2003 Chevy Rock and Roll 400 from Richmond Raceway | NASCAR Classic Full Race Replay

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400 Skinner will have to drop to the back of the field because he's in a backup car Greg Biffle will now share the front row with Mark Martin, everyone in that inside lane is Jill Weber, he told you before will move one place for the start, see Jeff Gordon move up to fourth position Sterling Marlin, who runs so well on this track Jeff Burton with his brother Ward in the arena Jeff, the winner of

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98, here back in the row number four Johnson I' I topped his qualifying run in the right place, Kyle in his first Winston Cup win here.

Remember in 1986, Joe Nemechek won here in May. He is in row number six with Todd Bodine. He finished in the top 10 here a year ago, I'd see. They are dark jr. and Tony Stewart winner Mike leave this path. Many people think Bill Elliott had a great fifth-place finish in the Southern 500 last week and bought the entire driver with three top-five short track finishes this season. Rusty Wallace runs. Alright, here was championship contender Matt Kenseth in row nine, Ricky Rudd's home state and his 50th start here coming from row ten and Jimmy Spencer seventh out of row 11.

Very, very good in the practice, change of driver in this week for Dale. Earnhardt brought John Andretti now on board, will run every

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for the rest of this season in that car, another row to look for a championship contender, row 13 and Kevin Harvick finishes in the top five in the last five consecutive races. Not the championship, but the winner tonight, yeah, where would you be there? Thanks, if you were with him, well, inspector, it's okay, just check it out. Michael Waltrip will return from row number 17. Kenny Wallace, one of his best leads. There's Johnny Sauter, last night's NASCAR Busch Series winner. driving the Kodak car tonight in 36th starting position and how many provisional drivers and could not arrive on time when we arrived by virtue of the points classification of its owner Steve Park in a bar with backing Christian Fittipaldi behind the karma they Crashed before of qualifying and the car they qualified with is the car they will be racing tonight, so they don't have to go over and in the field like Mike Skinner, Larry Foyt, Billy Billy jr.

Unable to qualify for the race and we're talking about Skinner, he'll fall to the back of the field in the pace laps in the US Army car. Red sky at night. Sailor's delight. Isn't that a wonderful thing? Look at the flashes that go off as the field comes out onto this race track before this huge crowd that's what you talked about today on your ride all those flashes that you know you really notice that you care for some reason that Bristol is actually there's even more than five here boy, just notice those flashes here, when you get off, get your adrenaline going, oh yeah, you've got many times the pace that I beat here, you've really disconnected from the crowd, you know you're in the car and you're getting ready, but I can't hear because of the flashes.

Great race tonight, they always do it in Richmond. Let's think a little more about tomorrow before we turn green. Dave, you go first. Well, Alan, a red car at night. Very good. Greg Biffle is delighted tonight. You know he has a new team. Last weekend's boss Doug Richard led 70 laps and finished 10th in this week's race, finishing almost qualified on pole and yesterday after final practice they made very few changes to the number 16 car. lose sight of Greg Biffle, Matt Dave, it's hard to believe, but excellent. Marlin had a top-five finish in more than a year.

He thought that the change that will occur in prison crashed while he was leading about forty minor cars after final practice, they feel that they now have the car in the hope of being lucky. scores Sterling's first short track Winston Cup victory Marty Matt Dale Earnhardt jr. is driving on the forbidden spot, so I guess you could say it's been a while since he's been to Victory Lane, in fact, yesterday at Talladega in April and happy hour for gear shifts in that aid car and Dale Earnhardt Jr. says the car is correct, this car took him to Victory Lane here in Richmond in 2000, so Victory Lane tonight may not be so far after all Bill Marty Johnny Sauter is making his third start of the weekend, but only his fourth in the Winston Cup. finished 10th in the truck race here on Thursday and won the Busch race last night when the bed after that race in victory lane Matt Kenseth was in quotes intentionally and a lot of guys in the garage area were talking this afternoon about what would have happened if Matt Kenseth had resolved an interesting situation.

Many drivers expect to see a similar hit and run on their way to the checkers tonight, but if the guy you crash into hits the wall, will you really get the checkers? We'll have to wait and see for Alan. The first thing I'll say is if the 17 car gets to the back of the 4th car tonight, see how much room Johnny Sauter gives that 17 car. I don't think I've seen that much in the pace laps. -New tires normally we see it when the tires are worn and the speed after the race increases a little bit, but on this track, these new tires, the cold tires don't grip very well on this track, they are trying to get all the heat that they can. them before the big apple green flag draw i want you to remember who is leading this race tonight on lap 50 could help you win a trip to new york city to work is a special correspondent at the cup awards ceremony December Winston remembers who is leading on lap 50.

I'll need that information later tonight. Well, you have an early choice. You want to give council people fifty-fifty laughs. Well, Ryan Newman here, Jeopardy's indecision is a terrible thing. 400 laps around a three-quarter mile track. 300 miles tonight a bit. over 4.4 million and more than holding a winner's trophy which is actually a very nice Gibson guitar at the end of Chevy's

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William overcame the first a big battle for the lead as pitbull takes it on Jeff Gordon va second row seems to be the best at the moment for third here comes Jeff Burton - Martin is out, you have something on this card that is not very good at the beginning, but later in the race, about 18 laps into 25 laps, he takes off. it's very consistent brand some will be good on short runs but look for long runs Jim most of the people I talked to in the garage this afternoon the vice president said look at that ninety nine nine ten for Jeff Burton listen he's the man who beat the car is incredible, come on look how incredible it is, I talked to jab, he said, well, we're pretty good, what is it, it's a long race, you know, a typical euphemism for the driver who travels inside to occupy a place.

That's Kyle Petty, he got the position he went for. 11 and 12 that open a door for Todd Bodine and inside Nemechek Nemechek is killing me inside I'm not sure it's the quickest way, it seems to be for Todd Bodine right now second place Jeff Burton on the simple moon back to third Sterling Marlin Ward Burton Johnny Benson Dale Earnhardt jr. and now it's time to live on that second place with 99 strokes and they expected to be very good on the short course this morning to lose in the turn, they did some spring changes on the front trying to tighten that car when the longer courses go . tight later, this goes to the middle of the race track, you see a lot of guys flying too high, so a lot of guys at the book exchange last night get up on the marbles and boy, you get up on the marbles, here it takes about one round. and a half to clean them and you lose a lot of spots and if you're not a NASCAR regular, it's the term that teams and drivers use to describe a car that doesn't want to turn and has no grip like Well, it needs to go to the track too, Matt Kenseth is right there on 17, instead of turning left like you want to be here to go around this race track, he's right where they are, these cars have to roll if you don't accelerate and you're just going around the corner and you want to that the car moves through the center without the front part sliding, that way you can step on the accelerator very hard and get out of the curve well, that is the best way to get around this place than the kids on 17 and Kevin Harvick hanging up some words after the NASCAR Busch Series last night right now Kenseth is 23rd, he started 18th, so 17 cars he's backwards a little bit VP.

I fought him twice now, just going up the track like his car just did it. He didn't grip like he wanted and he had to let off the gas and put it together which I thought looked like he just couldn't get on the gas, but coming back in he's trying to turn it off, that's the opposite of squeezing to be Johnson. four-twenty first place Harvick one of the rock-and-roll Chevy cars tonight plus Jimmy Johnson just ahead of Harvick Jeff Burton tried to close the gap on Jeff Gordon for the race lead looking at this course these two cars run almost the same although We saw that Jeff Gordon and Jeff Burton had to take a different speed in turns three and four, let's talk about the track surface here, it was sealed over a year ago before the May 2002 race and many drivers complained that day.

It has not been sealed from the baseline where most people run, the sealers have been wearing away and therefore there seems to be a different amount of grip between the roll. The outside looked like the hired thief from the bottom of the poison bats, but Ward Burton in the 22news that bottom lane to pass by Sterling Marlin take sixth position Johnny Benson tries to follow here is the guy who has been the driving force in the initial view is laughs Tony Raines' 74 started 20th already ready to do 17 laps at Marty this morning Saw in my throat, it's hitting, so excited to get in the car today.

BP in three had a car like that, you knew it was going to be good, you couldn't wait for the race to start, you're right Marty, and you love it when you come in, know you have one, get in the car and be competitive, be cool to See if Tony Raines can have a good night tonight. Jeff Burton chasing Jeff Gordon has yet to make a move to take the lead. 17 laps of 400 completed here in Richmond. Back at Richmond tonight, caution has been thrown out, Robby Gordon has just stopped in a cloud of smoke halfway down the backstretch and made a small contact with the inside retaining wall with one of the front fenders.

There we see the dark spot on the wall and you see the right front, then there the damage and believe it or not, the handling of this race car is dramatically dramatic, it has a serious rub on the tire, it will have to be fixed immediately and it lost one turn, let's see what happened. Robbie running with Elliott. Sadler here in 38 for 26th place, Chuck, went into the side of the pit, tried to swerve away from Elliot to avoid hitting him, and as he turned the wheel and turned it off, he went sideways and hit the inside wall trying to stay . outside, yes, and the exit of turn 2 is a very difficult exit, especially if you come from the inside of someone, believe me, he held on to it, but they touched me up.

I don't agree that they didn't touch them, that's him. be a little wrong on that, a few pit stops here Tony Stewart was the first to make a move towards pit road, he was back around 18th on the thin line Marty, our championship leader, Matt Kenseth, really, really loose, like we said on the radio, they do an Air Pressure Adjustment trying to tighten that car, it'll be four tires for it. Maddie and Tony Stewart have been talking about their car on the radio, loose if it's tight, but it's getting loose and that's the problem if they were working all the way.

In the last practice session the car just wasn't lit, but they kept transferring the problem from the center of the corner to the outside of the corner. The back half of the field enters the pits. The front half of the field remains out, so the front five remains unchanged. Jeff Gordon Jeff Burton Ryan Newman Greg Biffle and Mark Martin under yellow flag 25 laps and enrichment back to Richmond arriving at the green for the restart of the Chevy rock-and-roll 400 the first 22 on the track did not get the top 21 sorry for the first in line I know those guys weren't driving, so they had no choice.

He needed to come in and make those changes because it requires not working, it's not going to fix itself, those guys were basically forced to come in, the leaders come into the pits and if their car feels good now, after they adjust the chair, They're going to be out because the tires here didn't go down at all like they did last week, about a quarter of a second, like you always see at the beginning or the end of the race, Jeff. Gordon leads Jeff Burton second Ryan Newman third Greg Biffle for Martin over 50 looking at Dale jr. run anywhere and try to make some progress and a second Marland seven junior there in eighth place, that's ToddBodine in ninth and Tony Raines now in tenth, he just missed Johnny Benson second place put a bit of pressure on Burton here for a second, I think the older car had ideas and the notion of trying to get through the race out of 12 cars here, guys piled up there side by side now Robby Gordon lost a lap while sitting there spun backwards on the backstretch made a hole stopped, has new tires, is in 43rd place and is the only card in the return of the leader at this time.

