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car. Fans and everyone listens to the radio all over the world and everyone watches TV all over the world. The drivers start their engines. The NASCAR Cup Series leaves the short track at Martinsville with a whole pack of protective favorites, starting with last week's winner, Brad Keselowski, on a hot streak and the runner-up chasing Elliott looking for his first win of 2019, you're in the front row, Jimmie Johnson, what switch did they flip to get him the pole and his protégé William Byron to share the front row?

One of those pairs, by the way, has seven wins in Texas. Kurt Busch behind Denny Hamlin, who is our Daytona 500 winner, is Kurt Busch, he has been making noise with a couple of top five finishes and a sixth place finish, then on to Kyle Larson looking for the high side that will come today and with space looking. for sweet Kyle Busch from Texas, yes sir, everything seems to be bigger in Texas before today's race, who will be the winner today, it's the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, applause, applause, applause deep in the heart of Texas as they prepare to compete for five beautiful.

Race day is a little windy and I mean, it's very windy here and the temperatures are pretty cool, they'll reach around 55 degrees, so the fans are now crowding into the grandstands as the cars come to life. If you fly over this race track, each one looks like a symmetrical quadricycle. ends up identical to the other guy when you get down to ground level Darrell completely different no I think Tom wants the money spin you gotta nail that spin last year Kevin Harvick was so good at that spin you nail that spin you're going to run a hot lap, you miss it, you love getting run over, so spin one, look at that one and there were some drivers that were very strong in practice, they're going to start deep in this field, they got Kyle Larson, 22.

Kyle Busch goes for that sweep. in 16th place, how are they going to get track position? That's all we keep hearing about track position. Position on the track. Watch for those guys to make some wild moves up top on ones and twos on these restarts and down the backstretch maybe even taking them three outside. The information my driver gives me is very important. The two ends of this race track are totally different. You're going to be in and out of traffic. Are you running under the traction compound or on the traction compound? We have to be concise though the way these cars are running in the group, our spotter may be the most important member of our team so they are the most important to maybe the radio, oh yeah those spotters on the roof They're going to have a busy day so here's their starting lineup at the bottom of the screen and we go to the radio and we go right to the front row oh yeah jimmie johnson buddy jimmie johnson CW has a copy here buddy hey man no I think I've seen as big a smile on your face as I've ever seen.

Seen all weekend here in Texas, you got a great car after a not so great last weekend, how does it feel to be on pole? Where you think today, it sure is incredible, now it could elevate the return to Bob or the circuit, a great couple. of days looking forward, thinks it's all because of the good performance of the song here today, but Li Chevy, hey Jimmy, this is Jeff, I never thought I'd say that Jimmie Johnson is rusty from leaving laps and winning races, buddy, but it's been a while since you did. I've been in this position when you have a good race car like this and a weekend like you had, you just go back to things the way you always have, you certainly haven't been up here, there are some particular rules for the first outing .

Fortunately, the leaders haven't given you a hard time about it, but you know? Did you open a little monster? Well, friend, we can't wait to see you. Good luck today. Thanks for talking to us. He didn't just win the poll. won opening practice won all three rounds of qualifying and all major categories in final practice Jimmie Johnson exits has the favorite as we head to pit road starting with Matt Yocum my expectations are high today the prolific writers will take the center of the scenario that could fall into Erik Jones's wheelhouse remember that he earned his only Cup victory last summer.

Daytona finished third in the Daytona 500 now they've had speed all year they just haven't been able to execute throughout the race expect that to change today as DW mentioned turns one and two, that's the critical finish, that's where the car number 20 showed impressive speed this weekend. He won here in trucks. Xfinity hopes today is a trifecta and gets a Cup win. Vince good for Kyle Busch. He won the Outdoor Truck Series. race on Friday night in the In fact, crew chief Adam Stevens told me they've changed more this weekend than any race weekend this season, but they feel good about where they've landed. today, but they won't be sure until the green flag drops, we're about to find out.

Jamie, well it's been a frustrating season for Clint Boyer and that continued on Friday in qualifying and I spoke to his crew chief, Mike Bugga Ravage, and he told me that they had been plagued with errors, whether it was a blown engine, a set-up incorrect or excessive speed. on pit road like he did last week, they need to stop and finish the race, have a clean race from start to finish, also the goals for today, besides not making mistakes, they need to lead some of those left, something that They haven't done this season, get some stage points, but that's it.

He's going to have his work cut out for me starting at 26, but hey, he's got Blake Shelton standing here in his box, maybe they'll bring him some luck. Larry Mac, yeah, let's take a look at our career analysis. Jamie, let's go. for 334 laps right at 500 miles, stages are 85 85 to 164, pit road speed is 45 miles per hour, fuel windows 60 to 64 laps, grip level 5 is a lot, 1 is very little, we are there, around a 4 in the last two. Grooving at the back of the field will be Alex Bowman in car 88, a backup car for a qualifying crash, and Ryan Newman in 6 for twice offender inspection, so Mike speaks his mind but writes a horse quick, thanks Larry, now Jimmie Johnson is elected. outside lane for the start, Jeff, how is that going to work when we get to turn one with the traction compound in the second and third groups?

And if I had to guess, Mike, it's probably Jimmie Johnson, his teammate, William Byron, working on a deal here. I wouldn't be surprised to see Jimmie Johnson jump ahead of him and return to the back group at least in the early stages of this race warmer than yesterday, that's the best we can say about the weather and a fairly clear sky. sky and only half the wind no, but it has changed direction, be careful with turn one, now head, head fell from behind yesterday on the bike and walking really, but today, hey, I have to get to the race corner hamburger, buggy, saddle up, boys, let's go racing.

I think it was a good start with the microphone on the front for Jimmy Johnson, who already called Bush on that high pace, taking advantage of some of those other cars running at the bottom stacking up and Kyle Larson going along with them, oh boy, double wide from third back, now the front cars move single file back through about eighth to be Johnson extending his record of spans led by the Texans see one thing 24 cars fired William is behind 48 I think he could make a pass look eighth place, Erik Jones and Dillon, teammates of Daniel Hamrick and Ryan Blaney, including MIT, so what I talked about, turn one, money turn, you see how much of a gap it put Jimmie Johnson to William Barn, just two turns, one and two, that's the turn when I think.

Darrell down here and three and four cars are jammed so well that there's almost a draft down there that allows William Byron and others to back up to the rear bumper. Jimmie Johnson, let's watch it again as he goes into turn one here. and see if we can get Gaby again because that's where Jimmy seems to have a little bit of an advantage right now yeah right in the middle corner and look at the battle for third place on the inside he chases Elliott going inside Daniel Suarez , see how this works. down here and three and four are right next to each other and that allows Joey Logano to stop right on Chase Elliott and Mike's bumper in the fun last week 48 had a miserable week 22 had a miserable week in Martinsville today they're leading a group racing with Joey Logano Biron had a moment here 24 ago Bob, let's provide that the environment missed the opportunity to break away from the track, his teammates fight for second Byron with the launch in the turn, he got a half-car length on Elliott , check it out.

Below on the right, in what happened with the 24, you already saw that the left rear part began to leave that baseline that only shows the cars outside and loose. William Byers has been battling a bit of a loose condition in the center of the corner all weekend. Even though he's had a fast race car that's done well and I think that's something that should improve as this race goes on, I mean, he's amazing and creative before you see him running around, pretty much wide open. wide open, banged up a bit and into turns one and two. although that's where she's wasting time, well here are two teammates trying to compete with each other respect

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y, but things use the term boyar clogging up right behind them and I mentioned it in our opening, we've been talking about her from the which Denny Hamlin talked about in our pre-race, that track position is so critical that you can't afford to give up any track position, even when you're racing your teammates.

Elliott prevails every second. Hyrum settles into third place now with Suarez and Logano side by side and it's quite interesting. Those Chase Elliott William Barber teammates running side by side allowed Jimmie Johnson to get about a 12 car lead, which just shows what happens when these cars run side by side, how stagnant they get. air. The Mustangs have been running wild, Mike, almost every race, but today, for some reason, the Chevrolet, I don't know, three weeks ago out west, they didn't work on the cars, but today we got a Chevrolet Xur to run very strong from early on.

In this race here is a Chevrolet that has been really strong this weekend. Texas native, right there Chris Buescher outside Mark Church Jr. showed some speed got married here a year ago lives down the street prospers a local Texas boy one of three drivers in the field for whom this is a home race back to the gate of victory with a better birdie that quarter from tight yard here hold him tight let's go there you'll see any evil clipping with you here now why Brad Keselowski just went up the hill in turn four and gave up a spot to 42 so here's a look he knows Kyle Busch is behind of him, he's probably going to use that outside lane so he goes to the outside trying to get to the outside Michael McDowell won't sit still again I think it's ironic here we have a guy last week who led 446 laps at Martin's I know it's a half-mile race track that had a dominant car today looks like it's struggling a bit ten green flag laps completed in Texas Pollster Jimmie Johnson at the helm Monster Energy NASCAR Cup races are sponsored by them are flat Races in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup are sponsored by the Ford Hall of Fame's ru NASCAR's biggest fan visit ford.com slash NASCAR and by Monster Energy NASCAR's official sponsor first flagyellow of the day lap 15 Erik Jones turns around and turns in the number 2 without contact attentive to the third car number 20 in line I think he just misses it, Mike.

I don't think anyone has gotten into it. Nothing, a car just jumped out from under him. That has been the action. A lot of action that I will resort to already at the beginning of this race. We had seen his teammate Denny Hamlin. I also have some difficulties here. I don't know how similar his setups are, but every time Kyle Larson jumps to the outside, you know you're going to have to accelerate a little early to keep him from getting to the outside. So what happened? Yours, Eric Jones, pit road is open, no free pass, no cars still one lap down, Larry, what do you think we're right outside that pit window?

I have a feeling we may see a split decision here, some will be left out I think. some that need adjustments will come so you're seeing now you're starting to see them take off you didn't see a number of drivers that were left out Byron Kyle Busch Hamrick ty Dillon mcdowel Stenhouse and more Finn's on the 18th of Kyle Busch's guests just for the 18th of Kyle remember they said they were working on this car over the weekend, but no changes here, so it's a good time for Jamie 18's strategy, called here by Chad Knaus, the crew chief, fuel only for the 24 William Byron note that Ryan Newman is in the pits right in front of Clint Boyer, those two had a little trouble in qualifying on Friday, now let's go back and look at Kyle Busch because he's the first one off pit road.the car green and white and entered the pits just two pits after the start/finish line.

I think his direction as a driver will decrease on Thursday. I just want you to be sure you know where my pits are. Yeah, I think he missed it. I just don't believe. Vince saw it, yes that's exactly true, they said you're five away and he never saw the board, he couldn't choose his pit box and he passed by, so now they're going to have to change their strategy, maybe it's just a There is a slight disadvantage to running three different heats on the same weekend. Thanks for doing that guys, you actually won a spot. He passed between the 24 cars.

In reality, he did not pay a penalty. I don't think so. Bart William Byron was the He was the first to come to the pits, well, he won, but he didn't win because he doesn't have fuel to extend and the whole reason he went into the pits, but I think Mike, there's a lot to be said for , You know? driving the truck on Friday the overlook if you ask me and I it's like we stopped him because they thought he had a good look since most of the cars behind William Byron came in Kyle Busch is currently a word 11. his guys go hey we're here well he had 10 years old and now he's 11th here's his radio so the first 10 cars didn't pit and I'm guessing Kyle didn't either.

If you look at it that way, he's in 11th place. Here's a look at Ford's on-track performance data today for Texas Motor Speedway. 14 wins in Texas lead all manufacturers. Ford won seven of the first 10 races held here in the Cup Series and you're riding with Kevin Harvick, who has won two of the last three. This is the most laps Jimmie Johnson has led in a race since October 2017, when he led 24. Of those at Martinsville he's going to restart on the inside Daniel Suarez Oh, you almost saw Daniel Suarez almost make it to the fourth panel on the 9th from Chase Elliott when that happened that actually opened the door for Denny Hamlin to go three up the middle really drags Suarez back and how about Kyle Larson threatening with the needle here, man?

He's so good on cold tires or on restarts, well, you've got to keep that momentum going, try to find those grooves where no one else is. Oh, Kyle Busch makes an aggressive three-sided move and Suarez goes for it. to take back that spot from Larson right there on the left of the screen, which reminds me of a year ago and Denny Hamlin spun right there and spun three when they tried to go wide two and three in turn three, so remember the front nine cars . now our cars that didn't stop the ones behind them have fuel and mostly new tires say one thing: I wouldn't want to be in this little blob, this little wad here because I'm telling you they're on top of each other two and three open and pushing and pushing fighting for position and Darrell, you know, I was afraid to predict what we're going to see today based on our final practice yesterday because that's kind of Fitness in Las Vegas, but I'm seeing a lot of What I saw yesterday is that you can't separate yourself from anyone and it's very easy for the car to stall and run two and three wide 14 behind our double file.

I think all these drivers know, Jeff, winner, but things like this on a restart. This is your best chance to make some moves. I saw Jimmy Johnson that last time, three and four, he moved up the track to try that top boyfriend and Joey Logano took advantage of it and had a great run that almost made it to the rear bumper or even the inside. Jimmie Johnson's rear bumper in '48 I tell you lap after lap it's very good and one and two gets a little cushioning in the rear, but here in three and four not so good now back here Landon Cassill and the Double Zero didn't stop, so he starts backing up across the field, which creates a small traffic jam.

