here as we have completed 68 laps. this is 69th lap just right there. that has been completed. >> a nice update on suarez. using the term a packer adjustment. which seems complicated. we hear about air pressure, cross weight, these nascar terms. if we go under the cut away car here, if you look at right front suspension, take the tire off. this area here, that's what car rides around. you see the tire goes up, that squishes, stops the travel. keeps the car from hitting the racetrack. add this little shim. doesn't travel as far. it is called a packer but it really just a shim. a simple piece of plastic that a crew member jams in there on the pit stop. a good update by parker. >> amazingly enough,

second and a half for them to do that. and when we talk about the gap between .9 of a second, those second, second half are very important as we see smoke coming out from j.j. yeley. right front tire down on this car. possibly another caution coming out. if he can't get off the racetrack. a lot of teams know if a caution does come out, some are helping it doesn't. >> he gets off the racetrack. and able to make his way on to pit row. but caution does come out. >> the problem is, even if he is off the racetrack, just the debris that's come off the race car -- >> you can see a lot of damage to the right side. >> so j.j. yeley, once again, having an issue. he was part of an accident earlier. and it has compounded now to where the right front tire has gone down. he has come off the wall there

that right front tire went down. >> and he was in that earlier incident. seems like every week you see a car get into an incident. they try to get the car back on the racetrack. fenders don't get cleared. something is rubbing a tire. tire blows. and the wall again. >> only thing they can do is pull fenders away. use tape. create clearance. they can cut parts off, just can't put any on. >> i'm afraid this car needs some serious suspension parts. much more damage than just body. >> now decision, decisions, rick. i would expect martin truex jr, having to come to pit road for tires and fuel. they decided not to go in of that last yellow. the question is, how many tires and second question is what about those

that were playing the strategy game. we have ryan blaney back in 16th. lead car of that group. is he going to think he needs tires? >> i think blaney keselowski, menard, all these guys should stay out. >> i think blaney should because there are other cars behind them. it is harder for cars on the second half of the strategy. as all leaders, turning down pit road, we know where their mind is. but a couple staying on -- >> blaney, keselowski, yeah. guys we thought would stay out. marty? >> and top guys, as you mentioned, coming down pit road, wasn't much after choiof a choi these guys. kyle busch saying, we need fuel to make it to the end so no reason why we w

we heard him on the radio but saying his car runs tight, for martin truex jr, his car is a little free. at the beginning. then gets better the longer they run. for leader, saying, hey, bring it to me and i'll surprise you with what we do. that surprise is another tire change. once again rick, one none pit stop pays off for 18. >> only problem is he is not out front. because a few cars stayed out on the track. you're watching the bradley gbil gert brickyard 4 h 00. my a1c wasn't were it needed to be. so i liked when my doctor told me that i may reach my blood sugar and a1c goals by activating what's within me with once-weekly trulicity. trulicity is not insulin. it helps activate my body to do what it's suppose to do, release its own insulin. i take it once a week, and it works 24/7.

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welcome back. aerial coverage provide bid partneed by smithfield foods. rutledge? >> rick, i have found the place to watch the race. when have you 243 acres of infield, down here on the back stretch in turn three, look at this. there are people everywhere. when you look over here, you can see fans just line the entire curves here between three and four. and what's funny is that we are right next to where 400 fest was and we saw this weekend joe jonas here with dnc and they add huge party. great time. kurt busch watched the chain smokers. he had it. i can tell you this, i'm pretty sure, i think i found steve's dancing shoes which may or may not have been danced off last night at chain smokers. is that right, steve? >> my dancing shoes were well on the ground. but my

when dnc and chain smokers come to town, you good to the concert. we were out in the field with everybody at 400 fest. awesome party. capped off a whole weekend of great events here in indianapolis. steve, you must have danced a lot. all these people down here love you. they just kept asking where's steve? >> i was a grumpy old man. where is all that music coming from? >> i like to make an impression. >> what an incredible concert last night. great atmosphere here. >> rick we talked about a great weekend of event. this race is not letting down because there aresome different strategies and thoughts on how to attack the second stage erik jones. he will try to do the whole thing. >> you said attack. >> he is attacking it p. last time on pit road was lap 52 p he will try to do the entire 50-lap stage. you heard marty say earlier crews

laps. he will try to go 48. fresh tires and fresh fuel on kyle busch and joey logano inside the top ten. >> remember last week in new hampshire, involved in that wreck, right front go down. left front went down after contact on pit road before the end of the first stage. they add terrible day in point. they got to gamble some to try to get themselves back into position. they either need to win a race or gain a ton of points. so even though we're a long way away from the cut off race, it's right now starting to affect what these teams are doing. >> kelly? >> here is the game plan. >> maybe a lap and half short but better mileage. and probably worse up front. but we have extra fuel here. so the plan is we go as far as we can like normal. loose fool, loose fuel pressure start to run out, flip your switch. >> coming back it gei

