NASCAR Classic Race Replay: 2011 Aaron's 499 | Talladega Superspeedway

Jeff and I will hand it off upstairs to the guys who do the racing, whatever NASCAR is on Fox Mike Darrell Larry, you guys are ready to go Chris, this is the most unpredictable place in all of stock car racing and it has been since Lo opened in 1969, ten drivers achieved their first Sprint Cup victory here, seven of the last 11

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s were decided by a last-lap pass and Darrell, in yesterday's two

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s, the driver who led Turn three wasn't at the front of the field when I came back here to the start/finish line on the last lap, well, Mike, what I like most is that he said, "We don't make this stuff up, guys, this really just happens." Unpredictable, yeah, could you predict the guy who was a lap down at some point in the race?” he could come back and win, it already happened do you think a guy with a totaled car would have a chance to win here at Talladega?

It's already happened, we have no idea what's going to happen today, that's why we say it's unpredictable and we promise it will be exciting, so Larry, what makes a winner here in Dagan, well, it's about speed, but it's about Mainly on trust, faith and the other drivers, and it may not be one driver than his teammate, these drivers are going to push each other at almost 200 miles per hour. and here's the key when you're the driver pushing the other car you have a lot of faith and trust that he's going to take you where you need to go because you can't see so you talk about a lot of trust and faith that requires a There's a lot there and like I said, 200 miles per hour, folks, it's like you're driving in a blinding snowstorm and all you can see are the taillights of the car in front of you.

Oh, and yes, they are going over 180 miles per hour, now we have this. new type of race where they come two by two and we talk to the drivers about what they learned about this type of racing at the Fed, we're at Daytona, look, Spacek is going to Daytona, none of us knew how to race 2x2 like that, you know , we had never done it before. I almost lost a lap because I lost my writing partner, so man, it's all about staying committed to the guy here. If we see a 2-car team style draft again, I think everything we learn transfers to Daytona.

Here I learned an important role at Daytona and that is not to change lanes before the start/finish line, so you can count on me not to make that mistake. They left pit road and are ready to race and what has happened historically. has been the fastest track in the world, let's take a look at the starting lineup for today's race Jeff Gordon now third on NASCAR's all-time pole list next to the wall of 2006 winners for Hendrick's cars up front of the field Mark Martin 23 top 10 here, that's the record and junior, a five-time winner is Paul Menard, second here in the fall of 2008, with Landon Cassill Dragan trying to be the 11th first-time winner here with purple, which finished second three times Brian Vickers, whose first win came here, is one of those ten. it was fall 2006 Walter all these winds and covered in trash Paolo Montoya David Reutimann with AJ Allmendinger to the top 20 Greg Biffle Regan Smith Points leader starting 20 will be Carl Edwards Darryl, let's see if we can get to the Daytona 500 champion in the one on the line here Trevor Bayne is d-double you have a copy there buddy Trevor, you shocked the racing world with that win at Daytona back in February.

Can you do it again today? We are going to be left behind because of the teacher. cylinder change after qualifying because I have a very fast car I think we have a good friend, you have a lot of new fans supporting you today, good luck, I mean, you have a lot of new fans supporting you today, good luck, may the gods be ready to race in Talladega Bill Elliott shotgun on the field let's go down and hear the latest news from pit road starting with Matt Yocum Mike if we went Saturday Kyle Butchers has now got wins and NASCAR at Talladega is one of his biggest concerns. t especially created on restarts when drivers try to force alliances or even break up ones that have been productive in gaining restrictive plate victories in their career.

Today he is looking for a third. Krista David Ragan was one reboot away from the last two months remembering what Could Happen, Possibly Should Have Been that he simply went on the radio and said to his watcher, Rocky Ryan, are you ready to run today? Dick Berggren Dale Earnhardt Jr. He's the most popular driver in NASCAR, but it's been almost three years since he won one of these things. He has his best starting position of the year for him. This is his best track. He's won five times here and has a graphics partner who really knows how to do it. to get the job done and that starts from the beginning number 88 Jimmie Johnson right in front of the seat words idiot every driver in this field knows Jeff Gordon Mark Martin's teammates have come together more efficiently and effectively than anyone except Jeff Gordon knows he may not have Mark Martin to race with all day.

He is excellent at improvising. He has led more laps here and everyone else in the field. Hi, thanks Steve. Now these drivers are not the only ones who can mark different drivers. the clue Darrell, who you got? Let's see if we can get to Clint Boyer. Clint, you have a copy. DW may be talking to his team right now. We'll see here, only the second saint, your DW has a copy. There man, I got you, oh boy, hey buddy, have you set a date for today's race? She looks pretty good, so I hope I'm connected without Bernard there, pretty, what's your biggest concern about today's race?

Clint just Talladega. Honey, you know, you never know what's going to happen, you have to be there at the end of this, that's the only sure thing, you can't win this unless you have all your fingers in it, you're ready to go to the end. What a great trip, but dancing all day with your mates, staying out of trouble and putting yourself in position to win, okay buddy, good luck and I hope you have a good time on your date to think about speed dating at over 180 .miles per hour, that's what we're about to see. Budweiser brings you today's race, the beer that starts with all the flavor and ends with a fast, crisp finish.

Great times await you, grab some bagels. 499 miles is the distance announced today. 188 turns are. what speed will be needed on pit road 55 miles per hour the Sunoco fuel window 42 40 did you hear Trevor Bayne talk about going to the back of the field this is a men's pound race you can't make adjustments Robby Gordon wasn't here on Friday nor Saturday Sam Hornish Jr qualified his car, he will go in the back, as well as Greg Biffle and Bill Elliott as the field progresses, you want to go sign yours today. PS: Logistics, the most important thing is that these drivers have a lot to do, not so much physically in Talladega but mentally. and it seems like the drivers who best handle all the communication and all the things they have to do seem to be the drivers who also fly airplanes because that also requires a lot of multitasking.

You heard me talking to Boyer about the tape of him. You must like this one. you're with you don't want to fall in love with them because you might have to break their heart at the end of this and going with someone else might end up being a double catastrophe you, Stephen Stills, as we prepare to race at Talladega with the four Hendrick cars in front and that's only the third time in NASCAR history that this has happened recently at Auto Club Speedway and the other time was back in 1956 in Concord, North Carolina, now Hendrick records 18 wins with restrictor plates and that's the most of any team, but they have not won a voicebank race in the last 13 such races.

This week's Chevy head-to-head compares the two active drivers with the most wins here at Talladega, Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt jr. you can watch the

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Chevy Silverado HD go toe to toe with the competition and see more and chevy.com hdto HD we hear Jeff Gordon on the hot lap yeah it's far away if you have an orgasm okay buddy I'll take Guys for the devil, so you're playing from the beginning here, just tell me where to go and for you, you can hear the death, you know, and I'll call that green flag, so you'll rather go. ready to prepare there's a bit of a warning okay, I don't think they like each other or are in love, let's sound like an old married couple, yeah, maybe I don't know, Jeff Gordon didn't sound very good.

I know it sounds a little forced, like maybe he's not feeling well today, I'm not sure about them, we'll check on that, but they sound committed to each other since we know Jimmie Johnson is with Dale jr. in the outside lane, see how long the hallway plan couldn't align you better, those are the guys you work with and in practice you will definitely see guys who aren't teammates working together. Jeff Burton said I don't understand, that's like a cat Nadal beat from the same boat get ready for one hundred and eighty-eight laps up hold your breath all the races we go to this one right here going down to get the green your heart beats hard hands are sweaty waiting for that green clay to come out with a wide three turn to Matt Kenseth trying to make his way through the middle Boyer in the center, so Jamie McMurray in the number 1 car, like at the beginning of the day , also waiting for his teammate Juan Pablo Montoya in the 42, who is a teammate when your backup to pick up your team your teammate they are going to race and Riccar will lead the first lap at Talladega Gordon on the inside Johnson on the outside Wharton by two feet and that's not ironic, that's a lot for us I watched Kevin Harvick practice with those four guys at the front of the field, that's exactly how they practiced in that short practice session we had that we used to refer to as this , and Matt Kenseth and Jeff Burton make any moment there you just wouldn't know it right now. you're going to try a lot of different things, you're going to try that medium, you're going to try the outside, you're going to see how far back you can go and how long it takes you to get there, you have a lot of things to work on here at the beginning of the career and we're looking at Denny Hamlin doesn't have a partner we're at a wedding I tried to get to the rear bumper fan I just don't think you're going to make him go anywhere really fast without anyone helping me travis kvapil in the 38 pans the needle and looks in the mirror Kyle Busch on the road with a big H in that 18 the guy in front of the beat is not the driver behind the doors to plenty of power, the driver in the wild guts in the Bravo, dragging the brake just a little to allow the other driver stands up, he may have a leadership change, his lawyers leave, but Jeff Gordon overpowers his Steve, maybe he'll just listen.

Jeff Gordon talked about letting Mark get up front and lead a lap, which was surprising since they talk about how they're going to get a gallon of milk. Very prepared, very calm, sullen. Steve, it's early exactly. Michael Waltrip making only the occasional outing. this year now he's running in fifth place he's stuck in the back Clint Boyer he's got a little D he's got a little incentive today Larry I mean driving that Auburn car calls Auburn's eyes looking at that car and the castle and that zero nine remember which is the James Finch's team, Brad Keselowski, won a race here by being strong, they have Hendrick's power under the hood, now you see these guys thrown into the race, they go to the right side of the car they are pushing, In fact, I talked to some of the drivers that when you move to the right, it actually stabilizes the car in front, another thing that helps when you're handcuffed like we're watching Mark Martin at five, there's no air coming in to cool the radiator. , yeah, so you have to get air, that's one of the things you do when you duck like that, but I also can't believe they say it stabilizes the front car, here comes the speed differential at six miles an hour up six miles per hour. faster than Jeff Gordon and we have our first lead change of the day as Clint Boyer leads but not for long, well Michael Waltrip in 15 got out of the 33 car and they lost all that speed, thanks to Michael I know a little cautious.

I remember he was pushing David into the room and it's not a very similar situation. It didn't work very well. I think he gave Boyer a break. Christa. What happened? Michael let go. He simply appeared on the radio to tell Clinton. I let go. got loose, sorry for that look, how much is it now they started 34th and 36th, but Logano gave the win to Kyle Busch yesterday, boy, that's a problem, Larry, I mean, it's not that big of a problem, baby, for him in front. classify his car accident as last hit plus, we're talking just rubble on that grill, Chef Gordon has to do one of two things, stop in his hole, which he doesn't want to do, or have someone right in front of him, for changing the air pressure can clear debris from the opening under your front bumper.

He'd like to be able to cover that radiator opening right there for a while, but he can't stand it for long, but I'll make your car a littlefaster while I'm there until it gets too hot I talked about the winners for the first time I look at those two cars at the top David Ragan the six 180 in the water crawling was good it's crawling yeah big running down the middle here and just with them at the bottom, Kyle Busch's blue car and teammate's orange, Joey Logano's 20, worked their way up to the fifth and sixth spots we saw in draft practice on Friday, where they were really good in this setup right here, from the outside, Ryan Newman's 39, a Chevy being pushed around by the number 11 Denny Hamlin Toyota, the way Ryan Brian Newman has the worst luck.

Tony's restrictor plate tracks, I just like to see. Ryan would bring the thing home on all four wheels today, he would too. I thought about that race yesterday Mike Wallace, he got flipped on the backstretch, spun home, landed on his wheels and kept going, kept going. I just think it's going to be difficult to pass Larry 24 with that stuff on the grid because that's let's go up or go fast eight full laps, pole sitter Jeff Gordon in front of Talladega when who did Jeff Gordon get his swagger back in NASCAR new leader at Talladega Clint Boyer with the help of Waltrip Jeff Gordon again Mark Martin has moved well outside the top 20 as have Jimmie Johnson and Dale Earnhardt jr. when they swapped positions clear air in front this is a very unlikely pairing a couple of years ago in bristol the lawyer got out of his car declared that michael waltrip that day was the worst driver on the track now they are working together and leading the race always ask Michael, I said, Michael is attentive, are you brilliant?

Would you qualify the Savita tragedy at Talladega with restrictive license plates? I'd be happy with Kurt Busch, that 22 car. He's getting a boost from Landon Cassill in the 0-9. Kurt Busch won two of the big three. Racing at Daytona in speed weeks couldn't seal the deal at the Daytona 500, here comes that train out and it's Jimmie Johnson 48 and Dale jr. 88 big head of steam and then comes the Toyotas of Kasey Kahne and the 83 Brian Vickers with his teammates working together as well and they have checked out the boyers Express now this was planted, these two cars 48 88 planned to work together as much as possible just like the 24 and the 5 did what the 11 is in '39, you know, one of the things that these guys have really worked on is that they are here at the head, they can only travel here as long as the Eleven have something of air, he has to be in front. and cool their engine a little bit so they make the pass pretty clean, the pass ducks back to 39, the dark car, but look what happens to these guys in that brief exchange there until 27 26 just for that exchange in chain.

Now the bad news for Jeff Gordon, he is back to 32nd place, but the good news was close and that piece of plastic came off his grill opening another car, being his teammate Mark Martin, so good news that will make your car be fast but it won't crash. a long time if it's going to be hot, look at Clint Boyer with 33 net cars at the bottom of the best qualifying car for Richard Childress Racing, you just made the change and you're going to lose third and fourth place and more, you're going to miss Kyle Busch, Joey Logano, Landon Cassill in the Oh. nine and Kurt Busch in the middle, I mean, really, when you think about it, it's like being on the interstate, you know you're in the lane that's moving, man, I'm going to pull out so Lane stops in the other one.