He is double zero. There are many careers that are too broad. Kevin Harvick will go around him on the outside, but there is still a lot of return traffic. there's Johnson's lanes up the hill, here comes Logano, he'll run down the backstretch and about half a car length chase Elliott closing in on Logano, three horses to take the lead, you get it right and a quarter when you're looking at three. cars Austin Dillon is having fun around here early on, Jamie in Jimmie Johnson's 48 took an aggressive approach to his setup this weekend and it certainly paid off, he's just saying yes a little bit and getting into it in that traction compound, little three. to the center, but at this moment the 22 behind him are quite happy with his race car better than in practice.

I don't know what he has in turn one, but I wouldn't mess with it too much because that's where he's really doing a lot of it. A lot of it is covering up the guy behind him every time in that turn, which Darrell obviously has his car turning really well there because that's why the back part jumped. You see Joey Logano aggressive towards the rear bumper. Jimmie Johnson, let's see that in the four corners. flatter degrees here comes Elliott to the outside of Logano he is there yes, he took advantage of Joey catching Jimmie Johnson had to check a little for you great job chasing Ellie enters the three outside cars of Austin Dillon looks like he is going to try to hit him a little push to Helen and he makes a little slip on Logano's part, alpha turn to see what it cost and Darryl it's not like he slipped, he just had to pedal to avoid hitting Jimmie Johnson at the next corner, yeah they .

Don't you know that these engines just don't have the acceleration? I think these guys are like they have, so if you have to let off the gas, you lose momentum, you're going to pass. I really think you're after Le. right now he might have the best race car just before the last yellow flag came out erik jones's spin the nine had closed in on jimmie johnson let's see what he could do behind jimmie johnson in one and two keep an eye on ryan blaney who was at the back of that group fighting for 8th place with Kyle Larson and Kyle Busch, made me laugh, Mike, keep an eye out there's a line out there, okay, they're one driver here for at least one lap, we'll take a quick break.

Jimmie Johnson in the lead is here and available today at your local Chevy dealer is the all-new Silverado, the strongest and most advanced Silverado ever completed 34 laps in Texas Jimmie Johnson has led them all since Joey Logano and sometimes chases Elliott, they are second and third. Austin Dillon holds firm in 4th and Denny Hamlin in 5th after being 2 laps down last week. Jimmie Johnson dominates all categories, practices and qualifying, and here is our preparation for the playoffs sponsored by Ram. What will it take for Jimmie Johnson to advance the play well? right now let me try a little bit, he's not going to give up that lead.

I've seen Jimmie race a lot recently, he's holding on to that lead, he's not going to give it up easily, you're going to have to take it from him and look how much he's fighting to keep it, you saw that car pull out to the exit, you know, it's been a while since he's had a car. race so good, he will try to take all the advantages of this track position, that number one spot in the pits and they do everything they can to stay in front and the man that everyone said, if you can run in clean air in front like Jimmy, That's when your car is its absolute best.

I think Jimmy knows that he's going to fight hard not to lose that lead and again, I don't want to keep harping on it, but he kills it. I wanted you to see the gap that he left at 22, right there, he's just hanging on at 3 and 4, 1 and 2, that's his corner, now he's back in seventh place, Kyle. and Kyle show and Larry McReynolds have some additional insight into how Kyle Busch ended up missing his pit stop, yes Mike, they had no idea he was going to pit. I think they had told him to stay outside and then because he was about to enter the pits.

When they took down the sign, there was no way this was going to work and of course there were signs in front of him, behind him, and I think Kyle didn't know that they knew he was coming and they certainly didn't know. he was coming, so yeah, well, they told him to do what the leader did when the leaders stayed outside. Kyle went ahead and came anyway because I think there was a miscommunication on the radio regarding the possibility of someone talking about another, but once it was on On pit road they knew it was on and they knew it was coming and then he just walked past the box without communicating, but as we've said, he lost only one stop in that exchange because everyone else behind him except Landon Cassill did. came to the pits and made sure to tell them that: on the radio, a little irritated by the hosts, they always don't think so of our best eleven, nine of them ten counting, Kyle wouldn't have stopped in his pits, let's put it that way .

William Byron is the only one and he runs in tenth place, yeah, he keeps running until three and four and he recruits Jimmie Johnson to the front right away and he keeps trying to get out of his mirror to find a way to maybe get Jimmie Johnson to do it. make. Slide from below, but so far it hasn't happened, no and Jeff. I know Jimmy has been at the top of our lists in every category, including pole. Now I see why, because I see how good he is, they don't want to compare him to everyone. Otherwise, that's where he's been killing everyone and just ran his fastest lap of the race the next month.

Johnson is going to run the Boston Marathon and I hope he takes the spot or Earl Barban is with him. Can you hear Earl on the Boston Marathon Hip Elbow? clean necks lying on less practicing a sidewalk than a lane to your right, wouldn't that be amazing? Yes, it would be Austin Dillon holding on as teammate Daniel Hamrick battles Alex Bowman's car there Amazing Mike Dylan will tell you the chemistry is solid within These three teams have Danny Stockman back on board, they've had speed, they're just trying to find the balance between downforce and tuning the car for speed.

It seems like each week they learn a lot from this packet. Right now, he's reading to the car. considerably tight in traffic, sees a gap a little outside the nine thanks to Matt Corey Lajoie, stops on green but continues, oh wow, Dillon up with Ricky Stenhouse and a bit of a jam, we talked a lot about the compound traction. Before the race and over the weekend it has helped, there just doesn't seem to be enough grip up there to make that preferred lane the top groove and you still have to run along the bottom, at least it's somewhat forgiving if you slide To date, Jimmie Johnson's 43

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insurance through Credit One Bank, the card of NASCAR official credit, perfect for racing fans and by coke introducing orange and vanilla coke, yes, you heard that, approaching 50 full laps. Poll's Jimmie Johnson has led them. Nine of the first 10 drivers have not been in the pits. None of the first 10 drivers have stopped in the pits. road during the only yellow flag so far, a harmless spin by Erik Jones and then what did we expect? 65 turns, maybe like maxi gold fuel, it has 62. 64 turns.

Darrell and the guys who came into the pits are right on the threshold ofcan. do it Kurt Busch started 21st Jamie he's gained eight places yeah I'm from the start of the race he actually qualified 30th he was way back there and it's been Kurt's Wild Ride listening to it on the radio he said until the two legged table. He just falls off, he's very tight behind other cars, which is good news for Kurt Busch. In the only team, they have good speed. They are definitely going in the right direction from the beginning. Check out Stewart-Haas looking for his first win of the season and aric almirola fighting the flu today events let's say what flu bug has been going through the garage this week get aric amirola got sick last night he had three IV bags this morning I talked with him right before he got in the car he said how do you feel he said terrible but I hope once I get in and get hot and sweaty I'll start to feel bad but could you take a look at him even though he wasn't anywhere near a hundred percent and Daryl and I had this conversation we had when Brad Keselowski won in Atlanta when he was sick, sometimes you just put your head down and you don't complain about the race car, you actually get more out of it, so I met Aric Almirola.

He gets the same results as Brad in Atlanta. Keselowski restarted in 25th. You're watching our Goodyear onboard camera as he worked his way up to 18th. Mike and I say on the lap that the cars came out pretty loose at that point and the car is still on the free side. Remember they went back into the pits on lap 17 to try to make adjustments to tighten it up. He says there's a big move down in the middle of one and two, still on the free side looking toward the next stop. for more adjustments, this counts right here, car 48, not looking for anything, has clean air in front, pulled away from car 22, which means Jimmie Johnson is taking the wheels off that thing today, passing Ross Chastain, who ran all three races this weekend and has run in every truck in every Xfinity and every Cup race this season Joey Logano chases Elliott behind him Logano has speed and turns three and four yeah I mean, It seems like all the cars have a lot of speed in three or four Mike, you just seemed to be able to keep it wide open, so it's really about getting a draft out of the car in front of you, it's one and two where it seems like drivers have to ease off the gas a little bit and they need to get the car to turn center and drive a little bit more, you know, I look at Jimmy Johnson in this 48car, he needs to try to build as much of a lead as possible in one of the cars that Mike you mentioned that It didn't stop, probably in the next, I would say eight to ten laps for sure and if you just give it fuel, it's a roll.

Pit road time is about 24 to 25 seconds, but that doesn't include slowing down and getting them up to speed, so I guess even if the leader is Jimmie Johnson, just fuel, his line will be pulled and he won't. will turn around so before the green flag in the pits. The stops begin, we will take 156 full laps. Austin Dillon is the new leader. You saw the pit stops. Kyle Larson came in first and then Jimmie Johnson gave up the lead to put on tires with 25 laps left in stage one, two tires, almost everyone took two. They fill the right side tires with fuel, they reach the green, so Johnson starts a lap behind, as we talked to Austin Dillon, as long as Dillon Hamlin and Kyle Busch remain on the track and there is the signal from all three that they come.

This time, okay, Larry, we've seen all these cars that hadn't stopped under yellow. What about these guys who did stop? I know Kyle Busch didn't get fuel, but what about the others who did get fuel? Can they achieve it? Yes, they went into the pits. On lap 16, Jeff and we ran again at 18. For me, the absolute threshold was correct on lap 20, but what worries me is, and I think that's why we saw some of these other drivers a little bit before, that the pace simply has not slowed down. There is more fuel at the front, but other drivers who just stopped Jimmie Johnson fighting Joey Logano and William Byron and Logano prevailed there and are now back on the lead lap.

I think Denny tried to pit last time and missed the pit, I mean he wasn't even close, I don't know if that was the last second decision or what happened there, but it takes him a lot of time to slow down and try. to regain speed to go down to the pits. Hamlin is there now, he will be at least a lap behind and Kyle Busch is his leader, so Kyle is now the only driver who hasn't been on pit road and he made a stop for William Byron in second, five seconds back , we will assume that leading when the 18 pits and Denny Hamlin caught for coming out of pit road too fast or at any time Hamlin has had a difficult time on pit road in recent years second penalty this year as Kyle for Hamlin while his Teammate Kyle Busch gives up the lead and makes his stop with 19 laps to go in stage one, a costly mistake for Denny Hamlin doing so under green flag conditions, a drive-through penalty for Hamlin, which It causes him to take a lot of penalties, but he always seemed outmatched in some way.

I know they don't. I don't know how they figured it out, but somehow they always outperform and Kyle Busch has four tires under the green. William Byron is the new leader and I wonder if you know if Chad Knaus will try to see this through to the end or if it will be him. I'll just stay out front to see if a yellow flag comes out. You know why Chad is happy to lead the race. Yes, and certainly his best chance of winning a stage is to try to stretch his fuel consumption to the end of the first stage.

Now, Jimmy Johnson arrived. lap 60 Joey Logano arrived a lap later among the drivers leading the race before the green flag stopped Johnson 28 seconds behind leader William Byron, but on the lead lap half a second behind Logano using our Fox ghost car, here They are entering turn three. and we'll show you the relative effect of this on stopping the tires, a fairly slight advantage for Joey Logano to get to the pit road entrance, this will be what will continue to roll on his pit road, slow down before entering that pit box and You can see that Joey Logano is in the pits right behind Jimmie Johnson, now that number one saw in the pits is a bit of a disadvantage under green flag stops because you just can't start rolling as well, but Logano he really got a great start and pitched.

I know. They, I know they had problems again, but these two cats here are not happy with each other. I've been watching them for the last few laps. Jimmy did everything in his power to keep the 22 surrounding him. he blocked him at all he was 22 finally made it but Jimmy has been stalking him ever since those two Plus chase Elliott are the last cars on the lead lap. You'll see William Byron, our leader, entering the scene not far away, so as they fight, the leader is getting closer, there's Byron passing Bailey Curry, one of the Texas-born drivers in this field.

Mike, it seems like the more you run, the faster you go. Byron is running some fast laps right now. 2908 last time, that's fast. lap for this ball, this one is 42 per race, I just have to believe, I mean, there are a lot of cars right now, you know, that haven't stopped, that have stopped under that caution flag, I wonder if you know some of them or at least one of them are going to stretch this and try to get to today at this stage. It could be this red Porsche. I think I know who the number one Chip Ganassi is and this is a trend I think we'll see all day.

We did it before and now we're seeing it again when when Jimmy Johnson closed the 22 he just opens the door, maybe he can slow his momentum down, he opened the door for the 9, now those on pit road, Jamie and 24. William Byron I'm standing in their hole calling them on the radio. They are pretty sure they can make it to the end of this stage, so nothing bad will happen. They plan to keep them in front until the stage breaks well. Tuck Hered Bush pitted, leaving Byron a few seconds ahead of runner-up Martin Truex Jr. Larry, yeah, I'm still running the numbers and you know pace is what I'm worried about, the fuel consumption numbers I gave the beginning of the race.

I talked to some engine builders last night that was based on a little more resignation than what we're seeing, but I still think I know we saw Kurt Busch, the one and only Pitt. Honestly, I think we will see several try to achieve it. until the end of that stage and Clint Boyer's 14 will be one of them and we are fine. I'd say we're still going to be close to sticking with him. Best case scenario, otherwise you can do four again, stay out at the end of going on stage and get track position ahead. William Byron 4.7 ahead of Truex and five ahead of Boyer Mike.

I didn't mind the crew chief telling me what he was going to do, but please don't ask me what he would do, so I watched. this telemetry and William Byron is doing something different with his throttle to try to save some fuel to get to the end right there, 100 percent throttle all the way down the backstretch, this is a corner they can normally run wide open. . William, running fully, something came out of the accelerator and one and two Jamie. I don't see him doing anything to try to save fuel here, yeah, it's interesting. I'm watching Czech announce that he talked to his race engineer and they're watching.

