Rick welcome back to the bojangles southern 500, darlington raceway, nascar sprint cup series, just two races remaining before the playoffs. Take a look at what just happened. And jeff, you referenced the rotors. Were going to nbc arit. Close in on the front left tire of martin truex jr. Jeff you dont see the brake rotor blowing yet. As he gets closer, youll start to see it glow. Thats the amount of brake pressure hes putting on it trying to avoid kurt busch. You dont like to get run over from behind. You know when it wasnt on purpose it matters. It will make him feel better about it. Rick dave. Rodney childers, appears to be going to plan. What is kevin telling you about the car. Car has been pretty good. We tightened it up too much to start the race. Weve had to free it up as the race went on. Pretty close right now. Hes done a good job all night. Hopefully we can see what happens at the end with these cautions. Hopefully we have enough tires. Marty. Paul wolfe. How has it been for brad . Lost some position a few runs back. Trying to keep up with the track and manage tires. Its been a battle tonight with the cautions. Pretty happy with the miller high life ford. Tire management has been mentioned many times. Rick our crew chief managed it at the top of the show. Important to manage the limited number of tires you have. Brad keselowski choosing the inside line for the restart. Kevin harvick will start on his outside. Carl edwards, great rebound after being two laps down earlier in this race, up to third. Martin truex jr. Fourth on that high line. Fans back on their feet. As we get ready for the restart. Green flag back in the air. Steve a lot of trouble with the restart. Spin of the rear tires. Car moving back and forth on the straight away. It gets harder when you dont have stickers. With scuffs its harder to get the rear tires to make traction. Rick martin truex jr. Taking third away from carl edwards. Edwards crossing back over, trying to get the position back. Wont be able to do it. Keselowski, harvick. Truex jr. , eds wards and logano. Here comes the 19 of carl edwards again. Trying to take that spot back away from martin trsex jr. As far as fuel goes, everyone should be able to make it all the way to the checkered flag. Tires, thats another question. The falloff. Weve seen dramatic falloff after 20 laps, ten miles an hour difference between drivers with fresh tires and those with 20lapold tires. Kevin harvick, right in the tire tracks of Brad Keselowski for the lead. And now to the inside, trying to take the top spot away. Steve hard place to make a pass off turn two. The bottom seems better at this end of the racetraon than three and four the exit is difwncult to be on the flatter, lower to line. Rick how hard does the second driver push the first to try to wear the tires out . Steve you push as hard as you can. You try to make the pass like you see harvick doing here, you try to do it. Rick got to the inside once again. Let keselowski know im here. Steve weve talked about this all weekend, jeff. Three both feel three and four is the harder end of the racetrack to get hold of. Its the most important place to try to win. Brad keselowski does a great job of at least keeping up with the 4 through that end of the track. Kevin harvick seems better at this end. He gains on Brad Keselowski, especially right through the middle of the corner. Where does he go with the run . There is no place for him to pass the 2. Rick with the momentum going down the back stretch. The gap between the top two, two carlengths. Steve i cant remember a race, jeff, when no one in the front was in the top at three and four. Theyre running the middle and bottom of the track. Thats not the preferred line. Rick Kevin Harvick tired of being the brides maid. Eighth runner up finishes since his last win. Ten total this season. With only two wins. Hes locked into the chase, but he definitely has been impressive in virtually every race he has run. Steve not only does a win punch your ticket to the chase. It also gives you bonus points. A couple extra bonus points makes the first three races of the playoffs much easier. It gives you maybe a little bit more room when you show up in chicago, new hampshire, dover, the early races in the playoffs. Jeff these drivers have been in these cars for about four hours now. Its been a long race. Who can maintain focus, on this tough racetrack, who is the one that physically is ready, mentally is ready . Four hours is a long time to be in a race car, especially on this type of racetrack where its very demanding. Rick Kevin Harvick trying to defend his win from a year ago. Brad keselowski trying to grab his first darlington win. Brad has won some very iconic races in nascar but has never won at darlington or the southern 500. Steve harvick rolls up on keselowski to the middle of the corner but is not able to maintain speed the on the exit. Harvick is using the corner to gain ground. Eventually hell get doortodoor with keselowski and be able to use speed leaving the corner. Steve the longest green flag run weve had tonight is the 44 laps. If this goes green to the finish the final run will be 56 laps. Jeff keselowski tried to leave the corner low. Is that going to work . Harvick got a run. Good run there. Run your race. Jeff thats joey meyer, the spotter for Brad Keselowski. Rick Kevin Harvick. A bobble going through one and two. Not able to make the pass jeff carl gaining ground. Here comes carl edwards. Way from harvick. Harvick had the momentum. Doortodoor with keselowski and couldnt make