Dave remembers this spring race where he had his right rear end down at the start of the race, he lost three laps and four laps. I think he was nice. He came back and got it back and finished fourth or you know, I'm not even looking at my sheet just to help, but he was down a lot of laps and he got it back, he's only down one now he brought you guys that The car is really tight, the front end they said which yeah, not that bad, this one was three laps down and finished fourth and the point is the lead car really ran well here in May, the guy was back in traffic but moved up to 19th after starting 32nd.

Jim Wong told me the reason they got it: they wanted to know early how good the car is on two tires to be a factor later in the race and really at this place it takes about 35 or 40 laps before the Hamlin. starts going for the car, so pretty much everyone is running around the same space of the race track, now is when the car starts to speed up, guys like you see Sterling Barn in car 40, he thought a little louder than Dale Jr. . . Tina is going to try to work, maybe I think looking up and seeing that they are both crazy, they seem to be on a team, Dale Jr.

He can run a little slower for the 22 cars trying to pass Marc Marc, that's battle fatigue. His position stands firm at the bottom of the racetrack from those 22 VPs you mentioned before, which 20 cheap cars were parked at the bottom if you can. stay there, he will pass a lot of cars, stay what you're talking about on the race track here, the last batch of cars and Mark drives to another place and at the risk of losing those places to Dylan, you need him. Ward Burton Sterling Marlin 2/6 Marketed Men's Defense Using Seventh – Dale Jr. Wow, look at that side, Rock will get in touch between Tony raised in '74 and Mark Martin, big push, he just did such a good job compared to them, they don't have anywhere near the budget, these other teams, Jax is doing a good work, saw the sign. in Tony Tony Raines Garn's room panel, you wonder about Louis Motor Speedway having a concert on October 7th.

Please acknowledge Winston's involvement over the past 33 years. Improvements and allergies. Tony was asked to carry the sign tonight that he's doing a very good job of carrying that sign around Jeff Gordon, the race leader, by six-tenths of a second over Jeff Burton and Jeff told his team about moments on the equipment radio that everything is quite good, look, we heard about the breakdown, they were vibrating a little. a little but nothing is a good boater comital well what he says a little loose that means it's okay and this is a place where he used a lot of brakes brakes your concern here you see many types but many hoses in the front calipers pull on the air from the nose of the car to cool those rotors it's very hard on the brakes third place Ryan Newman Matt got an upgrade well he's running third I'd appreciate it for finishing second go back to the same setup and shock package but they found some deal on a shock setup at Darlington, Ryan's life they brought, the quarter leaders came doing the track bar adjustment, his ride is very happy with the car and that shine you see on the front wheels, which are the brake rows, they turn red to me.

It looks red to me, yeah, that's what you see on cars that don't really have such regular rotors, they're easier on the brakes and if your car doesn't handle well here, if it's a little bit of a night where the car doesn't turn. you tend to use more brakes so your cars handle well you will use less brakes Greg Biffle feels his pressures are Ward Burton for fourth place crew chief Frankie Stoddard this afternoon in the garage area said yes, we have plenty Good car, as he drives by by Biffle, let's see if we can trap him under me.

We look at another guy. Hi Spencer, seven started in 22nd place. He's working on Tony Raines for eight. I spoke to his crew chief, Tommy Baldwin, this afternoon, and he said "you." I'm going to like the camera on board at night. I see little expensive on a short track. True, he said no. Schedule D is almost identical. Hat on the car 22. Jimmy said the cars are very good. A little break to help you. Wow, see, that's like he was saying before. your car is tight so you can stop and slide down the track you use a little brake but the problem is the brakes get hot six Jimmy Spencer by Tony Raines to eighth and we check for second place changing hands Jeff Burton then Newman moved up to second place, he's dead finishes here in his three previous Winston Cup starts at this track 48,000 behind that man Jeff Gordon now Jeff is on lap 50 when he returns to the start/finish line he will complete lap taxi number 15 from New York City to remind you that the official race leader needs that information to win a trip to this year's roster a couple ceremony to serve as a special correspondent log on to

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.com and check out the Grand Prix drawing NASCAR apple the rules and your chance to sign up each week for 50 laps in the Chevy rock-and-roll 400 at Richmond International Raceway Jeff Gordon is your race leader The nosedive Jeff Gordon is having now is what he's taught Steve Hart and Christian Fittipaldi and they are racing the exact same place he wants to race in the 24 car, so he's slowing it down about 3/10ths of a second per lap, but you better be careful not to box and he likes it enough to be there where Ryan's car must arrive. under car 43, well I guess it's not and that's the fraud you have, that Ryan's car wasn't good enough to make that pass at the bottom, whether boss Jeff Burton Walker caught this race for the lead and starting to jam right there from 2nd, it's very hard to stay next to your guy when you're at the bottom and accelerating hard, your car wants to slide into the wall so it's very hard to get out of the turn two side by side when you're on top of the guy when you're the bottom guy Dave, remember that radio broadcast you heard just now where he said it was a little loose, he repeated it in that 50 He also said it was a little tight on the middle, so not bad for Jeff, obviously leading the race, but something is starting to change.

Matt is car 24 to get that position, but the car is still, yeah, it looks like 12. The cars are running really well in the center, but you can see he's having a hard time accelerating, that's where you're going to be very loose if you're under the car, oh we've got a crush on the frontstretch, Greg Biffle, sure, good job. Work task, check the smoke screen. Biffle was running in fifth place, it looked like he had done a 360 flight. He had followed up with the right front tire plant and then, ma'am, look at the sparks flying dragging the front suspension parts. link bar and that kind of thing, yes they would destroy them, they are all so crushed now that when you get a flat tire everything is fine, the problem is that when you come to the pits it even goes right front. tire put on anyone my cold turn down yeah oh yeah people just got loose they just lost it junior gets mine sends the gas in the mail does that 360 and comes out kissing the steering wheel going straight says he only lost two points I can't move ten for that The scores now look at the smoke screen and here comes the part of the field on pit road Dave with the leader as soon as I made my report, then he radioed very tight in the middle, very loose, they will an adjustment on the track bar and they will come up for air.

Rear tire pressure to help try to give the car a little better grip coming out of the corners. The Jeff Burton party saw that and Paul Andrews had soft stuff, guys a little loose under the throttle, a turn down the net to the left side, first off pit road. Bill Jr. on your way, watch out for traffic, there was a vibration, they were trying to fix it there, we'll see if they did it on the track bar, great stop, they ran everyone off the road, even had to go around the car zero one of Mike. Skinner Michael Waltrip entered and exited the pits without losing a lap, the two cars did not catch up to Jason Leffler and Mike Wallace, so under yellow flag the red 400-grain rock and roll Chevy smoking on the frontstretch we continued the race down the championship. on TNT there is a good chance for mom if she has better tires than Leffler or Mike Wallace Robby Gordon 31 car in the inside lane Jason Leffler the zero and Mike Wallace in 2:09 - that was not under this caution zero when you talked about best time He put two tires on the right side in one lap.

It was a little loose in the turn. They made a different air pressure just with the backhoe. Jason only has two newer tires. I get used to saying that Michael Waltrip's problems continue, yes. I realized when he arrived. We met and he stayed on that lead lap. Allen, his car was still starting, so they have something like a dragon problem. Jeff Gordon is doing everything he can to overtake Ryan, never Ryan doing the number 12 car. He won that pit battle between himself Jeff Gordon Jeff Burton Ward Burton, but Jeff couldn't make that pass. Nothing. What's going on with a 15 car?

I'm joint Benny, they'll try and Pitt will try to fix it while they get here, but it's broken. I have time. guess on the front sway bar that hooks the lower control arm to the sway bar on the left and right side Dale jr. 6th place, surely Ryan Newman inside Jeff's board, couldn't get that bot lane run to pass him now, Gordon and Noodles on the outside, but this is a better time to do it, it's easier to do it when you're fresher. The only problem with the tires is the DP, don't you think that means that when you run down the racial part, you take a little life out of the tires when you run so well?

These guys that run up like the 12 and 99 I agree with you, they are not running their tires as wide as Jeff Gordon, do you know what's up with the opening number on the egg car? The stuff on the front rotor said it looked good, it's something they've done at this track before. So they came, they were able to change four tires, fuel, no adjustment, they couldn't find anything wrong with the tire, so they hope the vibration mysteriously goes away. Where he came from? He's inside Jr. trying to take control of the six positions, he started with 22 tires at his pit stop, no, he had four left over to get back to the winner's position, 25th by Matt Kenseth in this race a year ago , Kevin Harvick started with 28, going back to what said who said. that eight car with that vibration maybe why they sent the guy in the right outside lane to see if that rotor on the right front was going to see if maybe it was a break, stay for break, Bartek inside Ryan Newman, could be the jr. he's not using as much brake as he needs air going in there and he's got the brakes too cold here on this race track, the brakes are too cold like a Walter on pit road, it was observed a little bit on this grouper, all these guys are on the racing side. side by side, so the front works on the road, that's a good race front, Mike Wallace, he's in second place, those two drivers, behind third place, Jeff Gordon, and rest lap 78 is complete here in Richmond, back at Richmond International Raceway.

The yellow flag is out for the championship leader. Matt Kenseth went around and Elliott Sadler got hit in the traffic jam behind him, I don't think he hit anything, look at them, he hit the wall with his right side, we can see where he put that Darlington stripe or that pancake flat . On that right side, let's see, we also see some damage to the left front fender and the left rear fender Kenseth and Jamie McMurray, in his 24th position, got his and then the power of Todd Bodine caught them. He had had no part. To continue that, I don't have anyone on the curve.

It seems like his car is still pretty loose. It doesn't bite into corners, which means the rear tires don't grip. You know, we saw Matt Kenseth hit the wall at Darlington last week and get kind of screwed. His car never ran after that crash, Elliott Sadler had been hit in the traffic jam and he let off the accelerator just before hitting the wall because the rear tires had caught fire, he lost traction and was sliding into the wall. Marty Wally. I really struggled because this car was loose today, they arrived earlier, this time they took out a rubber on the right rear, two rounds down on thetracking bar, waters. 235 damage to the left rear on the car, as well as for the championship leader, 12 car lap lead, youngest child.

