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Little different strategy and some of these chase guys might decide to do that, and others that arent in the chase, they upset the apple cart and throw that in there. it will be fun to watch. >> he grew up three hours from the race car and this was the first track he watched the nascar pit cup series. and because the pit strategy and and because the pit strategy and help with the weatherman, - ( saw whirrs ) - the craftsman cordless c3 line.

Get you a win. mark martin said, if i can put you in the chase, it will be icing on the chase. now hes in the chase and held his team in the weekend after getting in the chase and says, guys, now lets go for the cake. mark martin will be a factor, you got to believe, in this ten chase for the championship. you got to believe, big time. >> he signed up for another year 2011 now. >> he has them up front. >> in this practice, he actually moved up to fourth quickest. kind of hard to do in the middle...

Back out to the garage area. well do some polishing tomorrow as we come live from new hampshire motor speedway with coverage of the first race in the case for the nascar sprint cup title. 1:00 eastern time on abc, beginning with nascar countdown. alan bestwick, big brad, rusty will be on hand to cover the opening shock for the race for the title. nhra coming your way. 11:00 eastern time. finals at 7:00. both on espn2. how about that little prerace edition of "nascar now" presented tomorrow at 10...

>> hes got 25 total laps in this practice session and his fastest lap was the fifth. mark martin has 43 laps total and his fastest lap on lap 49. see what montoya can do here. >> as we watchmon toya go in. one thing i have noticed with his race car, talk about guys moving up on the corner, hes able to keep his car down and not challenge that wall. his car is turning well and hes got good grip off the corner. >> kurt busch turning second here. the word were hearing this week, pat clisen, the crew...

>> as a driver, thats what they have. you dont know which way you will go but it get good feedback. >> heres jeff gordon, four-time champ. hes the six seed because he only has the one victory. >> smoke out of the back of the car. >> turns the corner a little bit and splitter got on the ground. he unloads those front tires and some of that is splitter smoke as well. >> we will ride along with jeff and see how hard hes having to work on the corner. down into corn three now. not a lot of wheel put ...

Is seventh on the speed cart. montoya atop the charts. polesitter. kurt busch whos still on the racetrack. martin truex, martin, johnson, earnhardt jr. and now hamlin. >> youre right, 25-plus cars still on the racetrack. everybodys still looking for the perfect setup. >> less than a minute to go here in the final practice session. guys, your honor thoughts on what we have seen here in "happy hour?" >> montoyas still the man to beat. no doubt. hes led every practice session and qualifying as well...

To be able to get in the chase. we talked about the chase-saving maneuver, changing an axle on pit road in atlanta. this team had gone to tracks where they have not been very good in the past and not very good average finishes and somehow they have been able to throw history away and get it done here in 2009. >> looks like theyre going to need to do it again. as you look down the bottom, 26.3 average for brian vickers. he will definitely have to pick that up. >> i think you have to throw that ou...

The track temperature difference. it is warmer now and maybe all goodyear rubber may make the top of the leaderboard look different for this practice than it did this morning. doc? >> thank you, david. it should be perfect conditions this sunday for the race. heres the top seed -- >> they were trying to throw some things at this car and mark said anything they tried didnt really seem to do much. but he did have a good fast car. hes third, like you said in practice. hes not getting it exactly whe...

And thats getting their car up to speed. going fast and getting their tires hooked up on their restarts. if youre car wont two at the beginning of these restarts, can you lose four, five, maybe even eight positions. something you cant make up because this is a difficult racetrack to pass on. >> a lot to think about for the other chase contenders. for more, lets go down to the garage area and dave burns. >> really its the story of two different practice areas today. this morning when the guys fir...

How important is track time in until snm? a few minutes left in "happy hour" and we have 25 cars searchling and trying to dial it in. one is the 5 car of mark martin. >> doc, i wanted you to get the assessment of marks car in practice. heres his radio. >> all i care is are lap times. dont care how its driving. if there was issues bad, i would tell you but im not that good here. so i dont know what -- what perfect would be for where were at.