kurt busch, kyle larson. michael mcdowell. quite a few cars involved in this one to bring out the red flag. one driver who is familiar with getting a win and a restricter plate track is the driver of the 38, david ragan. see if we can chat with david. we'll try to dial up his radio. >> david, it's jeff burton. you got us? >> yeah. i got you, jeff. what's going on? >> we're not. from what we have been watching, it's pretty wild. how is it down there? >> our shriners hospitals for children drove pretty good tonight, and we allowed good pit calls on pit road, and we haven't had to take four tires every time. our car drives good, and hopefully we can have help here with just a few laps to go and see if we can make it interesting. >> we see you so close to winning the daytona 500. we have seen you win here at the 400 and at talladega. without telling your competition what's on your mind, how will you get this race won? >> i won't be able to do it myself. i have to have somebody help push me a little bit. i wish my old teammate was

kurt busch, kyle larson. michael mcdowell. quite a few cars involved in this one to bring out the red flag. one driver who is familiar with getting a win and a restricter plate track is the driver of the 38, david ragan. see if we can chat with david. we'll try to dial up his radio. >> david, it's jeff burton. you got us? >> yeah. i got you, jeff. what's going on? >> well, you sound pretty calm. we're not. from what we have been watching, it's pretty wild. how is it down there? >> our shriners hospitals for children drove pretty good tonight, and we allowed good pit calls on pit road, and we haven't had to take four tires every time. our car drives good, and hopefully we can have help here with just a few laps to go and see if we can make it interesting. >> we see you so close to winning the daytona 500. we have seen you win here at the 400 and at talladega. without telling your competition what's on your mind, how will you get this race won? >> i won't be able to do it myself. i have to have somebody help push me a little bit

but kyle larson couldn't have gone any lower.ut kyle larson in position where he would lift or wreck. >> little contact by 21 blaney as well. coming up the racetrack. >> so a lot of clean up that still needs to be done on the track. parts to the 42 car. much like what you saw with 7 will, rick. 42 makes contact multiple times with the wall. descent contact. an huge impact. this one here though actually might have been one of the bigger hits and you see the red sparks. finally catches some sort of fluid on fire up under the hood. whether oirl fuel after knocking a line loose. he ran him so low. as soon as we see the dust, it is like the 42 came around. i don't know if he lost traction or what that low in the front stretch. >> i think two cars running that hard and maybe just a little bit of contact between the two. >> blocking for every position. ty really low trying to,000 wall to his advantage. almost as a pick. >> all of the debris being cleaned up on the racetrack. still under yellow flag condition. cars rolling around the tra

kurt busch, kyle larson. michael mcdowell. quite a few cars involved in this one to bring out the red flag. one driver who is familiar with getting a win and a restricter plate track is the driver of the 38, david ragan. see if we can chat with david. we'll try to dial up his radio. >> david, it's jeff burton. you got us? >> yeah. i got you, jeff. what's going on? >> well, you sound pretty calm. we're not. from what we have been watching, it's pretty wild. how is it down there? >> our shriners hospitals for children drove pretty good tonight, and we allowed good pit calls on pit road, and we haven't had to take four tires every time. our car drives good, and hopefully we can have help here with just a few laps to go and see if we can make it interesting. >> we see you so close to winning the daytona 500. we have seen you win here at the 400 and at talladega. without telling your competition what's on your mind, how will you get this race won? >> i won't be able to do it myself. i have to have somebody help push me a little bit

if he doesn't block him, larson is going by. kyle is not happy. >> not happy at all.g 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 with daniel suarez. 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.

if he doesn't block him, larson is going by. kyle is not happy. >> not happy at all.g 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

