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Into the restart zone. will it be the final restart? green flag back in the air. >> right on the back bumper of the 2 is the 88 of dale junior. hes pushing. takes a lap, maybe a little bit over to get up to top speed. denny hamlin pushing ryan newman. they have a little advantage on the outside. can he get newman past him? newman and denny hamlin clear the 2. now the 2 working almost in tand tandem. >> the 88 got on the outside of the 2, keselowski. the 88 clears the 2. now the 2 fights back. th...

Logano ducking in front of the 88. now way up the rice track they go. diving to the bottom. dale earnhardt jr., one last time down the talladega super stretch. newman has a car length in front of keselowski. as they come to three and four. keselowski on the high side trying to take the lead away. side-by-side as they exit four. the tricky tri-oval theyre about to come through. contact made. keselowski still in front. through the tri-oval they go. keselowskis going to win at talladega!

>> you heard him say keselowski would probably take the bottom and he would push. i think keselowski is looking at who is the fastest guy, does he want the fastest guy behind him or the fastest guy with the other guy? and how fast does he think ryan newman is? he hasnt spent a lot of time racing with newman. he doesnt know what he has. i think that makes keselowski a tough decision. >> the leader of the race gets to choose either the inside or outside line on the restart so it will be brad kesel...

Talking yet. that will start next year. >> enjoy the finish. >> we will. we absolutely will. the earnhardt name here at talladega has been just incredible. his father, senior, ten career wins, junior with six. >> i think its all from this. i mean, won five of seven. second in the other two. there were years if you were going to have a chance you had to outrun dale earnhardt jr. dale earnhardt jr. day all across alabama declared by the governor. when they give you the whole day. >> he hopes the l...

>> its the land of the free. >> reporter: today nba superstar lebron james slammed president trump for his controversial response to football players protesting during the national anthem. >> because the people run this country, not one individual, and damn sure not him. >> reporter: this morning tom brady, super bowl m.v.p. and friend of president trump called in to a radio show. >> i certainly disagree with what he said and, you know, thought it was just divisive. >> reporter: after a weekend ...

We want to chat with kasey kahne. lets dial him up on the radio. >> kasey, burton, nbc booth. you g got a moment? >> yeah. >> man, so fun to watch you guys racing this hard. i know that didnt quite work out the way you wanted it to. how does that change the strategy for this restart? >> well, i just got to be going and do it his way. last time he was already going, so 11 started pushing me. i still hadnt went. i have from one to two to decide when i want to go. they make these rules. yeah, just ...

Racetrack. you can see that kasey kahne believed that he would be given the bottom. so kasey kahne was working the bottom of the racetrack trying to get that speedy dry rubbed off the track. and brad keselowski outside of it. he doesnt want it cleaned up. >> now at the bottom of the track, sparks coming out of the left front of the car, thats 95 of michael mcdowell. he has quite a bit of damage to the right side of the car and potential lay left front tire is down. you see the continued sparks c...

We did not want to see the sunset here in indianapolis. reminder up next on nbc. sunday night with megyn kelly. post race coverage coming up right after the conclusion of this one. 90 minutes. on nbcsn. make sure to tune in. we will hear from quite a few of the players in this one. followed by victory lap. it has been a very crazy day today. a little contact here between the 11 and 31. and damages the front end of the 11 of denny hamlin. so they go to work on that car. and get it good enough to ...

>> he said -- and guess what? another winner in 2017 that now has the opportunity in the playoffs. kasey kahne. so many question marks around whats going to happen in his career. needing a win to get into the playoffs and he gets it. and indianapolis motor speedway. this moment presented by sonoco fuelling victories all season long. he will be taking the checkered flag. >> yeah, yeah, yeah! >> theres the celebration.

Number one. tire rub is what they are talking about. joey told he them, zero. zero percent. so they are banking on that for brad. and roger penske 16 indianapolis 500 wins at this place. huge record from don lieu in 72 to montoya a couple years ago. but never brickyard 400 for penske. brad keselowski is in the position do it today if he can hold on. >> and 2 just talking about the restart. >> my only concern with the top lane is kasey getting it loose and wrecking us like truex. hopefully we are...