The lane goes and you're always constantly trying to get into the lane that moves Logano and that orange number 20 asked Kyle Busch that number should change a lot three wide again in turn two, yesterday you were talking about Kyle Busch, what? could I win this race? A car he was going to take to the garage said it was destroyed, it's in a big accident. I think we should celebrate and that's just the sediment that for your team on the fastest lap today, guys, just remember yesterday, the race was advanced by a car that was happily destroyed, anything we can do to rebuild it, you know, with this new photography we can make something happen, no matter how lovely Marcus Ambrose is on the nine working with Edwards, they slide around the track a bit, you see Newman and Hamlin, back to the front always liked the term staying in touch with the self leader, stay in control.

I got this, I'm not sure how far back you have it and how far you can go before losing contact with the lead car. There's just too much going on at once, that's the Question I think we're going to answer here with some of these quick three-wide to Z bondage runs here at Talladega for 34 a year. Leading NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races on Fox are sponsored by Sprint. Proud sponsor of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series by coca-cola open a coke and enjoy the race and buy the new

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Ford f-150 Built Ford Tough laughs complete the getaway car 12 you see him there up front Kyle Busch the new leader with Logano and a lot of help air coverage provided by DirecTV to get Most sports in HD call 1-800 DIRECTV and David Ragan will try to lead this race on the line.

Brian Vickers has other ideas and so Reagan led that lap, although in the six-car Darryl Joey Logano the 20 is having trouble. maintaining contact and pushing the cowboy, yes, it seems to me that he gets hot too. I've been watching them a bit as the 20 crouch to the right, he ducks to the right and I've seen a cow from the side. a couple of times Dale Jr. and Jimmie Johnson comes in fast at the end, the closing rate is pretty amazing and now it's Boyer and Michael Waltrip who have a draft of those two Toyotas and will try to sweep to the outside and move up to 3rd and 4th before Burke Bush returns him to The line that has really fascinated me is how these travelers work with each other, they see coming quickly, they see two cars approaching, no one is brave enough or they don't stop anyway and leave a lane open for you to have a place to go, that's a lot of respect for the speeder that runs.

I think that speed difference that we would feel has already been seen between 12 and 15 miles per hour faster. You better not try to block two approaching drivers and Cassie, the former champion leading a near-rookie. and now they could join the boyars 33 Kyle Busch 18 and there are three out for one more time and say weekend, you can get away with that pretty easily here at Talladega Daytona, that would have been disastrous or quit if I had two ingredients to his Ashley. but here everyone can do it, even if they care about their man and Kurt Busch, who was the leader going into turn three, something happened with that pair, the cars that took the lead coming out of turn four and I wonder if possibly the reason be Joy Logano at turn 20. he has to move so far to the right that Toyota's baby Thea has been hiding behind him, a good reason to be shy given the history of the hub motor this season, well, I think everyone they are a little timid, you go back to Richard Childress Racing and the engines Earnhardt Childress had three problems that told them in the 500 yes and Kevin Harvick in yesterday's race from the beginning with an engine problem, there is a quartet on the line with David Ragan and Paul Menard drafting firmly fired Busch. and Logano, but you know what, when Kyle Busch looks back he sees joy, they just cross the finish line leading the race, you don't really think it's that bad of a draft, pretty good teammate right now, thirds of his car, fifteen and here comes Kurt.

Busch returns to the middle with Landon Cassill in the Chevrolet, they are working together and he is actually right in front of a cloud that was nearby. Regan will eat this, look, they are two of our four Dark Horse picks right in front that boyeur wants to lead Bernard, his teammate, now he has to go to Waltrip and Boyer returns to the front, you know what I always amaze and I help my brother run to Daytona. I mean, he doesn't race every week, he just shows up here at Daytona Talladega. the 24 Hours of LeMans one in France and maybe he also has dad's daughter Radha Kentucky in July, but yeah, he's going there next week.

The boy of his friends Walter returns to the front. Now Clint Boyer has three teammates in this race. Kevin Harvick, Jeff Burton and Paul Menard, but from the beginning, nose to tail and worked well as a round progresses, vicars and waves of caution Brian Vickers 83 had been connected with his teammate Kasey Kahne for the most part of the first part of this race brian vickers got his first win here at Talladega because he lost time to take out his then teammate Jimmie Johnson Johnson spun around Vickers went to the Victory Lane blimp and we're going to look at this group right down here at the bottom it's getting a push there's some separation right now and I think when you make the connection when oh oh I see what happened now you got Landon Cassill on the O nine sideways oh my gosh look at Kansas, just tweet for Daryl, there were about 30 drivers coming towards him, right? there it was amazing Vickers inside, I thought that was when they did it to connect, but you see here, the 22 car lets go of Castle and just pushes him into the side of the Vickers car there, in 83, how Kasey Kahne passes out.

Luka proves that the 17 cards have a little damage left on the quarter panel, but other than that mess, that's all we have, let's take a look with the Fox X in more extreme slow motion and it had some damage, obviously , a lot of damage to the left front. of that old nine car now, but this is amazing and he can turn his car in front of it, all these other cars and no one gets in it when the pits open, what are they going to do? Well man, judging by the lawyers reaction in the clip, he is extremely satisfied with that 33 machine right now they are just looking at the right side tires and waiting for fuel, he doesn't want any changes Steve Matt it's pretty much the same case with Joey Logano, says the car is good and feels both to the track don't anticipate any changes he wants to win stare Krista Steve as we mentioned no one loves this place more than Michael Waltrip the plan for Michael Waltrip is two tires at this stop Dick Tracy Cade will only use fuel only in his car the man Kyle Busch asking are they going to do an air pressure change to help the guy looking for his victory in the third plate the guys on the wall waiting Carl Edwards Marcus Ambrose does not stop nor does Greg Biffle opens the roads, it is otherwise a very busy place, those four drivers had been left out, but they will tip again because we are almost two thirds of the way through, but Boyer takes them out of the pit lane with Michael Waltrip, Kasey Kahne, then Jeff Burton and Kyle Busch Minard.

Kenseth Logano Regan Kurt Busch and Keselowski mark the wheel on Dale Earnhardt Jr. "He's right for you Jimmie Johnson while they were trying to escape Fryin Victor, we're under caution at Talladega, not yet, the NASCAR Sprint Cup races on Fox are sponsored by Budweiser. Great times are waiting, grab some bagels. You heard him first from Kurt Busch, who got into the back of the onine Landon Cassill first caution of the day Brian Vickers checked in at least in the spotlight and allowed three cars to get out early in the garage area Joe Nemechek Steve Park in the second car Tommy Baldwin and Kevin Conroy anyone who didn't stop on the first lap turned around and stopped the next time, so quick, the guy is back in front with Michael Waltrip now Waltrip has Kyle Busch behind him and Boyer has to his Richard Childress teammate, Jeff Burton, in the 31st we've seen Kyle Busch, yeah, in the 20th car, Joey Logano, Kyle Busch, the 18 mostly hooked up first in this race, but now Paul.

Menard at #27 is in the middle and you saw what happened to Michael Ian Boyer, they were dating for a while, he said he would hate it. I assume he told Michael to restart, although some drivers exited pit road and waited for their teammates before getting back in line. There are Boyer and Burton, in front of one of his teammates, the guard, and that car 27 and backing up well, he had done it. I've been working with David Reagan quite a bit at 6th and now I'm looking at how far back in the pack David Reagan is, he's actually up there at 4th working with Matt Kenseth at 17, there's another teammate, Kevin Harvick . 27 we are no oh no seven is too soon, too early, we've seen this movie start at the end, there it picks up Dave Blaney in the 36, but there's a long way to go to get to the front and there's plenty of time. to get there 156 laps richard childress yesterday in the 250 mile race his youngest grandson tied with Dylan whose older brother Austin was in the truck series ty was the man who at 18 years old was not leading in turn three but was leading at the flag checkered at the right time.

I'm looking at Kurt Busch there in car 22. We know he was working with Landon Cassill, who he took off, because in that precaution he now found his teammate, bad Brad, bad Keselowski, in those two. car and saw a slide between the 17 and the six that left them in therear of that group, well yes, because the 17 was about to crash, they brought a couple of new players here AJ Allmendinger 43 being pushed by David the CC grows a couple in the center, those are the main doctors in the race, Busch and Keselowski with Robby Gordon, whose car was qualified by Sam Hornish Jr further back and Mike, all down.

I like the driver of the group, we will put that car that is ten or twelve, son, they totally. They did some repair work on the rear bumper cover of Bush's car. They had a huge piece, too much friction where another car could catch Kyle and spin him sideways. For this race, they sanded the bumper portion down to a single air paint, no clear coat. and I removed the manufacturer decals except the manufacturer decals on the right side because that rear left corner is the one causing problems. In the exchange, they lose the lead and it's Kurt Busch and Brad Keselowski driving.

Roger Penske Stodg is now at the helm. One thing I have noticed. With the amount of these drivers they are trying to go to different places, I have seen them do it in turn one and two. I've seen them well and three and four even across the tri-oval right here trying to figure out where the least amount is lost. of time, that's really what they're doing, experimenting a little bit now, you're talking about experimenting, how about Carl Edwards in '99 and Marcos Ambrose in the night? They were the two drivers who waited until the second caution lap to make a pit. stop here, they're fighting for the lead, we know they restarted at the tail end in this group, rubber band, fall on the wood, excuse me, excuse me, passing by him and Greg Biffle, who just signed a three-year extension with Roush Fenway Racing, they are ahead. and you know Trevor in Daytona didn't want to be pushed, he wanted to be the pusher, but right now he's getting the ride of a lifetime from him.

They saw it right there, more than five miles per hour faster. Look at them, they need a man with the horn that he would come for. They learned a lot at Daytona. They didn't lead much. career, but you know what you know? What he really got from Daytona besides the in-ring trophy. I respect. Much respect. Dick just communicated it to everyone listening. A card. He destroys this top bike on the outside. Boyer and Burton are teammates they have each other's radio frequencies so they are in close contact teammates Logano bush has the push and here they come to push the pants Kenseth and Reagan in two weeks something completely different Richmond under the law Saturday night's short track was a pretty slick trade that Jeff Burton, a 31 Clint Boyer 233, just suffered a crash in so many points that I did with everyone in this race who were going to make that trade and the perjurers shine quickly.

Things change. Michael Waltrip is suddenly friendless, he's twenty-six seven point eight seconds behind the leader and running alone, his lap times slower than Jeff Gordon and Mark Martin 12 seconds back in 33rd, 34th, well, that It's something unique about pit stops, whether they happen under green or under yellow, it breaks. the road they had worked on together yes, here go the leaders on the line now let's see where it marks yes, here they come this is by design Darrell the two spoke on the radio decided they weren't fast enough to run the front if things They were very busy so they decide to go back and hang out Carl Edwards and Marcus Ambrose simply initiated the exchange so Ambrose could lead a lap, but those who returned to the French now told their team I think I have a loose wheel.

I see the tire changers give Baba the thumbs up and they think they're fine, but Carl said, I think he's lazy. Just think about it lapping this race track at over 190 miles per hour thinking you might have a loose tire. After 40 full laps, we are. averaging a lead change every two laps and Kenseth out front this time in the NASCAR Sprint Cup race. I have boxes sponsored by Walmart. I save money. Live better at Walmart from Toyota and AT&T. Rethink the possible 43 turns. Complete a big traffic jam in turn 4. Look who's in front. Travis Kvapil is three laps behind but is providing assistance to Kasey Kahne.

The pusher led a lap. Here comes Regan Smith, the interior with Paul Menard. Tomorrow the brand would be the winner for the first time in 27. Carl and we seem to mention his name frequently. Much from 2011, but there is a strong affiliation with Regan Smith and his 78 team with Richard Childress Racing, there is a technical alliance and they also get engines from the same engine cut in a top 10 at Daytona, now Tony Stewart is well behind at 13 seconds. the lead with David Gilli and Dillon in the top 5 in the Daytona 500 Stewart says I like David pushing like he's just behind, look at it almost the same situation happening here with Kevin Harvick in 29 and Dave Blaney in 36, they're sitting there thirty-sixth or twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh, the times have been pretty decent, but also Dave Blaney's race team gets their engines from the same engine company as Kevin Harvick, according to their codes. , today's Pizza Hut fan newspaper is Jeff Gordon.

In 31st place, I remember him and Mark Martin running at the front since the green flag fell. Martin didn't lead a lap, but Jeff has been out front twice for eight laps. I think these strange situations we're talking about just verify what we were saying before the race and what we've said about this place in general, anyone can run up front, anyone can win this race. I mean, you're racing with guys that are racing together, look at this quad here, I mean the 18 and 20 are coming around everyone on the outside Steve Mike Joey Logano talking about his car being a little bit clear in the turn to go for the straightaways, sometimes it happens because his teammate Kyle Busch was pushing him and pushing him, but it was an interesting thing that he came back.