The same things you're talking about Jeff and seeing that Chad at 100% throttle just told his driver William Byron a couple more. I think we're going to have to come. Oh Byron is closing in on Jimmie Johnson who just came up the hill in turn to get back into the clutches of the chase Elliott last two cars on the lead lap here Almirola comes in and out here comes Harvick man my Kevin Harvick a bass documentarian grip about ten laps ago told Robbie Children's that she really knows the race track a floor air pressure adjustment Martin Truex the second place car hits the pits Brad Keselowski is also at six by the end of the first stage Martin Truex's Vince has just been a little loose on the entry and he just doesn't feel like he has enough lateral grip on one and two, he really likes to go down on three and four, like most, or you can keep him wide open, but one and two is the place where there is a four tire change that will make a chassis adjustment on that 19 like Well, and the leader is in William Byron gives up the lead to reach pit road, which will hand the ball to Clint Boyer.

Michael McDowell finishes, he came back out. He's fine, a 24-pin thing, but the speed didn't hurt. Jamie, yes, simply. They couldn't recover five laps, they had to bring it here, there will be four tires and they will fill it with fuel with five left to go in the stage. daniel henrik is a little confused at this 24th stop of what they did. We're making tires that are going to cost Jeff a lot, they had a problem with the right rear air gun, that's the reason the right rear tire changer had to go back there, so you have a great strategy and then you have that fault, Ryan Newman now. pips from second Boyer stays out with legato leader now third Jimmie Johnson fourth his lawyer turns around the horse rolling towards pit road very slow for three and four and I saw Alex Feldman's 88 when he came to pit road it looked like was charging too much speed commitment line violation on Jeff, he went over the box where the cone would be and that means he will get a pass.

It's not a good week for group 88, they know they are in a backup car and there is leader Clint. Bowyer in the pits, you can see him carrying a lot of speed trying to slow down, he opens up, you can't cut those right side tires on that orange box, heard a beep, all four under the orange box Clint Boyer with a quick stop with missing three to go in stage one, the pits will close with two to go and that battle we talked about that happened in that green flag pit sequence between Logano Jimmie Johnson's 22, that's going to make the difference here for Joey.

Logano ty Dillon and Matt DiBenedetto's pit stops leaving only Erik Jones and Ryan Preece, who haven't been in the pits since lap 16 at Jones, prompted that caution and pit road is closed, just the car in pit lane while Alex Bowman made his move. penalty Logano Johnson Elliot second and third there is a difference of a car and a half yes, I think nine cars a little better than Jimmy and a 48 Jimmie Johnson 48 I don't know if he will overcome it here before we get to the end of this first stage, Valuable points on the line here for stage points, but also that valuable point for a playoff point for Joey Logano.

The stage ends with Logano Johnson and Elliott, a slow car on the backstretch, that's Ryan Freeze, he's out of hell. He hasn't stopped in the pits since lap 16.and that will give the tenth and final stage point to his teammate Chris Buescher. Lots of rambling and betting as Joey Logano takes his second stage win of the year. Well, the first stage was completed in Texas. Joey Logano took the lead during that green flag pit stop cycle coming out of the pits ahead of Jimmie Johnson and maintaining that gap until the green and white checkered flag, now look what happens under caution, now the cars that stopped very late, there were six, they could have the Option with four new tires of not stopping now, but here come the leaders Matt Mike and an incredible pace so far, the chase 9 Elliott hits first, needs to be released.

Alan pointed out that there was light in the fuel, which helps contribute to the balance problem. At that moment they go to look for tires, meanwhile, above the three Austin Dillons, they went on the right side at the previous stop trying to get them off the road. He laughs this time. Jamie Joey Logano just wants to free up the car a little. pretty good, was on the splitter, a bit of a staggering difference on this set of tires, while the right rear 48 gives way too much, but says it's pretty good on its own to see who wins this battle on pit road this time between the 48th of a 22nd and there's the lead back to Jimmie Johnson for half of that pit spot right in front of Joey Logano Kyle Busch in Austin Dillon, each one takes only two tires and goes out first, we nail our winner from stage one, Joey Logano, hey Joey, this is the guys at the Fox Sports booth, you got me right, congratulations on winning stage one, good job on the green flag pit sequence.

We documented the great job they did entering the pits, exiting the pits, and of course, great work on their part. pit crew to get that advantage there to win the stage they can overtake the car, it is a leader, it is the most difficult to overcome in the invitation. I didn't manage to get three turns one and two so I tried to get the lead on the ledge, our guys good job, write it right there in front so you can hold on and it's a lot of fun right there. It's been fun to see the good luck the rest of the way.

Thank you. They're thinking six drivers chose no. to the pits at the end of the first stage at 90 right preparing for the second stage five cars turned around as you can see in our aerial coverage provided by Goodyear as their battles earned their name Official Goodyear Tire of NASCAR brad keselowski entering the pits one of my tires back and forth and then I lost all the gears when accelerating but it's like I have no driving shadow gear so wow yeah that's how the engine will do it but I don't drive to the rear wheels On Saturday, we have a doubleheader for you on fs1 Mike Trout as the Angels take on the Rangers at 4:00 ET, followed by Kris Bryant and the Cubs taking on the Brewers.

It's only on fs1 and Fox Sports app Brad Keselowski was sitting 50 to the right of the screen from him on pit road. As the field exits turn four looking for green here they come to the Geico restart zone, the cars in front that didn't pit Truex Kurt Busch Harvick Clint Boyer and Almirola and Mikey didn't look like the tires made much of a difference . I mean the lap times weren't like that, it didn't work, there's a big difference from a new used tire so the featured ones aren't a bad option. Yeah, in fact I think it's probably better for Darrell to have some heat and maybe a little air pressure built up in those tires. for these restarts I heard a lot of guys complaining now about the low air pressure in new tires, the cars really have some problems, well it's 18, oh my goodness, across the grass, three wide over his brother.

I didn't know, he made that work three wide? behind them while the one backing up has to get out of there chase Elliott and Joey Logano takes advantage look at the back of that 18 car bouncing through those bumps through three and four Kurt Busch can't be happy what just happened oh I'm telling you Mike, it was incredible that day that they made him see this eighteenth on the outside here he's going to dive to the inside episodic Kurt Busch his brother gets a little excited on the grass He moves he wobbles and you can see that Kurt Busch was trying to draft Kevin Harvick to try to get a position and when he did, they stalled and that 18 car took advantage of it.

Wow pass on the grass 2019 so that it wobbled. One almost has an accident through the grass whoa Kyle slides a little towards Harvick now his brother is going to return the favor Khan is going to check it out still the one who gave up was Kevin Harvick chose to be the wiser guy Hello, check and let Those guys make a great arc for Kyle Busch and he takes second place, well that was a great arc, the human shape there on the outside made his stick work, so to chase Elliott he came for third Eliott went up in the background this time trying to beat Kyle.

Busch and Does got a good run off the back of the track and their bumper-to-bumper chase, yes, Elliott looks a lot like Jimmie Johnson, until her, one got a good turn one and two holds steady on three and poor, so he might be able to get around Kyle Busch here if anyone can Kyle Busch is gunning for the lead now with his teammate Martin Truex coming down that bottom he will definitely get the position that's his pure desire I want to lead I'm going to do whatever whatever he has to do to get it, so he just took the lead from nineteen Finns, well, nineteen of Martin Truex Jr have already led more laps today than he did in all of last season, all this season he didn't leave just four laps before this. race, but they had been very satisfied with his car all year, but especially this weekend.

Colburn told me we just haven't had a position. Now they're fighting for it, so we'll see how those 19 do against Kyle Busch, yeah. very similar package to Atlanta, remember, I think Marc tricks had the better card in Atlanta, but he was a little more late than able to get there and compete with Keselowski, a little difference in the tires here, you know you had the 18 from Kyle Busch who has two tires on his car since lap 88 you have Mark Church jr. He took four green tires on 70 on lap 79 and then chased down Elliott at our final caution.

One of the first cars he used four on that last yellow flag. A group of cars behind him also took four. You know, we have a long way to go on this. race, we are not even worried, we are not close to half way, but I must say that this package is working better today. I've seen it work so badly, the air ducts, less power, bigger spoiler. I really don't think they achieved it. Something that happens here, I think has a lot to do with the surface of this race track is when the newer paved tracks, but also the temperature of the track and the tires that Goodyear has here, all of those things allow these cars to run. grip the track really well and be able to stay wide open now when we restart we mentioned Brad Keselowski who is still sitting on pit road, they're looking at the right rear of his car, but it doesn't look like there's much going on with last week's winner as the battle. it's second, yes, Keselowski, last week, perfection, this week, situation sixteen complete on stage two, Kyle Busch in front, Brad Keselowski, taking off his helmet, is in the garage battle for the lead in turn number four, here comes chasing Elliott with those four newer tires.

We'll see if Chase Elliott can complete this pass, but he used a lap car as a pick, he selected that lap car while Kyle Busch in that lap car got side by side and was able to get to Kyle Busch's inside rear panel . and complete the pass now on one and two, go chase Elliott had a really good car mirror at the beginning of the race, he was racing with Jimmie Johnson, they made a couple of adjustments on that car, it's got four tires, he just took the ahead of Kyle Busch. and I didn't think anyone was capable of doing that, I always think of a cell, I think of Bill Elliott back in the day and I think Jamie was talking about Kurt Busch said his car felt like a two-legged table. said the car feels like a three legged dog I said what are you talking about leave three and take one certainly the fan room many fans are happy to see the stands let's go to the garage and map well Mike both teams continue to work under the race cars on jack stands Brad and an indication of what might have happened to the rear of the race car no, it was going 45 miles OE and something just broke in the rear so there is still an axle transmission on it, so it has to be something in the area of ​​gears and axles, but it's kind of a strange coincidence, we'll see what it is when we get it.

Apartment, okay, the car boss, Jerry Kelly, took out the left side axle when they were paying. I put another one in and still something was definitely wrong with that rear end, well it takes me back to something they said when Brad Keselowski won his first race of the year and made his way into the playoffs, he said well now maybe we can try something Lightweight. bits and pieces experiments um, now that we're stuck in the playoffs, I wonder if this could have been the result of an experiment. Wow, yeah, you know, Mike. I know a lot of people say that, but you don't want to do something that's going to put you out of a race, so I would always question it, so Larry, I'd like to know if we've seen these pit stops cause any problems in the past for these. equipment and

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of race cars due to the pits. box itself, half of its concrete, half of its pavement, what do you think?

Well, there's no doubt about it, you can see it right here, you see, this is all concrete here and there's asphalt out here, so the grip level is definitely different and we've seen. Many times in the past you could break an axle, so we're going to show you the process that Paul Wolfe in the two cars is doing with our Ford high performance cutaway car because really, but now you can't repair this and get back out because this It's mechanical so they're going to have to take the axles out and these are the axles here, there's one on the left and one on the right and it's actually pretty easy to get those axles out because they just have a little cap here and then the axle comes out in both sides, but as far as changing the gear, yes, you have to take out the axles to change the gear, then you have to disconnect the driveshaft here and those boats over there, there's about 12 or 13 of them take out that differential, They put a new one on the hook, they put the driveshaft back in, they put the axles back in and hopefully that fixes the problem, that's all there is back there, mostly mechanical DW, yeah well, It wouldn't be so difficult when If it wasn't hot, but to fix that thing it's hot, I barely touch it, who has it?

You can work with gloves and substitutes we saw last week in Marksville how easily those shafts come out when the caps aren't there and you know. The other thing I want to say is that my experience has been that a wheel hop would break a gear faster than anything else and on pit road we saw the difference on the concrete asphalt, maybe it spun the spools and broke a gear or maybe something happened on the track. I don't know, but we will actually get a call many times in a situation like that. I want to quickly mention the last pit stop to Ricky Stenhouse, his team went over the wall too soon, but Stenhouse recovered and is still standing. lead lap here in Texas Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series racing on Fox is sponsored by Chevy Chevy has won JD Power Reliability Awards in Cars, Trucks and SUVs 36 total of 85 laps in Stage 2 Chevrolet out front with Chase Elliott for first time since Daytona last summer that three Hendrick Motorsports drivers have led a Cup race Jimmie Johnson in front for 59 laps chases Elliott by 13 4:14 Kyle Busch in the second half one second back Joey Logano one second behind the leader in third yeah, great job for Joey Logano because on that On the last restart, Joey Logano and Jimmie Johnson we were next to each other and that outside lane seemed to move and since then Joey Logano has been able to continue to progress, why, while Jimmie Johnson hasn't, now all three stopped on lap 88.

Here it is. Kurt Busch and fourth was in the pits on lap 73, which means he's going to have to get to the pits before the rest of these guys he's racing. Martin Truex on the fifth lap 79 was the stop for him. Kevin Harvick passes by Harvick stopped one lap early. Truex on lap 78 and then Clint Boyer on lap 82, those are the drivers who are a little bit out of sequence and who made late stops on stage one and not on the stage brake. Mike, the pass is ours or a timing score here is that car 22. Logano has actually taken the lead from car 18 which is second in the nine, not four, so the 22 iscoming back to life and I'm impressed with Clint Boyer right now, he's had a tough weekend, maybe a couple of tough weeks and he was actually running out of fuel right when he came to make his green flag pit stop, so he got a lucky break and he has a fast race car you know the guy over there we see Ryan Blaney that's another guy I think we need to keep an eye on Mike as the day goes on because he's gotten better every time more in the last few weeks in the top five and I think the last four or five weeks were really good in a 12 car, okay, chase Elliott Kyle Busch Joey Logano. start with the leader and listen to my traffic-friendly behavior, you know, I talked to Joey Logano about that exactly when I was in the pits before the race started and when the tires are new and the air pressure is not increased, you can get on that front splitter and he said he thought it was going to be a big problem and you heard him talk about it being something they're going to have to improve if it's going to run as fast as the cars capable of it, well it's got a bigger problem right now and that's Kyle Busch right next to it, yeah, there's an equal team here, right next to each other, they can't be separated from each other.

