amazing, he's a great pusher v jump there someone wants to jump there look third here they come to the lead from tenth place Newman Hamlin makes the lap in a cat move on to Kenseth, I love getting away from the pack we've seen earlier in the race, yeah over and over again, you can't not do that, you have to get away, that's not going to work out well for you, once you get out you stop. and here comes the group again, Ryan Newman's only restrictor plate won the Daytona 500 and it wasn't long after the Daytona 500 that Roger Penske asked him to give up an extension to his contract, he said: " "I'm going to wait and see how Hamlin does." to give it another push you have to find someone else to push to the front maybe you can get behind who would be in that one?

Wow look at that, how did Carl get there? He was part of that 9 car breakaway up front Darrell boy, Hamlin is sinking like a rock, yeah you just lose momentum and there's nothing he can do. I mean, Tony Stewart tried to pick him up in Stewart was much faster, he turned around and Hamlin, from the front of the pack to the back, can do it. Right now it's just staying hooked to that double yellow line at the bottom, that's all he can do. We haven't seen any speed on that car today, so I'm wondering if the 17 and 88 in particular, and we know the 30. those who passed, are just using it right now. 55 leadership changes so far and now that group that was so spread across three groups is all a draft again.

What did you see Burton shoot behind Dale Jr? to take that outside line but no one went with him Darryl no David Ragan in that six car and Tony Stewart the 14 there he goes you can live back on the backstretch here we're going to trouble Jimmy Johnson Junior David Stremme II this is version two of the big, well the desperate men were starting to do some desperate things as the laps were ending like I said, Mike, this is when you put it all on the line, if you've got it, use iton both ends for Martin Truex Robby Gordon, oh thank you.

Oh my God, he's moving in that car because look at the front stove, he hit the inside wall really hard, look how this happened in this group here that was jockeying for position, no one starts trying to figure out what the line is. where they want to go. down when to get up or Montoya lying on the toy it was my turn yes, he turned in fact Michelle wanted to move and when she did they just cut it off she said Mayfield's car on fire on 41 a very good day for Hendrick Motorsports are three of the cars that have been knocked out, Montoya was just pushed into Bobby Labonte and like a croquet ball sent, Robby Gordon shot into the inside wall, Jeremy Mayfield going there in the 41 car, he's got a lot of fire coming out of that car. boy, that's a tough lick, that's tough right there, oh, but you know, the great thing is that they installed the safest barrier there on that inside wall.

See, that's Sam Hornish then went up and hit the outside wall and kept going. Some rides here started with Michael Waltrip hitting hard and all of these on the big one and on this course Jimmy Johnson had taken the lead in points as his teammate Jeff Gordon on 24 had trouble earlier. I want to tell you about Robby. Gordon's punch, if he reaches another hundred feet below, hits the concrete instead of the safer barrier, let's see what happened here. Montoya got hit by the 11 and that turned him a little bit to the left and then he went to the right now when corrected, he got into Bobby Labonte and it was from there that Hornish slid around there for a while and then he turned.

Let's look back from Jimmie Johnson's car, looking toward Waltrip. Jimmy gets hit pretty hard there and this is what Carl Edwards saw, you know? Darryl, the contact was Hamlin and Montoya, but that really started about six cars ahead and you know how to accordion backwards, what you do when you're sitting back there, you're looking forward, I mean, you see a couple of lines trying . to form you have an inside line, the outside line and you are starting to say which one I have to enter and you start moving on the track and someone hooks you and they tow us, the 48 car will not do it. finish this race, it's going to the garage area, there aren't enough laps left, they have a broken upper control arm, so this will pretty much happen one day, you can see it right there, we're right in front, they're towing us too.

When Matt Kenseth had to come to the pits he had a flat right rear tire. Kenseth had been the second-place car and dropped to 21st place just before the yellow flag came out. Well, this car right here, car 11 basically caused that accident, he got into Montoya or at least he was part of that accident, let me put it that way and he was lucky because he went through the whole thing and didn't hit anything too hard. We are under yellow flag. We have seven laps to go. He has been out of danger. Hollywood Hotel, well Mike Larry mentioned a few moments ago that we had the sequel to the big race, let's look back and it was lap seven very early, this had changed the complexion of this race with the points leader and Jeff Forge in the retro The Pepsi scheme involved at least 14 cars in this, other cars were damaged, but we scored and got back on the track and there were guys like Kurt Busch and Elliott Sadler that were involved, we got to the front of the field now at the yellow line coming in. to play with jr.

Yes, I see James Jr. and Brad Keselowski a lot of drivers in a national series race each other below the yellow line jr. led 20 laps in this race Kyle Busch who scored the most laps led with 42 17, finally Jeff worked the tap and that was him turning in 18 and leaving the picture in terms of winning this race, the winner of the pole received damage. as we had the incident a few moments ago with Pablo Montoya but Ryan Newman leading, we have already seen this year guys who have had losing streaks break that with a victory from Jeff Gordon to Mark Martin, we have 43 races since Ryan Newman won his last race they have It's been 29 since Dale Earnhardt Jr.