This caution includes leader Jason Leffler Mike Wallace right? Now he is in front. The green flag was just placed on the Chevy rock-and-roll 400 Richmond. Mike Wallace is the leader. He hasn't pitted since lap 25. Jeff Gordon. His second Jeff's. She can. Kevin Harvick now third right the first time Bert and then Harvick then Ward Burton film, it's the lab car, Robby Gordon, looking to blend in with Harvick, but you'll be live because right now car 29 inside Jeff Burt tries. to take away that spot the plan is better goodbye my nose do it Mike Wallace driving for James Finch for that limited flying team scheduled this year Brandi with a lot of success before them early in the season some races to run for them in the rest of

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and No joke, he's taken the lead and Jeff Gordon hangs on Kenny's bottom stick well enough that he doesn't really know how to take the lead, but I really think they need to get that car running at the bottom, in the middle of the corner cover. he's very fast coming out of the corner Jeff Burton heads into the trucks by the time he gets behind Mike Wallace woloson draws and here he comes a little deeper being able to come out of a corner too early he barely got over a couple of things to update john michael waltrip made an extension stays in the pits, is back on track 12 laps down, 43rd after problems at Bristol at Darlington, it's been a dismal three weeks for Mikey and Elliott Sadler, after their spin at the last caution , did what they call lifting the pin instead of staying inside. his place in the line of cars and cutting off pit road as they reached the opening, he drove into the inside of a few cars and then went to pit road, costing them a lap penalty for Elliott's back crash.

NASCAR in 40 seconds on the jammed backstretch Steve Park is in this Kyle Petty, isn't he? No Elliott just got sent off Johnny Sauter also has pretty bad damage to the front of the Kodak car and he's got the radiator in there there's Kenny Wallace, it looks like he doesn't have much damage to it and that's Dave Blaney at the top of the screen , the 77 tucked into the inside wall wants a degree back, although I suppose there will be some drivers crazy about this now, yeah, that would be like five or six right off the bat, yeah.

We could we could raise the total pretty big yeah petty oh man what a shame Kyle qualified 10th for tonight's race messenger note to Steve Park his race cars are a mess there's a worm in the system johnny sauter tonight won't go as well as the last time I did it and dave blaney mochi I wonder if there's any contact in that I guess it's a scene I really mean it was contact after Dave Blaney got a little sideways Dale Jarrett's number on that accident list he's not there Eliot I don't think you hit anything Thanks Connie he got hit in the back in the traffic jam right there Johnny Sauter has to run The car behind him told you about this race track with the sealant, although the sealant's husband, the track had my seal for a while, is that it produces a lot of smoke, it makes a tire spin and when that smoke rises and starts to reflect in the light. system, you can't see anything, all those guys back there can't see what's going on; the observers can't see me and this, but the mast has the best, in fact, we heard from Mark Martin, Kim's observer. be guiding him to go down, down because Mark didn't see anything, yes, so he was tired and not everything is father, yes, so now he will have to go back because they left the pit box with the team to put the tire back on the car.

Seventeen is on the championship leader Matt, this would be stop number two Alan, that's fine for Matt Kenseth. He behaves like this the last time he says that something on the right front is dragging on the track when he exits the corners, they can't find anything that he could be dragging. so they have to figure out what that could be. Matt says I can live with that. We have eight boys. Eight guys go to Taco Ride. The top two get a quarter point from the Chevy Rock-and-Roll 400 for some. From these guys, it's already been a wild night while we're under caution here in Richmond, here's our NASCAR Busch Series update.

You saw it before if you were with us for the Discover Card countdown to green. What a wild ending with Johnny Sauter hanging around with Kevin. Harvick and Matt Kenseth in particular to win last night's tight Pro Series racing championship, compete at Dover Delaware in a week, actually, in two weeks, the Tony Stewart Truck Series returns to the front in the truck of Andy Petrie to win his championship here Thursday night as well. close truck race in New Hampshire next Saturday afternoon, Marty, let's check out the championship leader, Rob, your eyes, would you say the damage is fixed?

Yeah, we didn't have much damage, we've just been struggling with the chassis here. Don't know. Yesterday I got the car pretty far away for some reason, oh good practice, looks like we don't have it here but what happened was it just pushed up and ran out of gas, got hit from behind but didn't really damage the tire. A lot we just have to make the car handle better for me Matt said he feels like something is dragging on the track on the right front. Just as he slipped on the grass and loosened his skirt and bothered the dragon on the ground, but it's no big deal.

I can live with that Bill Martin Mark Martin was about to pit on green because he had oil all over his windshield. This is the cut they just took out there and he said he couldn't see anything, especially with the lights here on the runway that they got. he got it for new tires and a clean windshield we're under caution 100 laps in the Ford and the Chevy rock'n'roll 400 Jeff Gordon your leader you're watching NASCAR on TNT the Chevy rock'n'roll 400 on TNT brought you through from Chevrolet wherever there's a winner's circle we'll be there Budweiser the best things in life for the things that are true Budweiser and Wrangler really comfortable jeans how about our racing update coke family since we're under caution here ? in Richmond Kevin Harvick Jeff Burton all in the top ten some of the others not as high as we thought they might be no that's for sure.

I thought Tony Stewart would really be a contender here tonight and he may be before the nights they talked are over. about Michael Waltrip that three lousy weeks have now turned into four Mikey Johnny Sauter didn't have a good night tonight let's hear from him yes Johnny our meeting last night was a lot more fun than tonight what happened I'm not too sure, I mean Billy and I saw him checking in front of me, a couple of guys got together and I was worn out but I guess the guys behind us weren't worn out and they hit me from behind and pushed me in the gut and here's the result final.

Cota a Kodiak Pontiac stores and I hate it for these guys, he works very hard and I just want to try to give them a good finish like we did last night, but we will get a solution to come back out with a lot of damage. This car will come back to limp, but that's all we'll do tonight in some of the scenes from last night's race here in Richmond, where Johnny and Matt Kenseth jumped into the race for the win. He is Richard Children's teammate Kevin Harvick. I had a little argument with Kenseth and it wasn't such a good night tonight here in Virginia's capital for Johnny Sauter.

It's behind the wall, big accidents but about eight cars with some damage. Richmond International Raceway and attentive to one hundred and five thousand fans. Chevy Rock-and-Roll 400 extended caution just passed its quarter point, a car crash on the backstretch and a lot of oil fell around this race track. How about our singing of the race poll? I've seen some things in various racing papers and some newspaper columns. and so on about questioning whether night racing was good for the sport as far as the Saturday night home track is concerned, since more Winston Cup races are run on Saturday night, is it good for racing? local?

The sport's farm system, so to speak, we want your opinion on the seven night races next year you want to see more night races less seven night races almost good, what do you think? Well, I think marking it, uh, that's too many, okay, we'll find out what you think a little later. Jeff Gordon leads, of course, Benny, that's your opinion, but we know you're trying to be stubborn for 110 laps at Richmond International Raceway under caution with Jeff Gordon, the leader, let's check out pit road with Marty Snider. Tony Raines took a bullet tonight. Bill, but here in the garage area, what happened Tony?

Well, this is heartbreaking. This is the best car I've had all summer. I had a Boston Halon car and it looks like we broke the fuel pump or something and probably filled an engine with fuel and It's going to be a short night for us and it's downright frustrating and you can understand his voice and his conventional wisdom in the garage area is that they put some oil on the track and that's why everyone spun now it looks like you have a really good race car that never blows up when they're not driving coming to the restart after a very long yellow flag Jeff Ward was yes in shape on lead lap Juwan State Park was penalized one spot under this extended yellow sped up on pit road a couple of times Instead, they warned again, so they parked him for a couple of laps as a conduct penalty harmful to the sport.

Jake Laney and Kyle Petty returned to the track after time in the garage for repairs. They are both 17 laps behind and see Kevin Harvick inside. that 29th car, the man in the gold car right on Mike Wallace's rear bumper, second position and, by the way, I gave Tim Chris Morris is a Mark Martin watcher, all of these the 31st position that Harvick imparted four thirds back , so good at the bottom. of the racetrack just can't fight, hey, what's going on with mr. Harvick says his car is better, bag Kevin Harvick, hands down the best driver in NASCAR Winston Cup racing these days, has finished second the last three consecutive weeks, championship car Mike Wallace no He has stopped in the pits since lap 25 and we thought he would do it. stop during the stroke of Oh, you love this woman's very, very wet second object.

Every accident damages the bars under that last warning. Barbic goes deep into the turn and squeezes Mike Wallace, so Jeff Burton, a second Kevin Harvick, Jimmy Spencer in fifth, like Biffle gets in behind John. Andretti could be a couple more in the cloud of smoke, they are all crashed, it seems Christian Fittipaldi also got a part. I think we're over the deal with Bristol. Some of these are repeaters. Jason Leffler, right, yeah. Kurt Busch got a piece of that Oh Todd Bodine with all kinds of sparks I think I almost became a hood ornament bathing his machine like John Andretti there's Dale Jarrett one-eighty-eight and here come the leaders down pit road in Dave Jeff Gordon was buried before that last restart over all the debris they had gone through what's the problem his car is a little tight in the middle just half a pound of right front tire air pressure for changes in Jeff's cars Marty Jeff Burton likes the way the car Felt that day it would be four tires and no changes for this 99 a lot of Gestapo on this farm on some brie at our jr's previous stop. is here at doesn't like the handling of his race car at all, it's four tires, he's also worried about the brake pedal, again Matt, a little prayer, last night's standings no one was there for a while, something look What happened, Wally, well, I guess.

You'll look at the only car there and Biffle just jumps on the back of the car, turns it on its side and stacks them while the recording belt was coming loose, turns 100 yards behind the first recording, just the chain reaction and still They tell the In the left corner of the screen, see the damage to the car where people climbed into the back of Andretti, his cloud of smoke we talked about, it's hard to see through the lights. Dale Jarrett comes out of the corner trying to pass Kenny Wallace. hit to get the shot I heard right how about champions like Mike Skinner getting in the 42 car, they're around, a big guard got bit, right, the chaos of the wreckage and there's John Andretti, Greg Biffle getting tangled up, bringing out the yellow flag against one of the

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rock-and-roll 400 the angry driver tells how far and no, yes, we'll be back in a minute TNT Sports live in Richmond, Virginia, where seven other drivers have just been involved in an accident in turn 2 of the the cleanliness of the final stretch iscomplete we are reaching the restart caution kevin harvick terry labonte ricky rudd casey mears Bobby Labonte Matt Kenseth Kenny Wallace now the top seven drivers who did not pit under yellow first in pit lane Jim Gordon at eight Jeff Burton at ten is Robby Gordon in a car and then put Robbie at the end of the lead lap if you can cross Recife Tony Stewart at wall three for Robbie to get his left yellow flag Tony Stewart runs sixth that's the sixth warning tent He was running in tenth place now let's see if anyone else gets a turn back.

Herbie Savage attempted to make up three laps in the May race here at Robby Gordon to finish fourth. Now he's back on the lead lap and we're not halfway there, so number of caution. six, let's see if we can see what might have happened to Tony Stewart going into turn three here at Richmond Richmond, he's just one side of Jeff Burton. I tried to get in with an ounce of the 38 car. Elliott Sadler 20 was three-way, didn't work. Too weird, that little deal on the right, you bounce off Bert, they're falling into that, so Tony Stewart goes from competing for 9th to 27th after Jeff Burt's knee gets tangled and Stewart spins the corner under flag yellow again.