the pass. Hes now able to hang on to second. He will try it again. Reel him back in. He let him back out. Now hes going to bring him back in. Jeff brad got away with one. He made a move. It ended up not being good. The 4 of harvick was not able to clear him. Brad is again running the bottom. Rick way down on the track goes Brad Keselowski through three and four, giving the momentum back to the 4 of Kevin Harvick. He has been able to get back to the back bumper. Now is there going to be patience played out with 43 laps to go. Patience, darlington. Go together. Steve we havent seen much patience through the whole night. In the final run to the finish. Any opportunity the 4 has hes going to try to take it. Jeff i believe brad decided to try to take away the line of harvick. He feels if he can run the line its going to harm harvick more than help brad. I believe thats the strategy. Rick the 98 of tj bell. The flagman with the blue, yellow stripe down the middle. Thats the move over stripe. Letting him know the lap traffic needs to move out of the way of the leaders. Kevin harvick continuing to reel in keselowski. We continue nascar nonstop. We spend a lot of time online around here. 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The big slide there by Brad Keselowski. He came out of turn two. Kevin harvick still right in his tire tracks. Big momentum now coming through three and four. Trying to take advantage of it. Steve harvick is in the middle better than brad. Brad gets into the corner well. Been beating harvick off the corner. The last few laps weve seen the two cars starting to get loose. The 19 is making a run. Rick here comes carl edwards getting into the mix. Steve hard to carry momentum off the bottom of turn two. He timed it where he had a little bit of track to work with. Now Kevin Harvick will make him fight for it off turn four. Rick carl edwards trying to make a pass. He does coming out of turn four. Edwards up to second. Now hell try to reel in the 2 of keselowski. Go get him. Jeff i want old tires, slick. Drivers have to be on top of the game. Steve all weekend long weve heard, how is your car turned into him telling you how much he loved the package, how hard it was to drive. He is in great physical condition. Now its up to him and Kevin Harvick to keep the pressure on Brad Keselowski. We talked about how easy it is to make a mistake. Its much easier to make a mistake when there is pressure out you. Rick Brad Keselowski, carl edwards. Edwards won at charlotte. The 600mile race, which you would consider to be the longest in nascar. It is as far as distance. But timewise this one has become longer. The 600 in may was 4 hours 3 minutes long. Were well over that now. Jeff keselowski stretch it out on carl. Now carl is starting to run it back one. Hes quicker. We have lap traffic coming up. The timing of when you pass somebody, especially in lapped traffic is important. A lapped car can hold you up. Rick 31 laps to go. Brad keselowski out in front. He was last on pit road on lap 302 for tires. That means there are 34 laps on these tires. They are wearing out. Halfway through fuel run. Steve carl edwards caught the lapped car at exactly the wrong place. The exit of the corners is not where you want to catch them. You have to slow down. See how big of a penalty that costs carl. Rick with that little bit of momentum lost by the 19 of carl edwards, that allowed the 4 to close the gap. We go nascar nonstop. Ng. Its amazing. This is amazing. Thats amazing real people are discovering surprising things at chevy. Were sold. Its so pretty. Theyre goodlooking cars. It feels great. Perfect. This is not what i would expect from a chevy at all. Get more than you expect, for less than you imagined at the chevy 72 hour sale. Now, get zero percent financing for seventytwo months on most 2015 chevy vehicles. Hurry, the clock is ticking. Get yours now. The seventytwo hour sale ends september 10th. Find new roads at your local chevy dealer. Hey, pete, check this out. Come here, little doggie. Yeah . Sit. Sit. Ohh. You train your lil doggie . Yeah, but hes not doing any of his stuff. Shake aww, maybe hes grumpy . You know . I mean it is lunchtime, so. Ohhh. Oh right, its lunchtime. Its lunchtime, yeah. Yeah, that must be it. chuckles tearfully little doggie its okay. Does it taste good though . Announcer a little dog with a big bite. R mmm lil doggies. Starting at 1. 29. And dont forget halfprice slushes every day at happy hour. clicks rick the good green flag run here for Brad Keselowski. Is that going to pay off for him . Marty. Before the race started Brad Keselowski told me he desperately wants to win one of nascars crowned jewel races. He can change that tonight and take Bobby Allisons colors to victory lane. Speaking of Bobby Allison, the last time roger penske won at darlington, 1975, Bobby Allison was in a matador that day. Kelli. One of the biggest proponents of the aero packages. He loves the way the cars slide around. That with the return of the southern 500 on Labor Day Weekend is like christmas in september. You can bet he smells blood. Kevin harvicks crew chief said i always watch the southern 500 because it was so cool to see the drivers work so hard to win that race. Right now his driver is working very hard. He would love to have a caution. The car is not quite right for harvick. He has sets of tires to use. Rick. Rick here comes the 19 of carl edwards. The gap, we went away, 8 10. The gap now less than 2 10. Steve made the two car loose. Slowed his momentum down. Rick here comes carl