How about a quick word from Duracell? This is a trusted brand and thus, Logano gets the launch. at the end of turn 2, boy, if you can get that 1 and 2, you can just open up a gap behind you to a pretty even spot 2218, both equal and 3 and 4, but man 22 had a great run on 1 and 2 and could. to be ahead of 18th on that last lap going into that corner, 1st Kurt Busch was right with them, they're going to pass PJ McLeod with 44 of 85 laps completed in stage 2, they're going to chase Elliott out front for a second. cover you with the best, the best, everything good about this pig through three teams Austin Dillon I'm a tire carrier Paul Swan the big hit the cars are running the cars are running out of the jack man Darrell oh come on show it man Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series races at Fonz, his sponsor by Monster Energy, official sponsor of NASCAR 35 to start the second stage David Ragan just made a scheduled pit stop, he's a little out of sequence with everyone else chasing him Elliott leads to Joey Logano by 1.1 Kyle Busch makes three different marks in the first three places Kurt Busch Kevin Harvick the top five now Jimmie Johnson led 59 laps, but since the last round of stops he has been stuck outside the top ten Jamie assumed that when he arrived He had only led four laps all season into this race, so this weekend has been a dream for Jimmie in the 48 team just as he remembered it back in the day, but so far it's not so good now that he's stuck again.

In traffic, this car is so nervous for me and says that sometimes it is ugly and it is difficult to hold it by hand. So he's looking for some changes at the next stop. I agree that I have seen him from the side a couple of times next to Carver. He looks loose, well, he doesn't know what it's like to be in traffic. He's been in charge and everything. He's finished the whole weekend so far, very happy to adjust. Here's Kyle Larson in tenth position. He goes to the pits. Remember, he was last in the pits on lap 73, so we knew he would be the first of the leading group to make this stop.

Jamie. Kurt Busch has been so aggressive in this race, a very impressive race for him, he almost ran out of fuel, he had to flip that extra switch to get to pit road, a four tire stop here, he says it's too tight in traffic, but the car overall was really good from the start, it's a really good track record. He owes it to our 200+ mile per hour record holder. He has won here and it is heaven. He's had a good day so far. Unfortunately, they tried to add some duct tape to that front grill. They missed it, so let's go back to the front with his younger brother, Kyle Busch, who won the truck race and Xfinity this weekend.

He is third at 1.7 seconds. Wow, I mean it's a surprise because the way Kyle Busch and this team of 18 have run everything. All year long I think they have a lot of downforce, but maybe they came here this weekend trying to trim that car too much and right now it feels like the 9 car has a little more than he does this and they've had trouble getting that car. Kyle liked it all weekend and they thought they were actually further away when they unloaded than they were all weekend. Kyle said that he definitely can't stay on the gas like the nine do if he feels like he's abusing the right front, they just haven't found the sweet spot with this balance all weekend and are still looking for it. now.

Matt, have you seen Chase, Elliott opened that lead up now to a point four seconds when you had the 18th Busch on Logano's 22nd fighting side by side, he had really opened it up, but once Logano broke free at 18th, he really didn't. closed that gap, but Eddie Dahun chases the observers and kept him in the loop just in case. They move and can gain some speed with different lines and Jeff had a lot of experience with veteran pass rusher Eddie, one of the great spotters here in the sport, yes I certainly did, Matt, he was my spotter.

When I started my career driving that 24 car, the excellent spotter provides a lot of great information for the car on pit road. Kevin Harvick, among whom we expect, shortly, Boyer, Truex and Almirola, who is now on pit road, and Mike, the four cars, are going to work. Team, the car was fine at the end of the race, but it had a vibration for much of that race and Harvick said once the air pressure went up it seemed to spin, they wanted to change the air pressure split on The right front is just gasoline. and a chassis adjustment for aric amirola's chan returned to the previous adjustment mat, 9th in the chase is Elliott.

You can see the hose is pulled. Good job Eliot, you heard him talk before about career balance. The car and how it had changed over the course, headed to Clint Boyer coming down pit road for his scheduled stop. Jamie, the employer, said that he started out loose and started to get tight, but just before he goes down, Mike, a rabbit, is watching right now. told to switch from battery 1 to battery two could be a little problem brewing we'll keep you tuned Joey Logano and Martin Truex and more hits for pit road Matt Jamie and Joey Logano's 22 right on the divider is too strong, they'll let me get him on track for some of the only stops Chris Buescher is on and Daniel Henrik is the last driver out who was out of sequence pitting eight laps ahead of the rest of the leaders.

Hamrick currently at 11 and Mike no. I'm surprised we're not seeing a lot of tire changes because as we see these lap times, they continue to get faster and faster throughout the race. Remember, guys, that last pit sequence when Joey Logano beat Jimmie Johnson under the green flag stop. chases Elliott, he's not going to let that happen to him, he tries to get to the pits too fast he almost lost control of that car, he got it all done like they said he did because he pitted right at the end of pit lane, Brad Keselowski is back . from the garage area, the rear end issues will hopefully be rectified for him.

There are 23 laps left in stage 2. the wall and as the car came down pit road its hood turned into a burning Texas fire pit, well this is a little strange I mean just the car doesn't seem to turn, that's different than just having a rough condition and maybe it won't turn. I know maybe it was the Augusta win or something to sit that car down, but it almost seemed like the right front just wasn't under them or it was losing a little bit of air and went straight into the wall, so now, with this caution, Joey Logano gets a free pass, we expect that the 10 drivers who have not yet been on pit road this cycle, actually 11 drivers including Bowman and maybe 12 with Erik Jones, will probably come to pit road. pits and Larry would want the rest to catch that wave, yeah, because I know the end of the stage is 20 laps for now, Mike, so yeah, for everyone, that's one lap less and he absolutely made those green flag stops.

You stay out, catch the wave, get back on the lead lap, no one at the end of the stage is coming soon because the firefighters are on pit road tending to Kyle Larson's car. The pits will remain closed for one more lap. Matt and Mike before walking to the box spotlight to have it checked out. Kyle Larson told me The tire didn't explode, he said, but it sounded like it was starting to unwind or something, it was a very slow deflation of the right front, the teams are ready, they will have to wait at least one more lap, so Kyle Larson becomes the first car to exit this race now that Brad Keselowski returned tomorrow.

Australian bowling sensation Jason Belmonte looks to win his unprecedented third PBA major of the year at the 2019 USBC masters. Live coverage from Las Vegas begins tomorrow at 9:00 ET on FS 1 and on the app Fox Sports, ok Gordon, what's the high score? What is your highest score? I double it to 12 1 x 2 25 to 20 years of course you beat me and you probably did it like 15 times yeah it was amazing. Darrell, how many sports do you play to know how many times we'll do this the rest of this season? Cornhole school, let's keep it out of the gutter while we check in with the studio.

I don't know if Cornhole is officially a sport, but we certainly could do it if they want a third yellow flag for the day at Texas Motor Speedway and there really has been some good action on the track, but a lot of the action has taken place on the street of pits. Take a look, he began. Early on, Kyle Busch was looking for his third win this season and the sign just wasn't there, yeah, but it actually worked out for him because he sat out. The tires weren't as important today, so he was able to restart 11th even after getting lost.

You see his side right there, you can see the photos, all the guys on the green are waving their hands, oh, there's the sign, right here, the 11 to get into pit road quickly, of course, this was below of the green, well, you know, you see what he did. What he's trying to do is try to gain as much speed as he can and that's a tough spot to get into. You know, Danny definitely had speed there, the eight here sliding through his pit. You have to back that up because all four have to be. inside that stall and this obviously cost them a lot of time yeah and it was actually a little unfortunate they said until now they were able to get the car back and the guys hadn't started removing the tires because everyone knew that.

There was a problem there, okay? So what's going on here? Jamie, oh man, the air gun doesn't work and you see the guy, he doesn't have to run the background, he's saying I need a gun, but there's no one there to give it to him. he runs he's literally on the other side of the wall getting another gun this story in Byron felt like a 10 minute pit stop. I'm sure he was too to chat with the channels in that box and then of course we have the 88 a. violation of the commitment line, you see that he has to be a little bit below, that was not the place where he had to be and then this 47 trying to push him, which of the other guys tried to do it too but he didn't make it. ran out of gas, oh, okay, Brad Keselowski, you know, yeah, I think he broke down, you know, and we're talking about a Walt, you know, half the pit road is concrete and then it's asphalt, like this which I'm not sure if that led to that, but it broke.

Coming out of the pits, then you have to think that something probably happened when we came out of the pits because of the speed. Are we surprised that all these problems are happening a little? I mean, we talked about how close I am to cars. on the track and I feel like Racing has been really good, yes, but there has been a tremendous amount of action on pit road, we have seen a lot of mistakes all year, it seems to happen to a lot of people a lot of times. I think they clean this up after a while.

I would trust myself, but I know that it is difficult to do everything right and some things break, but accelerating on pit lane cannot be a solution, I cannot afford that. Yeah, Chase Elliott finished second last week and a lot of people said, "It's Martinsville, we have to give it one more week and he comes here and he's fast again today, yeah, and it's not just a chase. I mean, Jimmy led the first one." part of this race and came back. in traffic they will have to adjust that car. I'm looking to see if they can make the right adjustments, he said, their cars are nervous and in traffic, but they chase Elliott's teammates around a couple of pastures, Lee, that was really impressive, William, unless you know who. think about that pit road, but not about the infraction, but about what they have with the gun that was leading until then, so the 300 call three, the four Hendrick cars have performed very well all the timeday, we sat here yesterday when Kyle Busch certainly didn't.

The times have the fastest car in the race and of course he was there at the end. What do you hope to see from the 18s during the rest of this run? Well, I heard Jeff Gordon say that he got a little lucky the way the warnings fell. The fact that he missed his signers in the pits, but I mean he has a really fast car. I heard him say something about needing more downforce. He thought maybe other cars had more downforce. His car was maybe a little faster. The speed of a single car so, to be interesting, it's how that.

It turns out that you still complained, right, he is not fast enough, you are leading the race. I complain a little. All of these cars seem to move to me, so there seems to be some handling issues at all times, so at least we can drive it. It was a good race. I know Kyle Larson has just had his problems, but I think we have to attack Kurt Busch because every week he continues to show strength. Look, he was very fast. Matt McCall again made a very good strategy. there by stopping late in the first stage and then staying out with the brakes on the stage similar to what they did in Las Vegas.

I think they got caught a lap down right here, but that team has run really well and the team cheese made Matt really do something. good decisions, he did really well by not getting mad at Kyle when they walked across the grass, so I thought, oh this is going to be bad, this I'm not good for Thanksgiving dinner, but I did a great job, you stayed out of that problem and he will definitely recover. Back for a good race right now, we're here at the Race Hub studios, we'll give it back to our Texas Cornhole champions, we'll take them on now, we're still under caution and pit road isn't open yet, the reason is They had I had to apply a lot of quick drying when going down to Kyle Larson's pit.

His car is in the garage. The sweepers are still working on pit road, right in front of Matt DiBenedetto and across from pit 42, so an attacker for the sweep team. here then Mike does that puts them in any fuel window here they are worried about running out some under caution good question Tendou I'll need it they haven't been in the pits since lap 88 Larry yeah and again you're running slow on the bank yeah they're there, they need to get to the pit road, these ten who had not stopped since lap 88 Mike, okay, the pit road is open Kyle Busch will guide you down Vince well, so Kyle Busch has multiple problems with this car he They're going to try to tackle the pit crew chief, Adam Stevens, said we're going to have to split in half because we can't take care of both, but he definitely needs it to turn better coming out, so they're going to help the car, They're also going to help the driver with a cool drink and a new bag of ice, chassis adjustment, four tires, meanwhile, Denny Hamlin, a throttle and eleven, Jamie and Jimmie Johnson's 48, so nervous in traffic now that he lost the lead but once you say he pulls away from other cars it's not that bad, it fits nicely into a four tire stop for Jimmie Johnson who started the day on pole so the top 10 drivers even Ricky Stenhouse have now made those Pit Stops I take at 175 it's like a problem with the jack on the left side, that piece 48 is coming out of the pits. 15 to go in stage two were under caution for this Kyle Larson with a big hit coming out of turn two Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series racing on Fox is sponsored by Bush, the official beer of NASCAR.

There were 13 laps left in the second stage, before Jimmie Johnson and Joey Logano battled for the lead, both now running into trouble as the catman worked the right side at the pit stop. He tries to lift his jack to get around the handle, it comes loose and he pulls out, but look at the recovery he makes by carrying both pieces, placing them on the wall, reinserting the handle and finishing the stop. Joey Logano got the free pass and then had a runaway tire violation. in his stop, Denny Hamlin found his way back to the front, overcame an earlier penalty with a throttle and stopped here with 12 to go in the second stage, that team beats everyone I've seen, they can get in trouble in pit road, they get penalties, everything.