Today I was told that some of the drivers told me that the cars were more difficult to drive on the straights than on the curves because in the curves the cars are loaded on the bank and they had a lot of grip on the straights, the car behaved like that. It loosened up a little, the rear of the car lifted up and the bumpers didn't like it as much. Oh, backing up with his Menard and Smith think they just made the trade to put Menard in front of Smith and in front, here's the Dodge. rebellion is push and Brad Keselowski taking the lead of the Chevrolets of Burton and Boyer those two points are only charged to Lee but Jeff Burton at thirty-one being pushed by Clint Boyer will let us monitor the leader changes and begin the line of goal God only knows how many real changes we have Earnhardt jr. now 14 Jimmy Johnson 19th last time, you see they are no longer in contact as draft partners and they talked about it, it's like a new quarterback, so how did it work out?

Yeah, I don't know what you want to do, this what. I want to do, I did the same thing yesterday, you know, in that race, he told Al Marilla, he said, hey, buddy, at the end of the race, you go where you go, I'll go where I go, that was his way of tell him, that's what I want. I'm going to make a lot of lead changes Jeff Burton back up front the blue car in the middle is Keselowski the one on the outside is Biffle and the black car on the inside is Kenseth's 17 that everyone wants to lead at Talladega six cars pushed his teammate team Matt Kenseth in the 17 we talked about David Ragan he was inside that last restart of winning the Daytona 500 by changing lanes early yeah Daytona it's almost like he's planning to say I can win this if I just get in front of Trevor and simply made a driver change too quickly in '46.

Bill Elliott qualified and started the cars, the former Series champion was replaced by that team's regular, JJ Yeley. 52 turns complete, let's take a look inside and see what it is. happening now within the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series presented by an HTC EVO 4G Martin Truex junior fastest lap of this race just over 200 miles per hour most laps led that would be Clint Boyer has been up seven times on 16 tracks, feed your inner NASCAR fan with live in-car audio and real-time stats available on NASCAR Sprint Cup mobile the new Sprint-only HTC EVO 4G on Sprint calms down Mike, who was the crowd here at Talladega when Dale Earnhardt Jr. took the lead a second ago, we have another new leader, Brad Keselowski, who will lead the line with three Kenseth in the middle and the leader is.

I know we have 134 laps left, but don't be surprised if that's not the way. this race ends at 130 seven of the last eleven Talladega race is decided on the last return pass more like a last hundred yard pass Tama gets that starting line, it's crazy Darrel talked about it on the pre-game show race, we have a long way to go Dale Earnhardt jr. a man in the last one hundred and seventy Saturdays Dale jr. If he makes it to the finish line, it will be race number 21 at Talladega, he has led in 23 actions, we don't know how well he hits Rick.

The cars weren't Daytonas, they all crashed, the most popular driver in the nation junior skaars, especially when you get to Talladega I mean, if you say Talladega to anyone in Franklin, Tennessee or if you were at this address, it's always too much Jimmie Johnson locked in his bumper and this is the biggest lead that two cars had today and that big lead of six hundredths. one second to Johnson 6/10 back to Biffle this is where we used to call you here's a piper remember if he went down everyone shot up he went up everyone went up faced everyone fit Jimmie Johnson in the 48 must be running duck We came out on the backstretch and many of those other drivers make it there, to driver 10, where they get a small cut.

Travis Kvapil and Bethel will lead this laugh and we hear from Dale Earnhardt jr. Jimmie Johnson, who is now running fifth and six Fords in front, four of them three from Roush Fenway and the 21st from Wood Brothers and Greg Biffle leads another lap yesterday's Ford f-150 EcoBoost on the Talladega track and the longest track of the circuit with the steepest and longest inclination. Right off the bat since NASCAR started using electronic scoring, the 28 makes are a win for Texas, as we mentioned seven passes in the last few races here before the start of the race.

Mike, some of the drivers have tried making deals with other drivers and in some cases it actually works. Jimmie Johnson and Dale Earnhardt Jr. An example of this is: Greg Biffle told me before the start of the race that he was going to run with whoever he could and that he didn't care who it was, if someone was fast, he would go with them, that someone is Trevor Bayne and Bane loves him. To leave, you understand, I think it was planned, they needed to make the exchange. Trevor must have been warming up, but look what he does to you when you make that change, so much momentum and you lose the draft, we saw a five car draft.

A little, almost a second slower than any of the speed dated peers or cars that would be green flag pit stops, it's pretty exciting on pit road under caution, these guys go over 190 miles per hour at 55 on pit road, it gets really exciting to try to do it as a two driver tent and Larry, I'm curious to see if anyone knows what they'll do with four tires. Remember Dave Tolman. Cats almost never change tires at Daytona. They took two a couple of times, just once or twice during A 500 mile race, okay, we'll make a pit stop so we can get back because there's Dale Earnhardt jr. leads 60 laps in the Aaron's 499 there is danger around every turn but a junior is not afraid this is NASCAR on Fox NASCAR Sprint Cup races on Fox are delivered by Pizza Hut number four the last lap order now to get your favorite parts at low prices 63 complete still in the green Bobby Allison 1987 cuts a right rear tire cuts the catch encircling the race defense of the red flag prepared the race resumed unharmed Roenick thing about Mike Harrell kinder was on the pedestal never stopped him took that Yellow Flag and started waving and he never moved Bobbie Donnie Eddie Alison are all here this NASCAR returns to Talladega gathers up front Trevor Bayne trying to get the Wood Brothers their sixth win here and Greg Biffle piggybacking two Fords versus share list of free agent lanes for 2012 just signed a contract extension with Roush Fenway this week, like the hood of their big blue car, but he has 3 4 3 3 4 3 M and 3 more years with Roush Fenway, which is cool , two cars away.

Not close enough for the leaders to sniff out a draft, but those two will be against Waltrip as they risk losing a round. You know they could do it, but they were also able to prolong that a little bit because once they connected. They're not that far off what some of the leading cars have been running, just a terrible half-second difference for that pair and Lally, the rookie, is a lap behind. Michael Michael lost two seconds a lap when he was alone, he connected with Andy there and they were able to reduce that a little bit.

Michael wasn't happy about it, he said on the team radio to Ty no way.observer. I'm the best pusher here, why not? I do not have friends? Jimmie Johnson Trevor Bayne Greg Biffle Matt Kenseth with David Ragan here's the conversation between Michael Waltrip before that, he got the same treatment as you and he's a pretty boy so I'm sure it won't just be you who will throw me back , he doesn't have anyone, leave it to Michael, he'll have a good time out there, sometimes you just have too much time on your hands, you know you're missing out, the main draft, he goes alone and here comes the Leaders, you can see, They are only five seconds behind Michael Waltrip and Andy Lally, they will probably reveal around five and six laps today.

I'm noticing one thing, Larry, when at 48 in 20 and 88 they came out in front, they made a race. some pretty good lap times and no one's been out there really chasing him, I mean they came at him with anything to beat him yet, but Darrell, look at this kid from Knoxville, Trevor Bayne, anyone who thought a Tona winner 500 was a single hit. wonder should be watching this race Mary is working hard in the cockpit of the Ford Wood Brothers is in third place and they are looking directly at the leaders here they come they just turned 25 in February this is only their ninth spring start their first The start was in Texas last November.

He won the Daytona 500. The best of this boy. He spends his off-season time at an orphanage in Mexico doing more. Bane is only the second driver to win his first start in the Daytona 500. Lee Petty won the first one in 1959. Of course, that was the first one. We're starting to see some early pit stops, probably Courtney Casey Mears. Here comes Carl Edwards in 99. Marcos Ambrose at the nine green flag stops. Krista Carl Edwards and Baba weren't planning on using two tires, but approximately. two laps after they made that decision, they changed it, they said let's play it safe and take four.

Carl still feels the vibration in the front of his race car again. Kasey Mears and Robbie Gorka also make pit stops. Juan Montoya and his teammate Jamie McMurray are in As we begin the second round of pit stops and the first round we've had on green, if these two drivers come in as you see Montoya carrying McMurray there at 42, you should making sure Steve is on the same agenda as to what you're going to do and Larry Mac haven't strayed at all once the green flag fell Jamie McMurray in car 1 to your right while Pablo Montoya his team just tries to keep the fenders on those race cars Montoya and McMurray, both completing services, Allmendinger and Logano's teammates and Kyle Busch together picked Ryan Newman and his writing partner Denny Hamlin, who is not a teammate, are also in Matt Mike.another Justin chassis for Kyle Busch, the car is just a tip on the free side, especially when they swapped cars, Steve and Matt Joey Logano echo what he said moments ago.

I feel a little free when pushed but I'm very good on the straights, you want a clean windshield or, excuse me, clean, fine, you'll get your service too, no chassis adjustments on the 11, just four tires and here they come the leaders, Dale Earnhardt jr. and Jimmie Johnson are heading towards the penis and this has also been held together since the green flag bike fell, but the youth radio is cutting out, the team is having trouble hearing it, you can hear them clearly. Jimmy Johnson echoed that sentiment he told her. jr. I had to repeat several times when he was trying to communicate Jimmie Johnson's chassis setup to Johnson as well and waiting for jr.

He's out to leave at the same time as Kevin Harvick, it's the Budweiser Chevy and his service completed our backup of the models, to some extent he's waiting for that 36 car, if you put me there, he's been running with it. Trevor Bayne is coming to pit row, Greg. Biffle Bobby Labonte and Martin Truex, all scheduled for green flag, green flag stop and Trevor Bayne on pit road, having to start from the back of the pack has made no difference for the young twenty-year-old Bane, who has been running to the front choosing who. He wants to race with him, it hasn't mattered, he's been fast all day and Mark Martin has peak effectiveness, they need a good amount of fuel.

Sheba will put four tires on it if you want to fill the tank completely, Matt. Dick, this is where we're going to look at how they made four tires at the first stop, so Mark Martin was expecting only right side tires. At this stop, Steve and Matt Jeff Gordon say their car is absolutely fine. There you see it on the right of your check the tires and the fuel they are just being careful to play the waiting game Pete and mark mark Krista Matt Kenseth had wanted to enter earlier but couldn't make it to the exit meeting, couldn't make it to pit road, so he and David Ragan had to stay out one more half Jimmie Benedict Russia is four tires David Ragan, of course, sticky victory and Matt Damon, if I lose, you'll be back on the track wherever you are, so that only two of the cars from the leading lap have not entered and are the leaders.

You see your teammates charging on the screen like we're just Burton and that's the most important thing in our steamy girls on pit road, well Tom screwed up, the big problem is making sure you have the car full of Sunoco race, I want the end of the lead lap there with Ryan Newman but of course the most important thing will be having to pit, but the interesting thing is that I look at Brian Newman accomplished, let's take a look at the pit stop of Trevor Baynes here, right in front, it's a gallon away from seven if you could get the tire.

Outside of my member at Daytona, the crash was causing the tire to fall off a lot at Daytona and the jack man was gone to lift it higher for the tire changer. We are completing 74 laps, the last way on lap 29 and here they come 46. laps on this dick fuel tank and Burton has been warned about speeding Mike they don't want to see the red light on the tachometer they have already caught him twice this year for speeding he has a good car here this is the same car he used The wild one hundred and fifty victory at Daytona assigns his teammate Playboy four tires on this issue, which makes the lead return to Jimmie Johnson and Dale Earnhardt Jr. at 75 113 to go, you're watching NASCAR on Fox from Talladega NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races on Fox are sponsored by copal, the next generation of superior tools, for the new movie hitting theaters on Friday, May 6 and by Camping World and Good Sam, everything for the RV lifestyle since 1966 78 laps on the Aaron's 499 live from Talladega and here are the headlines time of date CNC race interruption only one yellow flag so far most of the consecutive laps led by a driver who is a five foot guy and Matt Kenseth put Boyer in the lead eight different times but the current leader Jimmie Johnson Dale Earnhardt jr. with Jeff Hammond Chris Myers we talked about driver combinations listening mainly to the observer talking to these two guys at one point they dropped back to 33rd they said from the beginning they would work together and will continue to do so yes this makes it possible.

It's easier if these guys have an elaborate plan like Jimmie Johnson's 48 and Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s 88. to work together like this now they just have to talk to each other and the place in one place or so, I think it makes it a lot easier so far, this has really paid dividends for both Brown youngsters trying to get that 100 run. no wins you just have your spotter and hand signals instead of having to worry about all the voices on the radio, well your spotter is one thing and you can do it but as far as what you're trying to execute in this particular setup you need a partner you have to race with someone and do hand signals but because the way these cars are set up doesn't work as well the big seats the electric rear shelter support makes it very difficult for the driver to improve each other, so radio communication is basically the best way together until Carl Edwards told us on the pre-race show that he could team up with anyone, friends, enemies, Brad Keselowski, Kyle Busch, it wouldn't matter, but you've been listening with Marcus Ambrose, his team of four, tonight, others during Companions, especially yeah, they were having a lot of fun at the beginning of the race when you saw these two guys up front leading laps and one time that they completed, Marcus Ambrose led a lap here, he and Carl Edwards agreed where that was going to work together. back and just take care of our team until the end of the race like he said I want to be there at the end both are happy both have extra points that's like enjoying the sun different strategies pole-sitter Jeff Gordon Mark Martin, of those two at the beginning week, you heard Gordon say, "Hey, I don't want anyone on my radio except my teammates, but I might have to make adjustments.

