Lap-by-Lap:
Richmond
CHECKERED
FLAG: Kyle Busch wins the Crown Royal 400 on his 24th
birthday becoming
the second driver to win on his birthday. He also
sweeps the weekend at
Richmond.
Lap 399 -- WHITE FLAG: Kyle
Busch takes the white flag.
Lap 398 --
Kyle Busch is cruising and barring a caution will
win this race.
Lap 393 -- Sam Hornish Jr.
is up to sixth.
Lap 391 -- Jeff Burton is
now racing Tony Stewart for second allowing Kyle Busch
to pull away.
Lap 390 -- Kyle Busch leads
by 2.7 seconds with 10 to go.
Lap 387 --
Tony Stewart is gaining on Kyle Busch, but there is
only 13 laps to go.
Lap 383 -- Tony
Stewart passes Jeff Burton for second.
Lap 381
-- Kurt Busch, Juan Montoya and Sam Hornish Jr. are
three-wide for eighth.
Lap 373 -- Jeff
Burton passes Jeff Gordon for second. Burton has two
lap-down cars
between him and Kyle Busch. Tony Stewart passes Gordon
for third.
Lap 372 -- Kyle Busch has
checked out as he now leads by three
seconds.
Lap 369 -- Jeff Burton passes
Jamie McMurray for third. Tony Stewart passes McMurray
for fourth.
Lap 367 -- Jeff Burton up to
fourth. Tony Stewart is fifth and Ryan Newman is
sixth.
Lap 364 -- Jeff Burton, Ryan
Newman, Denny Hamlin, Carl Edwards and Tony Stewart are
three- and four-wide for fourth place.
Lap 363
-- Kyle Busch has a 0.6-second lead on Jeff
Gordon.
Lap 361 -- GREEN FLAG: Kyle Busch
brings the field to the green.
1. Kyle Busch
2. Jeff Gordon
3. Jamie McMurray
4. Carl
Edwards
5. Denny Hamlin
Lap 356 --
YELLOW FLAG NO. 15: David
Reutimann spins after contact with Brain Vickers
bringing out the
caution. A.J. Allmendinger gets the free pass and Reed
Sorenson was in
front of leader Kyle Busch so he will also be back on
the lead lap.
Lap 354 -- Jamie McMurray
passes Carl Edwards for third.
Lap 352 -- LEAD
CHANGE: Kyle Busch goes to the outside of Jeff
Gordon for the lead.
Lap 351 -- Kyle Busch
goes to the outside on the restart and passes Carl
Edwards.
Lap 350 -- GREEN FLAG: Jeff
Gordon brings the field to the green.
1. Jeff
Gordon
2. Carl Edwards
3. Kyle Busch
4. Jamie McMurray
5. Denny Hamlin
Lap
347 -- Tony
Stewart, Jeff Burton, David Reutimann, Elliott Sadler,
Robby Gordon,
Matt Kenseth and Mark Martin among the handful of
lead-lap cars to pit.
Lap 345 -- YELLOW FLAG
NO. 14: Bobby Labonte spins at the start/finish
line after a bump from Kurt Busch. Brain Vickers gets
the free pass.
Lap 342 -- Sam Hornish Jr.
has plummeted to seventh moving Kyle Busch up to
fourth, Denny Hamlin to fifth and Kurt Busch to
sixth.
Lap 340 -- Jeff Gordon and Carl
Edwards have cleared the lap traffic.
Lap 336
-- A.J. Allmendinger locks them up in Turn 3 and
almost collects leader Jeff Gordon.
Lap 335 --
GREEN FLAG: Jeff Gordon brings the field to the
green.
1. Jeff Gordon
2. Carl Edwards
3. Jamie McMurray
4. Sam Hornish Jr.
5.
Denny Hamlin
Lap 332 -- Elliott Sadler and
Martin Truex Jr. are on pit road. Jimmie Johnson takes
his No. 48 to the garage.
Lap 329 -- None
of the lead-lap cars hit pit road.