Somehow they find a way to get back into the race and here they are, but I always say well Darrell because we've talked about this a lot, imagine if they hadn't had the problems on pit road, they could have won. At this point in many races, Johnson is tenth fighting for the final point of the stage, while Joe Gibbs Toyota fights for the lead at the front. Well, I think I got it, it finally came up that I thought I was going to have a good day, it's that car 41, Daniel Suarez. The car was fast and Mike in qualifying was pretty good in practice and here he is he's close to the front now so keep an eye on Suarez Ryan Blaney and the 12 wasn't fast in qualifying but yesterday they found something in the practice.

He has a good 4. He also worked his way to the front, where did Ryan Newman come from? And he also cut that caution was kept out and was able to get here in the top five. You know, I wouldn't say Newman doesn't. He didn't always have the best car, but Newman is such a tenacious driver that he always seemed to find a way to get into the mix somehow, third place, Blaney on the inside of Suarez, yes, Blaney is inching his way up, he has a fast race car, let's hope he's a real factor in this race as this develops, but I'm really impressed without leader Denny Hamlin right now, without tires at that last stop, just accelerate and accelerate.

I think there's a slight advantage when those tires have some heat and the air pressure goes up for a few laps on these restarts versus those new tires, yeah, just over and over again, I just haven't seen, I haven't seen where the four tires , even two tires, have been an advantage. on used tires Suárez and Blaney fighting side by side look, they brought four more cars to this battle with them Paul Menard well, they were side by side we are going to go three open sponsored by John Deere Denny Hamlin with that gas only stop he is your leader, Jimmie Johnson, with the difficulty on pit road sitting in tenth and Joey Logano Larry with that runaway tire in 15th, yeah, I mean, Mike, this is going to be very, very on the limit, this was On that last trip to the pits, but it came down to trying to make an adjustment on the race car, you'll see how he takes the tire, he'll put the tire right there and you'll see he'll make the correct adjustment of that tire.

There it's more than an arm's length away at the boundary, but it was out of an arm's length, Larry ran towards me. This is when we see these penalties occur, is when someone goes to make an adjustment, whether they take out a spring rubber or they go to make a shim adjustment or a track bar adjustment and they just stopped a little bit on the adjustment before they could get back on that tire, everything has to be perfectly coordinated, very on the limit for me, Jamie, well the day was going very well for Joey. Logano until that stop, now things have gotten worse, he just radioed his team that it feels like the hood of his car is lifting and we're in that awkward look, looking at it closely, just do what you can.

I thought the same thing, Jamie. He was about to say something when we were on board, you could see the hood shaking and coming loose now. I don't know if some of the hood pins have been sheared off or if it's just the amount of turbulent air moving around that car. Right now I think it's the air I think it's turbulent air I don't know, I've never seen a hood moving like that before, well you know what it won't do for so long, the next thing you hear is I can't see. where I'm going, you can see it's sunken in the front, it's completely sunken in the front, how about the booster needles speed up?

You are absolutely right, the reinforcement underneath has come loose, how incredible! difficulty of the shot put, but it is not a violation, that is a good question. I mean, Larry might have more information on that, but you know it's not like the hoods are coming off, but maybe it's something that NASCAR looks at as this race ends, his teammate Ryan Blaney fights for second place. now with the Kyle Busch guy, great job by Ryan Blaney, right there you can see at the plate Ryan Blaney, great job picking Kyle Busch, but he recognized that a breakthrough was coming with a great run moved down to block him and complete that pass, the pits are closed two. to go to stage two, Vince, how about the 18th?

Yeah, one of the problems Kyle had before that stop earlier and he couldn't get it to spin right. That's what they boarded at pit stop B. He said he was alone on the divider. That's still the case and he said it's really causing him to be extremely tight, which is why he lost those last positions. There's a lot of work left to do on this 18th, well, they'll have a chance to fix it here in a couple of laps. very hard to fifth place and behind him, Ryan Newman had to start last due to failing inspection and Newman made it to sixth place.

Sometimes you just have to get a break and he certainly got that when they decided to sit out and catch that warning from Stenhouse. Good job with his teammate Ryan Newman there in the pits, same strategy in the pits, yes, he got a penalty earlier, Jeff, but he was back in the top ten, eighth. William Byron, our outside pole sitter, and it looks like a good race for Michael McDowell, sitting in ninth place. like you want to have a problem today on pit road if you want to be out front in this race right now. I don't know about 22, that's two for him because he has a tire and now he has a problem with the hood, so caution and the end-of-stage Flag for Denny Hamlin, who used a gas-only pit stop to lead in the restart and then gets his first stage win of the 2019 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series races on Fox is sponsored by Toyota, let's go places and buy Progressive Insurance accelerating the Savings on home and

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Second stage complete. Denny Hamlin takes them to pit road and not everyone comes. Vince, well, Hamlin is coming. Last time he took gas strictly for track position because when this number 11 car is in front, it's really sporty, but now. They're going to run four tires on Hamlin in hopes he maintains that track position until Kyle Busch's 18th, chassis tuning and gas only for Kyle Busch's 18th, you know guys, we see the split decision, they too They will be left out. some drivers notice, I think the bottom line is we've seen the tires do absolutely nothing, we just saw that with Denny Hamlin in 11, no matter if you stopped there or not, everyone has to make at least two more stops and we see everything .

Kind of trouble with Marc Trips Jr. on the nineteen they were actually working on that right side roof turn at the beginning of the race, we say we went down to the end, we say that to take it back and Darrell, how about Jeff and I We're a little busy here, yeah, yeah, so you guys go ahead and eat your ice? cream I have to talk to you, get yours later. Hello, Denny Hamlin from CW and Denny, I have good news. Hi, Denny Hamlin is TWA. Congratulations to the stage for winning there. Hello, I have good news for you, friend, I'm not going to ask you.

I'm not going to ask you about pit road, but the stage two winners have won the last four races this season and both races here last year, that must make you feel pretty good, I'm really not sure what that means. a lot. We see our wooden plane here and obviously. it was extremely good so I would go back there they look great from the front and keep it up mate and we'll be watching unfortunately we have some bad news yeah very bad news to go with the good news him and Kevin. Harvick both have a pit road violation uncontrolled tire how much closer the tire can hit you I'm with you I have to use I'll see they wanted an explanation they want an explanation they wanted okay, could you tell him that? two, the right front is out of control now let's go back to Denny Hamlin because what we showed him was not the violation that NASCAR called it, see the right front tire out there as the tire changer finishes, we're fine, but right now no one who can haul that tire is an arm's length away from it, yeah the Jackman doesn't really count so it's the tire changer or tire carrier that has to be within arm's reach, it's a matter of timing on this one moment waiting. for the tire changer to pass him, he hits the tire carrier and right there he is more than an arm's length away from that tire, so he counts as loss of control.

I think they're ready for the reboot. Ryan Blaney Daniel Suárez in the front row five Ford. In front, the Chevy Silverado truck that marks thepace of the field will make that sharp left turn and we get back to green with 20 cars on the lead lap and I'm with you. Darrell doesn't necessarily agree with the type of calls he's getting from NASCAR. involved with the tire violation, but they've been pretty adamant about calling it out recently, so find 3:40, one ever ran on top to really get it back up to good. We've been talking about Ryan Blaney, what can he do?

He's in front now. Let's find out that I think Blaney is really good. Also thanks because he's really good and it's fun to see that 21 car, Paul Menard, up there in the mix. That's right, it's a good car. Jamie Ryan Blaney, there were many. discussion about whether they would pit and they were planning on pitting to refuel just to be left with the competition that at the last minute Jeremy Bullen said let's stay out we can do this in two more stops Jimmie Johnson said it would slide a lot uphill. up three, maybe four positions, boy, yeah, he really went up the hill, Mike, I thought he was going to hit the wall, but he caught it, I just think Jimmie Johnson is clean, that car has enough air to keep him under them , but in this. very nervous dirty air cars in the back just took off side by side for third place Menard and William Byron, the outside pole winner, let's qualify him sponsored by three progressive guys, all down, yeah, 47 out there Piper clear clear clear clear the offensive 88 95 still there Bernie still there Bob it's clear clear clear back inside back inside I know about back right now any of you I'll help you here go inside your back nice with you here clear clear clear still - by what here fourth place Kyle Busch William Byron Harry Hawk told Cole drip we could have done this sooner but we're eating ice cream and it's good too you know one thing I've noticed Mike, a lot of guys are moving forward to follow this a little bit they're running a little bit more high and one and two not much, but three and four I think the traction compound is really working in the middle of three, it's important to see him run a lot higher over there and they were before when William Byron lost a lot of positions after Kyle Busch He was able to reach the inside of 24th, now he is going to lose three more positions.

Byron will settle into eighth place as Ryan Blaney has been out front for 15 laps here in Texas. We'll cover you with the best, the best, everything great about this pig food. Team 3 Austin Dillon at the tire hauler. Paul Swan. Changes to the front tires. The cars are racing. The cars are racing after Jack Man. Brother, come on, show it. in front of our professional cast of the coke racing family is Austin Dillon in fifth place behind Ryan Newman and Daniel Suarez ahead of Denny Hamlin and Joey Logano Bubba Wallace and Kyle Larson out of the race Paul Menard has a vibe, so He's pitting out of sequence on lap 194.

I'm just looking at our top ten by a gallon. Lanie's leader, where the second one is, Kyle Busch, is he's there every week, but then Newman, Dylan Boyer, biron, Almirola, Kurt Busch, Martin Trix, I mean, those guys, there's some names on there. Let's not talk about much and I think this tight package creates that, we have a tire that does not wear out, the speeds do not decrease, the cars seem to stay on top of each other in the track position, so important, so it seems to me that you can get out of sequence and turn it to your advantage.

I think there's a guy lurking here. I'm really sorry. I felt good about this 41 car mentioned above. That car broke the record here at 200 miles an hour at this location. I know it's been a while, but this car is really running well today and doing a great job in the final round. The qualifier Suarez was the only car that went out alone as planned and I did a good enough lap to start in fourth place and here's Vince running second. It's very special for him here too because even though he hasn't had good results here, he loves racing here in Texas because this is the only track. his family and friends can drive from Daniel's hometown in Mexico, so they went out, qualified well, in fact, they started fourth, their best starting position of the season and crew chief Billy Scott told me before the race They were very happy with what they had. to race and they liked the fact that they were starting at the front, they thought track position would be key, it seems like that has been the case and I heard Daniels say that he and Billy Scott are starting to communicate really well together and that It's something I believe. people don't realize Daniel Flores, he needs his team and his crew chief to believe in him to believe he can do the job and today he shows them hello, Newman is coming for fourth place, now Austin Dillon will have to stop before . the rest of these leaders about ten laps ahead depending on the cycle Clint Boyer is in, but Jamie, what about Newman today?

No joke, what a career for him. Remember he had that penalty before. He had to start at the back. package, but in practice they really felt like they could protect Scott Graves. A crew chief said that he could hide under other cars and draft, and he is good because he had to do a lot today and now he himself says that he is very happy with the balance they have. He pitted for the last time on lap 155 and Jamie this Texas 500 guy 334 this is kind of a Ryan Newman type race that you gotta get, you gotta man up and hold on to the hope that the steering bites that thing up the end and That's what Newton is good, William Byron, right behind Newman working on the inside, that's for sixth place behind them.

Almirola Kurt Busch Martin Truex chases Elliott and Mike. We've talked about this track. This is a difficult track to run in turns one and two. so challenging three and four you run completely open so you never rest you are always behind the wheel wow, what a move by Kurt Busch you saw the 10 of our Merola approach the rear bumper William buyer and went up the race track and opened the door for Kurt Busch. We've seen this all day when two cars are next to each other, all they're doing is attracting other cars towards them, that's what happened here, those air ducts are creating such a big wake. allows the cars behind you to get close to you, yeah you see where Aric Almirola just got really close and then this car started jumping on the track.

Kurt Busch saw that he never reviewed that, but this continues, yes, continue your report on Paul Menard. he had a loose right front tire so he did the same thing he's having a solid day behind Kurt Busch he's behind Elliott currently in 11th here's Larry Max with today he's driving trust Mike this is Chase Elliott's fourth season full-time in the Cup Series and Alan Gustafson has been his crew chief for as long as it took them 99 Cup races to find victory lane last year at Watkins Glen, they ended up winning three of the last 15 races of 2018, together they made the playoffs in their first three years and finished in the top 10 in points, you heard Matt Yocum talk about the spotter Eddie to hunt, he has been chasing the spot the whole time Eddie also saw four chases, dad Bill Elliott, I'd say Eddie to hunt, it's some Duracell driving just to chase.

Elliott thanks Larry, now Kurt Busch was pitting at 173, this is only 31 laps after that, so he writes this as an unscheduled stop. Jamie, yes, in fact, Mike Kurt radioed his team about five laps ago, he felt a vibration, so we heard that. now from a few different drivers said the cars were a little tight too, but they didn't want to risk it. They brought a man, it will be four tires. You saw the rates here, so it has a clear view and an air pressure adjustment too and Micah could be an I. I'm sure it's probably a loose wheel because drivers complain and when they come into the pits, but it could also be that the traction compound, as it wears off the track, will change and make your car feel a little different.

I'm not saying you're picking up a vibe, but you're going to change the way the car feels in second place and Kyle Busch was almost able to thread the needle between that trailing car and Daniel Suarez. We've been noticing that a lot of passes have been made today where you use that lap car as an option to stop the car in front and get some advantage in the draft. Let me tell you, you don't want to leave a crack in the door for that 18 car because he's going to fight his way through it Suarez holds second place one second behind race leader Ryan Blaney for the remaining one hundred and 27 laps in Texas on Fox , what kind of is it one turn less or one more?