I just want to add here that this is a very familiar sight. I think I was a watch plate yesterday in the Nationwide race. Ryan Newman was driving the number 33 car yesterday and jr. He was driving his own car, he was second here towards the end of the race and when the last lap was all said and done, David Ragan wanted witnesses, so this is a long way from finishing the points well, you see how many laps . To go right now with our points leader, who we talked about being eliminated, that would leave Jeff Gordon behind and Kurt Busch would take the lead followed by Tony Stewart, Jimmie Johnson, remember 15 Talladega races have been resolved with a pass in the last lap. and one of those Hendrick drivers who's been on a roll lately, Jimmie Johnson, our idiot Berggren is with him, well that's Talladega, how hard it was to go through that accident.

It sucks to run here. You had a great race car and the guys worked really hard to make it happen. thing in order and very fast and then getting so close to the end breaks it down so I just wanted to look like some guys got beat, they didn't have the position and they tried to break through from the outside and they left. I crossed someone's nose and started a track from my position, so shame Osman was an amazing looking quahogs, he really did well, see you in Richmond next weekend. Oh, Ryan Newman is our leader.

Newman led this race with ten laps to go. The long-time leader has won here at Talladega just twice in the last 12 races and this is going to count. Do you think we're going to get to green and white squares? Here we will practically get closer to the goal. Here we are. Let's clean ourselves up before we get into overdrive, let's check in with Matt Yocum Mike learning a big lesson from what happened yesterday in the Dale Earnhardt jr Nationwide Series race. talking about strategy with the car right in front and another part of the conversation is if they can split up, he said, if for some reason I start to lose Ryan, I don't want you on the radio, I'll tell you quickly, you touch his father because Greg Newman He's Ryan's spotter, you touch his dad and that way Ryan knows how to hit the brake that way they don't back into the cars that are trying to chase them.

There is a lot of strategy that seeks to work here in the closing. good laps Darrell that's something the leader can do he can go back and pick a writing partner if he gets too much of a gap with the second place car yeah and the reason is that Jr. as a white green box we've seen two cars, how they can sometimes separate themselves from the rest of the field. He'd like to think he and Ryan could do that, but I'm not sure you can do it on a restart, he's got to have some good momentum for the ad to appear five laps left here at Talladega and plenty of racing action to come here on Fox welcome to the baseball on Fox major league baseball presented by DirecTV on Fox check your local listings For the game in your area I just want to point out one thing: a guy right now is running six, he was running six yesterday when the checkered flag came and he It was the number six part of the company, its number six car and it finished in position.

Number one, I'm so into David Ragan and not only that, but this kid has really done an amazing job in these restrictor plate races. He had two top-five finishes here last year and now he's sitting here. He won the Nationwide race yesterday. and they sent him here in a six right now, we're putting the guy right in front of him, Joey Logano in that 20 car, the rookie, you know, he's had to wonder what the hell has happened to my racing career since I've been. in the Sprint Cup Series and here he is with just four laps left, sitting in the top five, look at this Potter looking at you under his fingernail, thinking the most important thing now is that it's Greg Newman standing next to the junior spotter from Give it to TJ Majors while they try to work.

After this we will restart with four laps to go at the point Ryan Newman trying to score the first victory for which the stewart-haas of him competes with Dale jr. trying to win list for Rick Hendrick's drivers, the guys are trying to get back to Victory Lane, the companies are Tony's, his car isn't doing bad, yeah, he's off the pace, he's not getting up to speed at all , no, and you see what Dale jr. I was talking about him putting wood-he's putting a bumper on that 39 car trying to get it away from the rest of the group, but I'll tell you that that 31 car and that six maybe that 20 car think they might have something for that front.

There are three laps to go when they come back Newman trying to hold the bottom to hunt back all day and here he is in good shape to get away but he probably has them there, wow this is what coming to Talladega for crazy finishes Stewart just coming in and he's on seven cylinders, he keeps allowing Junior to keep talking from the outside in, but there's no room there to make a move and I'm not sure why Ryan is just leaving that background. that little Shelby could have found his way if he's not careful at four he's trying to get back here to the 31:31 watcher from geneve eleven to be a commentator and tell him everything that's going on go and win he has to decide I'm telling you it's working the way he wanted because here they come, look at the 99 and Brad Keselowski and we have that two car draft once again and they have you again, they come out of turn two, they're 10 miles an hour faster than the cars. to the front oh they will come to the white flag this time it will get interesting because jr.

I can't just sit there and run second. This is the best chance to win. He's not going to run second in this race. I continue on and as Edwards gets to the front they will stop. that wrong baby and what's interesting it's a hindered car running second it's a Hendrick related car leading the race and that's a Hendrick led car pushing from behind all day to the lead with one to go free. Chevy is on one, four and it doesn't matter. Now your friends are where you find them, endless Carl, I don't know if they can catch him.

What we saw today in Cardiff, that big ugly race on them. I don't know if the 39 in the 88 can catch them. You're in Edwards' draft and Keselowski restarted eight that night. If that nine can stay hooked to the back of the 99, it will be difficult to get. He'll be around right here to line up Ken Kozlowski. He tries to win. I do not do it. I know I don't think he can get out until he waits until the last second. Edwards will not win Keselowski this race. Carl Edwards' unbelieving car was destroyed and the juniors' protégé, Keselowski, is the winner.