Lap 325 --
YELLOW FLAG NO. 13: David
Stremme gets bumped by Bobby Labonte sending Stremme
into the wall and
collecting Kasey Kahne and Jimmie Johnson. Elliott
Sadler gets the free
pass.
Lap 323 -- The top-three of Jeff
Gordon, Carl Edwards and Jamie McMurray have a
two-second lead on fourth-place Sam Hornish
Jr.
Lap 321 -- Jeff Burton is up to
eighth. Tony Stewart up to ninth. Ryan Newman down to
13th.
Lap 317 -- GREEN FLAG: Jeff Gordon
brings the field to the green.
1. Jeff Gordon
2. Carl Edwards
3. Jamie McMurray
4. Sam
Hornish Jr.
5. David Stremme
Lap 312 --
YELLOW FLAG NO. 12: Ryan
Newman bumps Mark Martin causing him to spin in front
of the field on
the restart. Martin Truex Jr. hits Martin after the
spin. Michael
Waltrip gets the free pass.
Lap 311 -- GREEN
FLAG: Jeff Gordon brings the field to the green.
1. Jeff Gordon
2. Carl Edwards
3. Jamie
McMurray
4. Sam Hornish Jr.
5. David
Stremme
Lap 310 -- Robby Gordon hits pit
road giving up fifth.
Lap 308 -- LEAD CHANGE:
Jeff
Gordon stays out and inherits the lead. Gordon, Carl
Edwards, Jamie
McMurray, Sam Hornish Jr., Robby Gordon and David
Stremme stayed out.
• Ryan Newman with four
tires and no changes
• Kyle Busch with four
tires and minor adjustment
Lap 306 -- YELLOW
FLAG NO. 11: Marcos Ambrose slams the wall in Turn
2 after contact with Sam Hornish Jr. David Ragan gets
the free pass.
Lap 302 -- LEAD CHANGE:
Ryan Newman passes Kyle Busch to get back out
front.
Lap 301 -- Ryan Newman and Kyle
Busch are side-by-side for the lead.
Lap 300
-- LEAD CHANGE: Kyle Busch goes to the outside and
passes Ryan Newman for the lead.
Lap 299 --
GREEN FLAG: Ryan Newman brings the field to the
green.
1. Ryan Newman
2. Kyle Busch
3. Jeff Gordon
4. Mark Martin
5. Martin
Truex Jr.
Lap 297 -- Carl Edwards and
David Stremme hit pit road before green.
Lap
292 -- YELLOW FLAG NO. 10: Kevin Harvick blows a
tire and smacks the wall. Carl Edwards gets the free
pass.
Lap 291 -- On the restart Jeff
Gordon falls to third.
Lap 290 -- GREEN FLAG:
Ryan Newman brings the field to the green.
1.
Ryan Newman
2. Jeff Gordon
3. Kyle Busch
4. Mark Martin
5. Martin Truex
Jr.
Lap 289 -- Brian Vickers will start at
the tail end of the longest line for a tire
violation.
Lap 286 -- Clint Bowyer, Tony
Stewart, Casey Mears and David Stremme among the
handful of lead-lap cars to pit.
Lap 285 --
YELLOW FLAG NO. 9: Joey Logano bumps Greg Biffle
and he spins and hits the wall. Jamie McMurray gets the
free pass.
Lap 283 -- Kurt Busch has
fallen from fifth to seventh. Denny Hamlin up to
sixth.
Lap 281 -- Kyle Busch passes Mark
Martin for third.
Lap 278 -- GREEN FLAG:
Ryan Newman brings the field to the green.
1.
Ryan Newman
2. Jeff Gordon
3. Mark
Martin
4. Kyle Busch
5. Kurt
Busch
Lap 276 -- David Stremme back on pit
road.
Lap 275 -- LEAD CHANGE: Ryan Newman
wins the race off pit road and takes the
lead.
Lap 274 -- All the lead-lap cars hit
pit road.
