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Lap 218 — Jeff Gordon isn’t waiting around for anybody. He’s already 1.2 seconds ahead of Jimmie Johnson. It’s more than five second back to third-place Kevin Harvick.

Lap 211 — Jeff Gordon is finally able to take over the lead from Jimmie Johnson. Johnson just pulled over to allow at the end of the backstretch to allow the move to happen unchallenged.

Lap 207 — Third-place Kevin Harvick is 2.6 seconds behind leader Jimmie Johnson.

Lap 205 — Kyle Busch goes straight to the garage.

Lap 203 — Smoke has begun to billow out from under Kyle Busch’s car.

Lap 200 — Jimmie Johnson is the winner of today’s Nationwide Series race. No ... wait. That was yesterday. We’ve still got another 200 laps to go!

Lap 196 — A visitor to the MRN booth is discussing autism right now. Thanks to all who have participated in the awareness campaign this weekend!

Lap 194 — Jeff Gordon seems to be content riding behind teammate Jimmie Johnson. The margin between them has been stable at a few car lengths for several laps now.

Lap 192 — Running in fifth place, Matt Kenseth is very unhappy with his race car.

Lap 188 — Kevin Harvick makes the pass of Dale Earnhardt Jr. for third place.

Lap 185 — Wow. Marcos Ambrose just made one heck of a save coming off Turn 2. He was wrecked ... he just didn’t bend anything.

Lap 183 — Dale Earnhardt Jr. is about 2.1 seconds behind leader Jimmie Johnson. He’s got Kevin Harvick not far behind him.

Lap 179 — Jeff Gordon is within 4/10ths of a second of leader Jimmie Johnson.

Lap 177 — Hey! Good ol’ Bowman Gray Stadium is getting some love on Fox’s broadcast.

Lap 173 — Kyle Busch took the restart in 19th place. That’s where he’s running right now.

Lap 170 — It’s a Hendrick Motorsports sweep of the top-three spots for the time being.

Lap 169 — GREEN FLAG: Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kevin Harvick and Matt Kenseth are the top five. Johnson clears easily for the top spot.

Lap 168 — Kyle Busch is back on pit road.

Lap 166 — The leaders are on pit road. Kyle Busch will have to pit again to tighten all the lugs.

Lap 164 — YELLOW FLAG NO. 3: Carl Edwards slaps the wall in Turn 2.

Lap 160 — Kevin Harvick finally clears Kyle Busch in their battle for third place.

Lap 159 — Kevin Harvick gets a nose under Kyle Busch for third place coming off Turn 4.

Lap 158 — Kevin Harvick is fighting Kyle Busch hard for third place. Here ... hold my watch!

Lap 156 — Jeff Gordon has closed to within about 1.5 seconds of teammate Jimmie Johnson for the lead.

Lap 153 — Don’t tell Joey Logano about D.W.’s miscue, because we all know who holds the microphone in that family, right?

Lap 150 — Darrell Waltrip just forgot Joey Logano’s name. Ooooops.

Lap 148 — The top five is currently Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon, Kyle Busch, Kevin Harvick and Mark Martin.

Lap 145 — Dale Earnhardt Jr. is shown in eighth place. C’mon, Joooooooon-yer!!!

Lap 140 — Jeff Gordon blasts past Kyle Busch for the runnerup position.

Lap 139 — Kyle Busch now trails leader Jimmie Johnson by about three seconds.

Lap 136 — Jeff Gordon dives under Kevin Harvick for third place in the treacherous Turn 2.

Lap 133 — One thing’s for sure. The cockpit of Mark Martin’s car is much, much different than when he first raced here. And that’s a good thing. A very, very good thing.

Lap 130 — Kevin Harvick and Mark Martin nearly make contact coming down the backstretch as Harvick takes over third place.

Lap 127 — Further back in the back, Ryan Newman and Brad Keselowski are having a hard time getting around Jeff Burton.