We're watching NASCAR on TNT. Check out the championship McDonald's drive-through picker powered by Powerade. Bill Elliott was the fastest on pit road among the participating teams at Darlington a week ago. 20 thousand dollars for the efforts of him and Michael Waltrip Steam continues to lead the season. positions on Dale jr. team look at this on pit road Sterling Marlins team trying to repair their car Nature has to put the tape on the right hindquarter Palin Stirling chases away the unhappy students all took over in Qatar lists the angry driver I'll tell restart Terry the second body in the descending line of the Lapps, is two laps down, those guys write about a humble attack on the guy who is outside, very ethnic, turns towards me, points to the duck, there it is, five blacks, NASCAR wins the cup , trivia quiz, who was the last driver to win. consecutive Winston Cup races at Richmond I have a hit for you terry labonte terry labonte this race September 1994 the March 1995 race his consecutive wins are part of streak of eight consecutive top 10 finishes at this track Terri has up a second now moron Jim Long The crew chief made the call.

I haven't touched the car all night. I'm very happy with his track position, so last winter to win, it was a good week. Casey Mears was in the top ten and is falling back after this came out of the turn. looked like Greg Biffle before Matt Kenseth at the beginning of the race eleventh place trying to pass decided not to hit him last time if they got into that mess again I don't blame her for not having pity, well you know how she always looks like us There's no more company racial penetration control, if you're clean air, the cars are faster, these guys have a hard time getting through traffic, here's the race for sixth place, Kenny Wallace in twenty-three is six, Jeff Burton tries to take it away and Dale Jr.

Right around Jeff, he's trying to get under Kenny Wallace, there they pulled some rubber out of the right rear and they've been adjusting that car all night, now they have track position, three NASCAR Busch Series wins here for Kenny and a little sign for Jim. because, but it looks like they've fixed Michael Waltrip's car, whatever the problem is, it's not that they haven't fixed their cars at speed, but like he said, many, many comings and goings from the garage area here in the first laps and to catch. Well, a couple of things, Dave Blaney, Kyle Petty, back on track, 17 laps down, I think I said that before, they're 37th and 38th behind the wall right now, Tony Raines, back on the track, 39 laps down, in 41st place.Bill Elliott Johnny Sauter behind the wall, repairs done to his cars, Casey Mears again, this time he hit the outside wall, it was good, it was a truck and we saw him do contact, it was a few laps ago and I was struggling in turn four again and this time.

Kenny came closer and caused a lot more damage to the rear of the 41 than last time, the driver was totally angry and the caution flag appeared once again, this is number seven, okay, let's investigate, never see the car 49, the white car is coming. out of the corner and Casey in a little bit of contact and Casey turns around, well if he was pushing into the wall, yeah, I get off the gas, that's exactly what he was pedaling. I got that rötteln Schrader ran after him a little. pit stops Kevin Harvick is in a complicated situation a couple of the first five Jamie McMurray in brand Bart and Tony Stewart celebrate until lap 206 they decided to go down to pit road now it burns quite well for Ricky they will not make changes to the stop and that will be four tires for your group 21. see tony stewart on pit road.

They're in the Home Depot car. In fact, he's still on the lead lap. He didn't miss the turns. Dillon on pit road. Repairing the car trying to get it. Better a Band-Aid the size of a tank that was a very nice race car. Terry Labonte did not pit under this caution flag. He takes the lead meanwhile, Casey Mears crashes into the outside wall. Oh, here is our Chevrolet in the bowties of the racing standings running in three of the top five places. at the moment the Levani brothers first in second place when we reach the restart Darien Bobby did not enter the pits under yellow until the yellow now returns to 21st place on this restart the inside this is for the leader bobby labonte finished second here in the race the one we talked about his success with this track has already generated the conversation between the five crew chiefs of terry labonte, jim long, it's a little tense, but it gets better the further we go, they talk about entering, they decided to stay outside, two cars, two governesses , Bobby Labonte, this traffic battle in Stamford. to take the lead, you go down pit road while Snyder and one of the guys try to catch him Jeff Burton back there in third at the beginning of this Ronnie spoke on the radio the best of the cars without new tires all night and he does one moment he said: The car feels great, it really turns, how's that guy and Dale Jr.'s place? lurking right behind him and if you notice Dale jr. he put on a costume there, but he had no intention of getting into car 99, he backed away with his left hip, grabbed the car and came back, everyone is sorry, it was a good move by Dale Jr.

Park, we said ooh, look, here I have the rear end on the burger scale. Junior just checked, but he could give him gas right now and he went through the 99 car because a 99 has lost a tremendous amount of momentum, it's up to him to get the car back under control and you. You're right, it was a very good move in the Kurt Busch junior car. I've been watching him swerve high about five times during this race, he ducked into the turn and the car went up really far on the race track on the marbles and it takes him like two laps to get back up, so what's going on? ?

But he's been struggling all night under control. Curt was involved in one of those real accidents and the ones in his car now, the other body theory, he's trying to get the upper hand. Aside from Bobby, these two guys have a great relationship with each other and there is enough age difference between them that they actually competed against each other and are younger in their sports careers. The Winston Cup was really a first and it must really be great for them. I know it's cool that Bobby competes against each other, especially at the front of the group, and you can tell that when those guys compete against each other, you can see the respect between those two guys, they felt like they never forced the issue that they've given up space to. with each other and you can see that they have fun competing with each other, so Bobby goes from the lead to fourth place, there are Terry, Jeff Burton and Dale jr. go further back this is Ryan Newman and Mike Wallace for 11th and 12th place Johnny Benson right behind in the 10 car battle for the lead here comes Jeff Burton on the inside of Terry Labonte and junior the hard way and it looks like Jeff Burton is Let's take the lead.

We saw Dale Jr. come in on Jeff Burton, they talked about him not intending to do it here was his reaction on his team radio earlier when they thought twice about him in that position again kids in car 17 on the stick victory place the P therapy and here comes Margo Speaking of the seven cars, Spencer, they need a sponsor for next year. Now the juniors face BP. that return to the bottom is not the quickest way out you need the local race track you need to keep the momentum or scrub the speed a little the cars get very tight they sway a little when entering the ring enter the corner towards Jeff Burton swings a little now looks like he may have enough slide work here he is, move up the track and Dale jr. leaving tonight four greats from the stands eleven different drivers two steps Chevy rock'n'roll 400 junior loading the spotted group aboard his car he's taken an incredible ride right now 164 laps completed Richmond over 100,000 fans here at Richmond International Raceway On a spectacular Saturday night in the Commonwealth, they come out to see these cars twice a year race under the lights in Richmond, the fans love it and the drivers do too, let's give it a try, the hex doesn't work and we'll take it down the road. field starting with that big-door number eight car, Dale Earnhardt Jr. arrived at the foot of the field even more worried about his right front tire easily party 105 thousand you think he would love to see the guy in the home state jet man perversion 99 Jeff Burton but they don't want changes at the next stop Dave 24 Jeff's car Gordon talks about going into the last pit stop, he said it's very difficult to overtake the man here, we're going to spend the day he built Bobby Labonte in the same car that finished second here in May, but it's not the same, it doesn't feel like the track. the bar is working, it's struggling a little bit, but running up front, that Jimmy Spencer, very happy, a championship leader, Matt has the car that won this race last year.

I asked Robbie Reiser how the interesting nights have been going, he's in the car, he's okay now, Bill. Terry Labonte is still looking for that long run for the green flag, but we check in for second place on 24 on 99 Burton's name in front of the trip port Bobby Labonte right on the bumper not quite Gordon stays fried We saw this movie before because Jeff just can't get that car low enough, I think that's been his problem all night, the cars are fine and that's fine, I just can't get to the bottom to make the move to get the nose high enough at the door, car 99 like here. well you get it, this time you could have it, this time it has slower traffic ahead Kyle Petty returns to the track after some time behind the wall car hit from one of the first accidents the link is trying to do the same with Jeff Burton trying to pass, he's got enough to take third place, he'll do it here comes Jimmy Spencer, then that seven car he's ready to take tonight, okay, so where were we?

We were going across the country somewhere, Bill tries a wedge adjustment at the next stop, Dave the Mike Wallace's 2009 car is tight when he starts, last stopped on lap 121, an air pressure adjustment, it was a little tight, been close to Kenny Wallace who continues to do very well on old tires, they should reach my lap 2:30 ninety five Barty Jimmie Johnson up to tenth position now passing Kenny Wallace, you see that on the track racing right there Ryan Newman trying to track those two Johnson had a great rest before his left rear tire fell off and the yellow flag came out they were going to pit under the green card limit, Matt Hardy loose, that's good , the car works.

Tabata spent 223 to buy brakes, it's starting to tighten. the longer they're in their fuel window a fuel mileage race again yeah probably built if this thing got a green flag drive this car the guy i think he said hold the nail i feel like that's how mike skinner feels about that stock car Rusty Wallace into a new race car, they built it and brought it here. They never took it anywhere to test the rubber on both rear springs. Big party, the man is organizing outside the front row. Greg Biffle has been involved in two spins and has survived with a minimum. damage just from tight especially horrible for now for Biffle Dave Dale Jarrett's car involved in an accident before they have been there several times to fix the damage he is a little loose at the moment party in

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he was involved in the accident the bar stick together for now they have been fighting hard out of the corner for most of the night Mark Martin came into the pits on lap 145 fuel for tires mediumturn a wedge recovered his turn came in and put four tires unchanged The car remembers Jamie McMurray involved in the previous accident and Dave.

Everyone talks about Kevin Harvick as the guy of the night. How about this kid who has some damage to his car? This set of tires doesn't hold up to the throttle like the last one did. A Sterling Marlin behind him has a lot of damage on that car too, they're just trying to survive and I had a big car a little loose and Trader is now the lead lap, that 26th place, Marty, something's going on with a 99. Can having trouble with Jeff Burton running second just now he's dropping to sixth position now Allen said I think he might have a right front dropping Paul Andrews telling them to stay calm let's see and hold on and see if he can stay there right now.

They think Jeff Burton is on the track right now, but he has dropped to sixth place. Dale Earnhardt Jr. we are in front as we approach the halfway point and we have now run the most consecutive green flag laps we have had all night and we managed to make up 20 places and the juniors are not 2 seconds ahead in what you're watching NASCAR. TNT Tony Stewart had just been passed by leader Dale Earnhardt jr. they hit each other, you know you can't see Tony in all these cars when they turn, you can't see him because of the smoke, the corn involved.

I didn't see another car involved and unfortunate: the second advantage is now zero with his Stuart was in 27th place in the time lapse or caution for the eighth time in the race we are not halfway oh, he let go very far back, the accelerator yes , the tires are up, keep him away from the wall, good job Tony, he really had fallen backwards, I mean Lost the spotter for father illustrator Kevin Harvick and here they are Dale jr. Jeff Gordon Bobby, the body in the first three, at the end of the day, they are off the front right down the track bar to try to fix that party.