Kurt Busch with a track bar and air
pressure adjustment
Ryan Newman with four tires
and an air pressure adjustment
Jeff Gordon with a
wedge adjustment
Denny Hamlin with a chassis
adjustment and a slow stop due to a lug nut issue
David Stremme stalls on pit road
Lap 273 --
YELLOW FLAG NO. 8: Debris on the track brings out
the caution. Matt Kenseth gets the free
pass.
Lap 271 -- David Ragan and Carl
Edwards have gone a lap down.
Lap 268 --
Jeff Gordon passes Martin Truex Jr. for
fifth.
Lap 265 -- Dale Earnhardt Jr. has
just gone a lap down.
Lap 257 -- Martin
Truex Jr. and his two tires continues to fall as Kurt
Busch passes him for fourth.
Lap 255 --
Mark Martin passes Martin Truex Jr. for
third.
Lap 252 -- Kyle Busch is up to
seventh. David Reutimann is back in the top
10.
Lap 249 -- LEAD CHANGE: Denny Hamlin
passes Ryan Newman for the lead.
Lap 248 --
Denny Hamlin gets to the inside of Ryan
Newman.
Lap 246 -- Crew chiefs are telling
their drivers that rain is in the area and could be
coming soon.
Lap 242 -- Denny Hamlin has
caught the bumper of Ryan Newman and is challenging for
the lead.
Lap 239 -- Denny Hamlin passes
Martin Truex Jr. for second.
Lap 236 -- LEAD
CHANGE: Ryan Newman passes Martin Truex Jr. for the
lead in Turn 1.
Lap 235 -- Ryan Newman
challenging for the lead.
Lap 232 -- Sam
Hornish Jr. is running seventh. Juan Montoya is up to
12th.
Lap 228 -- Kyle Busch passes Tony
Stewart for eighth.
Lap 224 -- Kyle Busch
bumps Brian Vickers after Vickers bumped Busch a lap
earlier.
Lap 218 -- Martin Truex Jr. and
Ryan Newman are side-by-side for the lead at the
line.
Lap 217 -- GREEN FLAG:
Martin Truex Jr. brings the field to the green.
1. Martin Truex Jr.
2. Ryan Newman
3.
Denny Hamlin
4. Sam Hornish Jr.
5. Mark
Martin
Lap 214 -- LEAD CHANGE: Martin
Truex Jr. with a two-tire stop takes the lead beating
Denny Hamlin off pit road.
Lap 212 -- All
the lead-lap cars hit pit road. Jeff Burton is able to
remain on the lead lap.
Lap 211 -- YELLOW FLAG
NO. 7: Jeff
Burton gets around after contact with Dale Earnhardt
Jr. in Turn 4
bringing out the caution. Casey Mears gets the free
pass.
Lap 205 -- Ryan
Newman passes Clint Bowyer for ninth. Dale Earnhardt
Jr. , Bowyer and
Brian Vickers get three-wide as they battle for
position.
Lap 201 -- Mike Bliss has slowed
on the track. He is having a brake issue and is on pit
road.
Lap 197 -- BLACK FLAG: Jimmie
Johnson gets black-flagged for not restarting in the
correct position.
Lap 196 -- GREEN FLAG:
Denny Hamlin brings the field to the green.
1.
Denny Hamlin
2. Kurt Busch
3. Mark
Martin
4. Kyle Busch
5. Martin Truex
Jr.
Lap 195 -- Jimmie Johnson still on pit
road and goes two laps down.
Lap 193 --
All the lead-lap cars hit pit road.
• Kurt
Busch with four tires and no adjustments
• Kyle
Busch wants them to reverse the track bar change
• Denny Hamlin with a chassis adjustment
•
Jeff Burton and Juan Montoya get together on pit
road
• Ryan Newman loses six spots on pit
road
Lap 191 -- YELLOW FLAG NO. 6: Jimmie
Johnson spins in Turn 2 as he has no brakes in his car.
Robby Gordon gets the free pass.
Lap 184 --
Ryan Newman passes Kyle Busch for
fourth.
Lap 183 -- Denny Hamlin leads by
1.2 seconds. Mark Martin passes Kyle Busch for
third.
