kurt busch and matt kenseth four seconds back.: only difference in the 78 car this year and last year. last year he started on the pole. he never had competition to speak of. tonight he started eighth. had to work his way to the >> jeff: the other things. less downforce, stages and the track compound to try to make multiple grooves. he has had to overcome other obstacles. the results seem to be the same. >> mike: this chart. similar to last year. number not as high but the domination as complete. 213 laps led so far with 53 to go. >> darrell: that's unbelievable. look at what he did -- look at these two numbers. combined numbers from last year to this year. look at that. 605 of the 747 laps in the last two coca-cola 600s. >> jeff: he'll be at 1,000 pretty soon. talking about that 1,000 list. >> mike: he's led 600 and that's just in two years. >> darrell: people talk about the struggles of the toyotas and the gibbs tes. the kyle busch second, kenseth third. and suarez. there he is in the 6. all those cars running good tonight. denn

the joe gibbs cars of matt kenseth and kyle busch running second and third.n stage three. erik jones in seventh. >> darrell: not going to be able to lead >> mike: i don't think anybody ever will break that record. >> jeff: the only record he wants to break right now is that nobody else leads another lap tonight. >> mike: came up through the busch north series. made his way to the xfinity series and the title. and then here into the cup series. third generation racer. his dad, his uncle both raced modified, late-models and busch north cars. he and his girlfriend sherry polaks do great volunteer work. >> darrell: the first year in that car things didn't go so well. they made adjustments to the team. they got cole pearn to be the crew chief and that's when things started to happen. >> mike: an update on the pole were talking about the fact that kevin harvick was complaining about a loose wheel and the team was on the wall awaiting his arrival in the pits. harvick has not come in. he says the vibration has not gotten worse but it's definitely shaking him and he's

. >> mike: kyle busch and matt kenseth comes right with him. three of the top four toyotas. >> jamie: four-tire stop, chris. >> chris: kyle busch pretty happy. >> matt: leaders off pit road. left side going on for truex. great stuff. he is away. >> mike: erik jones also inor four tires, which will make kurt busch the leader from kevin harvick. two fords out front suddenly. kurt busch and. >> matt: an up. didn't have a lot of feel. assume he made great adjustments. >> mike: denny hamlin came in and sparked a flurry of lead lap cars to pit road. the first eight have not stopped. jimmie johnson, austin dillon. joey logano. newman. buescher, bayne and smith have stayed out. watch jimmie johnson, just as he took the lead. look for something on the track there. >> jeff: i think those are just sparks. they're metal sparks coming off another car. yeah. probably coming off the 18. he drags on those lower pressures. he just came off pit road. then there are just sparks flying over the car and bouncing off the car. >> darrell: mike, now the question is, of

jimmie johnson four and a half seconds off the lead and 2.6 behind his teammate matt kenseth in second running 1, 2, 3. let's go back and look again at the 48 versus 77 chess game on pit road. >> darrell: it's right in front of us, jeff. we have a perfect shot of it. jeff and i mentioned earlier, look how the 77 comes in at an angle. >> jeff: he is coming around the right front tire carrier of the 48. it's not giving him a lot of room there either. he's coming in at an angle. they could stop him further in the box to help both their causes. >> darrell: see how hard johnson has to turn out to clear the right rear there of the 77. he >> he picked the stalls. he can back the damn car up. >> we do that, we'll get ahead of him and stop short. >> he has my blood pressure up. you're about to have to calm me down. >> mike: that's the crew chief and the spotter for erik jones. >> jeff: they're fired up. we haven't had a good crew chief fight in a long time. >> darrell: we may have one brewing. and they're neighbors, for heaven sake. >> mike: the spotters are gathered together up there on the ro