Different lines. Were seeing so many of these drivers run us right up against the wall so you might make the case, theyre going to rip up there . Okay. Theres more banking . Okay. But lets use ours to show you the one thing that might be going on. When you get up there, theres actually a bubble of air and it creates side force on the right side of that car. Now, jeff, we had one driver in Xfinity Series say today when he came off the wall too far the car was loose. Its because it lost some of the side force generated. Now you cant just drive up there and get against the wall. But there is side force there. Listening to drivers talk about how it pushes the right front fender from the right front all the way to the right front rear. It seems to add a tiny bit of comfort and security to that race car. Speaking of thats how much in the lead. The lap before. Inch by inch. We have known denny hamlin had a good long run car. That looked like it continued after he made some decisions and adjustments on that car on that last pit stop. 11th place here, theyre about 10. 5 behind the leader. Matt. Making some headway there on the one of kurt busch. He was loose earlier. They made some on his car. Meanwhile, the guy on the bottom said he turned off his right front earlier. He is p to make another adjustment so that he can run up against the wall. That battle continues. Check back at 13th where the new proud poppa Austin Dillon is 13 seconds back. His son ace early this morning in north carolina. He flew down here in plenty of time to start the race. No matter what happens in his race today hes going to walk out of here feeling like he won. Its a great accomplishment and a lot of pride and i know that he is thinking about them as he is running these laps. Hes past kurt busch for 11th. So from what larry said, about 6 to 10 laps away from pit stops. They could go to lap 145 as far as fuel but based on going back and looking at the last couple of races here, trying to split this second stage in half, id say once we cross over about 115, lap 115 to lap 118, you may see him start to come and one or two come and you cannot be far behind. Hamlin inches ev of deliciously delicious coke zero sugar deliciousness. Not only is it delicious, but its also deliciousss. Coke zero sugar. [ siren ] doug give me your hand i can save you. Lots of money with Liberty Mutual we customize your Car Insurance so you only pay for what you need only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. The wind in your hair. The feeling of freedom that drives us to go out and discover. At chevy, were committed to getting you there with confidence and peace of mind. Thats why your chevy clean mmit to using enhanced vehicle cleaning measures with cdcapproved cleansers. 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He really got out there and its a wonder if he didnt use that up. You can see the back end stepping out. He is really loose again Denny Hamlins car. He talked about it being tight. That seems to be very good. Blaney has three wins in 173 starts but his last top ten or top five finish this year sdarl. Kevin harvick restarted 14. He has gained 7 spots since. This is listening to the rpms and Kevin Harvick work the throttle, it just does it to adjust. But when youre running that close to the wall, the level of grip is so on the edge that all it takes is the tiniest bit of a mistake and youre in the wall and youre coming to pit road. Heres ryan newman on pit road to take the tires. Hes the first to stop on this green flag sequence. Its cutting exactly in half. A couple of laps earlier and the others might come. And hamlin is there. Just a couple of car lengths back. It looks like Brad Keselowski is also coming to pit road. Just as predicted, most teams electing to split this stage in half, matt. Kyle busch had the car tonight. He had been at one point he said we are just awful, the car is still on the tight side meanwhile, comes into his box. This car, a little bit free on entry. He brings that 11 car in. These guys, the crew guys, what a great job they have done today. They pitted earlier today. They packed on to try to keep their bodies in tiptop shape for tonights job. A great stop. Hamlin. An air pressure adjustment to try to tighten him up on exit. Meanwhile, the 12 brings the car down pit road. The nine of Chase Elliott already in. Meanwhile, blaney, he just could not enter up top like he would like to. Hes on exit. Look for an adjustment coming up next. Harvick makes his way to stall and that will leave only 7 new tires over old tires. 40 lap tires is almost 3 seconds a lap. We will see where he comes out. He has given up a couple of laps now. You might make it up at the very end of this stage but we saw denny hamlin come in a lap before and hes going to have these others come on pit road. He will surrender the lead. He was four seconds behind blaney and now hes 2. 