Lap 200: The race is over. Harvick is shown in 18th, and after the checkered flag, the driver insists the team figure out its air pressure problems. Martin says that it's all they'll work on during practice next week.

Lap 190: With 10 laps to go, Harvick is 19th, 30.83 seconds behind leader Greg Biffle.

Lap 182: Harvick wants to know if everybody can make it on gas. Martin says that not everyone can, and adds that Harvick should be fine on fuel.

Lap 178: Harvick asks how many laps are left in the race.

Lap 167: Says Harvick, "Absolutely pathetic. Let's keep track of how many weeks we ... it up. That'd be fun."

Lap 164: The car is much looser than what it was, and Harvick's isn't happy.

Lap 156: The caution period has ended. Harvick is 11th when the green flag comes back out.

Lap 153: Running wide open, the team will probably be a lap-and-a-half short on fuel.

Lap 152: Harvick is on pit road. It takes 14 seconds to cycle through its work. Harvick sounds pleased, telling his crew, "Good job!!! Way to step up!" Martin reminds him to save fuel.

Lap 151: Martin tells the gasman to really pack the car as full as possible with fuel. Harvick tells his crew that they need their best stop of the day.

Lap 150: Martin says that if they can wait a couple more laps to pit, they can make it the rest of the race without stopping. The team is getting somewhere between 4.8 and 4.9 miles per gallon.

Lap 149: The caution is out for David Stremme's spin off turn four.

Lap 144: Harvick says it's like he's got two different cars. Once he gets past somebody, the car handles very well. He's currently 13th, 16.6 seconds behind leader Jimmie Johnson.

Lap 137: Harvick and Richard Childess Racing teammate Clint Bowyer evidently have a round of golf planned for this week. During the last caution, Harvick told someone to tell Bowyer that he was "still gonna take his $1,800."

Lap 132: The closer Harvick gets to somebody, the looser the car seems to handle.

Lap 125: The green flag is out again. Harvick is 18th, on the outside of the ninth row in the double-file restart.

Lap 122: The caution is out, and Harvick brings his car back into the pits. Harvick thinks the changes made during the stop will help "more than anything."

Lap 118: Harvick is on pit road for the third time this afternoon. He takes four tires and fuel. The stop lasts 15.4 seconds.

Lap 117: The next stop will come in a couple of laps.

Lap 116: Harvick claims to have found something down in turn three that works for him.

Lap 103: As soon as he touches the gas in the turns, Harvick says the car slides sideways.

Lap 100: At the halfway point, Harvick is 20th, 24.6 seconds behind leader Jimmie Johnson.

Lap 98: Martin asks if the car got worse once the sun came out, and Harvick responds that he thinks there's too much air in the tires.

Lap 93: The car is "terrible loose" and "sliding all over," according to Harvick. Martin says the team will add more wedge on the next stop.

Lap 91: The engine is sour, Harvick says.

Lap 82: Harvick asks again if anyone can see damage to the front of his car. "It's not that bad," he's told.

Lap 78: Harvick's afraid that damage may have been done to the right-front fender, but he's told it looks OK.

Lap 77: Harvick gains a few spots in the pits. On the restart, the California native is 18th.

Lap 76: The Shell Chevrolet is getting an average about 4.8 miles to the gallon.

Lap 74: The race leaders pit.

Lap 72: The caution is out for debris. It's the first of the afternoon. Harvick is still unhappy about the right-rear tire ... or maybe the left-rear.

Lap 68: Harvick says, "We absolutely suck down the straightaways today." He receives no response on the radio.

Lap 65: Johnson is lapping cars at a fairly steady clip, and has closed to within about half a straightaway of Harvick. On the clock, Harvick trails the three-time champion by 34.8 seconds.

Lap 62: There's a suggestion from behind the wheel to lower the track bar or put some wedge in the car.

Lap 61: Harvick wants to put the right-rear tire pressure where it was during practice Saturday, and try other changes.

Lap 57: Bill Elliott gets by Harvick, dropping the Shell Chevrolet to 20th in the running order.

Lap 53: The car feels to Harvick like the right-rear tire is flat, and that it almost has a reverse stagger.

Lap 52: Harvick doesn't want his lap times.

Lap 48: Harvick and crew chief Gil Martin are still going back and forth about what they need to do on the team's pit stops.

Lap 46: Harvick isn't happy with the changes made to the car in the least. He says there has to be "a rhyme or reason" to changes made to tire air pressures.

Lap 43: The car feels looser to Harvick than what it was before the stop.

Lap 39: Harvick drops the Shell Chevrolet onto pit road. It takes the crew 14.6 seconds to complete its service.

Lap 38: Harvick will pit next time by.

Lap 36: Harvick says the car just keeps getting looser off the turns.

Lap 34: Harvick is 14th, 20.69 seconds behind Johnson. That equates to about half a lap on the track.

Lap 30: The right-rear of the car is sliding through the center and off the turns. Crew chief Gil Martin tells Harvick what changes he plans to make during the team's first stop.

Lap 21: Harvick has dropped one position, to 13th. He's currently running 15.78 seconds off the pace set by leader Jimmie Johnson.

Lap 15: The Shell Chevrolet is "a little bit tight" in the center of the turns, and loose off, according to Harvick.

Lap 4: Harvick says other cars are "killing" him down the straightaways.

2:19 p.m.: The race is under way.

2:17 p.m.: A problem with the pit lights is being reported, to which Harvick responds, "You can't see it anyway."

2:16 p.m.: Team owner Richard Childress wishes Harvick well, telling and the crew to "go win this thing."

2:15 p.m.: Harvick's pit road speed will be at about 4,750 rpm on his tachometer.

2:12 p.m.: The field is rolling off pit road. The race will go green the third time by the starter's stand.

2:11 p.m.: Harvick is wondering what the material is on the frontstretch. Nobody seems quite sure what it is ... maybe Speedi-Dry.

2:07 p.m.: Kid Rock gives the command to start engines.

Pre-Race: This is the third race for the car Kevin Harvick will drive in the LifeLock 400. It was previously driven by Clint Bowyer last year at Pocono and Texas. Bowyer took the machine to a fourth-place finish at Texas. Since then, it has been refitted with a new body.

In 16 Cup races at Michigan, Harvick has two top-five and six top 10s. His best finish at the two-mile facility was a second in August 2003, and he was third in the same event the year before that.

Harvick qualified 12th for this event. It's his best starting spot since another 12th, at Martinsville, nine races ago.

Team owner Richard Childress has two wins at Michigan, both of them coming with Dale Earnhardt behind the wheel. In all, Childress has 15 top-five and 34 top-10 finishes with seven different drivers. As a driver, Childress himself posted top-10 finishes at Michigan in 1978 and 1979.