zone, green flag back in the air. >> erik jones on the inside. ryan blaney on the outside. here comes brad keselowski in the 2. three-wide behind him. kyle busch inside the white line. >> a lot of smoke rolling out. looks like the 88. >> we got running here in the back. >> you see damage to the nose on heavy, heavy damage to the left front. caution comes out again. radiator out for the 88. his final brickyard 400 appearance is going to end early. >> that will be it for 88. damage repair policy. in nascar deems that was on accident. which i'm sure they will

damage on the front of the 88, he won't be able to come to pit road and have to change the raid a radiator. he will have to go to the garage. that will be his day. >> the lug nuts on the way that got him into the back and couldn't get himself back up front. >> take another look at what happened. saying he got run into in the back. >> tight nose detail. ride along with him. >> this will tell the story here. >> clear behind him. >> boom. >> 13 will fill that hole. >> 13 inside. all stacked up. >> doesn't seem like it would be hard enough hit to knock the radiator out of it. but much like the pit equipment, these race cars now built aggressively to keep up. ev

lightest car possible. make the most down force. there between bumper cars. >> that quickly. >> there he goes. out of the race. >> climbing out of the car. and saw the fluid. came out of the 88. again, dale earnhardt jr., announced earlier this year, he was going to retire from racing full-time. and so these racetracks, that you come to once a year, coming to for the final time in 2017, the fans getting their final glimpse of dale earnhardt jr. driver's suit. >> series of bad events. they just don't seem to get the finishes. run better than they finish but dale has kaept positive attitude. he's been upbeat. energetic. excited to be at the racetrack.

hasn't gone well, he enjoyed himself at the racetrack since he made his announcement. >> tough situation once again for the 88 team. they don't have a win. and so they are looking for any opportunity to get that win. he is going to have to go to the infield care center any time you're involved in an accident. that's the first thing they will come and grab him and take him to the infield care center. that's why we're not talking to him. >> you always feel terrible as a driver. even if there was nothing you could do, you're always thinking, what could i have done. what did i do to end our day? i know that's going through his head right now. and gosh, i wish i could have found a way to prevent that from happening. sometimes you just can't prevent it. >> a big news for this 88 as well. remember they just, this week, mentioned, alex bowman will be the driver of this 88 next year. we talked about dale's

announcement. but the circle is closed with who is in that seat. you see the disappointment in fans as well. >> there were three guys who jumped out of a van and started walking up the sidewalk. all three had 88 dale junior t-shirts on. they were excited to come watch their favorite driver. he's been a fan favorite for over a decade now. although this doesn't play into the hand of the 88 team for dale earnhardt jr., it will definitely help drivers like erik jones, who was trying to stretch his fuel. and under a caution, they are going to use about half as much fuel as they would going around this racetrack if they were going wide open sn. >> there was a lot of information we heard. hey, we're a lap and half short, save that under the yellow. that doesn't matter now, because there is more yellow. they have been given instruc

it is running if fourth gear, idling, perhaps shutting the car off, a lot of ways drivers can save fuel while running slowly behind a pace car. >> 28 laps complete of the stage 250 laps. 22 to go. when we return. 50 laps. 22 to go. when we return.

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presented by golden corral. >> so we have this great view on the helmet cam of kurt busch. we want to show you, we just saw 88 get knocked out on restart. here is a shot. out the front window, there's the rearview mirror. there's the left side mirror. this will show you just how chaotic it was. >> before he looks in the mirrors, he has it listen to when to restart. listen to the throttle. can't go yet. can't go, can't go, finally wide open. you can see, you can't see the car in front of daniel suarez. only the left lane. you have to judge off the left lane. now chaos starts in turn one. >> he has to check up. 19 suarez is in his way. back to the throttle. the 5 has him pinned to the outside. now fighting to the bottom. look that left side there. right there. look right there. you continue to see cars and the 17 of ricky stenhouse. you' h

there is nothing you can do if there is not a lane to protect. >> so incredible that we have that opportunity to see that. thank you no ford performance, monster energy. what an amazing view that is from the driver's perspective on restart. another one coming. erik jones on the inside. ryan blaney on the outside. >> ryan blaney aggressively side blasted. we haven't seen a lot of that so far. but ryan blianey, most aggressie restart for a guy not leading the race. >> kes helowski behind him. >> we heard from brad, not liking his race car. disappointed in handling. he wants to get up there and get cleaner air. look behind him in that mess. >> everyone trying to get that clean air. following the leader. right now denny hamlin leading that pack. ryan blaney out in front at indianapolis. rick jones running second.