The championship winners were in a little bit of everything tonight, the cars tonight came out, he said it's not getting terrible so all they do is half a pound on the jr right rear bill. tight in the middle that story the vibration is getting better the car is better than it was it's four tires and fuel man the problems at his last stop Spencer trying to get a different angle stopped up to the shirt then tried to move forward just above the air hose and that's a shame you have a big six ten twelve race car is where Jimmy Spencer will go out under yellow just before the halfway mark in the Chevy rock-and-roll 400 in Richmond back in Richmond with our

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I'm off the road, the first thing I notice about the doors is that they're there, which is good, I mean they're running fast, not hard on the brakes, you want to save Mr. Weber, yeah, he was busy talking to some of the 80's guys, here's some of those guys, Bernie, senior crew chief, Kannapolis, North Carolina, I know who, rip out the windshield, Charlotte, North Carolina, tire changer, cool, no you fill the company, Oh man, Kannapolis, North Carolina. Troy, the friends, rear tire carrier, York Maine, rear tire changer, Jeff Gordon, Bobby Labonte, Taramati Kenseth, top five, rest of the top ten, Kevin Harvick, Jimmie Johnson, Ward Burton and Ryan Newman, and we are just on the road after a tire change during the first few laps.

They said they made some adjustments to try to take the stress off the car so see if they went in the right direction Tony Stewart after his Spade wad lap down 27 nice Phil Elliott back on track after time in the garage 96 laps down 42nd place back to the garage after just a couple of laps on the track at reduced speed Matt Kenseth and Jeff Burton 5th and 6th place last time in turn four Burton is the same place he left that car very loose trying to pass 17 this time. continues ahead of 17 takes the lead position say what other night matt kenseth make a bad night a good night he brought out the yellow flag on lap 85 restarted 39 at the end of that yellow he was fifth makes us start in shape after his photo did its job, Jeff was born is good, he stays dry inside Junior, but can't get it to do the sliding job.

He led most of the early laps in this racing attack. He has led the most laps tonight, 490 times, the next highest total. Dale Jr. he's just left for a quarter, but he can't beat Dave, it's the same unit for the shifts, they were good, they're good and this car, as Jeff chases the lead in the top three, looks like he'll get it anyway latest. year, remember what happened at practice after the wallbang, no, yeah, doctor, he crashed and then they fixed that car and this is good here in Richmond, you're not going to start doing your own meditation, are you, Dave, that Was it last year?

He's still fighting for it. The guy has a jet, this time he doesn't go around the corner well, but this is where he needs to get it. I'm afraid, I'm sure you haven't given up. I thought of Gordon. I have a Richmond junior. They're all empty right now because they're all standing around watching Jeff Gordon and David, our junior race from the lead. Jr had led just five laps in the last four previous Richmond races. Despite only leading five spots in those races, he can blackmail twice in four spots and still hold off Jeff Gordon and Dale Jr. bill like salim this is a car they race it has been here four or five they have used it a lot they used it Tony Eury jr. and Tony Sr told me today that they didn't really work much on this car, there were no major changes as they got everything which is like massaging it to the point where 2news is happy and it's very good for the fans too with this track layout of races since all 1388 committed.

We have seen these types of races side by side abroad. This is one of those places where if you ride outside you can drive deep and maintain grip. The inside of the race track is obviously the shortest way and it's usually the fastest, but you get cool races like this because you can drive the car on the outside and you try it or in the future, this is the deal, yeah, this It's fantastic, why would you want anything more than this when it's flat, huh? contact your career pretty good right there please play well. Jeff Gordon came out because we put our jr.

On the list of angry older drivers, like I said, I thought the car was a little better. Get your opinion early with our unique wireless racing opinion survey on whether you should be more or less or about right in terms of number of nights. races on the Winston Cup schedule, what did you say? Yeah, I thought I'd be in the minority, but again, all the local tracks, a lot of local tracks around the country run on Saturday nights and I guess they compete on the other side of the coin. There's a school of thought that if it's the best a presentation can be when you get to the racetrack, etc., the people who come anyway will hope

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there for a second Jimmy Johnson, one of those teams, you know, they have that kind of solid, early weekend that we see them so often qualify for. 26, has only been in the middle. -of the group most of the night holding on once for now in 12th and 13th places and Mike Wallace joins that battle and Earnhardt went back to the 24 car which was a car, which is getting a little bit better now. the more they go on, Danny's probably a little motivated.

I think motivations are the biggest thing he has going for him right now. I just want her to feel a little tight. Hey, that wasn't good, if she has the chance, she might come out. turns four, everyone in the house standing here in Richmond waiting much better than Jeff, you understand, you know, we heard worried about him, about his brakes before because he is a very hard charger in the corners. I suspect he would be on the lookout for the Caesar 17 card. I see those exploded rotors, but they weren't actually born because Kenseth is trying to take it from him.

Jeff Gordon, keep him away from Dale Earnhardt jr. for the first place for now there are one hundred and seventy-seven laps left in the enrichment Chevy rock-and-roll 400 the chevy rock-and-roll 400 on TNT presented by Chevrolet whoever there is a winner's circle will be there buy like Hannah pure premium nothing more than premium pure Tropicana juice and stacker the world's strongest fat burner burns fat crushes your cravings and boosts your energy we are in the second half of the Chevy rock-and-roll 400 in Richmond 232 complete 168 to go and Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt Jr. It is the first two places who are occupying those positions with Jeff Burton and now man and fourth and fifth Kenseth should be third and fourth Kenseth passing Bobby the body for four putting Bobby back to which jr.

He may have his hands full, the cars certainly don't handle as well as they did a moment ago in Seville, it looks like he might be using some of those tires, although they don't fall off as much, but as you travel around there. You can talk to your crew chief about how to make your car matter here's the table to nail Tony Junior, think about that, I have to defend him right here, whatever yesterday we put that rubber on, we loosened the tight one in the middle, those sulfur. Remember that, that's what happened with the air brakes again, so I made them think I found out about all this, they were a little worried about the right thing, there wasn't much talk about the brake pedal being soft, another winner , Richmond, that's a great car to get by and maybe the juniors just decided it looks like you know why to punish my car.

I'm not going to win the race past 2400, we have to make another pit stop, I guess I'll go behind him and see what it is. more than 20 30 laps ago in his career Winston Cup begins in Richmond he has led the most laps tonight at the front looking for what would be only his second victory Laozi's August mark was for the chess board we talked about this in the classification ass Friday afternoon here on TNT Jeff said that so traffic now look at this about our low improvers gaining the most positions over the course of the race the old bar Kevin Harvick doesn't do very well all these drivers involved in accidents before back to the track the trip is not he's back in the garage area right now so you've got your good name, you've got your bad Ryan Newman continues to gain some spots, he just came in seventh behind Ward Burton, He passed Tara in the body a few laps ago to move up another place, also Maddie and Newman are happy with the car. it was loose but it's starting to tighten up the way he likes no adjustments at that last stop one of the reasons Ward's car was loose coming in we told them during the course tour about the shim adjustment track bar adjustment they did Lord says a car was too tight and lost too much time, especially here in Richmond, and it worked well.

Yeah, it's very important that we were talking about that before, as we see Dale Jr. trying to go under 24 hours, leave it there for a bit PP, it was almost like almost the Java slide could fly, make you see the sparks fly underneath, they just went down the corner, couldn't tell if he pushed him there, look 24 The cops see how hard he got. He didn't let Jr. take that spot there, he peed, you say it about sit and wait and it's fine, so he said, I think I'll get through this 24th and get out of here, so on his honor a lot of traffic leaders will turn green for a moment here. when I was below the green right at the fact that the train had just passed the halfway point, so another 44 turns below the green here at Dale jr. in front of the Chevy rock-and-roll 400 Sports TNT live from the capital of Virginia with live coverage of the chevy rock-and-roll 400 beautiful night here for early September 105 thousand seats are all full tonight another sold out crowd in this watching the race track Dale Earnhardt jr. and Jeff Gordon face off for the race lead just after the halfway point of the race, now lap 250 200 changer leads the track by nine tenths of a second Matt Kenseth body Kevin Harvick body v ym Newman 6th Jimmy Spencer Jeff Burton Ward Burton and Jeremy Mayfield now round out the top 10 going back on the radio this entire race to jr.

He passed it and then made a comment about the brakes and it wasn't right with those brakes. He talked about my bracelet earlier. This time it was less specific. He just doesn't like him. Let's look like the rotors don't appear. be red or something, maybe you like the balance between the front and back, yes that's true, I forget these things for thedrivers, we have some things that, all of a sudden, are some kind of vibration. Jeff Gordon has been talking a lot about brakes, brakes, it's very important. short track in Richmond as we go to our Home Depot virtual garage, let's take a look at getting paid at the Home Depot virtual garage here, you know, here on the short tracks you need to get as much cool down as possible on the breaks, you see these hoses that cut holes in the front of the car, it sucks air through these hoses and it cools the rotors and the caliper, the colder the rotor, the better the calipers will slow down your car, so that's what we're talking about, we're talking about of keeping those braces are really important here on our short track you're really abusing every single thing about those breaks once they leave yeah they don't come back do you have to start a company and if you have to start pumping them then that makes a lot of work for the driver because if those brakes get too hot then the fluid starts to boil and once you get air in the line you lose the brakes and the pedal actually feels like dirt it feels like when you step on the pedal instead the pedal is hard, it goes on and on and on and it's not a good feeling what's happening with Mark Martin Bill just a second ago on the radio you guys get ready, get ready, that spark whose team you may have to choose.

The marking says right front tire. he left Wow night and mentioned a flat tire, my car went down in the last 20 30 laps, they smoked it, man, he's been flying with every other guy, we talked about Jimmy Spencer struggling a little, but it seemed like the dad was ahead, they said about tires, suddenly Spencer's cars come back to him. I haven't changed last time. Back to Spencer, his focus and pace. Lots of debate in the last part about what happened in the box of pins that Jimmy took. a few labs to get that focus back and get that momentum back, he's consistently chugging along, how hard is it to get that pace back and get that focus back, well he wasn't a tyrant, he chose the people who saw Wally's world, then I would have talked about the approach. war, but yeah, it is and there it goes again to God, he went up there, hey, you know, you're always focused, but what happens is all you have is a good race car, you go into the pits and there's a pit error. to get that out of your head and he lost a lot of places, he has a good race car, but you know you really just need to express it well, you have to do it somehow, but the adrenaline flows so much in these drivers when something like Just a moment ago, when Ryan Newman came up and almost pinned Jimmy to the wall, you just explode when the trackers are so strong and something happens in the, you explode and it takes some time, okay, the job is to make these work on the birthday like the most fast as I can, but sometimes when something like this happens, you just show up when the adrenaline is pumping, start driving the car again, but you want to get back to that guy to give him some revenge, so you have to be ready. 19 yes Jeremy Mayfield bill last time they just made an air pressure adjustment catching some traffic through it and moving forward Jeremy Mayfield on the nineteen looking for his first bill just a few seconds ago Jeff Burton a lot of cars are trying to move Burton said that I'm tired, I'm loose, I don't know what I am, what's going on, he goes into turn one, there's always been bumps and he spun on one, but now his cars when he's so smooth his car hits this bumper, throwing him away .

