This is going on. Guess what? The battle up front is getting a little tighter. Here comes Ambrose. Closing on Juan Pablo Montoya and in third place Kurt Busch. Make it a fine run right now. I'm sure Montoya's team has been telling Ambrose has been coming and running fast laps. But this is the first time he's seen it first hand. He's got him right in the mirror now. I guess the question is, if he gets up close to him, how much will he want to use up the car, especially those brakes just to get the lead? No one will use him a lot because if he can get by this car, if he can get by Montoya, he can get out there and set his own pace and use the brakes the way he wants to use him. We got a lot of laps, but this literally could be the pass for the win because there's so much strategy involved in how difficult it is to pass, especially someone like Marcos Ambrose who has such a good race car and such great skills here. We saw on turn one that Juan Pablo lit the bake, breaks up a little bit. They're smoking the right rear tire going down into one. Here we go, heading for the bus stop. It gives him something to think about, but Ambrose pulls back in. You're going to see these guys use that strategy, just pulling out of the mirror, just getting out of it, moving over even if they're not there. That guy in front doesn't know how far up he is when he can't see. The route turned five. Ambrose not close enough to make it an issue heading to a six. Yeah, and even though these guys utilize most drivers and teams will utilize about three spotters around this racetrack, you still can't rely on as a driver. They have to know and be able to see exactly what's taking place there. Coming through turn 11 again, Marcos close enough as he close enough to make a pass at the other end of this front straight away. That's it looked like at this lap. It's completed 34 of 90 laps. Again, he looks inside. Thanks better of it. Montoya has led 27 of them. McMurray 5, Marcos 2. They've been our three leaders. We've had four lead changes. We're on board with Marcos. Yeah, after a very fast part of the racetrack here, you can't lose the nose following a car up here. There's not much room either way, but if you're going to try to make a move at the end of this straight away to dive inside, then you've got to try to hang with him. Here he goes, taking another look, getting out breaking. Not this time. Boy, he sure made Montoya drop hard into that corner. Boy, did you see Montoya's car wiggle a little bit, which man, he was not getting right here. Well, not dry here. Right on his back bumper. Through five. Two great road drivers going at it. This is fun to watch. Hope you're enjoying this at home. We're not even halfway through this race yet. These guys are running like it's the last two laps. You know, Ambrose seems to have the ability to really charge a corner hard, not slow his car down, but not be out of shape in the center and then get the drive off. Most other drivers, if they're going to get that drive off, then they can't get the corner that hard. And he's just able to do all the things that you have to do to be really, really fast. Seem close in once again. See Montoya actually slide the right front tire just a little bit in the center of the corner there. Coming up through the S's. Here they go again. Montoya. One place looks like Montoya is better than Ambrose is in this part of the track. I think a lot of it may be, or some of it may be the fact that when you're the car behind there, you're not getting the air to your nose and your car. And so you're having to kind of float through there a little bit. And so then you lose a little bit of time because you can't stay completely in the throttle. He's in the throttle here though. Just to let you know folks, we're staying on this because this is the best battle on the racetrack. This is the one that's knows the tail and it just happens. Oh, look at that race. Look at all these cars. Let's go make a move right here. Montoya knows it too. He's trying to block. Here he comes. Can he make it stick? He's looking to the inside. Montoya is having none of it. Okay. If Ambrose get a good run off this corner, he can make that pass in turn one. Oh, so close to that safer barrier. Montoya got off the corner pretty good though. Yeah, it just makes it so hard when you have two guys with just exceptional talent here. Here we go. He takes another look, but again, just not close enough to die for the corner. Well, it's such a great shot from Ambrose's car to see just how Montoya is driving this thing. He's having to walk it around. It's just loose. And he's standing in the throttle. Like you say, Dale, I think just having that lead really helps Montoya up through this. That's the fastest part of the racetrack in the corners. While these two have been knocking each other to the nail, the guy behind Kurt Busch is holding station very well. He's not letting those two get away from him by that much. Now, but even as hard as they're racing each other right here, they're still running the two fastest laps on the track, which is pretty amazing. You'd think most of the time because you're looking in the mirror. If you're the guy in the lead that got behind, obviously he's wanting to try to go. And you might not, you'd be slowing down some, but that's not the case with these two. While you continue to watch us, let me update you behind Kurt Busch in third. It's AJ Almondninger fourth. Carl Edwards fifth, Jimmy McMurray sets, and Greg Biffle in seventh. Let's try one more time going down towards turn number one. So, Camberus kind of settled down just a little bit right here for a lap or so. Yeah, he has a little bit. Now, tell you what makes it more difficult for him trying to make his pass is the engine that's in that 42 car. I mean, he's doing a great job of driving it. You can see him stretch it out on these straightways, and that's a big advantage to him. And that's another place. That engine really helps up through this section of the racetrack up this hill. Well, maybe he's changed his strategy instead of diving for turn one, trying to get the momentum coming up here, maybe getting going into the bus stop. Well, as you try, as you go around with each lap, you think about something a little bit different. Okay, I'm not going to be able to make the pass right here. So I have to try a little different strategy. Can't get it done again. They follow each other. Knows to tell through the bus stop, chicane. This has been going on now for about what the last four or five laps. It's been less than a car length between the two of them for most of each one of those laps. We talk about the ability that Ambrose has, but just I think leading in a situation like this on a road course, I mean, there's so many opportunities just to overdrive it just a little bit and that guy behind you is going to pound. Montoya has a he has a wavered not one inch. Well, he has a flinch. You're right. I mean, that's got to be difficult to do what he's doing from the lead. Let's give it one more shot here down the front straight away. We've been watching this for the better part of eight minutes right now. And you know, there's another thing. Maybe we need to think about it. Maybe Marcus is saying, hey, I got to let these brakes breathe a little bit. Cool them down. Maybe take a little run a little bit later. Yeah, there are definitely some of the times that he has to pull out the coolest engine and his brakes. Some well, let you know as we get ready to head to commercial break, Elliott Sandler had a bit of an off. No contact. No yellow. He's back on track. He's a OK. Oh, back here at the NASCAR spree cup series that Wackens Glenn presented by go daddy.com. And sure enough, we stayed with it for eight minutes. The minute we go away, guess what happened? Marcus Ambrose gets it around the 42 one bubble Montoya. Let's take you back and show you what happened. I've just dogging him in every corner here. And you can see him go high low. This is coming down into turn one. He's able to how breaking here take that spot away. They didn't want any other for so many laps. I think Marcus looked in the mirror saw that two car he's see right there. He's getting closer. He's a I got to go. Yeah, because it's a two car gets to him. He's got to play defense a little bit. He can't be on the offense nearly as much. So he made things happen. Interlude now. And we got to go in there. Been Bob Ilebanian a very precarious position.