edwards. Trying to take the lead of the southern 500. He was the leader at the start finish line. Can he hang on to it through one and two. Jeff if they come off the corner side by side he might be able to make a run and make it three wide. Rick they were side by side. Keselowski takes the top spot back. Now theyre trying to get below the 33 of bliss. Keselowski back out front. Carl edwards. Kevin harvick. Hchg harvick caught up to the back bumper. Can he make the pass for second . Here comes harvick. Down to the bottom of the turn of. Steve did the same thing to the 19 that the 19 did to the 2. Front bumper to the rear. Made him loose. Hes going to clear him. Rick Kevin Harvick back to second now. Jeff the car from behind could not make the car thats leading could not make him loose. This is an advantage to the car in the back in some ways. Rick Brad Keselowski coming up on the slower traffic, will that help out the 4 of harvick as he tries to close the gap up again. 7 10 seconds the difference between the two. Joey logano coming into the picture now. He is fighting for the third spot. Steve the other big difference. The top four and five are not spreading out. Theyre in the same straightaway. One hard battle for the top two and three and now you have new players involved. Rick see sawing back and forth at over 170 miles an hour. Steve were getting ready to get to uncharted territory. Nobody knows whose car is the best on this long run because we havent had one today. Rick Brad Keselowski went by the 48. Jimmie johnson putting a lap down. 25 cars on the lead lap. Way different than when ned jarrett won the race in 65 and had 14 laps that he was in front of the field when he won the race. Steve harvick. When they get to keselowski they havent been able to clear him. And they lose momentum. Lets see if harvick can run keselowski down. Keselowski has found a little bit of speed here and harvick is not being able to match it. Rick a little bit more of a clear track in front of harvick, at least the gap between he and Brad Keselowski. Carl edwards, joey logano, those two tied for the third spot. There is the difference between one and two. Steve so much fun to watch. For years the cars look like theyve been stuck, not moving around. Off both corners, the 2, 4, 19 sideways. You see the drivers working the wheel. Nothing comfortable about the top three. Theyre the race leaders and the cars are this hard to drive. Jeff harvick is 1. 8 seconds behind keselowski. You see the number getting smaller and smaller. Rick that gap, can he close it . In the closing laps. 15 laps to go. For the southern 500. Brad keselowski has never won this race. Kevin harvick won it a year ago. Carl edwards also hasnt been to victory lane at darlington. He has finished second here at darlington twice. Marty. Rick, earlier this week Brad Keselowski told me that, in this rules package, i want to be able to look a fan in the eye and tell them that when ive earned a win or run up front or ive been successful, that i earned it. I worked inside that race car. Jeff, this rules pack nl age has made the drivers work extremely hard. The track is tough and you the package makes the drivers work hard. Do you agree . Jeff no question. The situation these guys are in, they have to be giving 100 . With this rules package its easy to overdrive the car. Right now is about momentum and pace and rhythm. If you try too hard youre going to hurt yourself and make yourself go slower. This is about finesse. That sounds crazy. We have a good oldfashioned saturday and sunday night shorttrack race. Its about finesse. You cannot overdrive the race cars. Rick its a barn burner. Under 13 laps to go. Weve got a spin in turn one and two. Oh, my goodness. Jeff burton in the 23 brings the caution out for a new record. 18th caution. Steve the crew chiefs are instantly making adjustments. Hopefully they were ahead of the game. Put more air in the tires. You know youre running less than ten laps. Put a balanced setup in the car for ten laps. Youre not worried about a 50lap run. Crews. You have to come out in the first two rows. Lap. All the lead lap cars have their first opportunity on pit road. Lets look at what happened to jeff burton to bring out the caution. In the southern 500. Steve underneath the 48 in the middle of the track. Gets loose. Weve seen that a bunch today. Jeff we talked about the drivers being in the race cars for over four hours. The pit crews have been standing there all day long. Theyve got to be tired. Its late in the night. A lot of pit stops. Who is going to step up . Rick were about to find out who wins the race off of pit road. Lead lap cars making their way. Singlefile onto pit road for the final stop. Kelli. The first long run of the night carl edwards saying, i am real loose on the long run. Cant even remember what to tell you about the short run. He said fun racing off there. They called off the adjustments. Theyre going with four tires and fuel for the 19. Dave. Kevin harvick needs a little adjustment for a little more turn. He said more tires for Kevin Harvick. Marty. The pit stop that could decide the southern 500. Joey logano said he was loose off the end of the run. An air pressure adjustment. Brad keselowski came to pit road with the lead. Pulling a little bit of right rear damage off. 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They watch as their team and driver gets off of pit road first and the celebration begins. Kelli. Certainly cause for celebration here
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