Lap 180 -- Lots
of action out on the track. David Stremme pushes Matt
Kenseth up into
the wall and Jimmie Johnson rear-ends Joey Logano and
he almost hits
the wall.
Lap 177 -- Kurt Busch finally
gets around Kyle Busch for second. Jimmie Johnson
thinks they have a brake line issue.
Lap 176
-- Kurt and Kyle Busch pick up where they left off
before the caution -- battling for second.
Lap
174 -- GREEN FLAG: Denny Hamlin brings the field to
the green.
1. Denny Hamlin
2. Kyle Busch
3. Kurt Busch
4. Mark Martin
5. Tony
Stewart
Lap 172 -- Jimmie Johnson is on
pit road.
Lap 170 -- The top five stay out
as Kevin Harvick in sixth and most of the cars behind
him pit. Jamie McMurray is being held a
lap.
Lap 168 -- Carl Edwards and Jamie
McMurray are both able to get going and stay on the
lead lap.
Lap 167 -- YELLOW FLAG NO. 5:
David
Stremme gets into Carl Edwards causing Edwards to go
around. Jamie
McMurray spins trying to avoid the wreck and hits
Edwards. Greg Biffle
gets the free pass.
Lap 166 -- Kurt Busch
is challenging Kyle Busch for second.
Lap 164
-- A.J.
Allmendinger bumps David Stremme to let him know he
isn't happy after
Stremme, Allmendinger and Sam Hornish Jr. get
three-wide in the corner.
Lap 160 -- David
Reutimann and Juan Montoya get together.
Lap
159 -- After a pit-road penalty, Jimmie Johnson is
up to 13th. Dale Earnhardt Jr. is the last car on the
lead lap in 23rd.
Lap 155 -- GREEN FLAG:
Denny Hamlin brings the field to the green.
1. Denny Hamlin
2. Kyle Busch
3. Kurt
Busch
4. Mark Martin
5. Ryan
Newman
Lap 152 -- LEAD CHANGE: Denny
Hamlin wins the race off pit road and takes the
lead.
Lap 151 -- All the lead-lap cars hit
pit road.
• Kurt Busch with an air pressure
adjustment
• Kyle Busch with a track bar
adjustment
• Marcos Ambrose with an air
pressure adjustment
• Carl Edwards with a
four-tire stop
• Denny Hamlin with a chassis
adjustment
Lap 150 -- YELLOW FLAG NO. 4:
Kasey Kahne gets around in Turn 4 but doesn't hit
anything. Jamie McMurray gets the free
pass.
Lap 145 -- LEAD CHANGE: Kurt Busch
passes Denny Hamlin for the lead.
Lap 139
-- Kurt Busch is on the move and is closing on
Denny Hamlin.
Lap 137 -- Kyle Busch is
starting to fall of the pace due to his tire
rub.
Lap 135 -- Two tires for Carl Edwards
is starting to backfire as he is down to 12th. Kyle
Busch has a right-rear tire rub.
Lap 132 --
The top six have cleared the lap traffic from the
restart.
Lap 130 -- Kurt Busch goes inside
and passes Ryan Newman for second. Kyle Busch follows
his brother and gets third.
Lap 129 -- The
battle for second ends as Ryan Newman finally passes
Clint Bowyer. Kurt Busch follows Newman for
third.
Lap 126 -- Denny Hamlin is pulling
away as Clint Bowyer and Ryan Newman race side-by-side
for second.
Lap 124 -- LEAD CHANGE: Denny
Hamlin passes Clint Bowyer for the lead.
Lap
122 -- Carl Edwards up to eighth after taking two
tires on his pit stop.
Lap 121 -- GREEN FLAG:
Clint Bowyer brings the field to the green.
1. Clint Bowyer
2. Denny Hamlin
3. Ryan
Newman
4. Kurt Busch
5. Mark
Martin
Lap 117 -- LEAD CHANGE: Clint
Bowyer wins race off pit road and takes the lead.
Jimmie Johnson too
fast exiting pit road and serves pass-through
penalty.
Lap 116 -- All the lead-lap cars
hit pit road.
