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Lap by Lap: Food City 500

April 3, 2005
05:09 PM EDT (21:09 GMT)

Here is a lap-by-lap account of the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway:

Lap 500: Kevin Harvick wins the Food City 500 for his first win since 2003. Elliott Sadler is second, and Tony Stewart is third.

Lap 492: Matt Kenseth makes unscheduled pit stop.

Lap 491: Jeff Gordon makes unscheduled pit stop.

Lap 487: Matt Kenseth is slowing on the track due to a flat right rear. Falls a lap down.

Lap 460: Matt Kenseth passes Greg Biffle for third.

Lap 450: This is Harvick's race to lose -- he leads by two full seconds.

Lap 434: Biffle continues to fade, loses second to Elliott Sadler.

Lap 433: Kevin Harvick takes lead from Biffle.

Lap 432: Green flag. Greg Biffle leads

Lap 426: Caution is out for debris from the Johnson-Waltrip tiff. This is the 14th caution.

Lap 420: Michael Waltrip and Jimmie Johnson get together, Waltrip cuts a tire and has to go to pit road. Johnson has damage. Race stays green.

Lap 420: Green flag. Greg Biffle leads.

Lap 415: Biffle stays out and retains lead, all other lead lap cars pit. Jimmie Johnson wins the battle off pit road. Kevin Harvick has a nice pit and will come out second.

Lap 414: Caution out for Mike Wallace crash. Good break for Jeff Gordon, who will come in and get tires. Sterling Marlin gets the free pass.

Lap 406: Biffle has checked out. He leads Jimmie Johnson by 1.939 seconds.

Lap 397: Greg Biffle takes lead from Jeff Gordon. This is the second time today Biffle has led.

Lap 386: Green flag. Jeff Gordon leads. Biffle in second.

Lap 380: Caution is out for Tony Stewart spin. No other cars involved. 12th caution. Stewart will make a pit stop under the yellow. All other lead-lap cars stay out.

Lap 376: Green flag. Jeff Gordon leads.

Lap 368: Jeff Gordon takes the lead by staying out. He becomes the ninth different leader. Greg Biffle enters the pits first, exits first, so he will restart second. Kevin Harvick will restart third, and Jimmie Johnson will be fourth.

Lap 362: Jeff Burton spins after contact from Jimmie Johnson, is hit flush by Kurt Busch. Both drivers climb from their cars under their own power. The 11th caution is out.

Lap 359: Kasey Kahne is in the fence. Race stays green.

Lap 358: Harvick is in second, knocks on Biffle's door

Lap 343: Green flag. Greg Biffle leads. Only 12 cars on the lead lap.

Lap 334: Race is back under yellow.

Lap 333: Red flag is displayed.

Lap 332: Huge crash on the backstretch brings out of the 10th caution of the day. Bobby Hamilton Jr. and Ken Schrader get together, triggering huge crash. Also involved are Ricky Rudd, Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace, Jamie McMurray, Dave Blaney, Bobby Labonte, Kurt Busch, Sterling Marlin, Michael Waltrip, Jeff Gordon, Kasey Kahne and Mike Wallace.

Lap 330: Green flag. Greg Biffle leads.

Lap 323: Caution is out for Ricky Rudd and Matt Kenseth spin. This is the ninth caution of the day.

Lap 314: Greg Biffle takes lead from Kenseth. He becomes the seventh different leader.

Lap 314: Green flag. Matt Kenseth leads.

Lap 302: All lead-lap cars in for stops. Kenseth retains the lead. Greg Biffle takes second with a quick stop, and Harvick is third. Jimmie Johnson comes out fourth.

Lap 300: Jeff Green hits the wall. Caution is out. Dale Jarrett gets the free pass.

Lap 295: Heartbreaker for Rusty Wallace. He cuts a tire, heads to pit road. Loses a lap.

Lap 290: Only 17 cars on the lead lap.

Lap 286: Ricky Rudd has a tire problem and will have to make an unscheduled stop.

Lap 283: Now Kenseth is stuck in traffic. Wallace challenging for the leqd again.

Lap 265: Matt Kenseth takes lead from Rusty Wallace. Kenseth leads for the first time today. He is the sixth different leader.

Lap 260: Jeff Burton makes unscheduled pit stop, will go two laps down.

Lap 255: Rusty Wallace is in heavy lapped traffic

Lap 243: Only 27 cars on the lead lap

Lap 232: Wallace leads Kenseth by 1.113 seconds

Lap 207: Rusty Wallace leads his 100th lap.