They might have been able to execute the plan so far, too." They start this race, both guys are leading laps and they're able to do what they're doing even though they're half a lap behind Chris, they've got the muscle, they know what they've got and they're basically running their race. Basically, we are not letting the race dictate to them, they are running their pace in the pits thinking about them for when we get to the end because, although we won't have a yellow flag, we are going to have many more because the intensity is increasing. to begin to return to last year eight yellow flags but only 476 laps and in this case with pit stops, since we have a change of leadership here and again the teamwork of Ryan Newman and Kyle Busch challenging the Hendrick team of Jimmie Johnson and Earnhardt. jr.

Again, you know Ryan Newman knows how to win because all of a sudden you know you had a situation where this guy won the Daytona 500, you know it's a good secret race at the Speedway even though he's had a lot of bad luck here at Talladega. They got a fast race car down there, they're working together 'cause they got split up at the pit stop so they had to find a new dance partner, that's one of the things we talked about, that plan ain't working, like you'll need to do something now you're connected together so the pit strategy works too if you get in together get out together if you find that person to work with it's time to check AT&T and you can text the team car number who think we'll average the shortest amount of time two two three four five six seven eight t the fastest mobile broadband network in the country is getting faster with 4G let's join back up with Darrell Larry and Mike and Mike it looks more and more like two drivers are better than one, no doubt, Chris, here's how this The pair came together Ryan Newman and Denny Hamlin pitted on the same lap as their teammates Joey Logano and Kyle Busch, but Logano and Hamlin finished almost at the same time. same time they dated and Kyle hooked up with Ryan Newman, they're ahead, his teammates have eight. seconds and a half back, 21 and 22, yeah, that wasn't planned, that's how it happened when they came off pit road after those green flag stops.

I'm just not sure Kyle was happy with Joey Logano being pushed around, he pushed him all over the place and got him in trouble a couple of times, so I'm not saying he intentionally left him. I'm going to say he's probably not too disappointed because he's running with his other teammate, they're together, and right in front of them is Biffle. and Bane, the two drivers who were leading this race just before the pit stops and Darrell, you pointed out that Trevor Baynes' problem on pit road really wasn't the fault of the cat man abandoning his boat, but he was on the right front of the car, yeah and they do some really aggressive shooting on the car, the bolt lets the fire fall out of the fender and when that thing gets stuck in there, that makes the job of changing the tire pretty difficult, but even with the problem that Trevor Bayne from car 21 had.

It still worked because I want you to look here, it seems like a rat that Greg Biffle's team had a slower stop than Trevor Bayne. In fact, the differences are true. Greg Biffle chose to go with four tires. Trevor Bayne with two so they can get back together. even with the problem that the hand 21 and it looks like Larry, they called inaudible on the 21 once that tire got stuck in there and they couldn't get it out, they probably canceled because of this dick, what you got? Well, a couple. things about trevor bayne darrell one is that he has a little vibration in the car but the most problematic thing is his pressure this is the pressure of these cars and the attraction of the pressure going down the more it will start spitting out water at a lower temperature , yes, and if it is If it is going down, I wonder if it would not have lost a little water in front Jimmie Johnson Dale Earnhardt jr. 85 laps in the box new leader at Talladega as you can see in our coverageaerial provided by DirecTV for the most sports in HD call 1-800 DIRECTV i.e.

Ryan Newman stewart-haas running with Kyle Busch, they are outrunning Landon Cassill and trying to stay in trouble, turn three Mike, lo I'm sorry, cars everywhere, three fours against the wall and sliding in, Reagan's on it, Kasey Kahne, Marcus Ambrose, Trevor Bayne, Brad Keselowski and a bunch of dreams, they just climbed the fence at the turn, three seconds of yellow flag. of the day comes out on lap 90 kasey kahne a llama is not going to come back to the pits with that one maybe it looks like he will make it please look for a fire extinguisher i think that's what you are looking for a safety team there is Trevor Trevor is going to come out by David Reagan and let's see from trevor bayne how Kasey Kahne comes out, okay, that first warning, his purpose, he got into Landon Cassill and we're also Marcus Ambrose, I've probably wondered what the hell and where he came out.

Coming from childhood, many have ever wondered if he now caught him twice or Reagan made him lose. They stood there, watched the two get on, the guy just cut off David Reagan, so at least five cars involved first Keselowski and Ambrose after a hit from Kurt. Busch, even Reagan, bring those cars, it's already on fire. I guess it's from hitting someone and breaking two or a cooler or something. Trevor Bayne falls on the apron, but Reagan comes down and picks him up, this is where I think Kasey Kahne comes in at the four. The problem here is the two blue of Kozlowski, Brad Keselowski, the winner here from two years ago, there are the cars involved, most of which I believe will not return to the track and all of which we expected could figure in the result of the race today and you never know.

I mean, things have been pretty calm, I mean, the guys have been running around quite a bit using good manners, looking out for each other, but we've had two accidents, two major cautions and the common denominator has been Kurt Busch's 22, Sam Donnelly, here they come. Back here and it looks like Kyle's number 22 car happened, he just got into the left rear of the two, turned it around and then look, here comes Kasey Kahne, he's trying to escape and slides down, Reagan right in his way could not. He didn't even know he was there. He couldn't see because of the smoke.

I know we can, but they can't when you're there in the car, but I don't know where all that fire came from. How is that? He hasn't been hit, yes, it looked like he had hit something else, but that's weird. Monkey Kasey Kahne talked about how these five guys could be players. All five drivers had led this race at one time or another during the day. Okay, we'll clean up. pit road remains closed we were under yellow flag today we go NASCAR Sprint Cup races on Fox are sponsored by Sprint proud sponsor of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series 92 laps completed under the second yellow flag of the day an caused accident by Kurt Busch against teammate Brad Keselowski six cars involved in all pits now open Krista the plan for David Reutimann to use four tires this will be the first four tire change he has used two tires in the previous two stops Matt Matt A Kyle Busch likes to be the pusher versus me the lead car wants a chassis tune to try to keep the car leaking, they sent a message up to 39 but they were going for four tires that way Newman could be on the same page Steve Matt on the last stop AJ Allmendinger that the famous 43 recently took two tires this time, the plan is to go with four.

He wants the windshield removed, which he just got and his service is finished. Paul Menard exits quickly, as do Kurt Busch and Regan Smith, caution flag pit stops. We'll have another look at what happened to Trevor Baynes' car, in vain, in the spotlight after this crash at the green curve back to Talladega, Alabama. We sun-kissed fans anticipate the usual big race finish here, but we'll go back to what put us under this yellow flag and check out David Ragan's six after we see initial contact here with Kurt Busch's 22 against Brad Keselowski and against Marcus Ambrose, but David Reagan's car was a flame despite no contact until he tried to swerve and cut Trevor Bayne, he almost had to explode.

I mean, the engine was what has been like a perfect storm. Christa will investigate further. Thank you. Gerald Christopher. Trevor Bayne watches our monitor to find out exactly what happened. What he saw matches what you think he saw when you were there. I missed the beginning of that, but what I really saw was that I was on Greg Biffle's channel at the time I saw the six cars explode in front of us. I saw fire coming out from underneath, so I keep thinking, I'm like they're exploding. They are exploding. Greg did a good job of getting me off of him, but at the same time, somehow, the two cars hooked up at exactly the same time, so while he hooked up, I went to the back, got on the platform, and then someone. he came and caught us from behind.

I didn't see who he was, but someone caught us from behind and it was a hard blow. You know, he came from the platform all the way to the wall, but you know he was excited for our day. with a good Sam Club striker, I mean, we led some laps, Greg led some laps, we just worked with him all day, so it's a little strange that we didn't have other dance partners, but you know, I thought we were fast. We'll have a good car in the end, but I knew we had to make it in the end and we couldn't do it, but I was really excited about how good this 21 is.

You're not fine, thanks Trevor, thanks Krista. David Ragan also stepped out of the spotlight. You see him in the background as we listen to David Reagan's engine as he comes down the backstretch. I think you're halfway down the backstretch and you start to hear a clicking sound. A little change to this with the sound of the engine and Trevor Bayne said he saw it explode, so how ironic would it be for the engine to explode heading into a crash ready to go. Camaro green safety cars out Paul Menard Kurt Busch will share the main road for the restart Regan Smith with Menard and the Busch brothers in the outside lane on 43 and Newman on 39 92 laps to go we are back under green interesting strategy Kurt Busch that 22 being pushed by his brother Kyle Busch the 18 fuel alone on that stop on the right There on the inside, Boyer and Burton are getting full force on the backstretch and are trying to get to the middle to take the lead.

We are at noon. There, Kyle Busch, 18, said, "Wait a minute, I was your partner while." ago sorry speed date on the wallflower right now back in the spotlight Krista Mike talking about a date that ended we got him in the coral Edwards had had a vibe with Matt Kenseth also talked about a vibe Trevor Bayne mentioned he saw your The car exploded before the incident with the two and 22 occurred, that's right, yeah, I didn't know someone was blowing up. I felt like someone was exploding. That was not so. I looked around, our gauges look good and our car was still there. running and there's obviously someone tearing you up, you know, around us because of the two cars, are you mad?

One more pee board was a quick product of this run. We felt like we had a chance to win the race and it's kind of a cruise, so we'll do it. look he definitely had a chance, very fast race car today Dick Berggren Brad Keselowski won here two years ago buddy in the garage with a bent race car what was it like inside that car? Yes, it's a wild ride, but that's just part of it. Running I'm not exactly sure everything that happened there, but there's a big back end in front of us that they checked out.

I was trying to slow down to the same pace and you know, just load everything up and then turn around. I just got lost through the tires. from the ground, I've never done it as part of this road race, I can't play, we'll tell you that to dagger, but I was also growing quickly with Kurt and I leading and trying to be there at the end, that's how they race and Someone there is an auskey who had a good day thanks to the dick like a hot knife through butter, which was Denny Hamlin's 11 and Logano 20 as they cut the top four, but you know when he lists those interviews about that accident.

Brad said well, they were bottling. Those in front had to get up a little so he got behind me. Reagan doesn't even know if his engine exploded or not. We just saw the fire coming out. It happened so fast that you really don't know. What happened? An interesting combination here is that you think of Joe Gibbs Racing, they have three drivers, three teams, so the other one has to find another partner. Kurt Busch has lost his partner. We just talked to him in the garage area, Brad Keselowski, but what about Dave? Blaney, at age 36, found Ryan Newman or actually Kevin Harvick in car 29.

Dave Blaney led the Daytona 500. There's a group of guys who probably don't see Kevin Harvick in the 29 car, walking about a half lap back, and all of a sudden, hello, Mike. Where did the next one come from? Harvick closed the deal, that's all. I mean, it's early, a little more than halfway there, for Harvick to show up and he's shown that he can get to the front. He has to get there, something to find out where he is. he wants to be when we get to the end of the race, so he's doing a little experiment right now.

The same thing we saw at Daytona will probably be the same thing we see here, the guy leading the race coming out of fours. set and dunk, so you've got to figure it out, okay, we're going to have to be and who doesn't need to be with all these pairs working together, call a two-way tango, speed dating whatever you want to call it. him and the couple in the back of the district, I mean, the way back from this group is Pizza Hut fan favorite Jeff Gordon back there with Mark Martin sticking to the plan, the old couple, they're not at the front of speed dating, they are He was simply running 29 xxx six and a half seconds off the leader, not caring in the slightest about what was happening at the front, they even made a second pit stop under that yellow flag.

Several other drivers chosen for you get false comfort because when I've been there like that of all of them they have a clue like we just told you it was okay, I told you so, then I told you you were going to have the big one and they may arrive very late. The plan for this race is possibly going to overtime. The other Hendrick. couple Jimmie Johnson and Dale Earnhardt Jr. twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth right in front of Jim and right in front of them, a name we haven't heard all day because he's been hanging out in the back and that's Tony Stewart, Steve and Mike, that's an interesting combination with the which has also been running.

David Gilliland was in the top 30 throughout the race. One thing he relies on is David Gilliland and remembers finishing in the top five in the Daytona 500, but again, that's been the comfort level of the core that will change later in the race to start. Steve, you mentioned that, what are your lap times and can they reflect two drivers that are leading a lot of a race in this race so far, you know, Mike Larry, there are just drivers that you wouldn't normally come across racing, but they are facts like this, they sing in Talladega. because they're pretty smart guys and usually don't get into trouble Carl Edwards took that guy back to the front on the inside Martin Truex on the outside here come the Busch brothers go up to the moon other drivers had Spade way up there On the outside , our junior trip with 56 cars will be Bobby Labonte.

Remember Bobby Labonte also finished in the top five in the Daytona 500 and believe me, every driver here remembers the Daytona 500 and how he finished and who was there when he finished. With 85 laps to go, Clint Boyer and his teammate who compete on Fox are sponsored by Don Dodge Never Neutral, by AT&T and by Burger King, who reminds them to do things the way they want. of the. There are 81 laps left at Talladega and we are slowly inching up on the record the NASCAR record for lead changes last year 50 already today 21 different drivers have led this race in fact the most consecutive laps of anyone today 1 point Jimmie Johnson right there at the start/finish line not around the entire race.