The car is very tight for Jeff Burn and there is no saliva on the track now. Jamie McMurray spun right in front of Jeff Gordon and Dale Jarrett met and McCrory spun around in front of 24 and Jeff passed and you know what that was. The 42 car was high on one and two and I bet it had a lot of those marbles and stuff on their tires, also a lot of cars sliding there too. I think if you go a little bit off the beat, it really sucks. to the wall I have to see everyone outside pit road and these could be the last stops of the night 132 laps to go to the field, let's see it now Dale Jarrett in car 88 is that driver that went inside and hit the car 42 and Jeff Gordon somehow drives through that smoke and avoids the wall and car 42 car 42 had picked him up after car 88 got into him look what Matt Kenseth may have seen aboard his car coming here halfway Saab State's Jeff Gordon's car now lost a little wedge adjustment in the corner to fix that.

Marty today is the most important guy in the stop for the championship leader Matt Kenseth stole from the gas man. I don't have to check your tire fuel window. There are no changes. We are looking for glass nuts, we come out with the advantage again. I'll give that one to 24 so he stops losing and it's car 24 and then 12, there's Harvick, where's Jr? Still being destructive here tonight, how about a five-star finish for the Wrangler at the old fairgrounds half-mile layout here in Richmond in February 1986? A

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.com and subtract position changes from these pit stops, see jr. he's a big underdog, from first to fourth Jordan took the lead Harvick kept the same great stop for those gases 26 we can restart yeah I think we've probably seen some guys make their last pot under caution I think you should for the track for track position 12 cars Maddy looking at the fuel calculations they would do in second place if you had come aboard Kevin Harvick the police truck Matt Kenseth Bobby the body fits in six places Labonte trying to take Kenseth's place from the front No man from outside comes here.

How about you drive outside Jeff Gordon to take the lead in the harvest? He tries the same. There's nothing wrong with a bit of floor looseness. I think he'll just be careful here for a while. turn to make sure it's not flat, you don't want to pull in, you sure want to save, I hope it's too tight, put that thing on its side again, what? car 18 happened to come between it, it was three wide in theory he knew he went to the top to give me a gap, but it was too hot, talk about low tire pressure, someone like Jeff Gordon on that restart they lowered the tire pressure for the restart. deal with buildup as the tire heats up the air pressure the molecules do their thing the pressure increases inside the tire here it's easy to get fooled by a low tire pressure in the first two laps after absolutely restarting these tires are taking off or putting just one pound of pressure, you think he wouldn't feel that, but you really do, these tires and yeah, slowly until you get that pressure back, their efforts are committed to them using our one pound intensive like ten points. two pounds per square inch Bobby, the body has it all, he just took third place from Dale jr.

The pressure's down, so your bedroom is a long race, but in the meantime, you know Newman is out there two and a half seconds ahead of Chef Port right now and, in fact, half a second sometimes it's Kevin Harvick the body of the body now the top three Kenseth and Jimmy Spencer compete for fifth. and sixth and behind them, Jeff Gordon is now back in seventh and really being attacked by the pack. Spencer is working on Kenseth really well tonight. They're great and even better in the long run, so we can stick with this and just maintain. 15 20 laps I think he'll be compromised the night Spencer in the 7 Jimmy's car warms up.

It seems like this last Cup for us is coming out of the corners very strong. Ward Burton just passed by Jeff Gordon. Now Jeff Burton is working on it. for nine and I'm telling you that made a total change in this car 18 today because they said it was terrible, you know BP, I spent some time with Bobby in the transporter this afternoon before the drivers meeting said you've been here for a second and I had the same car. I said yes, I said everything they did on it worked. They must have made a lot of changes here in the last few releases.

Jeff Gordon says I'm really hoping for a caution flag. Strong crash. Elliott Sadler has his back to the wall. in turn, one is not the safest barium without work, it is safer to bury the softer wall technology that this race track is installed for this race, it was first installed at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway a couple of seasons ago , now VP, that softer wall is something you've been advocating for a long time in the late '90s, I don't even think about midnight. I'm telling you, when I walked in here I saw Alan. It felt so good that he is finally there.

I don't know if those body guys will agree with the softer Walter, oh. no, it's still a wall, well, that's why it's softer, not smooth. I think people who call them soft walls are sorry, that's not wrong. Yes, Elliott Sadler's home state of Virginia, 90 miles from here is his hometown. It's going to be a long one. I did those 90 miles tonight, it's hard to say what could have happened so that it wasn't heavy now, the body behavior is not smooth at all, they will tell me that the pit road is closed because the safety team is on the platform where the cars are. exit pit lane, so let's take a break here on a busy weekend here with TNT pole qualifying from New Hampshire on Friday at 3:00 ET and the NASCAR Winston Cup races on next Sunday for New England coverage starting with the Discover Card countdown to the green 12:30 East, that's NASCAR on TNT next weekend, good open roads, okay, anyone interested, we have a Kevin Harvick that he'll give up third place, yeah Gordon, we know he'll go down and give up nine and then Terry, the body of 12, Jeff radioed his team guys, whatever we did at that last stop, they took him out, killed him in the turn and went into the turn so it was a wedge adjustment, they are going to reverse it, they put four tires on it, the car is loose so it will be a round down on the track bar Terry also has a braking problem, really have to equalize a vibration on the right now one thing that will help these brakes are these yellow ones because they will cool the brakes of many leading lap cars and the first ones in In particular, stay out under this caution, although Ryan Newman and Bobby Labonte now Dale Jr. up to third under caution here at Richmond, okay, done, yeah, here's the board.

Three drivers tonight are driving angry. They characterize him as angry because they have been involved in something to get them out of the accident. Check it out. There are 11. There is a big one. group at number 21 we have overtaken Bristol's finest now we saw Elliot come off the throne and shake the wheel and march into the villages I know he's angry like the new Dave well he may have calmed down a bit BP Elliot what passed? Oh something came loose there Aryan or we had a flat tire that went off like a spin on the straight Maddie does softball wants to get rich they don't need soft balls and no brakes gets a great Lincoln 107 laps for the leader Bobby the body second but getting a lot of heat of his junior that's wrong Tencent v guys to equip it Kevin Harvick was third restarted Gordon was nine three started 13 Terry Labonte was 12 the guys with the tires are alone at the restart those who stopped in the pits under the caution Kevin Harvick Jeff Gordon Terry Labonte Johnny Benson John Andretti Mark Martin Robby Gordon Mike Skinner Kenny Wallace Ricky Rudd Dale Jarrett and Mike Warren I think they can make it the rest away wherever why the eight car didn't pay if you have any ideas because I can on the right front I figured they would make it by that they didn't beat me he has to be thinking about leaving the rest without stopping bobby labonte can't ask himself why in the world it's not ahead of 25 laps of yellow flag Here then they could achieve it, but at this moment that's what I was thinking to achieve it .

They have many cautionary turns. They're still out front if they can stretch it as far as they can and if they run enough laps on green and. get another warning, maybe everyone's going to take care of some tires, those decisions now are really hard to see if those guys have to make and they have to make him on this because I could be working on his car, there's no chance Maddy and the boys hurry up the numbers. right now even though he says it's too close, the Spencer car is missing three lambs, if they pitted last time it's a good bet because there's a good chance we'll see a few more laps, we're at the 3/4 mark There are many warnings today, water people. race cars, but only three cars retired from the race Elliot Hermie Sadler Christian a little of the other 20 on the track until one hundred and fifty-five laps in the garage, we doubled 22 of the teamof eight of $43 for car 19 Jeremy Mayfield Johnson passes and Jeremy Mayfield moves him up, you know who we haven't talked about, mr.

Richmond Rusty Wallace led most wins most races led most laps on this three-quarter mile track. informed that they were not on the way to the airport as they had loaded their car after it crashed on the first day when Darlington championship leader Matt Kenseth spoke about that tonight was a problem, a crash on lap 83, which that made his worst nights evocative. here Richard is running fifth right now losing contact with the city by two and a half seconds behind the leader Ryan Newman Marty I'm in car 17, what do you say? It's pretty good PP. A while, on the subject of fuel consumption, costs 17 dollars. to the race so matt kenseth to the championship, looks like he's going to have another good night, he's in a good place right now and he's 2.8 seconds behind the driver of that car, Brian Newman, 92 laps to go here at Richmond , NASCAR's 26th grace.

Winston Cup season, the Chevy rock-and-roll 400 here at the Richmond International Raceway mile track, fans love to watch all the action. Ryan Newman had a spectacular run a week ago and killed it with the kill switch, but he came back out. Go ahead again tonight, we'll take it across the field and start with car number 12, twelve running first. Newman's got the carbon, not the fuel right now between Bobby Labonte and Michael McSwain they talked about hitting last time they decided they'd bet on a yellow flag that might come out, so they're out now, the yellow flag is out, the yellow flag is out for debris in turn two and a big yellow flag break for Jimmy Spencer who had just lost several positions, sounds to me like his car could have seven cylinders and Earnhardt jr. hit that debris, his team was jumping on the wall, it's a big savior for him, he'll be fine, one of the top five to bid, he'll always hate to do that because right now we have 22 cars on the lead lap and unless everyone This is a bunch of cars in the pits, there's no way you can get these eight cars from 22nd to the front laps of MPD, well here they come to the opening of pit road, who's in, who's out I think many cars are going to the stops they will come with 80 laps to go the leader Newman is out junior Bobby Labonte is out although stronger junior enters just in the last second most of the cars on the leading lap are in the party championship leader fourth place Matt Kenseth will get into the car just a little bit tight, he said if we can make a long race, we can win this fourth.

Bobby Labonte will take this opportunity to overtake us and get fuel and tires so they can complete it. We will be ready to reach the finish line, but those four tires will help you and that ensures fuel Ryan Newman and surprisingly after what we just heard Dale Earnhardt jr. don't pit with a few others on the lead lap this will be reset for you when we get back to Richmond International Raceway you'll be able to make a good Richmond run in 60 seconds Jimmy Spencer the night they made a pit stop raise the hood but still very slow, we can hear the engine whistling and I think that will get uglier before the race is over, restart 77 Dale jr. second Kevin Harvick third Robby Gordon fourth Ricky Rudd fifth trend tires okay that's Terry the body and Morrison 67 stayed out and didn't pick Johnny Benson first on pit road and Faith followed by Matt Kenseth Jeremy Mayfield the monster doesn't know the body yet Jimmie Johnson Jeff Burton Rusty Wallace Jeff Gordon 15th Ward Burton 68 Bobby Labonte well what's up with the egg cars?