Lap 199: Rusty Wallace takes lead from Labonte. Kenseth is in second.

Lap 193: Green flag. Terry Labonte leads.

Lap 187: All lead lap cars except Terry Labonte come into the pits for service. Wallace leads the race out of the pits. Kenseth comes out second. Harvick loses time in the pits -- he falls from second to fifth.

Lap 185: Caution out for debris. Jeff Gordon gets the free pass.

Lap 177: Wallace takes lead back from Harvick.

Lap 171: Harvick leads Wallace by a half-second.

Lap 168: Jeff Gordon is the first car a lap down.

Lap 160: Green flag. Kevin Harvick leads. Wallace is second.

Lap 150: Caution is out for a Ryan Newman spin. Newman has front-end damage.

Lap 144: Jeff Gordon bumps Rusty Wallace, gets a lap back. Kevin Harvick comes through, takes lead from Wallace.

Lap 143: Green flag. Rusty Wallace leads.

Lap 139: All lead-lap cars are in. Rusty Wallace retains the lead with a beautiful 13.8 second stop. Kevin Harvick retains second place and is now on Wallace's pit cycle. Kenseth is third and McMurray is fourth.

Lap 137: Scott Wimmer is back in ther race.

Lap 135: Stanton Barrett scrapes the wall. Caution is out.

Lap 134: Bobby Labonte takes third from Kenseth.

Lap 130: Rusty Wallace has a one-second lead over Harvick. Kenseth runs third.

Lap 122: Jeff Gordon makes unscheduled stop for vibration. He will go two laps down.

Lap 115: Jason Leffler returns to the race -- 114 laps down.

Lap 115: Wallace leads his 50th lap.

Lap 101: Wallace back in lead.

Lap 100: Rusty Wallace is in second, on Harvick's bumper.

Lap 95: Matt Kenseth takes second. Waltrip falls to fourth.

Lap 92: Harvick takes lead from Waltrip

Lap 90: Michael Waltrip continues to lead. Harvick is second.

Lap 75: Green flag. Michael Waltrip leads. Rusty Wallace restarts 10th.

Lap 74: Scott Wimmer to the garage

Lap 71: 10 cars didn't make a pit stop: Waltrip, Martin, McMurray, Harvick, Kenseth, Jarrett, Rudd, Earnhardt, Labonte, Schrader.

Lap 71: Leaders in for pits. Michael Waltrip stays out and takes the lead. Rusty Wallace is first in, first out. Blaney stalls the car exiting the pits and goes from third to 33rd.

Lap 69: The fourth caution is out for a crash involving Mike Bliss and Kyle Busch. Bliss has heavy front-end damage. Busch heads to the garage.

Lap 60: 36 cars are on the lead lap.

Lap 54: We're back under green. Rusty Wallace leads. Elliott Sadler is second and Dave Blaney is third.

Lap 53: Leaders opt for track position. A handful of cars make pit stops, but none of the top-10 cars.

Lap 50: Hermie Sadler is back on the track.

Lap 49: Caution is out for a single-car crash involving Stanton Barrett.

Lap 48: Tony Stewart has moved into fifth.

Lap 36: Rusty Wallace takes lead from Sadler.

Lap 36: We're back under green. Elliott Sadler leads. Rusty Wallace runs second, and Dave Blaney is third.

Lap 30: Carl Edwards has returned to the track. He is 25 laps down.

Lap 22: Caution. Multi-car crash in Turn 1. Casey Mears and Joe Nemechek involved. Kyle Busch and Joe Nemechek spin, Mears plows into Nemechek. Looks like Busch will stay on the lead lap with minimal damage.

Lap 20: Sadler has led all 20 laps.

Lap 10: Mike Wallace black-flagged for jumping the restart. Wallace will go a lap down.

Lap 10: We're back under green. Elliott Sadler leads. Rusty Wallace runs second, and Dave Blaney is third.

Lap 3: Looks like Carl Edwards has a busted radiator -- he is also in the garage for repairs and will fall at least two laps down.

Lap 2: Caution out for Jason Leffler-Hermie Sadler-Jimmy Spencer crash. Sadler and Leffler to the garage to fix the damage.

Lap 1: Green flag. Elliott Sadler leads from the pole.

Pre-race: Carl Edwards (accident) and Kevin Harvick (power steering pump) are going to the rear of the field.

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