The track designer receives a personal visit from his favorite driver. Go online to discover new ways to create, customize and share your designs. We changed 51. Here come Regan Smith and Paul Menard, neither of whom have ever been to Victory Lane in a Sprint Cup race. Smith was so close. The first car to cross the line here a couple of years ago, NASCAR said it was under Tony Stewart Smith looking for a little redemption. Paul Menard has been very strong on the slopes and led this slap kid back to the front. What I see through the old paddle will be Trust me 200 miles an hour to get through that trip isdifficult with someone lying on your back so now we had some audio in the car for Boyer and Burton as they joked about how fast they could go and how hard it was. and they will remember you when puddin Smitha Menard returns on the inside Bernard moved from Ford to Chevrolet this year and is teammates with Boyer and Burton on the outside and Kevin Harvick.

I don't want another one, we have said it with a number. of times in tony stewart won this race they were second and third before regan smith went to the platform they were teammates, Kurt Busch, the younger brother, Kyle, 22 and 18, they will shoot out to the front and here comes Bobby Labonte in the center and he got help for Martin Truex, I have no doubt: one of the most pleasant surprises of 2011 is that 78 by Regan Smith and Paul Menard 1927 Darrell said at the top of the program this in the tri-oval that he keeps digging trying to become driver number 22. to lead this race, 52 lead changes so far, they had chase outside and now fifth and sixth are Labonte and Truex and Mike.

You must love this type of racing. Is there anyone in the field who has had the opportunity to lead this? Someone in the field we haven't talked about, yeah, JJ Yeley, he's running third, he didn't even start this race. Bill Elliott started the 46th. Yaeli came aboard at one of the yellow flags and here he is running third being pushed by Terry Labonte. City Sprint Cup Champion, the problem is they didn't get that last yellow flag, they'll have to pit in about 46 years. Remember the last time a repeat driver went to Victory Lane, Darrell, we for Donnie Allison, that was a stranger in the car the tomboy brother is in front of Aaron's 499 75 laps left total turn three microphone sorry cars for all parts three or against the wallet sliding inside Reagan's watch car on fire favorite engineer review of Talladega headlines It's time for an ATV race, a break in the race, excuse me, Regan Smith and Paul Menard trying to keep lines Quinn Boyer and Jeff Burton at the time of the accident.

A few moments ago we had the winner two years ago at Talladega Keselowski and then the winner of the Daytona 500. Trevor Bayne involved in David Ragan who was trying to win this win so far Clint Boyer Jeff Hammond has led this race 11 different times 53 lead changes but spectators saw these two car combinations with the drivers and someone wants to break the spirit of the career. I think you have to wait and try to catch these guys when they are making the trade, you try to screw them up. We've already seen that if they have a bad trade, you can really ruin the momentum and send them into the deep end. field, so if you can catch a guy making that kind of trade at the end of the race, you could cut him off, they could affect the outcome of this race, you're talking about Clint Boyer, remember he knows the way to Victory Lane here , yes, 21 22 leaders as you move.

Back towards the front we now have about 70 right at the Jeff mark, 70 laps to go, so when for some of those drivers the back of the pack in Victoria is one of those sitting at the start of the race, That's where we're going to start and watch him wait, when do they have to make their move? Well, we know we've got a couple more pit stops ahead of us, Chris, but I actually think the next, you know, the last 50 laps you're going to have to do it. Think about how we see Dave Blaney right now with a little help from Kevin Harvick in that 29 car pushing him to the start/finish line lead chain anyone here you and I can get up if we have a good fast race car we can we can probably lead this race I'll take a look at the current standings the prize for the fastest pit crew put it into action by texting the number of the car you think will average the fastest amount of time 80 the fastest mobile broadband network in the world country is getting faster with 4G and Clint Bowyer has led the most laps Mike in this race so far 25 Chris Jimmie Johnson like 13 no one but a dozen eh-eh-eh leaves made a pit stop under green It's a two-stop race from here Lanie is going to cost her sponsor a lot of money racing like this taillight panel on her car, Harvick pushes him to the front in relief, a little Dave Blaney, facing the start of Tommy Baldwin's car, Terry Labonte had to stop now, Michael Waltrip is in the pit road sprint.

The users have spoken, let's ride a shotgun here brought to you by Sprint and HTC EVO 4G Jimmie Johnson Dale Jr. you're a NASCAR fan with live in-car audio and real-time stats, the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series poll on the new HTC EVO 4G at sprint.com/datashare, it's back there, lurking, yeah, predators, just predators lying here waiting to see what will happen to you. See Jeff Gordon at the back of the top of the screen, up there, a lot of good cars check off the pre-race problem at the back, going down the back to third, I really believed in some of those problems Well, Harvick and the lady tried to hit the switch, got too far away from each other when the Busch brothers approached and almost piled everyone up, but I think part of that problem starts with trying to adjust your radio to a different channel or just looking down or something and when you look up things aren't how you last remember them.

Kurt and Kyle Busch exited with 66 laps remaining and the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Talladega, Alabama. on Fox is sponsored by the new Chevy Silverado HD engine trends Truck of the Year 2011 62 laps to go for the Fox Moyer car NASCAR has spotters stationed around the track to alert the tower about something on the track, in my opinion , an advert. If it would have looked like a piece of metal, I'm not really sure, but it sure looked like an interesting dynamic here at NCAR, I pull away from the field and the next group behind is five cars, which will make eight cars now in school in single file and there.

It's the yellow flag, I think it was a piece of metal, I would have been a little worried, since only the third yellow flag today comes out on lap 128 for that piece of debris in the corner, this yellow flag here we know everyone will be in pits. road, the race becomes a one-stop race after this, there you have it, that's where a piece of gum came from on the rear bumper of car number 33. Here you see it flying around the track when you look at the bumpers front and back of all. it's already spent what are they going to do at the pit stop Steve Mike losing to Kurt Busch and Steve Addington Steve Addington just a skirt so we'll leave it right here Kurt hasn't responded yet but Kurt said to his brother Kyle hey good job Kyle Kyle said ten-four, let's see what happens on pit road Matt in the conversation between Kyle Busch and Dave Rogers they were trying to extend their fuel window, there was concern that the fuel was exhaling considerably with the throttle, but now that everything is going well or No.

The changes at this stop have been working together for many laps. Menard in the number 27 car is going to pit and all they are going to do is put a few tires on the right side. Crysta David Reutimann is not usually an optimist, but he has reasons to be. Here he finished fourth in the fall after leading 14 laps. He has been running very well with his teammate AJ Allmendinger in this race. A little bit of bad luck this year. He said that bad luck is the only luck they have had and they hope to take advantage of it. that around today thanks Kristen third yellow flag of the day at Talladega let's move forward with NASCAR on Fox on April 30th our coverage continues Saturday night at 7 p.m.

East under the lights at mile 3/4 in Richmond Virginia Saturday May 7 Darlington South Carolina 7 p.m. East of Dover Delaware on the concrete miles someday fifteen for the Sprint Cup races starting at 12:30 East for the NASCAR coverage continues in high definition right here Robby Gordon is the free pass car in this the third yellow flag of the day Casey Mears got the bye at the last yellow flag, so when we restart we will have 28 cars with laps leading. I can't help but think when I see the two Busch brothers there working together a few years ago in the Sprint All-Star race.

They ripped each other apart in May, it took all the way to Thanksgiving in November, his grandma said, guys, you guys will figure this out, I'm tired, did Kyle's comment seem a little cryptic to you? Let's see what happens at the pit stops, work together. Again, well, he left his teammate, he left the number of people. Caudle is one of those guys that he will take off an island if he wants, but it's his eyes or his tears. Unleaded cars enter the pits at this time. Everyone else will fit next time. Car number 22 was born with four tires and now you see the official putting, they had a problem with the lug nuts on the right front, you see the fingers were wrapping their board to put that luck, let's see what happens on pit road, now seven cars with leading laps. did not pit as Paul Menard leads the race out of the pits Carl Edwards was left out, as was his teammate Greg Biffle along with five others.

There is the decision on the remedy for the loose lug nuts before the car left the pit. They were under yellow flag at Talladega, but incredible. There were 61 lead changes here at Talladega and it's time for a break in the ATT race with 58 laps remaining and under our third caution, the first one went out on lap 28, planted Castle Brian Vickers and the first bush fell, which affected some of this: the driver combination puts a look at how Dale Earnhardt jr. moves to the front with the help of Jimmie Johnson on lap 90 this was the biggest one yet Paul Byrd was shooting bats and with a loud bang everyone pulled away well and that's the car Kasey Kahne who tweeted a few moments ago that I'm well and certainly his car wasn't right, but Jeff, as we look at Tony Stewart right behind Casey Mears, since the car is a cycle, he hasn't put a player on all day, why was he now chosen to come to the pits and change tires on this number 14 car one more time? him at the back of the pack thanks for starting to give it a little bit of a different look as we get late in the race because we've been talking about the guys and they stand in the back like the number 14 car which is now.

It's about time you went a little deeper and moved towards the front so it will be interesting to see how it works out as far as that goes, there are no pits now, his teammate is creative with the rear. bumper here, this is Ryan Newman's car, yes they pitted and then worked on the rear bumper putting the bare bottom back up. Now you see the crew greasing the rear bumper because when these guys get hooked it makes the car slide and Don't bother them if the car is basically greasy or slippery in the back so a little Mike I might say modern technology on its maximum expression.

I thought they borrowed part of your son's tree exactly to make that Sentinel, how about the Hendrick? combination, they had the first four drivers to start, you said they could set the tone, we see them at the front, at the back, we have seen split pairs, it seems like they have things arranged, I think they have been very, very patient and trying to work things out , but the key will be these restarts at the end of the race can really break you down and trying to get back to your dance could be good or could be very ugly and today's current qualifying for the fastest pit. team so far ATT customers can find out the final race standings by texting a given number and replying OK AT&T The nation's fastest mobile broadband network is getting faster with 4G and again a horse with 12 times today the record here is 20 by Donnie Allison Mike and Buddy Baker thanks Chris Brad Paisley among those who watched today and tweets I haven't seen so much teenage bumping and grinding since prom Brad is my neighbor ready to restart 62 lead changes out of 23 drivers Tony Stewart stayed out an extra lap before pitting so he could get a bonus point for leaving I'm Buescher about the neck fat in that rear arch that creates problems, prions, things that question the people behind him, yes, Paul Menard, Regan Smith, couple of the Dark Horse candidates to win along with AJ Allmendinger. and Jeff Burton in the restart, then it is Boyer and Kyle Busch Reutimann Logano Blaney and Jimmie Johnson the first, so Jeff Burton at thirty-one fell at the end at the moment they crossed the start/finish line to find his teammate to whom we will return. part of that initial intensity with which we began the race.

Conger began watching his laps with the drop board. He was following an interesting strategy from Jeff Gordon, Mark Martin, Carl Edwards and others to not pit the first time, so they restarted from the back thinking it was still istoo soon with 56 to finish, well they know the same thing I just said in the tips and he's going to answer and the boys are getting a little tired now that their brains have been burning all afternoon and you can make mistakes, Well, I think it's safe to say that we're not done with the warnings and we know we have at least one more pit stop.

Blaney and Harvick work at the top, 36 and 29, Jeff Burton along with Clint Boyer, about three miles per hour faster than Smith. and Menard, each of those six drivers has Earnhardt Childress Racing engines there in 11th and 12th, Jimmie Johnson and Dale Earnhardt jr. approaching his teammate, we listen and it could be terribly busy, poorly written, they are going to have whole hours, they wanted a lot, sorry, we were my calendar, so I separated it, they are drafting and about to go inside. Montoya and McMurray's teammates at Earnhardt Canasa Racing who battled the two Hendrick drivers didn't hear any urgency and neither of those guys made a voice, but they realized that things were going to get a little busier than the last few laps of our champion. he already led twice and now leads with the help of Kevin Harvick.

It's cool to see Dave Blaney catching Tommy Ball in a one-car team, they're struggling with sponsorship, but they can lead the race at Talladega with about 50 laps to go, yeah. I mean, normally I guess they don't fit well this year on a team that you would expect to see here leading the race, don't look back because they all come Smith, Menard Busch and Logano, the oldest with the help of Matt Kenseth. former teammate Allmendinger Truex about a dozen cars and they all want the lead in Kyle Busch, that blue 18, has had a new teammate after every setup, probably pretty happy.

I think he enjoyed it. I'm not sure they work well together, but they sure go fast together. we just push, not so much the Pied Piper, it's more like catch me if you can. We know that those two drivers work together in the early part of the race, Kyle Busch and Joey Logano, who are teammates. We asked some drivers what they think is the ideal position to be in when this comes to a lap to come to me here Talladega coming into the last lap I still prefer to be the second place car or the second group catching the first group do you want to be the second car if there's only two of you my ideal position is you know a teammate behind me you know and three or four of them behind them and we're a little bit ahead of them.

I don't really think there is a preferred one, they just have to do it. I know how to handle it, whether you're the leader, whether you're the pusher. I have one with the leader on the last lap. I have one coming from third, fifty-one laps to go and all of us, all 29. We are still in this to win. I saw Joey Logano do an interview after the race yesterday and I think yesterday he finished second to Kyle and he said, I'm getting tired of pushing people to victory. I would like to get one for myself. What does it mean? kevin harvick thinks about pushing dave blaney into the I have nightmares tonight about giving away for free that's what we were talking about is all over the tail light panel of a Blaney car that his sponsor Golden Corral will feed the kids for free on Monday Dave ends up among the top ten plus I trusted Harvick, we're going to go eat that's all he sees now running after someone is like running after a big truck going down the interstate, I mean you're stuck behind a big truck that you don't know if There is something happening in front of you or not because you can't see around you.