He said anything. He had said a lot since he returned to the green, but they said a lot of things. Woman, caution, junior, he said he hit the debris and was worried about coming. on the right front, well, they didn't have time to do it, the juniors were left outside, you see him moving the car, a very inspiring speech about winning the race. I'm sure Tony Junior told Ryan Newman that you're the Jimmy Spencer man. in clean air tried to hold on to the lead Dale Jr. President Kevin Harvick will stay in touch. You know, it seems to me, Wally, that before this caution flag there were some questions in the gym and the juniors care about something.

Can we rest the way those two or three laps at the caution flag? He said okay, no problem with fuel. I think young people run harder now than before this conscious life, yes, because that element is completely out of their minds now, so they don't worry about saving fuel. Johnny Benson, Matt Kenseth, eighth and Ninth place gave Benson a decent night. He has a pretty good track record here at Richmond, three top 5s in the last five races here, looking for what would be only his third top 10 finish this season and Kenseth made the decision to go for it. to make that pass from the bottom and look out, you can't give up now because you're going to lose four or five spots and Jeremy Mayfield and Jimmie Johnson - Jeff Burton right there, it's not right, I'm going to back up and try this again behind Johnny Benson, all 17 carries, he says anything, not where he wants to make the pass I talked to.

The stuff he sees stays behind Johnny Benson among the first nineteen cars that are going to pass. The model looks to me like Jeremy Mayfield running. for them tonight BP started 20 up yes the Germans the same place as Kenseth at 17 can't pass here there is a battle between 0 1 and 18 Webber Bobby Labonte trying to make up stops or make up places on the front mark left Armstrong, one of the best tire changers in the sport, had guts of blood spill on his left front, costing him several positions just before they turned green. Michael McSwain, the crew chief, came on the radio and said Bobby, we're sorry we screwed up.

You have a great car, be patient, you have time to recover one of those cars that Bobby passed was Jeff Gordon in the last race, he spoke on the radio with his team. Something is definitely broken in this car. Is it a shock? What is the problem that they really don't have? I don't know, they made an adjustment to the track bar to try to help him on the last stop because he said the guy was playing in the middle of a really tight turn, so Jeff has a problem, don't expect them to move forward on this one. period, yes.

Jeff Gordon has led the most laps tonight four times over 126 laps, but he is stuck in 17th of 21 cars on the lead lap with Ryan Newman trying to pull away from Dale Earnhardt Jr. He has 64 laps left to try for his sixth victory this season the Chevy rock-and-roll cars on the lead lap 57 laps to go Ryan Newman is the leader behind those front views that are a little spread out, guys touching each other others everywhere remember that I said before that there is no more temperament, yes, where every position means something and these guys will lean on each other a little more than they would the tardigrade.

I look at the brilliant brothers. 48 and 18 are using those brakes, everyone with a camera now trying to get all the spots they can Johnson Johnson and Johnny Benson just bounced off each other about six times in five laps, Benson finally stopping a charge from Johnson for that spot now Rusty Wallace and Bobby the body has surpassed the leader card 12 Ryan Newman Maddie second twice would love to pick up his first Richmondvictory boys Brian Newman leading a lap early now here late I spoke to the team last weekend Johnson about this number 12 car and they reminded me that once there were six but polls this year and they wanted six wins to match that Victor is more important than the polls that only have five wins six polls I hope tonight they can match it Ryan Newman took the leader back to 79 smoke from the Tony Stewart's car and also Jamie McMurray's car being watched by NASCAR race controller observers about how this guy is doing.

I mean, what a shame it is for the season they've had, that Ryan Newman had all the problems he had in the spring, that series of races in April and May, it took a lot of fighting for the Winston Cup title, he's been phenomenal. since approximately June 1st. I have 50 laps left, I'm going to get our last green flag commercial out of the way and see what happens. This thing whistles towards the checkered flag the chevy rock-and-roll 400 on tnt russian by chevrolet river there's a winner's circle it will be your new smirnoff ice triple black triple leaked they were a clean, crisp bike and the sears craftsman the craftsman has the right tool for every project America's #1 tool brand at America's Pet Store Sears Craftsman Yes, if you think it's a flat tire now we'll do it Look at even the shiny front.

He's been complaining about that vibration. Yes, it seems that my forehead was black. Another rise for Dale Jr. In three weeks he has dropped one hundred and thirty-one points to defeat Kenseth in the championship race. There are 389 on the way. He's going to lose second place to Harvick if things end up the way they are now in second place. Check it out when he returns with a score line now in 23rd place Kenseth as he runs in 7th position and the junior one lap down on race leader Ryan Newman two laps down ricky rudd yes Marty made a little strategy play with your hands towards down, they're in third place, they can go all the way on fuel if they finish here to tie their season best result they had at Daytona Ricky will be 47 next Friday he got stuck in fourth gear a little early.

VP is that a concern took it out of fourth gear there, but no problem. Since then, although I don't think so, I wouldn't worry, obviously, Marty came out, he had the rest of the gears right or it was only in the fourth gear that he had. I think you said it's working well now, so Ricky Rudd is new. boss today and said we're going to be good, we have a good race car, Marty, so Ricky brought the Wood Brothers car, the know-it-all said looking for the best finish of the season, you know, I talked about Robby Gordon, the race main here making up three laps and coming back to finish fourth and we saw Robby Gordon get in trouble very early in this race tonight guess who is now in fourth place Robby Gordon Robby Gordon ready for the sport in the spring here they made an adjustment in the lap to 60 and they were definitely able to make it to the end is the comeback award of the night Childress Racing was certainly there last season this one and it took a little time this year to get the machine going Racing comes in second and fourth right now Harvick Steve Park involved in accident previous race for 5th and 6th bill, yes very good race Terry, the body told me yesterday that they brought the wrong car here, they told me this couldn't get the car on the track, they have new stops in pits and Jim Long Strong, this is the run this team needed gray everett ham is looking for his two teams in the final stretch towards these cars he wants 12 cars in heavy traffic right now never see the 12 inside Kenny was trying to give it a lap down Kenny Wallace was last on the lead lap in 20th place now the first car is a lap back sometimes in this situation it is strong if you are in second place you have an advantage because when the last cars are told to The leader comes, they automatically know that the rest of the leaders are coming, so they are looking and they are trying to maintain, they would want to go one lap behind, so they fight the leaders as hard as they can.

Once he catches Mom, he just lays down and lets the rest of the guys pass by, so sometimes it's a struggle to be the leader in this situation with all that heavy traffic in front of you. Ryan Newman is next to catch Ricky Craven. Dale Jarrett is next. Dale is last on the lead lap in 19th place. Yoga Dale Jr. for us and just to put a point on Alan, the water pumps are fine, besides the vibration, he has a warped rotor, he said he hit those Debris, could be a problem, had a flat, thanks, tip to the captain.

Mike Skinner and the zero one theme too Mike is in the Levi, he's about to be passed by our weekend leader and that car never does a lap here until the green flag is way to the right, they had to set that up car right next to his notes and Mike has had a really good race if he would have had that second place anywhere near Kevin Harvick Dave and they made a very modern one the way they told me that, plus I look at their pits, never one you only get three wide and three wide. destroyed someone smoking over the explosion in turn three who is that Jason Leffler zero car going to the pits for Leffler.

I see Harvick moving around in the car making sure my tires now look how fast we're moving away from him and now he's got to regroup he's got to focus he's not going to waste a lot of time making a car I mean he'll want todeal with one pretty quickly and the schooner won't happen again, you don't have to fight him as hard as he does. needs that too no matter the 12 cars, the fair leader Mike Skinner and he spent eight tenths of a second to catch Ryan Newman S&M Numan just made that lateral move in the turn there, this is the fifth place Jeremy Mayfield fi Robby Gordon to fourth, now Jen Kirkman, this will very quickly become one of Robert Gordon's favorite race tracks.

Turning back he regained his position now I have enough this time people thought he would be a Dominator tonight when he actually beats up Bharti, it hasn't turned out any better. here at the end of the race the water pressure is incredible, I'm still racing, forget it, but they held on all night trying to get into the top five and around Robby Gordon. Water pressure said: I don't have water pressure in the car except for the radio. It has a funny smell and I have no water pressure they run that woody system charge the system oh here we go contact HP Gordon that's our executive vice president that's not where you want to be sitting like that yellow flag 19 laps left Robby Gordon is one from your favorite race tracks my knife, take it back Jeff Burton may not be your favorite driver on your favorite race track they were the crazy drivers but you know you're racing hard here and when you're at the bottom especially you start racing that car on a little bit a little bit harder, a little bit harder because it probably tried to go a little bit deeper than before and it's very easy to slide down the track where you watch the race and it's tough and Jeff just lost the front end there for a second and Rusty Wallace Take advantage of the fact that to pass Matt Kenseth you didn't need more than that but and this glass is always half full pit stop Simone leads the cars back Jeff Gordon Mark Martin Jimmie Johnson John is ready in his car, everyone is mortizing you a dipper from pharmacy that car really slid down the track.

Jeff Burton's car really got a push, so under caution there are now 17 laps to go. Kevin Harvick can close the deficit he had with Ryan Newman and have another chance. It will be a restart with 14 laps remaining. here at Richmond Kevin Harvick in second behind Ryan Newman Dale Jarrett just came out before the caution flag, first on the inside of the leader Paul Newman spun the tires on the restart to see if he could stay there and get a warning here comes Kevin Harvick You know he's tired of running second, he wants to beat all these babies, the last three races in this would be four races on the road, he laughs too, one of the cars turns around and sees it looks like it's starting to walk away.

Kevin Harvick takes a quick one minute break and I'm back as they go fishing for that piece of debris in Richmond, the Chevy rock'n'roll 400, a debris warning has given Kevin Harvick another chance. Ryan Newman's rear bumper and we remember the last time we got sick on those rear tires. At the restart we were just talking about it, the best chance will be at the restart, we'll see what kind of car Kevin has. He radioed his team. He feels like he has a flat tire. to the right front they said to clean those tires, really J'son had several laps with a caution flag, but Ryan damaged, they are still very close to the limit, you are not going to conserve fuel, it would tend to disappear and what Cameron has to do spoke about the radius and all this stuff he has to slow down Newman's brother, he's got to stick that nose in there and take the racetrack away from him, if he's going to have a chance, maybe his teammate Johnny Sauter will tease one last thing, small factor contact and excuse me.

This time I'm going to follow the policy of doing a good restart and you realize that he had nothing left because on the inside there were less than 10 laps to go, he started a single line, it's leather big enough to get out while Jeremy Mayfield was back, giving Ricky Rudd third place in the attempt. to get to the 12 bar buffer, but it pays, Kenny Wallace forked taking the high side and the caution flag is out Kevin Harvick is not going to finish second tonight we showed you Ricky Rudd and Kevin Hunter a couple of years ago when Rudd was driving a 28 car, well it looks like that was Harvick and he raced again here Richmond, did he get into them?

