Lap 334: Harvick moves up to second, but runs out of fuel on the backstretch. He winds up fifth, his fourth top-five finish of the season.

Lap 333: Harvick is now third.

Lap 330: Harvick is fourth.

Lap 328: Harvick is now up to fifth as those in front of him continue to pit.

Lap 322: As cars continue to pit for gas, Harvick has moved up to sixth place.

Lap 315: The end of the race is shaping up to be rather bizarre barring a caution, with teams right on the edge of running out of fuel. Harvick is currently seventh, 11.82 seconds behind leader Kyle Busch.

Lap 307: Gil Martin tells Harvick to not completely back out of the gas to save fuel, but to not go flat out, either.

Lap 299: The team is still discussing its fuel strategy.

Lap 289: Harvick asks if he should continue to save fuel. He's told that he should for the time being, although there's a good chance there will be another caution before the end of the race.

Lap 281: Harvick asks how many laps short on fuel the team is, and crew chief Gil Martin says they're about two laps shy of making it the rest of the race without stopping.

Lap 271: When the round of green-flag stops is completed, Harvick finds himself in eighth place, 11.05 seconds behind leader Kyle Busch.

Lap 268: Harvick is on pit road for the sixth time today. The stop is another good one, lasting 14.4 seconds.

Lap 264: Harvick should be pitting in about five laps.

Lap 260: Marcos Ambrose gives up eighth place to Harvick.

Lap 256: Harvick says the car is mostly loose in clean air, but very tight behind other cars.

Lap 229: Now back up to ninth, Harvick is 8.4 seconds behind leader Kyle Busch.

Lap 218: The car is too loose, according to Harvick.

Lap 215: Harvick has dropped back to 10th place.
Lap 264: Harvick should be pitting in about five laps.

Lap 213: The caution ends with Harvick in eighth place.

Lap 208: Harvick makes his fifth stop of the day in a blazing 14.2 seconds. Harvick again compliments the crew, "Good job, guys. Good job."

Lap 206: The caution is out for Reed Sorenson's backstretch mishap.

Lap 194: Harvick has made his way into 10th place, about 10 seconds behind race leader Kurt Busch.

Lap 182: Harvick is 13th when the green flag comes back out.

Lap 177: Team owner Richard Childress comments that if Harvick could get better track position, the team might have something for the rest of the field.

Lap 175: Carl Edwards, Juan Pablo Montoya, Brad Keselowski and Jeff Gordon crash between turns one and two to bring out another caution.

Lap 173: Harvick is 15th when the green flag comes back out.

Lap 170: Crew chief Gil Martin tells Harvick that the tires taken off the car all afternoon have looked good.

Lap 169: Harvick makes his fourth pit stop of the day. The team's work lasts 15.2 seconds.

Lap 167: The caution is out for debris on the track. Harvick says the car is good, but maybe a little tight in the turns.

Lap 158: After all the leaders have pitted, Harvick is running 14th, 25.92 seconds behind leader Kyle Busch. When Harvick crosses the finish line, Busch is coming off turn four.

Lap 152: Harvick compliments the crew ... "Good adjustment ... WAY better!"

Lap 146: Harvick makes a green-flag pit stop. The over-the-wall crew finishes its work in 14.6 seconds. All three stops today have clocked in at less than 15 seconds.

Lap 145: Crew chief Gil Martin tells Harvick to pit the next lap.

Lap 142: The upcoming stop will take place in about seven laps, unless the leader comes in before then.

Lap 133: Harvick's next scheduled stop should take place in another 15 laps or so.

Lap 125: Now listed in 18th place, Harvick trails leader Kyle Busch by 20.43 seconds. On the track, that's a little less than half a lap.

Lap 118: Harvick says he loses the front of the car as soon as he touches the throttle.

Lap 108: The car is "terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible," according to its driver. Crew chief Gil Martin says that the team will free it up on the next pit stop.

Lap 102: Harvick insists that something must have been changed during the stop. Crew chief Gil Martin says the team is checking to make sure the code numbers of the tires they bolted on the car matched.

Lap 99: "Won't turn," Harvick comments very quickly.

Lap 96: The car is too tight, says Harvick.

Lap 92: The caution is over. Harvick is in 16th place.

Lap 89: The leaders are on pit road. Harvick's teammates get him out of the stall in 14.4 seconds.

Lap 87: Sam Hornish Jr. spins off turn two, bringing out the second caution of the race. Harvick says that the balance of his car is not bad. The team will take on four fresh tires and make no chassis changes.

Lap 75: Harvick is 16th on the leaderboard, 23.95 seconds behind Kyle Busch. Harvick is just a straightaway or so in front of the leader.

Lap 59: After the cycle of green-flag stops, Harvick is 17th, 21.61 seconds behind leader Kyle Busch.

Lap 54: Harvick brings the Shell Chevrolet onto pit road. His first stop of the day is a good one, lasting 14.8 seconds.

Lap 53: Harvick should be pitting in a couple of laps.

Lap 47: Harvick picked up two-tenths of a second over his previous lap. He's shown in 21st place, 23.36 seconds behind leader Kurt Busch.

Lap 43: The team should be pitting in about 14 laps.

Lap 35: Kurt Busch is leading the event. He has a 20.88-second advantage over 23rd-place Harvick. On the track, that's about three-quarters of a lap.

Lap 30: Harvick continues, saying that the car is loose in the center of the turns, and adds that he can't push the throttle coming off the corners.

Lap 32: Harvick says the car is loose getting into the turns and tight off.

Lap 27: It's been eight laps since the caution ended, and Harvick has gained only one spot. He hasn't said anything else, however, about how the car is handling.

Lap 9: Harvick is 25th on the restart.

Lap 7: Team owner Richard Childress asks crew chief Gil Martin about the possibility of rain in the area. Martin says that it's at least a couple hours away.

Lap 3: Jimmie Johnson's crash on the backstretch brings out the yellow flag. Harvick says that his car is "really plowing" on top of the track and chattering the tires. Also involved in Johnson's crash was Sam Hornish Jr.

3:34 p.m.: The green flag is out!!!

3:33 p.m.: The race will go green the next time by the starter's stand. Today's race is 334 laps, 500 miles.

3:32 p.m.: As has been customary, team owner Richard Childress wishes Harvick well.

3:23 p.m.: The legendary rock band ZZ Top gives the command to fire engines.

3:16 p.m.: The National Anthem is played.

Race Day, 3:15 p.m.: A moment of silence is held for victims of the shooting at Fort Hood, Texas this week. Also Dr. Roger Marsh gives the invocation.

Pre-Race: The car that Kevin Harvick is driving this weekend in Texas has been raced on three previous occasions, with two top-10 finishes to its credit.

In 13 Cup starts at Texas, Harvick has two top-five and five top-10 finishes. His best finish is a third in 2006. Harvick is slated to start 24th in today's event.

Richard Childress' teams have made a total of 47 starts at Texas. The organization has recorded one win, five top-five and 17 top-10 finishes here.