Lap-by-Lap: California

CHECKERED FLAG: Matt Kenseth pulls off the weekend sweep at California and wins the Auto Club 500.
1. Matt Kenseth
2. Jeff Gordon
3. Jimmie Johnson
4. Jeff Burton
5. Mark Martin

Lap 250 -- WHITE FLAG: Matt Kenseth takes the white flag.

Lap 249 -- Jeff Burton spun his tires on the restart and falls to fourth. Jeff Gordon up to second, Jimmie Johnson to third.

Lap 248 -- GREEN FLAG: Matt Kenseth leads the field to the green flag. Kevin Harvick has a flat tire and has to pit.
1. Matt Kenseth
2. Jeff Burton
3. Jeff Gordon
4. Jimmie Johnson
5. Clint Bowyer

Lap 245 -- Kyle Busch and Tony Stewart were the highest leaders to come down pit road from the sixth and seventh position.

Lap 245 -- YELLOW FLAG: The cars have started up again and have begun rolling.

Lap 244 -- RED FLAG: The red flag is out to allow safety crews to clean up the track.

Lap 244 -- YELLOW FLAG #9: David Reutimann hits the wall hard between turns three and four when Greg Biffle taps his rear bumper and his car has caught on fire. Ricky Rudd and Bobby Labonte also involved.

Lap 241 -- Kevin Harvick is closing in on Matt Kenseth. Kenseth's lead is only 0.7 seconds.

Lap 238 -- Matt Kenseth has a one-second lead on Kevin Harvick with 12 laps to go.

Lap 232 -- Matt Kenseth brings the field to the green-flag. There are 17 cars on the lead lap.
1. Matt Kenseth
2. Jeff Burton
3. Kevin Harvick
4. Jeff Gordon
5. Jimmie Johnson

Lap 228 -- LEAD CHANGE: Jimmie Johnson loses the race off of pit road when his crew struggled on their pit stop. Matt Kenseth reclaims the lead.

Lap 227 -- Jimmie Johnson leads all the lead lap cars to pit road.
• Jimmie Johnson takes four tires, fuel and makes no adjustments
• Matt Kenseth takes four tires and fuel
• Jeff Burton makes no changes, takes four tires and fuel
• Tony Stewart makes minor adjustments, takes four tires and fuel
• Jeff Gordon makes a wedge adjustment to tighten the car, takes four tires and fuel (Continued)