The clock would almost happen behind him with Michael Waltrip and Jimmie Johnson instead of Michael Waltrip and Johnson on 48, wow yeah, Terry Labonte in that 32 car let loose on Michael and us. I heard Michael say before that his car was a little loose with someone behind him and I'm sure that was when things were still sorting themselves out with 29 cars on the lead lap and just under 50 laps to run into trouble on the backstretch, the great Rick Kyle Busch against the wall and other cars are damaged with 49 laps to go Matt Kenseth is in a lot of damage on the right front and Joey Logano and Kyle Busch would have been an important part of this.

Look at Logano's orange number 20 and Kyle Busch's blue number 18 right at the top up here, your screen just isn't like that personally. I didn't like this combination right there on the edge of the curve. It seemed like his car was a little loose to start. Allmendinger spins in a Hamlin 11 car. Great job. of losing here's another look, you know, it could have been one of those situations where the 18 was closing in on the car in front. I think it may have been Menard and I had to ease off the gas just a little bit and that's what caused Logano's number 20 car to come back and we actually documented that Kyle Busch's shuttle was made, yeah, as fast as they're closing , you know, if you lift it's a small bed of wheat, the guy I said like that, you don't know what he's doing. just drop blind if we can tell us it's 78 in 27 do whatever now Allmendinger Scott I'm not sure if there was any damage on the 43 and here's yesterday's winner's car all banged up on pit road guess which one it was his car yesterday seemed like a plan like that and he wanted to now they are working hard on Allmendinger's damaged car his pit lane is open dick Berggren and dave blaney started way back in 30th position on bike leading in this round to track option for most people in my part it will take fuel only there is the 36th man of Blaney and Clint Bowyer will have to drive around the 18th of Kyle Busch who is already in the pits fuel only for the 33rd, while the 29th Kevin Harvick has same game plan, fuel only it's already out Steve and Matt Seems like the same scenario for Kurt Busch just feeding the Kota spotter, it's hard to know what to do right now, but just according to their books, there's the race out of the pits, all the top ten cars took only Sunoco race fuel, no good for your tires. ride with Kyle Busch through this while he is in the pits repairing damage this NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Fox is delivered by UPS so UPS with the power of logistics will work for you 28 cars on the lead lap working on fourth caution of the day Martin Truex Jr is the leader over Terry Labonte Tony Stewart David Gilliland and Kevin Harvick 18th and 20th join here Joey Logano on the back of teammate Kyle Busch as things seemed to pile up in front of them and Kyle came in with a cross. 2 Matt Kenseth who was with Krista, well Matt Kenseth had several different dance partners today, you survived the incident that killed your dance partner, David Ragan, this one wasn't so lucky, what happened there, I'm not really sure I was going straight and the next thing I knew I was in. on the right rear and crashed into the wall, so it's really very difficult.

You know, I was following my friend Kurt there and we were making some good moves up there and I just want to say that everything you can see is a spoiler, it's just visible. It's a spoiler in his mouth now or nothing else, it's not really the safest environment so we have to do it. I feel bad, we have a pretty fast car, but it's out of your hands here, you're probably everywhere I go. We go and we were going straight. I thought we had a lot of space around us and the next thing I knew I was in the wall, so I don't really know what happened there, like driving in white fog conditions in Wisconsin.

It is not similar. You know, because we're running 210 miles an hour and we have all these other cars, it's frustrating. I remember finishing late, so it's a frustrating kind of grace to lose a new stone. I don't do anything different. No, it's good to be careful, but it's not much fun to be, and especially to be the second car, it would just be nice to be able to see and control your own destiny a little more. Thank you. Kenseth was right on the rear bumper of Kurt Busch's #22. when all this happened and Kurt came out unscathed, this is how the horse reacted continue, it's one of those cars that leads the lap, it's in fifth place, no, Larry, what's up with Hendrick's strategy on this yellow flag?

Well, I think the strategy is to try to make sure that they have enough fuel to get to at least lap 188 because when that yellow flag came out and everyone pitted on the first lap with 47 to go, that was right there, without cushion for possibly extra time or green and white squares, I think it was a good strategy. there it is, I also like that teammates Kevin Harvick and Jeff Burton are next to each other. Harvick will have his other Childress teammate right behind him and that's Clint Bowyer, while the fourth Childress car is Paul Menard right behind Burton on the outside, so we start the day with four Hendrick cars up front, let's restart with 44 cars left with four Richard Childress cars ahead of Kurt Busch Joey Logano Dave Blaney Regan Smith Montoya and McMurray briefly, you have to admit Mike Larry these cows are pretty sneaky, Harvick and some of these guys behind missed the first big accident because they were behind, now they missed the second biggest one in front and you see about a dozen cars chosen to restart about three. or four seconds behind the leading pack when I look at that second group right there, the two second drivers looking at it in my 40 vs 42, they've been at the end of this race the whole time, I think they've decided it's time to go .

Here, with just over 40 laps remaining, it's third and fourth, Jimmie Johnson and Dale junior, fifth and sixth. Truex and his partner Reutimann, seventh and eighth. As we move forward, things get busy at the front of the group. Here comes Harvick, the leader. McMurray here comes Truex open Martin Truex lead leader this does it and Burton holds on saved him I can't believe Jeff Burton saved him and that was over 190 miles per hour Burton ran off the track Paul Menard's front bumper kept the wheels straights he went out again and although he went under the line there was no penalty as he did not advance his position, all of those were out of the race so luckily they located all of this on the front straight at the start/finish line .

You will see him take. a little ride right here in the old CAD car she's out of control never got back up in front of Menard and kept digging that was tense Kurt Busch merges with leader Joey Logano on his bumper and how about those? two Michael Waltrip Racing Cars Martin Truex Jr in 256 Reutimann them at double zero are up in the mix pretty good here Shrek, let's take it inside the Sprint Cup Series Rocky an HTC EVO Truex six bigger engines, you're looking at it, the number twenty -nine Kevin Harvick moved up 36 spots from where he started, feed your intern.

Ask our fan with live in-car audio and real-time stats on mobile from the NASCAR Sprint Cup and the new HTC about five laps ago. Boyer told Harvick to take the high line and surrender. down that way if you needed you can hear Emily stopped the two cars at the bottom they did exactly that about two laps ago with Logano and Truex maybe they can't do that this time I think they'll get shot from both sides, oh. boy, here they come, I think the intensity is building with 39 to go, oh yeah, Burton looks for space in the middle with Menard pushing his head away from the rest, elastic wrap to whisper, he's ready to go, now he heads towards the 25 liters lower. 71 leadership changes Trek is trying to lead this return and Reutimann would help him.

I can't tell you how difficult it is to go through the tri-oval here with someone pushing you like that on the test, which is a very loose area of ​​the racetrack. About this, I'm close to the bank in one test, but we have two corners and you're running just as fast to find out where I'll be in that test and more to come. Now there are 12 cars under a blanket in front. Wow, this is going to get a big one now, Kevin Harvick in 29, picked up his teammate and Clint Boyer, we see Dave Blaney in the 36 car, found Regan Smith in 78 down at the start of the race in the Leading lap with a free pass. and now he and Terry Labonte are flirting with the top ten, it will be huge for Andy Lally in that 71, they arrive at Talladega outside the top 35 and the owner scores by four points and I am very happy that Doug Richer cooks the team. boss the new crew chief on this field Doug is a great guy he needs a break this could be big for a minute and the whole operation there are 37 laps left what is the closer doing up front as soon as you are seeing Aaron's warning ago 33 laps 10 cars fight for the lead here you see them from our aerial coverage provided by DIRECTV you get the most sports in HD call 1-800 DIRECTV Burton just told Paul Menard two laps ago on the radio don't give up , we still have a Good singing, keep digging Paul, we're not done yet and they're trying to fight Dave Blaney and Regan Smith up front.

Larry, car 36 leading the race. Dave Blaney. The people in Tommy's carBalls had always criticized some of these incumbents. That's the result of starting and parking put your feet on the ground get a sponsor like Golden Corral and now show what you can do a great example never give up never give up in a race or not during the incredible season Blaney likes Talladega finish third in the October race in 2007 Childress' teammates trying to fight here come the Ganassi Montoya 42 and McMurray cars in which are the usual suspects, there is a look at Jeff Gordon, the Pizza Hut fan favorite, and the 24 together 16: a drop of the green flag today back there at 15th and 16th streets Jimmie Johnson Dale jr.

Still working together Carl Edwards with his Roush Fenway Ford teammate, Greg Biffle. 31 laps left. There are a couple of groups here and there, they are scattered but they are starting to close the gap. I've been watching the lap times, the 24th and the. 5 closing the gap, Childress' cars have shown no reluctance to run to the front Boyer has led a lot today as have Harvick and Burton Navy to leave half a dozen last comment quite big weekend for Richard Childress yes the city is, but when I look at the ones in front of Clint they put you more at 33, Kevin Harvick for the 29 that swept the races here last year and, in fact, a photo finish between Boyer and Harvick and the fall race with Boyer taking the victory.

Scott tells you from 24 to 548, which is 88. not finished now lurking Johnson Earnhardt 17th and 18th, just behind Gordon and Mark Clark, we know they are fans, they were the first four finishers in qualifying if you have made your last pit stop, how long will you Do you dare to wait before having to do it? come and challenge this lead well you can't wait too long because of the speed disparity between the two cars pushing it and setting someone up so that's the hard part that's what these guys I think need to figure out for themselves themselves, but I think you have to get here in the mix now decisive time Gordon and Martin's last lap six tenths of a second faster than the race leader no, they decided to fly, they've been hanging around back here, they haven't been doing that, but I've really been watching, oh man, they have fast race cars right in the middle.

Michael Waltrip, Toyota's Martin Truex in the Napa car, David Reutimann, as a challenge for the lead once again and boy, think brand tricks, two weeks in which he has had great accident records. With a fresh man from Texas, if he can get out of here with a good ending. 28 laps left. 10 cars still very tight at the front of the field. What will this shakeup of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series look like? Racing on Fox is sponsored viagra by Subway restaurants. The official training. Carl Edwards Metro Restaurant eats fresh and is from Sprint, proud sponsor of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.

There are 25 laps to go at Talladega and with ten cars we are catching up to the top eight and there is some really interesting debris in the final stretch that puts us under caution for the fifth time today, I don't know how it will play out with those five of the 24 that They were getting to the front and in a hurry, I think they had run out of time pretty well. Have we not had this warning? Chef Gordon, your all-time NASCAR. Winner of the restrictor plate race with 12, none since 2007, Clint Boyer won here last fall, so Larry is 25 short, let's go down and find out who's going to pit and who isn't Matt Mike.

Mark Martin is planning to look for fuel, but on the 33rd and 29th Harvick and Boyer are going back and forth on their radio talking together about whether to stay out and try to conserve fuel or come in to complete they haven't decided yet, idiot Jeff Burton has decided that will stay outside. Blaney and the group have not yet decided what they are going to do, this is a role that will surely make a stop on the ice. Steve and here at a launch, just talking to his team, they think that at this point they will be left out. on the 20th it looks like they will, but whoever is left out Krista Carl Edwards talking about tires, they have a set of sticky tires behind the wall, they are planning on pitting to get those four tires and the fuel, yeah, I'm not really worried. about tires, but when I think about many of the drivers, with the exception of Hendrick's drivers in Martin Trix jr. when they ended up missing one, I think they're in good shape, but some of these guys are thinking about lap 188.

I think you have to think about three green and white squares. Darrell, the other thing is a little technical here. I want more fuel. the back of that car and pulls the back of the car down with the weight she will run faster but they have to do it together yes they always had to do it oh my theory was always that she was running out and particularly when the tires are not a problem, but we would hope that the cars that stay out because of these caution laps and burn about half as much fuel on a caution lap as on a green lap under normal conditions, would have enough fuel to cover the distance, but the The smartest minds in the sport are the ones on pit road who start up the calculators and make the calls, who will come and who will stay out.

The pit road is open, it seems like the top ten are out, but here comes Kurt Busch, number 22, and almost everyone does the same, Kurt Busch and Joey Logano. He jumped them into their spots at the south end of pit road along with Tony Stewart AJ Allmendinger Jeff Gordon Mark Martin Matt Newman already hit the fuel limit meanwhile, the 42 Jimmie Johnson there to use four tires on this machine, all five from Mark Martin he is already gone, he took fuel and Marc got fuel and is leaving while Jeff Gordon is still getting tires, wait until they can still be together once we prepare for the restart, many different strategies.

There are 23 laps left to see how 21 unfold and half a lap left and ready to restart after the fifth caution play. There are Childress cars, four of them in front but not aligned with the partners they were recruiting with before. How is this going to be fixed? I think the front is sick. Bye bye. bye, we've got some teammates here and guys that have been working together pretty much the whole race, then you go back to the group a little bit and you'll see the five of us on 24, 99 and 16, there's some guys back there. They're going to have to make some pretty quick moves here, Ryan Newman is at the back and Tony Stewart, so we'll see how the guys at the back of the pack worked towards the front here, how long it takes for the lady in third, Regan Smith in sixth .