• Kurt Busch with four tires and
an air pressure adjustment
• Kyle Busch with
four tires and no changes
• Denny Hamlin with
four tires and a chassis adjustment
• Clint
Bowyer takes two tires and wins the race off pit
road
• Ryan Newman takes two tires
Lap
114 -- YELLOW FLAG NO. 3: Jeremy Mayfield hits the
wall hard on the frontstretch bringing out the caution.
Juan Montoya gets the free pass.
Lap 112 --
Matt Kenseth is up to 15th. Kyle Busch passes Mark
Martin for third.
Lap 106 -- Twenty-two
cars on the lead lap. Jamie McMurray is the first car
one lap down.
Lap 103 -- The top five
after the first round of green-flag stops:
1.
Denny Hamlin
2. Kurt Busch
3. Mark
Martin
4. Kyle Busch
5. Jeff
Gordon
Lap 100 -- LEAD CHANGE: Denny
Hamlin back out front as Ryan Newman pits.
Lap
99 --LEAD CHANGE: Ryan
Newman leads as Jeff Gordon pits. A wedge adjustment
and air pressure
adjustment for the No. 24. Jimmie Johnson also on pit
road.
Lap 97 -- LEAD CHANGE: Jeff
Gordon takes the lead as Kurt Busch and Kyle Busch hit
pit road. Brian
Vickers misses pit road and will have to go around
again.
Lap 96 -- LEAD CHANGE: Kurt Busch
leads as Denny Hamlin pits.
Lap 95 --
Clint Bowyer pits.
Lap 93 -- Jeff
Burton on pit road. They make a wedge and air pressure
adjustment. Kevin Harvick and Carl Edwards also
pit.
Lap 92 -- Matt Kenseth, Bobby Labonte
and Kasey Kahne on pit road.
Lap 91 --
Robby Gordon, Greg Biffle and Mike Bliss on pit
road.
Lap 89 -- Reed Sorenson, A.J.
Allmendinger and Elliott Sadler on pit road as
green-flag stops begin.
Lap 88 -- Marcos
Ambrose is up to 15th after restarting 21st.
Lap 85 -- David Gilliland is back in the
race.
Lap 84 -- Ryan Newman is up to
fifth. Tony Stewart is up to ninth.
Lap 82 --
Denny Hamlin puts Greg Biffle a lap
down.
Lap 79 -- Jeff Gordon continues to
slide back as Mark Martin has caught him and
challenging for third. Gordon is quiet on the
radio.
Lap 77 -- Tony Raines takes his No.
37 to the garage.
Lap 74 -- Jeff Gordon
slides back more as Kurt Busch passes him for
second.
Lap 73 -- LEAD CHANGE: Denny
Hamlin gets a great run and passes Jeff Gordon for the
lead.
Lap 71 -- David Gilliland takes his
No. 71 to the garage.
Lap 69 -- Kurt Busch
up to third as he passes Mark Martin.
Lap 68
-- Bobby
Labonte and Kasey Kahne are side-by-side preventing
Jeff Gordon from
lapping them and Gordon is getting frustrated bumping
the No. 9 car.
Lap 65 -- Kasey Kahne is
down to 34th after starting 18th. Kahne says his car
won't turn and he has a vibration in his brake
pedal.
Lap 63 -- Ryan Newman is up to
sixth. Jimmie Johnson up to ninth.
Lap 61 --
The top-three of Jeff Gordon, Denny Hamlin and Mark
Martin have a 1.5-second lead on fourth-place Kurt
Busch.
Lap 58 -- Joe Nemechek is on pit
road.
Lap 55 -- Kurt Busch is on the move
as he passes Brian Vickers for fourth. Scott Riggs
takes his No. 36 behind the wall and to the
garage.
Lap 50 -- Lap traffic has
destroyed Jeff Gordon's lead as Denny Hamlin has now
caught his bumper.
Lap 49 -- Ryan Newman
passes Martin Truex Jr. for seventh.
Lap 48 --
Kyle Busch is up to fifth and Kurt Busch is up to
sixth.
