1:27 p.m. ET — Also involved in the wreck were Stephen Leicht, Dave Blaney, David Gilliland, Michael McDowell and Joe Nemechek.
1:22 p.m. ET — The race is under the red flag.
Lap 9 — YELLOW FLAG NO. 1: There’s a big wreck on the backstretch involving Tony Stewart, Juan Montoya, Regan Smith, Scott Speed and others. The accident began when Stewart touched Landon Cassill coming off the corner.
Lap 7 — Mark Martin scoots under Jimmie Johnson for the lead in Turns 3 and 4.
Lap 4 — Jimmie Johnson hasn’t been able to shake Mark Martin.
Lap 2 — Matt Kenseth grabs fourth place from Clint Bowyer between Turns 3 and 4.
Lap 1 — GREEN FLAG: The race gets under way at 1:17 p.m. ET. Jimmie Johnson clears for the lead on the backstretch.
1:11 p.m. ET — Pace-car driver Brett Bodine is easing the field off pit road for the start of three pace laps.
Checking in for one of my fav tracks.
What a heckuva wreck! Dang looks like it’ll be awhile. I’m working on taking the steering gear out of my Durango so I can’t watch the whole race.
Would have chevked in sooner but the dang pitman arm is hung up on the center link. Tried a puller but I think it’s going to need me loosening the tie rod.
BTW since a lot of bolts are “frozen” on my Durango I started trying some different p-oil. Even Kroil was not working. Finally I mixed up some acetone - mrs p6’s nail polish remover and some transmisdion fluid. Wooo....works GREAT! UNTIL mrs p6 gets home and finds her stuff gone....
Lap 113 — The leaders are on pit road.
Lap 111 — CAUTION FLAG NO. 2: The engine in David Reutimann’s car has detonated.
Lap 108 — Don’t look now, but Jeff Gordon is catching Mark Martin to challenge him for second place.
Lap 104 — Jimmie Johnson has set sail. His lead over Mark Martin is now up to 2.3 seconds. Also, Jeff Gordon has moved around Matt Kenseth for third place.
Lap 93 — Jimmie Johnson’s lead over Mark Martin has already shot up to 1.4 seconds.
Lap 90 — Matt Kenseth and Jeff Gordon get around Kyle Busch, dropping him to fifth place.
Lap 86 — Kyle Busch, Matt Kenseth and Jeff Gordon — running third, fourth and fifth — are still very close together on the race track.
Lap 84 — Jimmie Johnson has closed back in on Mark Martin for the lead, and he takes the spot coming off Turn 2.
Lap 81 — Jeff Gordon is trying to figure out a way past Matt Kenseth for fourth place, just as Kenseth is looking to work his way around Kyle Busch for third.
Lap 78 — Mark Martin leads Jimmie Johnson by about 6/10ths of a second.
Lap 74 — After the cycle of stops, the top five is Mark Martin, Jimmie Johnson, Kyle Busch, Matt Kenseth and Jeff Gordon.
Lap 73 — Matt Kenseth has brought his car into its pit stall.
Lap 72 — Leader Mark Martin is in. So are Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon.
Lap 71 — Ryan Newman, Martin Truex Jr., Clint Bowyer and others are pitting.
Lap 70 — Kevin Harvick and Denny Hamlin are pitting.
Lap 69 — Greg Biffle is pitting.
Lap 67 — Tony Stewart’s crew is still working on his car in the garage.
Lap 64 — Mark Martin is being given time differentials between what he and Jimmie Johnson are running. Other than that, it’s pretty quiet on the radio.
Lap 60 — The lead goes to Mark Martin. He should be pitting in about nine laps.
Lap 55 — The gap between leader Jimmie Johnson and second-place Mark Martin is now down to about half a second.
Lap 53 — Mark Martin has erased a couple tenths of a second off Jimmie Johnson’s lead.
Lap 50 — Fifty laps in, drivers appear to have settled into a nice groove following the grinding crash earlier.
Lap 46 — Third-place Matt Kenseth has lost touch with Mark Martin, who is running in second place. He’s now nearly two seconds back.
Lap 43 — It’s about one second from leader Jimmie Johnson back to second-place Mark Martin.
Lap 39 — Clint Bowyer is running alone on the track in fourth place.
Lap 35 — The top-three cars — Jimmie Johnson, Mark Martin and Matt Kenseth — are separated by about a second each. It’s more than two more seconds back to fourth-place Clint Bowyer.
Lap 30 — Jimmie Johnson goes to the outside of Mark Martin for the race lead in Turn 3.
Lap 29 — Jimmie Johnson is closing back in on Mark Martin for the lead.
Lap 26 — Hey, look at that. Dave Marcis finished second in Mark Martin’s Cup debut here at Dover.
Lap 22 — Mark Martin’s first Cup start here at Dover came on May 16, 1982. He finished fifth in a race won by Bobby Allison.
Lap 18 — Mark Martin has a lead of about half a second over Jimmie Johnson.
Lap 17 — Clint Bowyer is racing Kyle Busch hard for fifth place. He takes the position coming off Turn 4.
Lap 15 — Matt Kenseth gets a run on Ryan Newman to take third place between Turns 3 and 4.
Lap 13 — GREEN FLAG: Mark Martin, Jimmie Johnson, Matt Kenseth, Ryan Newman and Kyle Busch are leaders on the restart. Johnson and Martin remain side by side until they come off Turn 4, when Martin clears for the lead.
Lap 11 — The leaders stay on the track, but from 17th-place Brad Keselowski on back, most everyone else takes the chance to pit under the caution.
1:41 p.m. ET — The cars are being refired. The caution is back out.
1:36 p.m. ET — According to Fox, this accident involved more cars than any other wreck so far this season.
1:35 p.m. ET — Work is still going on to clear the track.
1:27 p.m. ET — Also involved in the wreck were Stephen Leicht, Dave Blaney, David Gilliland, Michael McDowell and Joe Nemechek.