They don't have teammates up front, will they be able to find each other? Will they find another teammate? We're about to find out. 21 to go green flag, so Regan Smith at 78, Mike just past the start/finish line, in the lead, Dave Blaney on that one. 36, which is fine, and unless Blaney goes up and picks up Harvick's 29, we know they ran together early in the race. Harvick is having a hard time accelerating, no man, his car takes a long time to come to life. pick up some speed, but everyone is behind, that's not what I needed to see the lack of communication, could it be that the play was for Boyer to take the outside and then move in front of Harvick to finalize the plan he had already presented as a plan with the 31 charge, that meant that Harvick at the last minute had to try to pick up the 36.

This is what Clint Boyer said before the restart, obviously, we have to do things here that you know keV will clear you on the road in Matlock, I mean, see the other one. you just stand there and work with Burt, whatever you want him to do well, he ended up finding and picking up a teammate leaving the other to fend for himself and now everyone is paired up once again, often with new partners it's a The thing that changes that whole strategy is the green flag when it comes out it changes everything that Burton said he mentioned it and maybe I need to work with him I think that's what happened Regan Smith and Paul Menard in 27 - of the drivers that we put in the top of the show to perhaps become Sprint Cup winners for the first time here this afternoon and they, Montoya, who has never won a Cup race on an oval track, McMurray Boyer and Burton, the six-car breakaway , now what's interesting with Montoya at 42 being pushed he bet on McMurray at 1.

I know before that caution. Krista Voda was telling me that Montoya had water temperatures up to 270 degrees, that caution will lower everything. I don't know, that will lower all the temperatures and you. We should be able to sit there and push pretty hard for several laps, six cars ran in front, losing a little bit of ground there and that will help Martin Truex and Reutimann gain some ground as they are actually next to fifth and cars from sixth place and looking for the front, yeah, the 42 in one almost looked like they stopped there, did you talk at the top of the show?

Do not give up. I look at Denny Hamlin in a 11 car right there, all kinds of damage I don't know how many pit stops he made and there he is, pushing Ryan Newman in 39 well, he's a guy that another guy who needs a big finish today, a win would certainly do a lot for that team they've been hurting and The big losers temporarily in this reboot were Dave Lady and Mr. Where Did He Go? Yeah, well, back up, back up or take, yeah, I think it was helpful to back up every stone to restart the Toyota in front now Truex, whoa, no, Newman saves it.

Unbelievable, most of the damage was done without caution and Montoya definitely caused a lot of damage to it. right in front of car 42, how did Brian Newman hang on to that race car and now McMurray has lost the teammate of his that he's been with since the green flag fell and what happened to Jeff Burton and Regan Smith ? I think it was just a matter of everyone getting checked out in that mess. Check out these two here, though check out Newman's silver and black 39. I don't think I saved that race car because of Montoya, you know what you know why.

Ryan Newman can do that catch-and-save dirt track racing man all the time, then throw 42 pounds at him and throw him back on the racetrack, but it's an incredible job to drive him well. There, most of the guys look up and say, "I'm done," but look at Regan Smith and that black 78 spun uphill, so he lost some time, but he's glad he didn't lose a race car that could have been the great one. but for Ryan Newman and Montoya that is why these guys are the best in the world at what they do and what they did.

Wow Truex on Reutimann is getting out front, look at the damage on Newman's car, regardless if you still get the push from Denny and It seems to me that the harder your car hits here, the better you get back to ninth and tenth these two guys 56 and double 0 Michael Waltrip's cars that they took out there reached a big advantage, but I'm telling you. Right now, those guys back there, running fifth and sixth, they've been putting in some front-row starters, Jeff Gordon and Mark Martin, we'll have something to say about this before it accelerates, before the yellow flag comes out, these were the two fastest cars.

At the race track, have you been showing it all day with her showing it? They've got speed now, baby. One round goes, a car is behind and it's Newman. Can you save him again? And we are not careful. He now he has a star. Well, I probably have four. tires and you can't drive that thing that far just four flat tires it's like keeping that car off the wall another thought of our thoughts that's not damaged guys just an incredible example of car control by Ryan Newman in this outing he has help of Hamlin above your screen got into it a little wrong right there and it doesn't take much I know you can show them push but you get the wrong angle Maybe not, so let's reconsider that look I like to see Again, maybe he dropped it a tire, but it's definitely the same thing: That was pushed and pushed a couple of terrains earlier and they hit Montoya at 190 miles per hour heading for the inside wall.

Ryan Newman locks the brake, unlocks it, accelerates it, keeps it off. the wall, sure of that left rear, you know all that damage on the left side could have knocked him over, could have bounced off it, could have cut a tire a little, could have gone flat when he hit Montoya, yeah right, that's it What I. I'm saying when he met talking about Montoya's car, but here is a driver who was behind with his teammate almost the entire race and now with less than 15 to go to the pits Tora Newman has a couple of punctures, but some of those as a result of that long Jimmie Johnson slide, it's really hard to say, man, I mean right there on the straightaway, right there, and these guys have told me that these cars are hard to drive on the straightaway with someone pushing you, but Darrell got a flat tire or No, how do you keep this car off the wall again?

It had a right front tire. I really believe it in the Newman case, just as we saw the right front wands hitting right there. I arrivedto believe it. Newman had a soft left rear or a left front. Due to the humidity due to contact with one, a lot of damage was done to Montoya's car. They put tires on it to try to prevent him from losing another lamp. I don't think new tires are going to fix that tear. Something bad broke and one day something else happened. Car 11 is kind of a pair bond, the father and might have caused me to look at the back of the car 39 which has pretty sticky bonds on both sides.

With 13 laps to go, a lot can still happen and whether you'll probably believe it or not after two wild incidents, Ryan Newman is still on the lead lap and still in a car he can't compete with. There's the most recent one that actually, when I looked at this the second time, car number 11 has a lot of that tape on it. the nose too the 39 has tape on the back of his car it just didn't slide I think he just hooked it we weren't the only ones impressed this is what Clint Boyer said well he's still on the lead lap Michael Waltrip got the free pass 27 cars with laps leading, there will be 11 laps to go when they reach the strip and as friends say, they ain't seen nothing yet Dave Blaney is the race leader and a Bernhard Childress engine powers his Tommy Baldwin Chevrolet.

Kurt Busch in the #22 Penske Dodge Martin Truex Jeff Gordon David Reutimann Mark Martin Harvick Boyer Menard and Logano the top ten, some of these teammates hooked up the way they're going to restart this race with 11 to go, they need help to cross the lane. in front of the 22 and they connect, but here comes the poleman Jeff Gordon with the outside starter of the first row, Mark Martin, or rather, the starter of the third play, Mark Martin, here they go in the lead and here come their other teammates, back there, Jimmie Johnson in that 48 and Dale Earnhardt jr. net 88 in his direction Steve under caution Jeff Gordon Mark Martin talking back and forth his strategy very clear mark is going to push Jeff Jeff said we need to protect the bottom well, they left it open for longer Kevin Harvick and Clint Bowyer to shoot and They have to run many laps at the front of this field together today that is the race and for me the 29 33 the 24 and a 5 that will be the race and then you have the 48 in the 88 up here, I'm not sure There are 10 laps to go , remember Harvick and Boyer broke up on the last restart and here was the comment Harvick left for Burton last time, I thought you were good, dance with me, but there are no cars fighting and now it's all for Hendrick's cars.

They're running three four five six in formation behind the two Childress cars in front of the two Michael Waltrip cars, yeah, these six cars right here, the 400 cars, the two Childress cars, they got the best cars, they had to think on speed to go this time Jimmy Jelly is up there 248 Dick Bertram talks to him at the pre-race restrictor plate Racing hasn't been good for him these past few years for a year. I think it's interesting though Kevin Harvick's strategy to get to the top of Rio. brings the street now playing and is playing here in knight has eight and a half laps to go and there are still 16 cars within sight of the leader and that group continues to grow and 16 drivers who think they can still win this again Dave Blaney, how great boost to Tommy Baldwin's careers could be if he and Kurt Busch could prevail.

Did you see him dancing around the warrior right there? Oh wow, ten drivers have won their first Sprint Cup race right here. Blaney is the leading contender. that 11 just not sure about that strategy of running the High Line from 29 to 33 now Ceylan backs Blainey leads car chaser Tommy Baldwin delights in a new shirt up there on the radio they're banned right there he's just snooping around with a cap dark black and sunglasses he has to be a man proud of what he has accomplished here today, seven laps to go, we have 20 drivers within two seconds of each other right now Kurt Busch pushed his then teammate Ryan Newman into a Daytona 500 victory 88 and may need to change I think the 88 in front is faster than food.

Are we getting too late to change? Although a lot of time is lost when changing. Well, yes, we are running out of time and no, it doesn't seem like they will. Go to have enough speed, you can stay there for a while, but when you have to make the change, that will cost you that microphone, that was the problem before, its tendon was much better than the pads in the apartment that maybe they changed last time during the tri -Oval 24 cars all together again almost as close as the pace lap, except it's over a hundred and eighty miles an hour and only six letters five to go, you don't even look at the water temperature the swamp measures and now I'll put you directly on the back, you will change radio channels or anything else.

Here come those Roush cars and Gordon and Mark Martin drop back down the middle, behind the top ten, it's Carl and Greg Biffle, ninety-nine and sixteen coming up. inside right now they're going to have to get that 36 off the lead court right there and he's staying close to that double yellow line, five to go this time for Dave three wide behind everyone jockeying for position and looking for a spot from that they can walk to the front on the last lap, we just made mistakes here Darrel Kurt Busch 222 got off Dave Blaney in 36 there he passed from first or second around 18 or 19 Harvick and the guy are trying to pay them from the bottom Listen, they did the right thing, they realize they work fast, they made the change and now they are fighting back or missing laps.

Carl Edwards came in as the points leader, he leads this race by one car, Christin and this was the plan that Greg told him. Carla, I know you're going to want to push yourself but we have to wait until there are four or five laps left, that's when we'll go, they're going as hard as they can, but Boyer is pulling a train out, what? great move Larry, what a great decision by Boyer, let me lead faster, you push and they did it early enough to recover and they are fighting again and again against those Blaney, he saved him, saved him without a yellow card.

It's nothing like the great dirt track racer in a great dirt track save, but what a heartbreak, since Blaney won't win today. They reach the line three laps to go. Boyer ahead of Harvick Edwards, third, Biffle, fourth, Jimmie Johnson, Earnhardt Gordon, Martin Truex. and Reutimann, top ten, Kurt Busch, which is the third car to come off Kurt Busch's front bumper, was a little bit stinky on the front of his car today. Today the boys will become the remaining two laps, we are not done yet. 85 lead changes Paul Menard trying to win his first Sprint Cup race, you know what those two at the top say, it ain't cheap, they're coming from the red 99 from 16th to the end this time and they ran out of time , a pretty good book warrior and Harvey comes back to him.

I'll be tight with two laps to go, remember that seven of Talladega's last 11 races decided the last pass. Boyer and Harvick are coming on the high side again, yes 60 but it's paying off, a drag race out the back but they can't clear the ports and protect the down because Edwards comes back furious on the inside, what does he do, opens a door for these two cats here who have exhausted themselves quite well, they enter the white flag and here come their teammates also Johnson and Earnhardt jr. white flag this time they have been in the top two parts for most of this race, now they are showing the belts to Jeff Gordon, but here come the next two pairs and these two cats here may have also run out the clock, let's see . what's going on back now you're gonna get a draft and here's the slingshot out stay together that's what they say stay together push push push to be tight down here three Jimmie Johnson Dale jr. fifth and sixth, they are there, which group will they go to and relate to those cars?

Jeff Gordon to victory lane, all bets are off, they'll hit the middle of the road once they're down, wait, Johnson comes out 3x3, trust me, he caught it by an inch for a thousand and seven, beat the guy, okay, a sixteenth of an inch, never say anything, the graduate don't go, he won that racing dojo, an incredible finish for Jimmy Johnson. He had enough space between the two cars on the inside and the double yellow line because he crossed that. it would have cost her the race she had the space and she made it work it's just amazing how things will work out for you at some point in that moment it worked perfectly look at Jeff Gordon watching Boyer seeing if he can beat Boyer left enough room in the inside for Johnson and Earnhardt right there on the tri-oval, the boyers are up, yes, it looks like Boyer is moving forward, but suddenly they hit the air off that wall of air, a 48 Darryl appears at the start/finish line. here are millipedes further away look how close it is wide on the wire that's a beautiful thing right there two four six eight cars so close we can barely capture it with our stop-motion camera there's a glimpse and there's the margin Darrell this reminds me to 1981 when you look at Terry Labonte to make sure you beat him today.

Jimmy Johnson was the 1981 Ron Bouchard who swam inland. Mark Martin saw the 48 coming but he couldn't do anything about it. These are Jimmie Johnson and Dale Earnhardt Jr. they never left each other all day and look at the expo the box Expo look at the finish line it's Jimmy looking for the checkered flag at the start/finish line any of those eight cars could have wanted jimmie johnson welcome back to Talladega Jimmie Johnson celebrates his entry In turn three he was fifth and at the finish line he and Dale Earnhardt Jr. were first. Celebrate Johnson's victory here, they come back immediately 24 and 5 are next to each other and 33 to 29 take years, they hit 48 in 88 Jimmie Johnson and Dale jr.