2 seconds ahead. He talked about youre giving up 2 to 3 seconds of older tires versus newer tires and it only takes one lap for somebody to come in a little bit earlier than our leader. He is out there and those older tires running the laps and then as he gets back on the track he has to make up all of that time. Now there is thethe times we him. Thats not a strategy. Thats what kyle busch did here last november on what turned out to be the final pit stop and helped him to drive away from Kevin Harvick and denny hamlin and martin truex and win the championship. Its easier to make the call too. So its a lot harder to come in very early. So 35 to go in race two. In a race that hasnt seen a single caution flag. Denny hamlin leading ryan blaney, but blaney is coming. One and three quarter seconds is the margin with Tyler Reddick chevrolet third. And in buschhhhh thats the sound of refreshment. No question about it. I got a question. Does camouflage actually work . Lets see. Did not see that coming. Kinda the point. Buschhhhh ryan blaney at lap 38. Nny hamlin lap 2. The fastest laps of the night for each of the drivers and let me clean this up a little. Ryan newman did spin at lap 21 to bring out a caution. That was an incident caution but since nascar declared that would be a competition caution well give them a pass on that. Our p g camera giving these pictures. Hes a lap down in 28. Im wondering if he has talladega circled on his. I bet he does. Hell be right up there in the mix. Won at daytona so you know he has a fast race car to go to taladeg hamlin, blaney, he was down to 4. 7. Remember thats the plus side of coming in a little bit later is youre going to close that and might not gain the full amount back. Teammates fighting for tenth place. He was still struggling with the damage crew patched it up and fixed it. He was really struggling here going a lap down. There are right now only four cars one lap down and theres the repair. His mustang. Matt kenseth, joey logano, one lap behind denny hamlin. The race leader lead 25 laps thus far. Kyle busch in 8 martin truex 9th, and eric jones after going down a lap replacing a loose wheel, got the prepass to get back on the lead lap. I think of atlanta and this track here, homestead and we saw where the he won at darlington but we saw where they were strong. All of these cars were very strong in atlanta and right now were starting to see them starting to make up a little bit of ground but hamlin has been very, very good since the drop of the green. Well it was the pass of ryan n newman that won denny back in february. Now were trying to stay on the lead lap against hamlin as we look a little further back. At fourth place. Chase elliott is about a chicken wings width away from the wall right there. By the way you buy ten, get ten. At any that safely reopened across the united states. On monday, if chase wins, if he gets any closer to the wall, that will be the thickness of a pickle and thats all that i can do with it. He has gone up there so much sooner. And that brings up a very good point. You can change them out and how the tires build up air pressure and if you stay down in the bottom and what i mean by that is when you have new tires and go to the bottom you can run faster down there. His teammate is going to go to the inside. Youll probably complete this pass into turn one. Trying to adjust this 36 car. He is still not able to give him what they need right now. One of the tops earlier in the race, went from tightening to loosening right in the middle of the pit stop and then trying to rectify this issue with the tether. They are giving up a lot on pit road but i dont think they have this car. Whatever is going on, you could see how loose Jimmie Johnson is. We saw this early on. And its still continuing for Jimmie Johnson. That car is just dead sideways loose. I say we go visit the expresso bar and get highly caffeinated. Hey, me towel su towel. Theres more gain scent plus oxi boost and febreze odor remover in every fling. Gain. Seriously good scent. Today. Tomorrow. The day after that. And the day after that. Day. After. Day. Packaging designed to make storage easier. Duracell optimum. Not this time. I cant get over how impressive we even some what predicted Tyler Reddick being strong here today. I dont know if i thought he could be this strong. We have seen him run great winning back to back championships. And now going for second place. Blaney is back along side with the momentum. He hasnt cleared and jumped up in front of him. Its what is going to be coming to his rear bumper. Meanwhile he is getting away in the lead. This is not for position because joey logano. He was getting ready aggressive but hes down. Chase elliott is going by him. Up from this. Maybe. And that might be just the way that joey logano is going to race him from here on out because of what happened in bristol. He is trying to stay on the lead lap. Watch what happened. He gets up high. I think what happens is in the 38, he got closer and closer and took the right side air off the 11th. Made contact. Slight contact so the next car ahead on the lead lap is 21st place bubba wallace. 10 to go. Stage 2. Back to second place. Trying to line himself up for another run. And in ninth place teammates harvi harvick. Drivers get off the top lane as you slide up in front of them. The car stalls out so easily. He had so many cars come up through the field and he had a lot of speed and now that hes up in the top ten it doesnt seem like he has that speed that he needs. Well, look at Chase Elliott coming up into this battle. It puts pressure on him if he makes this happen quickly on ryan blaney. There he goes. Hes ahead of him. And thats exactly what he was trying to prevent the last time. That time it felt like he had to do it because he saw the pressure coming from the nine of Chase Elliott. He jumped up in front of ryan blaney. He gave him a shot. Blaney drilled him. I dont know how he didnt spin out right there. So red kick into second, 5. 5 back from denny hamlin. 21 cars on the lead lap back from bubba wallace. And 7 to go. Stage 2. Hes just a little bit hesitant. We saw where he was trying to be real. He knew what was coming. I think hes the one that could think twice about that kind of contact in the future. Daniel suarez going three down from denny hamlin. Austin dylan martinsville race on wednesday