I Have an Idea This Fall Fox Becomes the New Home of WWE's Smackdown Network Live, You Can Watch It All Every Friday Night Starting October 4th Only on Fox 121 Laps to Go Here in Texas Here's the Prog Recap of the race Ryan Blaney, the most recent of 10 leaders 13 lead changes 17 cars on the lead lap Four caution flags, so So far, two per cause and two per stage this season, Ryan Blaney leads more laps than anyone another driver who hasn't been in Victory Lane yet this year, so finally Austin Dillon steps in for Matt, the four-tire change he was doing well, that's right.

At the last stop they changed four tires because he had a significant vibration not only in the steering wheel but also in the seat. They looked at the wheels that came off and he didn't have a loose wheel but we have been hearing vibrations upstairs. and on pit road today it needed to be a little tight around that step Danny pulls up, who tightened it up nice and Kurt Busch had come in, this is the correct front they're mounted on now, but if we could turn it a little to show exactly what happened look the tire basically broke they thought maybe it was a loose wheel but that was the problem good time to have to go in and change it Wow nice capture by Kurt well let's remember Kyle Larson had a similar problem he wasn't Not sure what the problem was but it could have been something similar and those are Chip Ganassi Racing teammates so keep an eye on those right front tires.

You know, we've been talking about this all weekend even though the cars. they go slower on the straight through the middle of the curve they go 8 to 10 miles per hour faster it's going to be very difficult if the right front tires were talking too fast, let's talk real quick the fastest lap of this race just turned did you? Where's Bubba Wallace's name? Young Ryan Blaney and that will be enough. Yes, take it to the pits. You're running too fast first. Based on when Austin Dillon came in and the number of caution laps we've had since they were last in the pits, Jamie did a good track bar on air pressure alone, just saying the front turn is finally a little better for the 12. they were talking about two tires here, he'll fill it up with fuel, they have two tires on the wall, they'll go ahead and take four tires here too, so other drivers who stopped last stopped at 155 when Blaney included Suarez Byron Newman Stenhouse. and Bowman among the cars on the leading lap, so we look forward to seeing you shortly.

Denny Hamlin's up-and-down day saw him get a penalty for exiting pit road too fast at the first caution of the day on lap 15. He used a fuel-only stop to come back. to the front and then a tire violation put him back on a rollercoaster day if you want to graph Denny Hamlin's position lap by lap for the first 220 years. I didn't know that when he would talk to you he would come with good news. I forgot it. It could be bad news, friend, Daniel Suárez is in second place of the drivers who last stopped at 1:55.

Vince, what a great day it's been for Suarez - they've been fighting a tight race car, but that's really been the only one. problem and that hasn't been as significant as others have dealt with with this pit crew. It's a new collection of athletes, but they've been improving after some struggles early on, they've also been getting some extra reps in the Xfinity Series. They certainly need to have a good day today and continue to build that trust with this team 41 best Alex Bowman. Plus you'll get four tires and Sunoco race fuel leaving William Byron and Ryan Newman and Newman on pit road now among those of us waiting for this part of the pit stop cycle Jamie and Texas haven't been very kind to Ryan Newman , only a top ten in the last ten, but today what a change allowed him to reach the top ten.

I've got the key in the rear window, it'll be a track bar adjustment, fill it up with Sunoco fuel and it'll be a four tire stop for Newman's six and here's William Byron leaving Ricky Stenhouse alone and here comes Stenhouse this one will complete the pilots cycleThey were last on pit road at 155 as we crossed lap 223. Jamie and William Byron on the left on 24 before had that problem with the Johnny Roberts gun, the tire changer, the gun actually broke and fell apart. the handle came off. in his hand during the stop he got the backup gun, they have not had any problems since the car has been good and another good stop in 24 thanks Jamie one hundred and ten laps left in Texas Kyle Busch leading Clint Boyer and aric almirola Martin Truex and polesitter Jimmie Johnson, oh snap Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series competing on Fox sponsored by ring comm with ring you're always home for credit from a bank, the official NASCAR credit card perfect for racing fans and by Geico , official partner of NASCAR 104 laps a See Clint Bowyer on pit road, look at Ryan Blaney right here, a little cloud of smoke there, it's going to get bigger as he passes the start/finish line and just like that, the three Team Penske cars had problems today.

Jamie and he looked so good. Ryan Blaney came in and said my temperatures continue to run, while on the left side the employer had problems with him before he thought he had an alternator. She went back and forth from one battery to the next. He made the stop of it now. Boyer's stop will begin approx. ten lead lap drivers coming onto pit road as we go through green flag stops, all were last on pit road lap 170, lap three and four, it's an incredible amount of trouble for Clint Boyer this year , even if why you can't even understand it. pass qualifying with no problems so something really has to be happening but it's good for Tanger, they've had problems and they're pushing Ryan Blaney's car into the garage, yes you could see a team member gave the signal that I think we've done well, you just don't see a lot of old problems anymore, it's almost like these things go on forever, it's very unusual when you see something happen to one of the engines and that surprises me a little bit, Darrell, because you already know.

I was on pit road and we saw that they know the openings of these grills and how sealed they are, they make the water temperature very high these days to get the aerodynamics to work at the highest level that you would think. a major cost in power under the hood and I think here, Jeff, maybe that's because you're on the throttle so much. I know they just told us that my 550 horsepower is what qualifies for these engines, but you We're on the gas all the time, we're just constantly stepping on that engine, so maybe that has something to do with Kyle Busch who won the truck race, the Xfinity race and he's the leader, now he's led 38 laps so far and he's looking to go. to Victory Lane for the third time this weekend, three different vehicles, three different

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I saw him, hey, and yesterday I mean, I didn't think he was going to win that race yesterday, but all of a sudden, everything went right and he found himself in victory lane. Kyle Busch is our top performing Toyota leading the race with 99 laps to go. Denny Hamlin and fourth place Erik Jones moved up to fifth place and Martin Truex Jr with $17.99 bottles of beer on the wall best. Driving at Almirola earlier in the day we saw that Denny Hamlin had a problem getting to pit road. Let's see him trying to get to pit road. He had another problem.

The rear end this time went around and almost spun as he tried to slow Mike down. Chase's 9 said he was on the left side of the screen about 25 minutes ago. He said the car was fine, unchanged, but since then, Vance, the car has been on the tight side, whether in traffic or alone, on 11 Denny. Hamlin, you saw him hitting too. Denny just said that he needed to hold on more over the course of the race if he was going to be aggressive, especially in traffic, they continue to work on it. I just think it's the traction compound.

Mike. I think I've seen cars running higher and higher, all hugging the bottom now kind of moving towards the track. I think it's a traction compound, well the first five are on pit road and here's the leader Kyle Busch, Jimmie Johnson, so does Jones. Harvick and Henrik are getting close Adam Stevens, the crew chief told me that improving driving ability is key for this driver. Kyle Busch wants to have a clear understanding of where he is and have continued to improve driving ability on the 18th today. Chassis Matt Vince in all four of Kevin Harvick's cars has been in the splitter has been on the narrow side has been on the free side in traffic dirty air doesn't matter at one point he just said the car is bouncing all over the place, It's been just bad today, they've made a number of adjustments that haven't really helped with that car, the balance doesn't lead.

I'm surprised and they had a lot of wheel spin trying to get out of their box and had a tough start there Jamie before after starting from the pole but once we got back from the pit stop the handling just disappeared again Jimmie Johnson, another driver who had trouble, look at the jack, they all stayed together the last time the handle came off the jack. so there's definitely a fair amount of issues here with all the drivers right now Mike, it feels good, these are everyone except Matt Tifft, who was due during this part of the green flag stop cycle, made a stop.

Tift is in 18th place and Daniel. Suárez is the leader, remember that Daniel Suárez is one of the first to come to the pits under green, let's take a look at Kevin Harvick when he comes to the pits. I almost thought he knew where his pitbox was, he just relaxed. on pit road and he's in his box, I mean he wasn't in any hurry, it was strange to see him come in sideways and not really be on his mark, Jeff, I think when he comes out of the box he accelerates through the two first places. on the concrete so that he doesn't enter on the left side on the concrete on the right side on the asphalt when he spins his tires there may be a method for that very well, but there is something strange about the way he has been entering the pits now , has done a A couple of times I have noticed and come back to some of the problems they have with the suspension and rebound.

I remember these cars have a lot more drag and downforce and are pushed onto the track more than ever before. have and I think what these teams have to do to keep the cars from going too far, like using very stiff springs and shocks on these cars and completely eliminating the ride quality now that everyone, including Matt Tifft, has done their stop during that. part of the cycle we went back about ten laps when Kyle Busch had caught him there: Joey Logano in 22 on the low side and Kyle had to go back and here's the radio of him because they rate the too difficult, too good.

I mean, you know Joey was in a situation where he was on the ground and it seemed to me like he needed to slow down a little more, but Kyle is seeing something that maybe the rest of us can't. look when he's racing him well Joey had two cars out and where they were going we're not sure 90 laps to go Daniel Suarez Kyle Busch Clint Bowyer Kyle Busch took the lead after Daniel Suarez did. the outside using Reed Sorenson as a pick, now guys, this is not the credit, the one who is going to win, it is the credit, those who should watch Jeff, well, Mike, I know he just lost the lead, but Daniel Suárez It has impressed me all weekend.

Martinsville top 10 top 10 earlier in Atlanta I think today he and Billy Scott could make it to Victory Lane, well Jeff let me emphasize that pit road could be the difference that every driver has to make at least one more stop in the pits, Clint, boy, you're my man. The only thing that has won this year is Radio Sweetheart twice, well, run up. I think he may be primed to get victory lane. Let me see a Friday against one and I'm pretty sure I'm going to win today. I'm going to give. broom to Kyle Busch, you hold Austin Dillon and dad, stop and they continue to impress and execute just outside the top five, 10th last year, keep an eye on the three cars that are knocking on the door of that top five finish first, which So, hopefully, that propelled them to win, well, Darrell, I have the crying towels here in case you heat them up.

Thanks, I'll be keeping an eye on William Byron, he got his first top 10 here last year, he's never been in the top five in the Cup Series yet, but he's in fifth place, number 24, that's our credit, one of the banks to watch, we were all done for, wouldn't we, wouldn't we have tough Jimmy Johnson on the way back? the front hopes to fight Ryan Newman here for eight plates I just really like Johnson's when he had to leave he didn't want to give up he had some problems he had to fall back in the field now he is working to get back to the front Oh Daniel hits and the right rear tire falls .

The yellow flag goes out on lap 254, that's in pieces, Larry has this yellow flag, it's a big break for Kurt Busch because you just heard me say that everyone has to make a stop, since Kurt had that problem before. We would have had to make two green flag stops if we had stayed green until the end. 20 cars were on the leading lap at the time of the yellow flag. I think Chris Buescher, well no, we'll wait and check that this was scoring and there's the spin from the right rear, yeah, if I had to guess that thing probably fell apart on the frontstretch, that's what allowed him Daniel Hammer doing a pretty masterful job of keeping him off the wall and staying in this thing and no free pass, NASCAR says which would have meant Henrik would have been in that position at the time of the caution and of course he's ineligible as it caused the warning and a small amount of damage could be seen on the right side where it may have made contact with the wall.

It would be a surprise. if that fender was pushed in and cut that right rear tire you stopped in the pits just 17 laps ago beautiful day here in Texas our aerial coverage provided by Goodyear when your battles won your name could be your official NASCAR tire that view from the sky reminds me of a Special Guest the Speedway has here today, General Chuck Yeager, the man who broke the sound barrier by flying Mach 1 and the Bell x-1 rocket plane. 96 years old arrives at the track here today. Oh man, I'm a big kid Chuck if you've never read his book Mike, you've probably read it and I don't read a lot of books, but I have to tell you I have read it.

Yeah, well, if you like it, wait, next week NASCAR will storm Thunder Valley. Well, we're heading to Bristol. This half-mile track will fill drivers as they fight for banks. Which of these gladiators will capture the checkered flag at the last great Colosseum? Coverage begins at 12:30 ET with your top 16 cars on the track. leading lap at Texas with 78 to go what will they do what will Daniel Suarez do well Kyle Busch and Daniel Suarez to lead the pond to pit road Vince well it's interesting that Kyle Busch and Adam Stevens have a discussion about what they were going to do. with the car and sometimes the teams talk in code, they gave him the option of Batman or Grey's Anatomy, they decided on Grey's Anatomy, which will not have tires and a half turn on the left rear with a little tape on the front, what like the 41st of?

Daniel Suárez, they knew you heard it on the radio, they were going to have to come or they were going to put themselves in danger for the tires and gasoline for Daniel Hole. Boyer had a tough job getting out of the hole. Ryan Newman was almost in the hole. lane right in front of them, remember those two had a problem on Friday during qualifying, how did they end up in the pits? They won together that way and then Newman, of course, had to dodge Kurt Busch's trainer, Gibbs, staring at him. Here's a look. We shoot all over each other there, we're almost a violation for all six cars, he's right on the line with that right rear, seventy-seven laps to go, at Texas, green flag next time by Fox Sports .

We are proud to partner with Action for Healthy Kids. nonprofit organization working to improve the health and well-being of children in schools across the country get your local school involved in every Healthy Kids Week this April 22-26 by visiting the Action for Healthy Kids organization getting ready for this restart the only cars out of this race Kyle Larson Ryan Blaney and Timmy Hill, who yesterday had a race for the first time racing in the Xfinity race with his brother Tyler, looks like who will be the next Mike. I mean, everyone in this race has had some kind of problem and we see Erik Jones' 20. he had a spin at the beginning of this race and now he ison the front row, so the first three drivers, Almirola Jones and Chase Elliott, didn't stop, so they're out of sequence with the rest of the field as we head back to the 74th green to finish and Mike, it looks like if you go out on the front you are difficult to overtake.