That's what I want to see here, yeah, yeah, sure, yeah, and boy, we talked about this all-time bet when you get hit going into a corner. You don't put that race car away, you can't do anything but come back, so I'm going to put Kevin Harvick on the angry drivers list and you, Jeremy, they forgot to spot him in a second. I'll tell you what new player in town, yeah, this would be. it will be the 14th caution flag of the night so Harvick on pit road with his damaged car we talk about him and Ricky Rudd getting tangled up and racing for the win here in this race 2001 Harvick manages to catch Rudd and see that save It was one of the best days I've ever seen him, so the grind had built up a few laps later, he came back to Harvick and it was time to get his revenge back and Ruud got the win.

Dave VP, they stopped, took out some damage, put two tires on the left side and Kevin indicated. for the radio that he would like to buy from Mr. Rutte a cup of coffee mr. Saul understands that with Sugar one to go here and he is still Mr. Kings, now the restart will be with I feel like his chance against Ryan Newman mm-hmm they feel like they fight and they strive and they strive to be in front all night and he he gets a caution if he passes the second and he has to do it now yeah, I mean, you know, I mean, you can't wait to settle in, you have four laps if you see Ryan Newman last time restart a little bit lower since he did it.

I don't have those cars folded down to try to drive straight to the start/finish line and not spin those rear tires. It seems to have worked. You have to be careful because it was a little down. At that time, we will be careful that these guys don't come up. the outside of them, the fans are stopped, you don't have a good restart, that's a concern that the 19 car may feel asked while trying to go on the lower roads, don't fall off the outside last winter. Jeremy Mayfield Juma can be difficult. to pass at this point to go behind tyreq back there that second group back there they are trying to have they are trying to have one yes, they fell in the turn three three a brass pig big news format here we go number 6 The 2003 can feel what happened in the last corner last night.

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. He has to catch it first. Jeremy Mayfield to pick up second. Ricky Rudd. Third. Jeff Burton. Room. Rusty Wallace. Fifth. Your championship leader, Matt Kenseth, finished seventh. Dale Earnhardt Jr. 17th Kevin Harvick 16th what a job the 12 team has done this year. I roll out Matt, hey Matt, I didn't believe you even they said you couldn't do it with gas, oh here we go angry drivers, we got some tonight. robby gordon looking for someone who would be Jeff Burt ricky rudd looking for, I mean, Ricky Rudd, he knows Ricky Rudd is kind of the top five pound area on pit road, did you hear that would be smart?

Bird, comes to get him and so on. What happens in these situations is that we involve the pit crews. The Arvixe pit crew comes to intervene and an army of Winston Cup officials and Kevin supply the big red truck and those rich good guys were there to protect Kevin from himself, yeah there weren't any. that's the only reason they were there, they weren't there after Ricky Ross, these guys are gone, hey get off her man, the NASCAR official is telling Kevin to get out of the car, get Truman out of the car and Kevin is going to have his day here now.

Come on I want that great officer Vickie Andy everyone pretends to be anything Kevin very frustrating night Kevin hey that GM Goodwrench car was good tonight Ricky Rudd took a cheap shot you know make a cheap shot, he'll get my trick. I promise after there Pat tries to get Ruud's crew chief Marty and Ricky to the car right now Pat tries to get his crew chief Ricky was a contact with Kevin about I don't know Kevin had problems on the restart he couldn't get going or something like that. Anyway, he went down in the first corner, I guess he just braked a little harder than he had been and I got in behind.

I mean, my bad, but leave me by the way, it's accidentally, this is absolutely ridiculous on the NASCAR car that's coming out next week after. race things like that he tells you and gets out of the car we own the action we have action and while all this is happening Brian Newman made the victory donuts and what's the victory by the way and they're pretty good at this stuff of Victory Lane celebration and as I remember he called it a below average car on the discovery card, counting on the below average green on the Fraser I did, we were below average on the paper we normally run here at happy hour the guys had an amazing job with the Alltel dodge nothing once having just a great run I mean we struggled a little there really really really loose once the contract position I said to Matt let's keep this in front.

Me about being there a lot of traffic tonight a lot of warnings some guys very upset at the end of the race yeah so once again our fins clearing everything else I don't care I'm talking about the twenty nine he was riding you pretty hard at the time He fell, yeah, I don't know what happened if he got loose, we got hit or whatever, but you know he had a good car, he was very loose behind me, it's hard to overtake tonight, the pace goes up quite a bit. It was kind of the highest since I've seen it at Richmond here and it's just an incredible race for Penske Racing, you were very involved, you're a very intense person and you're more determined to win tonight after what happened last Sunday, Ryan, that's over.

I mean, guys know the Oilers, but no, they can't go back, they can't fix what's broken and when it comes to the past, we just move on and do the best job we can with Penske Racing, that's six wins. Sir. Newman, it's a good run for us, congratulations, thank you Ryan Newman with a big smile in Victory Lane again this time in Richmond Marty Dave, sorry, everything is fine, Bill back in the garage with Robby Gordon, ha had many teammates in his ear. What would you like to say about the incident with Jeff Burton? Just image here from his side.

You know, I gave him space. We had a really good car. I feel sorry for the guys who involved that we are here with us. We had a chance to win this deal because of the wireless Chevrolet song and I'm just disappointed that it has to race like that, you know, I know it's short track racing and we're here in Richmond, but we were in shape for two good times. -Five finishes, I ran with him cleanly, I gave him a lot of space on the inside. I guess you felt like you needed to leave me. They did a lot of repairs on this car to get it back on track and then of course I think the ultimate party boy. survival is the word of the night for our championship leader, he had a little bit of everything and the car was pretty decent in the end, although Matt, you know we had a decent car, it wasn't very good at the beginning and I crashed, hit the wall and I hit the brakes in front of Tiny, turned around and made a mistake at that point and Robbie did a great job of getting me back in sequence to get us to the leaders once we got them.

Leaders, our car was good enough to hang with them, so sometimes in a race we would have one of the best cars on the track, but our last set of tires on our last fit matched the car and my car came loose. a lot. in the last race and that was probably our worst round of the night, so I feel lucky to come home seven and then well, that could have been bad, it went pretty well Matt, a very dramatic night for Jeremy Mayfield, with a good grade, how much? longer and how much closer you need to be to get your move right, if I got a lot closer, we've been good, but no, I was very good, I mean, these guys worked hard and gave me a great race car.

I know we've been working hard to get what I want and I think there are no excuses now. They know what I want. They give it to me tonight. It's a new race car. Good drink and old rain. Good pit stops throughout the night. Kenny did a great job. I work on pit strategy and everything went well for us, that's what happens when he does it. Now the matrix is ​​what he wants in both nine and nineteen and you are beginning to show it. This is a great race for you tonight. It is, and you know we had two best teams in a row to come here and finish in the top five pretty well and I had a good feeling coming in this week.

You know it was a new necklace and like I say, they did a great job. and just a super good car. I drove fine all night, we didn't do much; It's just things like that forset the air and I miss what happens when you have a nice car there. Jeff Burton gets his first top five since Richmond 2002. finishing fourth tonight, Jeff, of course, the big story at the end of the race, a little contact, there would be Robby Gordon. What happened there? I was wrong and it is one hundred percent my fault. Robbie didn't do anything wrong.

I drove into the corner and we know he was slow but he was doing the right thing in trying to protect the position. I got to the turn and I let go and when I did I went up the track and hit him, I mean I hit him right on the right side. left rear tire rear tire and he was with us during the trip, then he did nothing wrong 100% my fault. I will take responsibility for it. I didn't mean to do it, but it was my fault overall, your night all things considered quite happy. With fourth place, we had a tremendously fast car for 30 laps and then if we ever had 100 laps we were in trouble, but we knew going into the race we knew we were fast off the start.

Worried that on long runs we might have problems, we made some changes to the Citgo Ford hoping to make it a little better and we just didn't make it good enough for long runs, but very fast for short runs and you know you can. win like this if you put yourself in position and take the right courses in the end you can win like this and tonight would have been a good night to take advantage of when I hit Robby at night the trailer came off the wheels. I got an eighth of a lap and then the car just hit, but good day to my guys, I'm very proud and they worked very hard and you know these teams are coming and we need to make improvements and we're just working our screws, everyone works hard, everyone They're trying too hard, I was trying too hard at night and I got into Robby and I apologize for that, another top five for him here in Richmond, well, did Bill ever have your speech tonight, Rusty Wallace and he said, The boys They didn't give up and that was obviously the case.

You worked really hard tonight to get another top five. Yes, we worked very hard tonight. I mean, I tell them what I like. I apologize to the number one fans. I can not believe it. I have had four races with abandonments and this whole problem the last time it happened to me was with a 91, but in the last eight or not we returned to the track. I wish we didn't have that last cost because we didn't need it, the car is really flying at the end, but hey man, I'm not eager to get top five on a big race track and my teammate won, everyone's here, that it's great.

Rusty Wallace, another top five and the dry spells receded, that's how they ended the night of a Chevy rock-and-roll 400 Ryan Newman with his sixth win of 2003 Rusty Wallace snuck in there at the end that last race charged up there to pick fifth place see last week's winner Terry Labonte finish apron Benson a top ten Johnny Jeff Gordon returned with Tim and Mike Wallace in 12 plays, no point Mike Kevin Harvick last on the sheet from 16th place junior another tough night punctured did it Kurt was involved in an early incident that was never really a factor now we'll see it in a bunch of guys with damage and various bumps, aches and turns on the angry list so to speak, what if we need to make a new category for our voice to simply angry, angry to the supreme boiling point?

We've got some of those tonight too, yeah, how's that going? championship standings now with ten races left in the season Matt Kenseth leads by more than 400 points and Ryan Newman with that victory moves up to sixth place. I want to see how they handle this. They've called up all the 29 and 21 teams for the big red truck they'll be there for a while take number 64 you're next all the media is waiting to see what they're going to say with more from Richmond in just a minute on TNT, the chevy. rock'n'roll 400 on tnt brought to you by the home depot NASCAR home improvement store in Avila a chevron texaco and coca-cola problem, let's make it real Ryan Newman wins tonight's Chevy rock'n'roll 400 big time here at the Richmond International Raceway of caution flags on this one it costs a lot to play 14 for 75 laps 16 of the 43 participants on the lead lap but only four failed to finish what about the cars that carried the rock and roll groups with him tonight?

Wow, that was not good. Was it now, although there was a little bit of rocking after the race with some of those and some of those cars were fantastic? Harvick Earnhardt Jr. Robby Gordon, all that, Michael Waltrip, he had a big race car very fast, Ryan Newman has the trophy, don't even bomb a Gibson guitar as a rock'n'roll Chevy winner for her. I have a prediction for you, what would it be? the two races they'll have here at this racetrack next year will have trouble selling any of the 105,000 poems they've never had, and next weekend there will be a sellout in New Hampshire; we're always going to see the bears and their one mile race track TMT 12:30 ET we start the Discover card countdown to green it's the championship race continue up down that's what's happening in the NASCAR truck we had some fireworks tonight here in Richmond Ryan Newman forty-four laps to pick up his sixth win in 2003 we'll talk to you next weekend from New Hampshire International Speedway see