That gave him a real blow until he raised the flag from the beginning and took it to his teammate and wingmate Dale Earnhardt Jr. that's nice guys, this ties Ricky Craven Kurt Busch's finish at Darlington for the closest margin of victory since the advent of electronic scoring in the Sprint Cup Series we were there at Darlington 2003 McKendrick congratulates his driver here's Dick Berggren Victor Lane Jimmie Johnson has I just got to Victory Lane because it gets a little wet down here. Jimmy joins us on the last lap and tells us how you drove the car to win the race.

Jimmy was cleaning our man's glasses. I thought we were in trouble. It happened like 2:00 to go and we disconnected and we had a really difficult time here at junior on the radio, so I didn't know what he was saying or what he needed, but we disconnected and we got back together and I think it was overheating but we hooked up and rolled and all of a sudden there were only two groups in front of us but a big run around the back, I thought the bottom was protecting it and then I just went through three and four and me.

I hope we get another chance and they were worried about each other in the second and third lanes and they left the back open and we had some great moments. I didn't do it and we left, so it's great to have a plan that works. I mean we agreed to work together, we really wanted Daytona to just not work out, but this 48 88 shop is amazing and I can't thank these guys enough, I can't be junior enough, we mean he made the decision. My car was faster leading and the way these things have ended, that lead car will be windy, so in some ways I was more worried about the team performing well than anything else and they are responsible for this great win. from today. thanks to Lowe's, the fans, my fans, I'm all these fans that are here watching this race and it looks like it's going to rain some fun tonight, the guys are getting rowdy, it looks like the guy who gets the checkered flag won't be able to keep it .

Well, I have it and I gave it to him because I don't want it. I said I have to give myself something here. Thank you. Oh, he's got the checkered flag there and he can't wait to tip the cold one back. with him and thank him for a good job the job done well today congratulations Jimmy Johnson job well done Chris thanks dick the Dominator is back he never really got that far but 15 races without a win for Jimmie Johnson five times working in a sixth Sprint Cup, pretty impressive championship with Jeff Chris Myers' hammock here from the Hollywood hotel, led 14 laps and that kind of graceful move there and officially one that regrets it to a millisecond, so it was as close as you saw it.

He pointed out to me that Mark Martin, however, had a chance with Jeff Gordon, perhaps to get him across the finish line before Jimmy. Well, I just saw the separation right there and it was a car one. I need to start the finish line. It seems that Mark had succeeded. disconnected from the 24 car and that really hurts these guys as far as maintaining that momentum, but Mark did a great job getting Jeff to the front and almost getting into Victory Lane, so right there in front of theenemy, everyone is running for themselves, but man, me. I'll tell you, I've been here many times, but I've never seen such a close victory with so many cars on the start/finish line.

It's amazing and Steve Byrnes is with the guy who helped you cross that finish line. Steve Allen line our jr. talking to his crew chief Steve Letarte another good finish for this race team Dale this is a track in a race that ultimately requires teamwork more than any other he talked about everything you could do at the end well for some reason I was when I was leading we just held on and walked away from the pack that was coming to the target and I told you this to live no matter what and he was telling me I'm just trying to stay, I'll probably know too when we get along. in the inside market behind the 48, then I missed the nose and board mark and crashed, but I think we gave myself enough of a show to get through there and you know, if I couldn't win the race, I'd be a junior winner. because I've really worked all day and he's my teammate and I'm proud to drive for Hendrick Motorsports.

It was a great finish, a great weekend for us, we have a classification as if we raced as if we didn't have the four. Engines build fantastic cars and we all finished very well today, that's the tribute to the craftsmanship we had in Charlotte thanks to Steve at the last two Springs holiday races. Jimmie Johnson didn't even finish the race, he only led 14 laps here and at that last caution he was 13th but he shot to the front which became the announcement of a lead change that tied the record for 7th lead changes in this race last year Jimmie Johnson Urals winner anything right now these guys have a plan in Hendrick today to protect themselves be there until the end they were there when it mattered most go help each other and make for an exciting finish Kurt Busch finished 18 it seemed that every time there was an accident he was somehow in or around the activity and Jamie McMurray, who had a plan to rest with a certain Pablo Montoya and make a move.

I got stuck in some traffic due to some hiccups there. Dave Blaney, Blaney, acts disappointed with Ohio supporting what would have been his first win in 370. race starts no, it was an amazing race right there for Tommy Bolin Dave Lane and the 36 car came up a little short but it was a wild day for a lot of different people and that's how another fantastic finish ended, but Jimmie Johnson's 54th career victory ties him for ninth all-time with Lee petty for NASCAR on Fox live from Talladega Lee hears from other drivers here in just one moment made here at Talladega Superspeedway zero-zero Clint Boyer, who finished second one hundred thousandths of a second behind the winner, left the most laps 38, led 15 different times for Jimmie Johnson celebrating with his family in the lane of victory and let's talk to Boyer and our Matt Yocum is waiting last fall, he went to Victory Lane and almost had another victory at Talladega.

Yes, if the game plan was working, is there anything you could have done differently? We did everything she did, everything she could do. Some circumstances, man, I saw them coming in a mirror. You're even through Kevin and I knew he had 24 best blocks. guys you better bark, guys, I never cared too much about competing with us, yeah, as we were, then all hell broke loose, that's exactly what just happened, but what makes this place amazing, you know, is a good final strength, I'm very frustrated, but we couldn't win. but I can tell you that I hope the fans enjoyed ending this with the holodeck, that's why these people come out with hundreds of thousands of people for this place.

One thing is Cheerios Hamburger Helper. American Ethanol last week thanked everyone aboard car 33. thanks, a lot of information to digest and try to come up with a plan. At one point you and Harvick were trying to put together a document to reboot and then you made a plan with Burton behind you, some confusion, yeah I hated you. You know Kevin wanted to. He asked me to work with him and then Billy didn't and I worked with 31 all day with Jeff and I just didn't feel like it was right to leave him hanging there so I did it and then I was careful not to.

It didn't happen that Ryan Newman spun and didn't crash and we were green Burton and I separated thank God Kevin gave us two gasses and we had a lot of backup, but it was fun to climb a short and fun meter high, it's the second at Talladega. guy or ten in points after eight races from 36 tracks Jimmy Johnson climbs to the best position so far this season Carl Edwards maintains the first junior spot on the green I tell us what's impressive Rodney's update on our junior, suddenly is a factor Now, in the race of this chase along with Carl Edwards and guys like Jimmie Johnson, this could be a

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battle, always again and remember the top 10 and that if you win a race that takes you beyond where they are the points, Jeff Gordon. has that going for him Kyle Busch lost four spots Matt Kenseth lost five to some of the guys who got involved in mishaps earlier in the day at Talladega, but they sat up top for some final thoughts from Darrell Larry and Mike of the four cars that They ran nose to tail each with a pusher in single file in turn three, they end up four in a row here at the finish line and eight cars, eight cars, I mean, it would have been eight, it would have been four in a row, but that 99 was was left without space outside.

I've never seen a finish like that at Talladega with so many cars coming to the line so close together. It's amazing when you can't pick a winner thirty meters from the finish line. You have a great sport, well, you do it and that. It has to be bigger for Jimmie Johnson than in the 48 team because only one top-five finish in his last 13 restrictor plate races over the years since the late '60s when Bill France Sr. built this place, the people he I couldn't set the start/finish line. Way down I think we have another reason why he did it today remember what I said in the opener I say boogity boogity boogity but when the race is over I might say it now Chris eight of the last 12 Talladega races have been decided by a pass in the last one back and that way we can observe again and again and that could change.

Jeff Gordon is certainly a little disappointed to be back home, but how about some of the saves and Ryan Newman finished 25th, but he was fantastic here keeping his car. takes a little hit on 11 from Denny Hamlin turns to the side and Juan Pablo Montoya straightens him out, but the other part was that he saves him here, Chris, but he comes out of a turn to go down the back immediately and everything is ready. he gets hooked again in the rear by the number 11 car, this time he seems certain to hit the inside wall but somehow again keeps him off the wall once again he ends up on the lead lap Krista voda catches him well , this one had a lot of highlights and two of the biggest ones, we're actually both Ryan Newman's talk about those things, first of all, very big, second, almost quite big, but just luck, I mean, that's all I mean, if the wall was six feet closer down the stretch, I'd make it, it was lucky, you know, but probably guys, it wasn't what we deserved, but we survived and that's better than last year, so , you know, we're happy with the speed of the car, the guys, everything else, unfortunately, yeah, thanks Krista busy.

As a continuation of the celebration, you know it was funny. Dave Blaney led here, he had a chance to get this out of 370 races and hoping for that first career win, he ended up leading 21 laps, the second most in this race and it was a disappointment the way it. He finished, had a good race and krystal ran and talked to Dave hoping, well this is very bittersweet for the careers of Dave Blaney and Tommy Baldwin. I know we are a sport with statistics and results, but today something much more was happening. Are you leaving here confident with momentum or just disappointed this morning it's over Allen can't come back and you know you had a good chance to have a really good day, accomplish something and you just ran away, you know that, but that's nature? that's a bit of a race we had such a fast car with someone pushing us and keeping Crowell and often Tommy and all the guys and the ECR engines especially seem like they were amazing today yeah I don't know just yeah everyone was going hard . to check it out a little, yeah, a big running back showed it to 524 early and they blocked it, Kurt, you know Kurt wants to go, but what about that awesome save?

Were you even surprised that you saved him? when you did it it was over by then I was just mad yeah I guess I just didn't drive him I just let him go and he would save me if he didn't try to save me I tore him up though look. It's in your face but it was a great run for Dave Lady, thanks Krista. He was hoping to become the 11th winner for the first time in his career at this track, but here it is at the end again and the boys couldn't close this head-to-head in fifth place.

Jimmie Johnson and the design flood guy and Jeff Gordon are Matt Yocum talked to Harvick happy, they finished the e-ticket and the fun meter was definitely up until the last lap you and Boyer exchanged before, you felt it was best to push him in anything, guys. I could have done it differently to try to put it in Victory Lane of the RCR car again, at that point you just push as hard as you can, we tried to back off a little bit there at turn twenty-four to five and I never saw the 1916 coming in the I finished and I really thought he didn't know where 48 and the other guy were.

I don't know who was pushing it, but I don't know where they were going to go, but just push with all your might and in the end you know the 48 would just block it behind us. We've been in the right lane. Dude, you got to the end and lay there in a race so all you can ask for here is a chance and everyone in our Budweiser Chevy did a great job and when it gets to the end you usually have a good ending, thanks. you Kevin Harvick finishing fifth let's talk to Jeff Gordon who looked like he was going to win but finished third we will continue from Talladega NASCAR on Fox where Jimmie Johnson for the first time this year is a victory lane, well Jeff I heard you sympathize to a certain extent Mark Martin once you crossed the start-finish lot, it's hard to describe to fans what that finish was like, yeah, you know you can't always control what position you're in, but I mean.

We took the lead, you know, coming to the white flag, it was a little early, but we had the momentum, we made the pass and we had to hold on from that point on and you know, we blocked the bottom and the 29 and 33 came out of us and we stayed there, it's kind of a drag race and that just opened up the space for the guys behind us to gain momentum and get to the inside of us, so maybe we could have tried to block it, but you know, I'm very happy with our effort to end hunger Chevrolet.

I don't forget to text hungry five zero five five five Mark Martin was an incredible teammate today and I thought in the end the fans couldn't ask for better. shows that with ten and fifteen to go in the driver's seat Jeff, is that a frustrating way to race? You just have to be patient and understand that it is 188 laps from your point of view, what is the most difficult part? Well, that's what it is. It's actually a 25 lap race so you know just a few guys chose to go up there mix it up more during the day we had a plane coming in and you know that hasn't worked for us in the past and we just need to. to stay out of trouble and they almost caught us there one time and I thought we were going to take a lap back because we were too far back, but the yellow flag came out and we held on for about five or six seconds from that point on and told him.

Believe me, that's not easy to do, you know, it's harder than you think to try to maintain that gap, but when it came time to go, we did it and that's part of this race, but it's part of what It has happened to us. There have been so many accidents recently that we just wanted to try to keep our car on Earth, you know, in one piece as much as possible until the end. Thanks Jeff, thanks, thanks Steve, like you fought. a little sore throat or cold there as the celebration continues for his teammate and Jimmie Johnson's team 48 in two weeks Saturday night Richmond under the lights Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin have dominated this race until Gibbs Racing was able to use it and the The pre-race show put on by Pizza Hut kicks things off at 7:00 Eastern time and the HD is on fire, but the thing is now Chris, we have seven different winners in eight races.

I can't believe we don't make it to Richmond. and possibly looking at another winterDifferent, like you already mentioned, Denny Hamlin, he needs to get a win. There's been a lot going on, but there are too many Richmans. This would be a continuation of what we saw today and they could use a week off to recover. After finishing today, next Saturday, Fox Baseball you'll want to see some action from the Braves and Giants, also the Cardinals and Reds, the White Sox and the Tigers, no: these start for Eastern 1 Pacific and check the game and time in your area tonight on Fox is a brand new American Dad and The Cleveland Show features Snoop Dogg and Tony Hawk, it all starts at 7:00 ET on Fox and for more information on this race and coverage from Talladega, you can Check out our friends at Speed, who always brings you the best in racing, and Jimmie Johnson, who appeared on the Fox show, Breaking Good, that show airs this Wednesday.

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