I heard that because of my number we heard more all day get out front, maintain the lead, one team outside there was a nine year gap still there 18 It's still there who pushed his lane Hill outside Erik Jones, who caused the first yellow flag of the day with a harmless spin on lap 15, he's in front of his teammate in Joe Gibbs, Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin, if their cars get there and work together. two three right now isn't too bad Larry the three drivers that didn't take on Erik Jones, aric almirola and go after Elliott, what's the thinking there?

Well, they knew that even if they faced his microphone like everyone else, they were going to have to do it one more time, so it didn't really buy him much, but what he did buy by standing outside is what you're seeing right there, you're close to the front court. The biggest problem they'll have is that green and white zebra-like car. That would be Kyle Busch, who won the first two races of this three-race NASCAR weekend in Texas. Oh, looks like maybe a tire rubs Austin Dillon's 3 and a little smoke, maybe Jimmy Johnson trying to clear Clint Boyer, yeah, that left rear fog. no confusion for the lead, here comes Kyle, yeah, I mean, Erik Jones hasn't really been on the scene all day, they've been working on that car, he was very loose before, I don't think it's going to be any kind of threat.

Kyle Busch and maybe not even Denny Hamlin, but great job to him for recovering from that earlier spin. I think the two best cars at the moment with 18 and 11. Denny Hamlin has overcome not one but two penalties to find himself in third place. Sawtooth referee of his time, you can usually recover when you have that big spike at the beginning of the race, a spike-like platform that comes at the end of the race, it's almost impossible to recover and that fits well, one of the things that Denny told me about this morning. was that they needed to improve some of their execution by doing that, imagine what they could do if they really cleaned all that up, but they're working out pretty well, the coach has to be happy with the way things have gone.

It worked and you have to congratulate the new team manager Chris gay Bart, he has taken that position and is full of pressure, he has really helped this team in Guinea, there is a lot of confidence in him and that says a lot. about Chris's gay bar, which has Vince and that if they need to clean up if Danny doesn't win this race, maybe he can borrow that broom from Kyle Busch. Yes, he could lend it to her. It's nobody. They weigh five pounds. a whole closet full of trophies and brooms, you know, speaking of the Cowboys, a big week for him at Interstate Batteries, Norma Miller, they're running for that team again for an extended period of time.

Kyle Busch is on tour guys at some point you just rush and right now he's hit his stride so look at the top four and ignore Kyle Busch for the moment okay let's not look at his two wins in six starts , five in the top five, six in the top ten, the average finished better than third, it's a tremendous start to the season and now. looking at the drivers behind him Erik Jones drew the first warning Denny Hamlin to penalties aric Almirola has the flu he has something for Kyle Busch but no one has had anything for him here recently I would say no one who can see Hey guys, you see. that 2.67 average ended for Kyle Busch in the first six races, twice a driver had a better start in the first six races.

Gil Yarborough in 1974 and 1977, you have to go back to that point for a driver to have had a better average of results in the first six. races that are very deep, Larry, well done, yes, but this just shows how difficult it is to do what he is doing now. It's amazing this race he's in and you know what his brother made clear last week that he really hadn't thought much about the wear and tear on Kyle Busch, his body, you think he ran the truck race on Friday night, he came out of that thing, he ran the Xfinity race yesterday and here he is late in the 500 mile race today, that's just that.

Physically it's almost impossible and mentally it's exhausting and you know, you know, where he really caught my attention was at Bristol when he won all three races at Bristol in one weekend and I didn't think anyone could do that, yeah, I'm telling you, Darrell, we. I'm going to Bristol next week and I'm really looking forward to seeing it because this setup of these cars will make them extremely fast. I think physically it will be the most demanding race we will see all year. I agree with you Jeff Coast, we don't get much warning, you don't have much time to catch your breath, rest and regroup, you're at it all the time and by the way, who won?

The championship those two years Cale did was Cale Yarborough well, what Kale and his team didn't have is a pit box like this and I'm not talking about the soft cushions and reclining backrests, but these are some of the things they have available. they have the television screen with the NASCAR score, they have the team data screen, they have a simulation running, they have the onboard footage, and back in the race shop or maybe even the manufacturer's headquarters, they have the bunker shown by Larry Mack and Steve Shaw, where they have all kinds of those and other entries so they know you heard someone today say Joey Logano checked our brakes, we saw the data, yeah, and that's all in real time, yeah , and we saw it at Auto Club a few weeks ago, where can we be heard on the radio? where the crew chief mentioned his driver Ricky Stenhouse jr.

Hey, you know, we see that you're using a little more brake here than others, so they're breaking down the details of what the drivers are doing with the pit crew and what the engine is doing, all aspects of braking. everything in detail about the series, you know, guys, my first year as a crew chief for a Cup team full time was 1986. I had a stopwatch, I had driver commentary, we didn't even have electronic scoring and if we weren't racing well enough to be on the scoreboard Darrell, you know this, the only way we knew they came at 25%, 50% and 75% of the race and told you that the running order, turn to Kyle Busch, in the hill, he will lose not only the lead but probably the next three points give you power over something: he could have a tire problem because that car just took off.

I don't know guys, I'd be worried if I were him because that thing just took off up the hill like something happened to it. "Hmm, well, if your heart is racing now, let's look at this again, no, kid, not me, I thought so, I thought he, I thought it was okay, he amicably fell because the car can really be seen there, he just took off, yes, yes, I can." I can't tell if he twisted the back end, came out and then caught it and went up the racetrack, did a big arc on the turn. I don't know if it's a problem with the tires because he's back now himself. speed regardless of what happened Kyle Busch was the leader now he's eight tenths back in fourth place and he didn't comment on the radio after that happened no Andy heard the spotter say okay, calm down, you know, get it, get it, get it together , come back, come back later He did it and it seems to be okay, yes, but we have seen that track position is very important and in this race today, especially when you are the leader, it is very difficult to overtake that leader, but one time you get behind, it's hard to make up those positions and you might not want to tell your team what happened because if you turn on that radio then everyone will know we're going to take you side by side, right side tires, guys, get it out .

Right side tire, we have to make a stop anyway, this could be fine, no mistake, we are back with 51 laps left in a great battle for second place. Denny Hamlin and Aric Almirola, about a half-second behind leader Erik Jones, saw Kyle Busch hit the wall and come in from the right. -side tires and there is Kyle Busch, he had been moving up the track to race Aric Almirola. I think he just tried to stay on the gas too much and he lost his nose and Mike would never accuse Kyle. Busch to get tired or anything else, but here in 147 laps on Friday, 200 laps yesterday and today he will run 334 laps, that's 681 laps, that's not counting any practice, that's a lot of miles to run on a track, they told him in the car. radio we have to make one more stop anyway this could work in our favor we'll see, yes.

I wonder if you know that the damage on the right side of these cars is so sensitive when it comes to aerodynamics, I was complaining before that you didn't do it. I don't think it had enough downforce on the car if you know they took the fender out, but did they take it out enough to offset the damage that a little bit of lateral force or downforce could take away on that 18 car that we have 15? cars on the lead lap with 48 to go and how many of those 15 drivers have been in Victory Lane this year Denny Hamlin Wow, amazing, there was a lot of attrition today, here's Matt on the lead, great recovery from Erik Jones on team 20.

The biggest thing I tried to work on this year is just the execution in putting together the first three races they had, they were average, the Senate, please finish, fell off a little bit from the last three, but today he is having solid laps, his spotter and the High Plains Drifter. It's really helped him win his mine, in fact, he's been telling him to open a tree a little more here and it's certainly helped him get through the middle and especially on the exit going down the backstretch on lap 15. The First caution of the day was a harmless spin by number 20, Erik Jones, he sees that he's gotten away from him, he just lets go, comes at him right here and it's amazing he was able to keep him off the wall.

He's been here at the speeds that are going around the corner. Good job and they didn't. getting picked up by other passing cars and while we were on the break Kyle Busch hit the radio and said he just ran away from me yeah when he had that bubble hit now you know listen to that and think about the video we saw. It's just when he arced into the corner and tried to accelerate again, the rear got ahead of him and he didn't do an amazing job. He shows how quick his reflexes are to really climb the race.

I can only lose. a couple of positions, well there's a little bit of diversity in the top five, as seen on the bottom right, as for the last time they were on pit road, Larry, yeah, what you'll see is with Erik Jones, Aric Almirola's twin mother, are We'll have to stop somewhere when we see 30 to 30 35 to 40 to go now everyone else, including Denny Hamlin William Byron, will have to stop when we're around 20 to 25 to go like this like a 15 to 20 lap spread and when they will have to take a green flag, they will stop only five caution flags on the day including two stage brakes, fifteen cars on the lead lap with 43 to go, here's a short word from Duracell: this is a reliable brand so Kyle Busch is one lap down and worse yet, he's the seventh car one lap down as we watch the battle for 10th Suarez Austin Dillon Harvick and Truex all fighting for 10th place and by sixth Clint Boyer outside of Jimmie Johnson still a Great day for Jimmie Johnson.

A great weekend for the home team. He started from the pole. It was very competitive today. He led a few laps. It's a good change for that team. He had life difficulties last week in March. Yes, that's for sure. You know, I don't care how. Well, how many races have you won or championships? Your confidence may decrease and there is no doubt that this confidence has been affected, but I think this weekend will help rebuild it. Clint Boyer found himself surrounded by chasing Elliott's head. top five, I think Chase Elliott is getting clearance to pit here now I mentioned Kyle Busch was the seventh car a lap back, the rest is the only car that can make it with fuel right now, back on the mic, You can see the wrench in the rear window, another chassis adjustment to chase Elliott's Camaro.

They're going to put four tires in here and pack up all the fuel. They can see the cat man guiding him back to his pit stop. Alright, good job guys, that team. He's been very solid on pit road this year, that's just Alan Gusset, not me, he sets all his eyes on crosses; He is a very thorough team leader. I like the way he operates, so to finish the story on Kyle Busch if this race stays green until the end. In the next round of green flag stops, I might have a chance if we get a caution flag, not so much.

I'm not going to rule it out. Mike, eighth place, Suárez and Newman. I put my broom back in the closet, but I could take it out anywhere. Right now I want you to have to travel at home. NoI want you to take those people that cry with you. Fair enough, here are some other guys talking about some confidence boosters. Ryan Newman Daniel Suarez and Newman's 41 and six, you know. I've also needed a day like this look at this battle this is just amazing Ryan Newman fighting for everything he can hold on to Daniel Suarez trying to move up and look what this brings to Austin Dillon and the arrival of Kevin Harvick and Martin Truex comes to your left second place Denny Hamlin aric almirola Toyota vs.

Ford Almirola had a tough night last night with the flu virus that's been going around, that's a winning formula, yeah, you just get sick, you win the race, ask, ask dr. Brad, I think he made the most pit stop. It's been a fun race for Mike because we've had so many variations, so many people leading the race and problems in the pits and problems on the track and clothing, and that and then. I think it was a fun race to cover now the two leaders, Erik Jones and Aric Almirola, two of the three leaders, it's been a while since they've seen pit road and they will next.

I don't think this is the end. long race, you know, you think about how long 334 is, this is a 500 mile race, man, it's exhausting, but what a great day for Erik Bell. I mean, here it is if L Joe Gibbs has four very, very talented drivers and a fifth Christopher Bell. Christopher Bell is looking to move up, so Erik Jones, you know Erik Jones, Denny Hamlin, you have Martin Truex, Kyle Busch and you have to wonder where they are going to put Christopher Bell and who would move if they did. I think he increases Erik Jones quite a bit today.

I think you know there's a little bit of that certainly going on with Mike and I would just say that in general when your teammates win races, especially what Kyle Busch has been doing, it just puts more pressure on you. Aric Almirola on pit road, Vinson and this. The pit crew had a couple of bad stops last week. They need to have one that's perfect here. Erik says the car is a little too tight. The right side tires for Aric Amirola's tan and they put gas at the end. Mike, fastest cars I've ever driven, we're a little tight, a little comfortable, let us know we expect Erik Jones in the next lap or two to go off the right front, okay, more pressure here for Jones, get to the pits aggressively but don't get in trouble good job very cautious clean up that tree Matt and Mike have lost money in turns one and two that's where his team feels they've been making up most of the time this pit crew has been restructured in the offseason dusted off in the case of Michael Hicks, they used to be in Denny Hamlin's Toyota Bernie, here's the jet man just to the right, from the big Stewart-Haas stop, speed on pit road, very down to turn one where you can accelerate, see where Joey fits into the order.

Denny Hamlin has taken the lead from William Byron and Clint Boyer, then Jimmy Johnson and Kurt Busch and is in second place, Boyer, look at him, Boyer needs something good to happen to him today, if possible, he's had some really bad weekends, certainly. the best position he's been in at the end of the race that we've seen this year, so it's already a big gain over what we've seen from Clint Boyer: you're 14, 24, 48 and the one that's good, They are together fighting for position. things get more difficult with 29 laps to go and Erik Jones accelerates again 13th place one lap behind Denny Hamlin his leader eleven drivers at the front of the field all up to Michael McDowell must make one more pit stop I guess the question Larry already that they all stopped on lap 257 would be when yeah, I'm going to say 15 to 20 laps to go, Mike, that's not that far, somewhere around lap 320 in that neighborhood, yeah, now They also have Erik Jones, who was our leader. lap down as they race now until the pit sequence begins for some of those cars Clint Boyer has been the only driver who has been making steady progress, he is now within a second of Denny Hamlin as we watch the race for sixth place Newman and Harvick, Yeah.