. >> we heard kyle larson saying it was nutty out there. a lot of blocking. what was racing like for you this year? >> yeah, the blocking has been there for a long time. and so tough to pass and with stage racing, every position matters. it is just ramped up blocking, ramped up intensity. that's just normal stuff now out there. mark martin would have a heart attack if he was racing this era. the game changed for sure. >> thank one jimmie. >> thanks. >> one other game-changer, you see jimmie johnson four-time winner. you see his name on there. other change is there are no lights at indianapolis mote eat speedway. sunset is around 9:06 local time. sun getting lower on the horizon. so harder to see. for the drivers. this will be the latest end ever for a brickyard 400. we talked about the 1995 win of dale earnhardt. he was aib able to get to victo lane, it was after 7:00. now closing in on 9:00. let's listen in o kasey kahne's radio about the restart. >> i don't understand how they try to control the restart. it's not his restart. they took 5. so that's the lead

how hard do you push if you are kyle larson? you bush the guys in front of you to make sure they use as much a fuel as they can? >> all those guys have to pit regardless. your key, only thing you do right is now stay in front of trevor bayne. that's the only thing you have to do, stay in front of trover bayne and save fuel. don't run any faster than you have to. only way it save fuel is to go slower. you have to try not to keep pace with everybody else. save fuel. stay in front of trevor bayne. >> the way the strategy works is if there is not a caution. >> an caution. even lucky. even 45 laps is a long way. >> a long fuel run here at 2 1/2 mile rectangle. >> get a few updalttes. we start with dave. >> now out front, as crew chief told me this morning, toughest part it about this race is that the guy who has the inside line just takes it and stays there. guess what? that was a teammate and 78 earlier. now it was matt kenseth. he took it from the 4 of kevin harvick. as for harvick. and his crew chief rodney childress. rodney says

hamlin would hold off kyle larson to take the checkered flag.ps a 28-race winless skid. >>> the tour de france continued today with stage 15. two time defending champ chris froome had a flat tire and had to take a new bike from one of his teammates. froome retains the yellow jersey as the overall leader. this abc7 sports report is brought to you by river rock casino. and the tour ends a week from today. >> and back to that guy on the tennis court. amazing. > wasn't that great? >> yes. good for him. >>> all right. that's it for today. abc7 news continues tomorrow morning at 4:30. i'm kate larsen for drew tuma and rick kwan, thanks so much for joining us. have a good one. i am a first responder tor and i'emergencies 24 hours a day, everyday of the year. my children and my family are on my mind when i'm working all the time. my neighbors are here, my friends and family live here, so it's important for me to respond as quickly as possible and get the power back on. it's an amazing feeling turning those lights back on. be informed about outages in yo

we watched kyle larson last year do this. the caution comes out on the 4.ut on new tires. watch this show when he puts on those tires and comes to the front. complete carnage back here. look at all these wrecked trucks from earlier in the race. >>well, it'll be interesting to see when bell does get that fresh edge, as kenny referred to earlier, whether it's going to be enough to allow him to get up through the field in less than 20 laps. >>i think john hunter nemechek was taking your advice. he was done in that low groove trying to get mud on those tires. >>they go to work on the right side. taking a look to see if they were going to look at any more of the damage. they're not going to waste time with that. they're going to put the right side tires on. we'll see if they go to the left side or go with two. he's down and away with two tires. >>well, on one hand, a tough break for bell who was running up towards the front in the top two or three at the time. but at the same time a great break for him because if it would have stayed green with that flat right f

the dirt that release tracks every week so a great mix of dirt racers every week trucks a racers kyle larsonvery daylighted as owner dedicated to making sure track in tip-top condition if not gets dusty you want really even see the trucks racing around the truck. >> that is what he likes to do sit on tractor make sure racetrack is right will ride arrange if it doesn't look right will plow it up next thing i know won't be as dusty will be a little moisture toppo on top of the track or bottom of the track tony passionate about what he do he is with racetracks, that bleeds over into the racing, and that is really what couldn't the speedway, into the marquee dirt racing spot from sprint cars to dirt late models 60,000 people roll through this racetrack weekend this week. >> i hope people watch this race and want go to a local dirt track, but you are going to be you are going to be in the broadcasting booth for the race. >> i will i am going to be in booth with michael waltrip vince. >> how is it going i know do you want to do this do you want tv full time when you stop racing? >> definitely some