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WEC finale, Macau GP, NASCAR decider

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Logano has added a bit more to his lead over Kyle Busch, which now stands at 2.1s.
Harvick is under attack now, 7s off the lead, he's fending off Edwards but Larson just took advantage and flew past both to take third and demote the champion to fourth.
Leader Logano is in very heavy traffic as he go onto lap 114 of 267, but he's still holding a 1.6s lead over Kyle Busch, and Harvick in third is 5s down now.
Next man to be lapped by Logano will be Johnson, who has made good progress after that penalty but is still only 20th.
Back in 13th, Gordon is now 21st behind leader Logano. But Harvick is 4.8s off the lead and he's right up in third. Kyle Busch remains best placed for the championship in second.
Busch is closing back in on leader Logano, and pulling away from Harvick behind him. The champion is now 3s off the lead.
Logano jumped the top two title contenders in that round of stops, he's now leading by 1.6s over Kyle Busch, with Harvick third.

No ground gained for Truex, he stays ninth, while Gordon fell back to 14th with those set-up changes but just gain one place back from McMurray.

Nearly at lap 100 of the 267.
Gordon is the last of the four title contenders to make a stop. It's the slowest of them at 14.7s, but they did a fair amount of set-up changing in the process.
Leader Harvick in now, all smooth and back out in 12.3s.
Kyle Busch comes in from second next time around.
Truex kicks off the next round of pitstops by coming in from ninth place under green.
Hitting lap 84 of 267, Harvick has inched out a lead on Kyle Busch now. The reigning champion is 1.1s clear.
Three laps down not so long ago, Hamlin is now back to 15th...
Up front, Harvick can't shake off Kyle Busch. There's not much action, but the gap is staying stubbornly at 0.4/0.5s.
Truex drops another place as Larson demotes him to ninth, and Gordon could fall back to 12th again as Blaney now attacks him.
Radio Comms
"Just keep a cool head here, got a long way to go. Understand your frustration," was crew chief Alan Gustafson's message to Gordon as he f-wordily ranted about McMurray.
Under 200 laps to go now as we hit lap 72.

Title contenders run...

1 Harvick; 2 Kyle Busch +0.5s; 8 Truex +8.3s; 11 Gordon +11.1s
Kenseth demotes Truex from sixth to seventh. The Furniture Row car just hasn't quite got what it needs to fight the absolute frontrunners at the moment.
Gordon is now racing Jamie McMurray for 11th, and being less than friendly over the radio about the Ganassi man's defence.
Gordon takes a look back at Newman and Larson as they battle for 10th just ahead.
Truex is losing ground too as Keselowski overtakes him for fifth.
Another place lost for Gordon as Newman takes 11th off him.
Ryan Preece's car slows with a lot of smoke coming from it. That's a tyre not a blown engine, and he's pulling off tidily, so no yellow.
Harvick and Kyle Busch are currently a class apart in first and second, running half a second apart.
Gordon loses 10th place to Larson. Radio traffic suggests he's got a lot of oversteer on this run.
After that set of penalties, Johnson is way down in 38th place. But that needn't mean much - Keselowski was 30th after a pit penalty not so long ago, and he's just moved into sixth.
Harvick and Kyle Busch are close for first and second, Logano runs third and Truex fourth.
It's getting worse for Gordon, he's now being passed by Kurt Busch and falling to 10th.
Gordon fell right down to eighth place there.
Poor restart from Gordon, he goes backwards, while Truex shoots forward. But it's Harvick leading from Kyle Busch.
Looks like a green flag is imminent on lap 53 of 267.

By: Matt Beer

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