Just another tough battle here between the six, the four, the three and the 10, I mean they are all on top of each other, there are a lot of cars that are competing for position, I mean they are racing hard right now. We'll get to the end of this race Jamie, this is the happiest I've ever heard Clint Bowyer on the radio about a race car and I talked to him this morning about what they did, they took a little bit of a different approach to this race actually. it took away some downforce because Clint said they tried it both ways and the drivability was the same so I said "let's cut it back, let's find that speed" and I actually heard him say today on the radio that he only has speed and which you can now draw here. he's started in the middle of the pack and he's second now he's catching up to Denny Hamlin at a pretty good pace here the last three cars that Boyer caught he was able to pass quickly and not spend much time behind them in dirty air, yeah, I mean.

He has been consistently faster by three tents on the final lap. Hell, he was the one before this, he was three to four tenths faster. Well, we listened to Clint Boyer and company. Martin Truex on pit road. Mike. I heard a lot of debate all weekend about downforce not so much downforce cut them down with grip this track has a pull compound a complete combination I think you can get away with driving your car up here and getting some pretty good speed, let's stop because Truex leaves 10 cars out there the top 10 that will need a stop, Erik Jones pitted from the lead on lap 303 and also remember the last time Denny Hamlin was in the pits on lap 257 with gas, only not He used no tires on car 14, he did take two, as we expected.

Boyer next time for Larry to beat Erik Jones, can you afford to take the time to take the tires off? No, I think this late in the game you have to do what we saw, Truex, what we saw, Kurt Busch, make his fuel, that's just the only hope you have. I mean the tires just don't seem to make much of a difference, so here's Boyer for what should be the last stop of the day for him. Newman is also coming and Denny Hamlin on the next lap, Jamie and they are telling Clint Boyer not to speed up. he doesn't slide the tires, he gets Newman's head into a fuel can over the wall in and out and Denny lost some time getting to pit row.

We've seen him have trouble getting to pit road. He was very preserved at that time. Vince well, they had a speeding penalty, they also had another penalty in the pits, they were going to make a chassis adjustment and accelerate for Denny, he is too free entering the corner, that's what he needs to finish Kevin Harvick finishes his stop here is Jimmy, he is out William Byron is the leader who will come to the pits Daniel Suárez would have taken the lead but Suárez is with Byron Austin Dillon will be the new leader Matt DiBenedetto his stop Ricky Stenhouse is in butcher and McDowell stopped at home in the 24 want him ago and he was a little hesitant, that leaves Austin Dillon is the only driver in the sequence, sorry guys, car number 20.

Barrett Jones and Jimmie Johnson, the frontstretch made contact. I thought Jimmie Johnson was hanging around. It's been 64 laps since Dylan last visited pit lane. Bowman is there. with Tift Sorensen and the clicker Minh, I think Mike the only way for the 11 not to win this race is the 3-2 pitch. Look, Ricky Stenhouse went out too fast and Bevins got a comfortable lead over the 14th car and they're waiting. about the three that will hit pit road, this is what Jeff was talking about, he just caught it out of the corner of his eye, but the 20 varicose veins on the car.

Jimmie Johnson is accelerating and makes a little contact on the right rear bumper and let's turn it to the side. Here comes crazy Logano on pit road with him, although the laps go down, splash and go through Austin Dillon Manor comes driving Denny Hamlin, he was very conservative coming to pit road, but whatever they did on the pit road in the job he did, he did it coming off pit road. built a good gap back at 14, you know, Denny Hamlin had to come to the pits very conservatively, he didn't need another penalty, so with 11 laps left, everyone has the fuel and tires they need to go the distance that remains to go.

You heard it, let's use our Fox ghost car again. We'll start in turn three, where the cars slowed to get to pit road and watch Hamlin and Boyer, who are currently one two. Denny Hamlin had a better tackle from the same spot. Boyer did it, yeah, and maybe he just did it really nice and smooth and it wasn't all out of control like we'd seen before, so he actually carried a little more speed to pit road than Clint Boyer. . There's the difference and it certainly had eight tenths of a second less time in the box, I guess it would really depend on how much fuel they thought they had to get into the car, so that could have been a factor as well.

He had Johnson and Byron start in the front row. Now he's fighting for fifth place and you know this is a similar situation where I think Willie Byard came in a little bit later, who is accelerating. Jeff, maybe they will get enough fuel in car number 11, but never now, as we talked about earlier in this cycle. in favor of Kyle Busch, he is no longer down a lap, he was the first of those leaders to return to the pits on lap 281, but he is in 10th place 11 seconds behind the leader, yes, again Mike, just wondering if that damage just didn't seem to do it. "I got the speed after he made that contact with the wall.

No, they took out the fender. It just seems to me that it's gone a little bit, but Jeff, so I think something had to happen. I don't know why, but I guess We'll never know, but when he lost the car and went up the hill and almost hit the wall the next lap or two, then scrapes the wall and goes into the pits, something in that sequence happened at this moment, his lap times are more or less less the same as those on The Leader, his teammate, Denny Hamlin, is our turn to the camera and offers these views from Ty Dillon's car.

I would ask Larry if there have been any trends for a costume in the last year, laughs, but Larry said he stopped keeping up with trends with those, everything is different this Sixth year to go, I bet he has a nugget for us, Larry, well I have them and we are way above average from the last yellow flag , the average of the last yellow flag, our last ten races here, 55 to go and we have had an overtime back in 2014 and here this fell here that is the tree that was not the wrap around a discharge bar was not the seventh eighth ninth Almirola Kurt Busch Kevin Harvick five to go music - the leaders here Isle of Man there's nothing better than four to go and you're pulling away, it's a great sound.

Denny Hamlin is the only driver in the top nine-of-one this year and there he is in the lead after two penalties, not one-well, let's see if they turned out that way. It was a big win, yeah, the Daytona 500 and now he wins the 500 here so you know he could be our 500 king, but I'm saying the eight drivers behind him are still hungry for 2019, they're going to be hungry. next week will be hungrier next week three two and it looks like a good day for Joe Gibbs Racing currently first and fourth the other team that has dominated this season Team Penske has not had as many problems in its three cars today Stewart Haas running second third, seventh and eighth, but what a difference here, I mean we were looking right at our screen at Kevin Harvick's number, we're so used to him being the dominant force at Stewart-Haas right now, he's actually running fourth of his four stable cars, the word camera on board Harvick, but all four of those cars are in the top ten, so it's very consistent and Hendrick Motorsports started in the top two in the top six, one turn away from being a white flag sponsor with credit to a bank, you said it.

Darrell has a way of coming back, I don't know how he does it, but they do it every so often. A double penalty day and a checkered flag for Denny Hamlin. Joe Gibbs Racing in Toyota wins third in the O'Reilly Auto Parts 530. Race win for him and second of the season. I think a lot of that mic is gay Chris, amazing crew chief, great leader, unlike what he's done with this racing team, two wins after failing to make it to Victory Lane, all the big wins of 2018 and his third victory. here in Texas, the sixth track he's won at least three times, the stage two winner has now won the last five Cup races this year and three in a row here in Texas, I said you gave him two good news, good news , buddy, it's okay, I'll put away the broom and the crying towel.

I think I was waiting for you.If you told him the bad thing, let's call him right now, remind him that today's win was powered by Sunoco Sunoco is powering wins all season long, so you know what they do now. they got a Kozlowski 1 up so there's no telling how much time has passed since the last moment and that was a one note symphony for brass that the slide worked out pretty well for Joe Gibbs Racing's 161st Cup Series victory handed out between nine drivers his fourth win of the season and the eighth year and fourth win of the year for the Texans for Toyota, he couldn't burn it, but he sure turned it on, turn it off, brother.

I can't remember a day where a driver was penalized twice for pitting, once by the driver once by the team and he came back to win the fast car determined driver, well Jamie, small on the track, it's been almost nine years since Denny Hamlin went to Victory Lane here at Texas Motor Speedway, Chris Game Park just came on the radio and said we still have I didn't run a clean race, yeah, but we have two wins, how did you overcome two penalties? today to obtain victory? That means a lot, so it was definitely a different kind of ratio trying to select and everything trying to get out of everyone's way, but I'm proud of this whole FedEx Office team here, Toyota Coca-Cola, the Jordan brand, a big little burger, everyone who helps put this race on. car on the track Joe Gibbs JD Gibbs still thinks about him and his legacy, so guys, how come Jordan has kids at home and hopefully we can have some fun tonight?

There is a flag and I see some Hamlin fans waiting for them. Congratulations. Denny Hamlin wins in Texas. Vince no boxscore isn't going to tell the story regarding Kyle Busch, he finishes 10th but led the most laps today, you're in the lead with 57 to go and suddenly it seems like the car just went out from under you, What happened? Yeah, it just came loose. I feel like it gets a little freer as we went there and you're still trying to push as hard as you can and get as much out of the corners as you can to maintain your lap time. he just got loose on me and I had to catch him and make sure we didn't crash so first and foremost we did that and then I got back in line and rolled and started gaining on the guys in front of us and it was the slack.

It was still there and then I had to chase it when I came out, one time behind the 10 and just knock down the fence, so I hate my guys, you know, we made an adjustment there to tighten it before that race and we got loose, so there's something that learn from there, but I'm done thanks to Interstate Batteries M&Ms and I'll go pick it up next week. A great effort by Kyle Busch. He led the most laps today, but finishes 10. Matt Vince, a solid run from Clint Bowyer in car 14. How would you sum up this day at the end in p2?

But it was a long road to get there. Well, we had to get unstuck once we made it. We were very good, you know, our Mustangs. We are quick all weekend to go out for ourselves. Mustang to improve, this hustling Chuck focuses, you know, the Cummins car was a little off, to be honest with you, all weekend. He was pretty nervous coming into the race and you know we did a lot. Mike and everyone made some good adjustments and you. I know you lean on your teammates when you only have an hour to practice, it takes you away from something that maybe you were trying or know something outside of your wheelhouse and it just brings us all back together with the four cars at Stewart.

Haas and you know, in general, hey, I wanted to catch him, I really wanted to catch him, he just came out of the pits way ahead of me and how much could I do about it, but you know everyone involved, the IT experts were here. like I said, Rusty and all the rest of the Truck Center guys, this is a home track for them, a concern for everyone involved, I appreciate everyone's support, thanks for the big push for Clint Boyer, second top five 20 19 2, 7 seconds, the margin of victory Denny Hamlin over clip Boyer aerial coverage provided by Goodyear those who live up to their names make one for themselves Official Goodyear Tire of NASCAR I was reminded of Brad Keselowski at Talladega in the fall of 2014, overcoming two penalties and made it to Victory Lane, so this is unprecedented, but it sure is a great performance and here's Denny and Victory Lane.

Hey, Denny, it's a fact, man. I told you I had good news. The winner of the second stage won the race. I almost don't know three or four times how you did that. How did you achieve that in Gate Park? You must have gotten yourself a great car. Yes, our car was very, very fast. Obviously we saw that once we got out front, we were able to pull away from the pack a little bit, so we got a little bit loose there when we were racing our teammates with the 18 and 20, so we were able to be as aggressive as it was at the early in the race, but we had a super fast car and that's why we won.

I missed entering the pits on green. that costs us three or four seconds too, so I don't know, we just tried every possible way to give it away and we found a way to do it with this FedEx Camry, well, congratulations on the big win, let's join Vince. the third place finisher Congratulations, thanks for a great day because Daniel Suárez finished third ran in the top group all day. How good did it feel to get home? Yes, a strong career and I know many family and friends here in Texas today. Well, yeah, it sure was a solid day overall.

I just want to say that my friend probably competes for performance and everyone who makes this possible because they have been working very hard to try to improve the race cars and definitely us. We're heading in the right direction in the second week in a row that Stewart has cars starting in the top ten, so that's a very, very good thing and overall most likely forty-one group because we've been working hard to slowly improve. . and you know we're proving that this car was fast all weekend and you're very proud of that so hopefully we can keep moving in that direction and end up on winning path one day here so the job Hard work pays off, great work.

Daniel Suárez, third place. Well, Jimmy comes to Texas, you sat on the pole, you led 60 laps that day and you got your first top five of the year. I know you had some problems with your car, but he reflects on what it was like to be back. up but there at the front of the pack fighting with those guys yeah it's great to be back in the mix that's where this team deserves to be and our sponsors with ally and Chevy all on board especially I think it adds to that just to hurt me all. that work that goes into getting these cars to the track and the changes that we continue to make, so I hope everyone at Hendrick Motorsports is smiling right now, we still have more work to do, but to get all four cars at that pace, I think two or three of us had great results, it's just a big step in the right direction for us on Erik Jones' early penalty, great recovery, but what do you and fourth place have here?

Yeah, I think it's three in a row for us, so I'd like to see us go to the limit. Take it away and win one of them here on the road, but you know we're definitely the car to do it and I think our craftsman Camry at the end of the race was pretty close to being the best in the field, but I put its fine in early. You know we passed an out on round 15, it's not really the way to start the day and you know we really had to dig a hole from there, so you can't complain too much when it's your time.

It's guilt, but you know it's still a good day. We've had a tough few weeks and it's good to get back on track when you are. This is a good place for us and I would have been disappointed if we hadn't run well. here so there's a good push from Bristol, one of my favorite places next week, so hopefully I can pick up a few more places and get that win. We talked about getting back on track. The first three races, the average result for the year was seven. The last three were tough but now back on track with a fourth place finish, another great day in the top five for Joe Gibbs.

Racing the wind in the top five and four cars in the top twelve today.