Lap 50 — GREEN FLAG: Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kevin Harvick, Greg Biffle, Matt Kenseth and Martin Truex Jr. are the leaders. Brad Keselowski will have to start from the rear of the field for speeding off pit road.
Harvick wiggles off Turn 2, but avoids making contact with Earnhardt to his outside. Earnhardt clears for the lead between Turns 3 and 4.
Lap 47 — Dale Earnhardt Jr. got lucky that time. Really, could this be the day his long winless streak ends?
Lap 86 — The top five are Matt Kenseth, Jimmie Johnson, Tony Stewart, Greg Biffle and Kevin Harvick.
Lap 85 — Now, JJ is going after Matt Kenseth for the lead.
Lap 82 — Jimmie Johnson grabs second place from Kevin Harvick.
Lap 81 — Dale Earnhardt Jr. has not been able to move up from 16th place. At one point, he was three wide with Paul Menard and A.J. Allmendinger.
Lap 79 — Jimmie Johnson is all over Kevin Harvick, working him for second place.
Lap 78 — GREEN FLAG: Kevin Harvick, Matt Kenseth, Greg Biffle, Jimmie Johnson and Tony Stewart are the leaders. Dale Earnhardt Jr. took four tires on the stop, and that puts him 16th in the running order on the restart.
Kenseth gets the nose of his Ford out front coming through Turns 1 and 2, and takes the lead on the backstretch.
Lap 76 — David Ragan drops onto pit road.
Lap 74 — The leaders are on pit road. David Ragan stays on the track.
Lap 73 — YELLOW FLAG NO. 2: David Reutimann spins while trying to get onto pit road.
Lap 71 — Each of the first five or six cars are separated by at least a few tenths of a second.
Lap 68 — Dale Earnhardt Jr. — remember him? — has a lead of about 1.8 seconds over Matt Kenseth.
Lap 66 — Matt Kenseth has taken over second place from Kevin Harvick.
Lap 64 — Tony Stewart has lost several more spots. He’s now down to fifth place, but as he pulls up to the rear of Greg Biffle’s car, the debris finally blows off.
Lap 61 — Tony Stewart gives second place back to Kevin Harvick, hoping to blow some debris off the nose of his car.
Lap 59 — Kevin Harvick goes wide in Turn 4, allowing Tony Stewart to make the pass for second place.
Lap 57 — Tony Stewart now has second-place Kevin Harvick in his sights. Stewart dominated here last year, but lost after a miscue in the pits.
Lap 53 — This is s great battle between Matt Kenseth and Tony Stewart. Kenseth makes the pass on the backstretch, but Stewart grabs the spot right back in the next corner.
Lap 52 — Tony Stewart takes third place from Matt Kenseth.