Lap 200: Harvick finishes 24th.

Lap 190: On fresher tires, Harvick has been able to pull away and keep from going a lap down to leader Tony Stewart.

Lap 183: Harvick drops quickly onto pit road. He takes right-side tires and fuel on a stop that lasts just 7.8 seconds.

Lap 178: Harvick will probably be two laps short of finishing the race without stopping.

Lap 170: To put it mildly, Harvick is not happy with the car's handling. He has dropped back to 25th.

Lap 165: Harvick thinks he'll have to go to the end of the line on the restart due to stopping, but he's able to maintain position. Harvick is 17th the green flag is shown.

Lap 164: When the restart is waved off, Harvick initially makes plans to stop. However, when several other cars come in, Harvick stays out.

Lap 163: Just before the restart, Harvick drops onto pit road to top off on fuel. He's in for just five seconds.

Lap 161: Martin says everyone will be four or five laps short of being able to run the rest of the race without stopping, but Harvick thinks continuing to run under caution should help make it.

Lap 159: It's time for another pit stop. It takes 14.8 seconds to complete, and Harvick congratulates the crew. After leaving pit road, Harvick says that it's raining at a fairly steady clip on the long backstretch.

Lap 158: There's rain in turn three, according to Harvick. Martin replies, saying that it's just a tiny blip on the radar.

Lap 157: Another caution is out for debris. Harvick says he's "really, really tight" through the turns.

Lap 150: With 50 laps to go, Harvick is 19th, 31.61 seconds behind leader Carl Edwards.

Lap 146: The car is still too tight.

Lap 137: While running 21st, Harvick drops onto pit road. It takes 14.4 seconds to complete the crew's work.

Lap 136: Harvick will be pitting with Matt Kenseth in two laps.

Lap 122: Harvick is still displeased with the car being too tight. Harvick says it's not an aero problem, adding, "I don't know what we're doing, but it's wrong."

Lap 119: Harvick doesn't sound pleased with the car's handling, which he says is "absolutely plowing."

Lap 117: When the race restarts, Harvick finds himself in 13th place.

Lap 114: While several cars come onto pit road, Harvick and others stay out. Harvick asks if it's supposed to rain, saying that the sky behind turn two looks black. Martin says there's weather on the radar, but far from the track.

Lap 112: Another caution is out for debris.

Lap 110: If they could figure out how to run well on new tires, Harvick feels they would be in good shape.

Lap 108: The green flag is back out. Harvick is 13th.

Lap 106: Harvick and the crew are discussing how they stack up with other cars around them. Harvick thinks his car is better than Kasey Kahne's.

Lap 105: Harvick brings his car to pit road. The stop lasts 14.6 seconds, to which Harvick replies, "Way to rebound."

Lap 104: Harvick and Martin are going back and forth about tire-pressure adjustments.

Lap 103: The caution is out for debris on the track. It's just the third yellow flag of the afternoon.

Lap 100: At the halfway point, Harvick is 17th, 41.58 seconds behind leader Carl Edwards.

Lap 96: The car is loose in and off the turns, but tight in the center.

Lap 86: Harvick says the car has started to get loose for some reason. Martin thinks it's probably the sun.

Lap 81: Harvick says that he's really fast through turn three.

Lap 80: Crew chief Gil Martin tells Harvick that he's gaining three-tenths of a second per lap, but the driver does not respond.

Lap 77: Harvick is still unhappy with the stop. "Everything we gained, we just lost," he complains.

Lap 76: Harvick is on pit road. It takes 17.8 seconds to complete the stop, and Harvick doesn't sound pleased.

Lap 75: Richard Childress says that the team can't afford to give up time on older tires, so Harvick will come in on lap 76.

Lap 74: Martin initially plans to make some air-pressure adjustments, but Harvick doesn't want them. He wants to see what the car will do. The team can go six more laps before pitting.

Lap 72: Crew chief Gil Martin mentions a couple of adjustments, and Harvick agrees, but adds, "Don't go too far, especially if it (the stop) is under green."

Lap 71: Harvick asks what position he's in. He's in 18th, and trails leader Carl Edwards by a little over 34 seconds.

Lap 70: The Shell Chevrolet keeps getting better, Harvick admits.

Lap 60: Harvick thinks his spotter is making of him when he mentions an incident from last year's race at Pocono. The spotter responds that he's not.

Lap 47: After the cycle of green-flag stops, Harvick is 19th, 27.8 seconds behind new race leaders Carl Edwards.

Lap 46: The yellow-and-red Shell Chevrolet is on pit road for tire, gas and adjustments. It takes 15.2 seconds to complete the work.

Lap 44: Harvick does not want any rear grip taken out of the car.

Lap 43: Harvick should be pitting in the next couple of laps or so.

Lap 40: The microphone on somebody's radio is stuck open, and it's possibly team owner Richard Childress'.

Lap 36: Forward bite is still making the car tight. Harvick figures that if they can get the front tires to work, the car would be good.

Lap 30: Harvick says he doesn't know what's happened, but all of a sudden, the car is coming to him.

Lap 25: Harvick is 21st, 13.79 seconds behind leader Jimmie Johnson.

Lap 22: According to Harvick, he has good bite off the turns, but the car is also chattering.

Lap 17: Harvick is in heavy traffic. Moments later, he says the car is still "super tight."

Lap 16: The green flag is out again, with Harvick running 12th.

Lap 14: Harvick pits with the rest of the lead-lap cars. He asks if maybe he should just take on two tires, and that's what they do.

Lap 12: Denny Hamlin comes out of the garage, and almost immediately comes to a complete stop on the backstretch. The caution is out for a second time.

Lap 10: Harvick says that the team will "have to take a big swing" at making changes during its first stop.

Lap 8: Again, Harvick comes on the radio to say that his car is "WAY too tight." Crew chief Gil Martin responds that they'll get it freed up during the team's first pit stop.

Lap 6: Harvick says that his car is tight in traffic.

Lap 4: The green flag comes back out, giving us the first look at a double-file restart during a points-paying event. Now 21st, Harvick will retstart on the inside of the 11th row.

Lap 2: Marcos Ambrose has apologized for something that happened on the track, but Harvick replies, "It's all good."

Lap 1: The yellow flag is out for Denny Hamlin's stalled car.

2:20 p.m. The green flag is out.

2:14 p.m.: Harvick is told that his pit road speed will be at about 4,600 rpm, so he says he'll come in at about 4,900.

2:12 p.m.: The field begins to roll off pit road. The green flag is scheduled to come out the third time by the starter's stand.

Race Day, 2:07 p.m.: The command to fire engines has been given. Today's race is 200 laps, 500 miles.

Pre-Race: After rain washed out qualifying on Friday, the field was set via car owners points. Harvick will start 24th in the Pocono 500.

Kevin Harvick will drive a car at Pocono that was previously piloted by Clint Bowyer in the 2008 Sprint Cup race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where he finished 19th.

In 16 races at Pocono, Harvick has collected two top-five and four top-10 finishes. His best finish at the 2.5-mile, triangular-shaped track was a fourth in last year's August event.

Harvick is making the 300th start of his Cup career this weekend.

In 98 starts at Pocono, team owner Richard Childress has two wins, both of them by Dale Earnhardt. The organization has posted a total of one pole, 12 top-five and 41 top-10 finishes at the track. Two of those top 10s were by Childress himself.