Carl Edwards is moving and ready to go. Larry, look at that. heartbreak I'll draw carburetors go completely go Carl did what he wanted to do stayed behind all day played smart if this race he possibly would have won I'm not sure where he'll go Carl maybe thanks the team crosses the start/finish line over the city that's it what he has what he's doing that's what he's doing I come here, you know, he's an athlete, a marathon runner. I want to finish the race and he got a standing ovation from the crowd. Shades of Ricky Bobby, right?

I know, Larry, that James Finch is in a position to be bad right now. Finch owns this car, he bought it from Rick Hendrick and leased the engine, a complete Hendrick package, let's take a look. Mike Carl Edwards, opened it up a little bit, yeah. I'm not sure, I think this is a hard lick right on the fence, I mean that car that was like Bobby Allison did here in 1987, the catch fence did its job, good Lord did its job, thank goodness , we have the new Staller, much stronger and safer capture fences. and Newman also took a hard hit from Edwards, just one car with the space left at the bottom.

What happened here is that the old man looked outside. Carl went up a little to block it and, oh, now he's back to the bottom and cliff T, you know, the move looked a lot like the one Brian Vickers did to Jimmie Johnson when Vickers won Wow, what a hit, wow, that's 1987 all over again Oh my god, did you see that I think it was Biffle who almost did you? - boned 99, but look, the Oh Nine are going to look out. Karl already went up to block it a little, now he's going to go down to try to block it again and you can try, but you don't.

I couldn't see this, what a lick. Oh, amazing, you know? And I looked very carefully at the fence I was holding and I didn't see any debris go into the grandstand and that's certainly very gratifying to see, well, it was going to be wild. I didn't know this was going to be while I'm here. The three behind him, this is from Carl's and Dale Jr. but Darryl, I want to ask you on the air because I didn't see Brad Keselowski do anything wrong there, no, no, it was a blocking move towards Carl, then I looked out, Carl went up to block that move and when Carl came down, the old man now . went there another first time winner from Talladega here is the cool down lap Dale jr. and Brad Keselowski like they got together with Chandler with a big fist hitting his leg if Lasky didn't see it up, everyone will say it Kyle Busch spun the winner after the race Hey, I begged you to be your Talladega partner, it's something special Brad Keselowski, you arrived at the Circle ofVictory.

I saw that your hands were shaking. Can you believe you just won a Sprint Cup race? You did it on the biggest track of all. Wow, pinch me, I don't know my pace, how about the fans of this team? man, thanks for coming, this is the best show in the world. We apologize to Carl for ruining them, but the rules can't go a little further than the L line and he blocked it and I wasn't going to go under it, so I don't want to. Smash a guy but you're forcing that situation so there's nothing else I can do, we had a lot of fun tonight man it was a lot of fun, I hope the fans did too because this is a NASCAR race and this is great, can you explain that to us?

On the last lap and the moment you knew you had just won a race as you crossed that start/finish line, I felt a little bad because I was looking at Carl, my mirror was crashing hard and I hope he's okay. . I feel bad about it, but that's the rule. He knows the rule as well as anyone and he put himself in that spot and I don't want to go broke again, I'm sorry, but what a great Chevrolet, how about that suede man? There's this thing that has a smoke man. I can not believe it. I appreciate the better finish from him coming into this race in the Sprint Cup Series 19.

He is now a Sprint Cup winner Matt when the dust has settled Dale Earnhardt jr. You came home second, you had the perfect seat to see your protégé score his first victory, tell us what he saw from your seat. Well, I had to deal with Ryan's 39 to break away from the group and do what we didn't do. I did yesterday in a Nationwide race and we had it going and I thought there was no way for you to know that we were united and there is no way for any man to catch us and they were smart enough to move forward, and the top lane had been more fast and easy. and winding the car better all day, they were smart enough to run in the middle and here they come and I couldn't believe Brad was pushing that 99.

I would have guessed anyone else, but he did an amazing job, but no I could see it. What happened on the frontstretch was behind a 39 and they asked Tony Juniors to tell me what to do because I can't see what they're doing there if I think about it and he said stay, you know they're spending. The track stayed on the bottom and it was a pretty bad hit for Ryan, but I really enjoyed the night. The energy of the National Guard camp. Chevrolet was running well all day, running at the front and I love that these fans here enjoy watching the race. like that and sometimes we get a little boring in the middle, but man, it's a long time when we're all trying to stay until the end.

I can't thank my team enough and I'm so proud of Brad, you know? he did a great job, his family must be extremely happy James Finch, you know, as a car owner, he's an amazing man, he's an amazing guy, can you imagine the party that's going to happen that I had in the city of Panama when Dale Jr. was one position away from being Rick Hendrick's fourth consecutive winner, Brad Keselowski in just his fifth Sprint Cup start becomes Talladega is the tenth first-time winner and yes, Carl Edwards reaches the finish line