Posted on 02/29/2012 5:54:38 PM PST by AZamericonnie
2 left side t’ars pit stops in progress.. and gas..
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Lap 229 — Kevin Harvick leads the field back down pit road.
Lap 227 — YELLOW FLAG NO. 5: There’s debris on the race track. Kevin Harvick says that left-side tires were “magic” for his car.
Lap 225 — Kevin Harvick’s lead over Denny Hamlin is about 2.1 seconds. It’s another 3.2 seconds or so back to third-place Mark Martin.
Lap 223 — The top five after the cycle of green-flag stops are Kevin Harvick, Denny Hamlin, Mark Martin, Brad Keselowski and Kyle Busch.
Lap 221 — Leader Kevin Harvick says that his car is getting too tight again.
Lap 215 — Jamie McMurray has gone to the garage.
Lap 213 — Jamie McMurray is being black-flagged for the smoke that is clearly trailing from his car.
see yur mail.
he’s on personal TO
Green Flag!
should be a mess now..
some folks are short of gas.. hard to save when yur racing for position
Is Gork even signed up on the FR League this year?
Don’t know. I’m not and that’s fer dang sure!
“we suck racing” has retired!
I am signed up. It is my source of income. I send out the “pay up or I will pick you” e-mails. The top NASCAR teams have divrted their aerodynamics budgets to paying me since it is a much better investment!
Hey Connie and Norm.
Greetings from Tennessee...Thanks for the thread
I used to hike into the Estrellas when I was a young Airman and I love to see the video of the surrounding peaks.
After a terrible week of weather the NASCAR thread is a good sight to see. I hope everyone is doing well.
Richmond Rocker has...
Smoke
KuBush
Newman
B.LaBonte
EFI will be the bane of NASCAR drivers from now on!
Now why didn’t I think of that? ;)
Been a bunch of bad weather.. Prayers for all those lost and left behind.. some have been hit twice in a year..
We’re hanging in there amidst & despite all the strife and mayhem the mainstream media refuses to cover. :-)
Ouch!
NEWMAN!!
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Lap 256 — YELLOW FLAG NO. 7: Ryan Newman crashes in Turn 4 after contact with Carl Edwards.
Lap 254 — Brad Keselowski takes second place from Kevin Harvick.
Lap 253 — GREEN FLAG: Kevin Harvick, Brad Keselowski, Denny Hamlin, Marcos Ambrose and Greg Biffle are the top five. Harvick is told that he’s two laps short on fuel. Tony Stewart comes back on the track two laps down.
Harvick and Hamlin duke it out for the lead, with Hamlin taking the advantage coming off Turn 4.
Lap 251 — Tony Stewart says that he turned the ignition off in his car to save fuel, and it wouldn’t turn back on.
Lap 249 — Tony Stewart has gone a lap down. He finally makes it to his pit stall after a push from a wrecker.
Lap 248 — The leaders are on pit road. Tony Stewart is very slow on the track.
Lap 247 — YELLOW FLAG NO. 6: David Reutimann’s car looks to have blown an engine. Martin Truex Jr. will be pitting.
Lap 260 — GREEN FLAG: Denny Hamlin, Brad Keselowski, Greg Biffle, Kevin Harvick and Marcos Ambrose. Hamlin is told just before the green that he’s a lap and a half “to the good.”
Keselowski passes Hamlin for the lead going into Turn 3, but slips up the track coming out of the next corner.
Lap 257 — There’s a bit of damage on the right front of Carl Edwards’ Ford, and A LOT all over Ryan Newman’s!
I’m getting walloped in this thing. Hambone is the Richmond Rocker!
Burton of pace..
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Lap 282 — Thirty to go. Denny Hamlin’s lead over Kevin Harvick is now right at a second.
Lap 280 — Brad Keselowski takes fifth from Jimmie Johnson. That opens up room for Kyle Busch to sneak past Johnson as well.
Lap 278 — Jimmie Johnson and Brad Keselowski are waging a great battle for fifth place. They run side by side for more than a lap.
Lap 276 — Marcos Ambrose has made his way to third place. He’s about two seconds back of second-place Kevin Harvick.
Lap 273 — Kevin Harvick has erased about half a second off Denny Hamlin’s lead.
Lap 272 — Forty laps to go. Brad Keselowski takes fifth place from Jimmie Johnson.
Lap 266 — Fifth-place Jimmie Johnson has also been told that he should have enough gas to make it the rest of the way. But what if there’s a green-white-checkered finish?
Lap 264 — Denny Hamlin has a 1.3-second lead over Kevin Harvick. Although he’d been told he was good to go on fuel, he’s still being asked to conserve.
Tough break for Ambrose.
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