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WEC finale, Macau GP, NASCAR decider

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Harvick claims third from Truex. But as long as Truex doesn't fall right back to the tail of the top 10, he's still going to end up better off than he was before this tyre gamble.
No progress for Gordon, in fact more ground lost - he's down to 11th.
Truex is trying his best, hanging on around the outside as Kyle Busch gets alongside, but he can't fend the JGR Toyota off for long. Now Harvick is trying to take third from Truex.
Keselowski immediately passes Truex for the lead, with Kyle Busch now trying to be second.
Green flag
Restart with 96 laps left...
Order: 1 Truex; 2 Keselowski; 3 Kyle Busch; 4 Harvick; 5 Logano; 6 Kurt Busch; 7 Kenseth; 8 Hamlin; 9 Gordon; 10 Larson
Truex did this earlier in the race and it gained him a fair bit of ground that he held onto reasonably well. Some fresh tyres are better than no fresh tyres, but four fresh tyres are going to be the way to go. Still if this just gets Truex back in the mix at the front, that will do for now.
But a gamble for Truex - he takes just two cars and that thrusts him to the front.
And back into the pits for more fresh tyres for everyone. New rubber has proved so important tonight, no one is willing to take a risk.
Josh Wise dropped the fluid while limping back to the pits after some wall banging.
Yellow flag
Another caution as we hit the 100 laps to go mark. This one's for fluid on the racetrack.
Harvick isn't at all happy with how his car is handling at present, but he's still running second, 1.3s down on Busch.
Oh a little cameo storyline here - Logano now has Kenseth behind him as they run fourth and fifth...
Gordon and Truex are battling hard too, but back in 10th and 11th.
Green flag
Title combatants to the fore now - Kyle Busch makes the best restart and takes the lead, with Harvick soon following him into second.
Truex and Gordon will take the restart in 11th and 12th.
Edwards didn't pit and he cycles through to the lead, ahead of Logano, Kyle Busch, Keselowski and Harvick.
A replay showed the debris came from Earnhardt's lashed-up Hendrick Chevy, which is running 23 laps down.
Even though it's not long since those green-flag stops, all the frontrunners (including the title quartet) are diving for the pits again during this caution.
Yellow flag
Yellow for debris on the back straight.
As the field settles down after those stops, Logano still leads from Kyle Busch, the pair 3s apart.

Harvick is down in fifth, behind Keselowski and Larson, then Truex and Gordon run 11th and 12th.

Just 119 laps to go now.
Double problem for Truex here - the refueller (sensibly) backed away once that little fire started, he didn't get the full quota into the tank.
Kyle Busch briefly led following Logano's pitstop, but now he stops too.
Harvick pits too, as does Gordon. So Kyle Busch will be the last of the quartet in this time around.
Fire around the left rear wheel of Truex's car due to a minor fuel spill. The best way to put that out is to nail it out of the pit - so he does.
Time for more green flag pitstops, and again Truex is the first of the title chasers to dive in.
Past halfway, Truex is down to 10th and will be Gordon's next target, and Logano has got his lead over Kyle Busch up to 3s.
Harvick continues to keep fourth ahead of Edwards, but his gap to the lead is now over 8s.
Gordon is back up to 11th, two places behind Truex.

By: Matt Beer

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