>> fresh right away. kevin working to slow logano now now four-wide on the front stretch. >> all wait to bottom. kurt busch. does he get back? >> he does, just in time. almost catching grass in turn one. >> doing a great job of squeezing joey logano. those are the moves you have to make. if you're not aggressive, you will go to the back. kevin harvick had to take that spot. it was aggressive but he had to tp same way jimmie johnson had to block larson right there. if he doesn't block him, larson is going by. kyle is not happy. >> not happy at all. running into the back of 48 as they enter the turn. way up the racetrack goes jimmie johnson. >> kyle not happy with jimmie johnson. moving jimmie johnson out of the way. jimmie johnson lost three spots already. more coming

that's the thing, when you block someone, even though you feel like you have to do it, there's a problem with that. you will make that guy mad. if he moves you out of the way, that's his decision. you block me, buddy, i'm going to move you out of the way. >> kenseth up the track. trying to get in front of the 22 of logano. kenseth takes that spot away. >> just behind this battle here wp wp. 42 of kyle larson. fighting, battle, scrapping to keep the track position. look what happened with jimmie johnson. further and further back. look at this. jimmie johnson, lost kyle larson pushing. and listen, i've had enough. pushing jimmie johnson. pushing him to the corner. could not hold the bottom. >> off the racetrack. kyle larson going by. as does kurt busch. jamie mcmurray also got clear. daniel suarez. also running in front of the 48 now. jimmie johnson dpp

way back to 19. ricky stenhouse jr. and 17. running 17th. brad keselowski. on the restart. keselowski, fallen back to sixth now. marty? >> rick, dale earnhardt jr. is out on the infield care house center. junior, i know this is not the way you want to go out. what happened? >> i don't know. just a bunch of cars slowing down, stopping, chain reaction. we got in the back of the 6 car. they were all running into each other. just knocked the radiator out. knocked the radiator off. and you know, we hit the 2 car earlier doing the same thing and it damaged the front end. knocked a bumper bar out then. so we had no protection after that. but we add grehad a great car. having a lot of fun. the car was fast. we had top ten car for

yeah, you know, hopefully our luck will turn around. this has been tough and this is a difficult one to -- this is a more difficult one to put up with. >> dale, how tough are restarts? seems like a street fight out there. >> oh, they always are. and that's fun. if you can sometimes you are on the wrong end of it. sometimes make something happen. it was great. running into third, third graer through the short chute. grabbing gears to get the advantage. you got push hard. that got us into trouble when they started checking up on the outside. just trying real hard to get as much as we could on restarts. and got bit. >> dale earnhardt jr. out of it early rick in his final brickyard 400. >> makes sense, rick. we were thinking that was it, knocking radiator out. junior explaining they had contact early. he thought there was already damage. second time is the charm. >> and riding along with

>> really close to the grass there. >> wow. >> he actually -- you heard that big bang like he entered so low he was on the wrong side of the concrete patch. i'm surprised the whole car didn't bottom out. >> jeff, he thinks he might have splinter damage. also a bolt issuecy keeping an eye on. not perfect for driver of the 41. >> a great update. his brother, kyle busch, worked his way back through traffic. talking about how difficult it is to pass at indianapolis. does not seem to be difficult for 18 of kyle busch. 21 gets loose. he just turns under him and into the lane he goes. >> what a great car, 18 has. as you talked to him before, it was because he carried his imar indian wife. there has to be something about this racetrack and how he drives that makes him bet are. it has

to get up front. but for some reason, for 18 kyle busch, not difficult at all to get by the four or five in front of him. >> and martin truex jr with him. not quite the same pace. i feel like, kyle busch has been a little bit faster. but second fastest car is this blue 78 car. martin ju ex jr. gone up through the field with kyle busch. >> also passing ryan blaney for martin truex jr back up to second. that puts blaney back to third. erik jones fourth. denny hamlin fifth. let's take a look at today's toyota driver update. kyle busch led the first 80 laps today. >> and denny hamlin in fifth. remember, hamlin had trouble, had damage to his nose. he worked himself back up to fifth. >> toyota drivers have led all by six laps today.

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there's nothing like a nascar race. this season has been full of the most intense side by side racing in years. and more dramatic moments. see more nascar memories in a race near you. reminder tonight after the race, here on nbc, sunday night with megyn kelly. out front, kyle busch. now 2.2-second lead over martin truex jr. ryan blaney, erik jones and denny hamlin holding on to top five positions. what an amazing career kyle busch has had at this racetrack. won the last two races, led 88% of the laps last year.

already 77 laps led today and counting. >> rick what makes that more impressive, if could be more impressive, these are completely different rules. three years ago, high, high, down force, cars are going to draft. last year medium down force. this so when down force package. >> let's go through the field brought to you by carl's jr. let's start with martin. >> kyle busch in indianapolis. here is news we haven't heard in a while, right? adam stevens on the radio saying we we are one porter house speak. i don't know what that means. but must be good. kyle's car clearly very good. he joked about his wife from indianapolis, indiana, we should say, ten years ago this weekend is when they met. he said, i never thought i would have a shot with her but he did and they ended up getting married and having their beautiful son. all year long we have seen the 78 car be better on longer runs. right now, having a tough time catching his corporate team