Lap 46 -- Tony Raines has gone a
lap down but Denny Hamlin has closed the lead to 0.6
seconds.
Lap 44 -- Jeff Gordon has caught
the tail end of the field and will begin lapping
cars.
Lap 40 -- Jeff Burton has fallen
back to 10th.
Lap 35 -- Kyle Busch is up
to sixth. Tony Stewart has climbed to
13th.
Lap 32 -- Jeff Gordon has 1.1-second
lead on second-place Denny Hamlin.
Lap 30 --
Kurt Busch in the top 10 as he passes David
Reutimann.
Lap 29 -- Brian Vickers
continues to slip as Mark Martin passes him for
third.
Lap 28 -- Denny Hamlin passes Brian
Vickers for second. Vickers is complaining of a tight
race car.
Lap 24 -- Ryan Newman gets
around David Reutimann for eighth. Clint Bowyer up to
10th.
Lap 23 -- LEAD CHANGE: Jeff Gordon
easily passes Brian Vickers for the lead.
Lap
18 -- Kyle Busch continues to make gains on the
outside as he is up to eighth and
climbing.
Lap 16 -- Mark Martin passes
Martin Truex Jr. for fourth.
Lap 14 --
Kyle Busch has a great restart on the outside and
jumps a few positions to 11th.
Lap 13 -- GREEN
FLAG: Brian Vickers brings the field to the
green.
1. Brian Vickers
2. Jeff Gordon
3. Denny Hamlin
4. Martin Truex Jr.
5.
Mark Martin
Lap 11 -- Michael Waltrip,
Casey Mears and John Andretti are the only three
drivers to visit pit road.
Lap 9 -- YELLOW
FLAG NO. 2: Dave Blaney gets loose and slams into
the wall. No free pass is given.
Lap 8 --LEAD
CHANGE: Brian Vickers drives away from Jeff Gordon
to retake the lead.
Lap 7 -- LEAD CHANGE:
Jeff Gordon goes hard into Turn 3 and holds it to
beat Brian Vickers to the line.
Lap 6 -- GREEN
FLAG: Brian Vickers gets the field up to speed and
we are under way at Richmond.
1. Brian Vickers
2. Jeff Gordon
3. Denny Hamlin
4. Martin
Truex Jr.
5. Jeff Burton
7:54 p.m. --
GREEN FLAG/YELLOW FLAG NO. 1: Brian Vickers brings
the field to the green as the Crown Royal 400 is under
way.
7:53 p.m. -- The race will start
under a yellow to help dry the track.
7:51
p.m. -- The
track looks good, just a couple of wet spots up by the
wall and pit
road is wet. The cars are still running single-file
against the wall to
dry the outer groove. Pace car driver Brett Bodine
thinks within the
next five laps the track should be dry.
7:42
p.m. -- The
cars are rolling off pit road and will take a couple
warm-up laps along
the wall in a single-file line to help dry the
track.
7:38 p.m. -- Russ Friedman, winner
of the Crown Royal "Your Name Here" contest,
gives the command: "Gentlemen, start your
engines!"
7:32 p.m. -- The
Commandant's Own Marine Drum and Bugle Corps perform
the national anthem.
7:31 p.m. -- Reverend
Joe Ellison from Essex Village Community Church
delivers the Invocation.
7:30 p.m. -- A
moment of silence is held for David
Poole.
7:17 p.m. -- Happy Birthday to Kyle
Busch, who turns 24 today.
7:02 p.m. --
Jet dryers are on the track to hopefully get the
track dry in time for the green.
7 p.m. --
FOX's pre-race coverage of the Crown Royal 400 is
under way.
6:53 p.m. -- The rain has
stopped at Richmond and the crews are getting the cars
ready for the race.
6:02 p.m. ET --
The weather looks like dicey for the Crown Royal 400 at
Richmond
International Raceway. It's raining right now with
temperatures in the
mid-70s. Thunderstorms are forecast throughout the
evening but they
should be intermittent. Green flag is scheduled for
7:43 p.m. ET.
