As a result it wasn't until the fourth restart of the race on lap 26 before the race calmed down with Clint Bowyer and Jamie McMurray surging towards the front. However shortly after taking the lead McMurray was black flagged for moving below the yellow out of bounds line and gaining a position and was forced to do a drive through penalty, which dropped him to 35th and in danger of being lapped.
Bowyer traded the lead with Kyle Busch as the race passed the 50-lap mark and teams were beginning to prepare for a round of green flag pitstops until Juan Montoya slipped into the side of
Daytona 500 winner Kevin Harvick forcing Harvick into the outside wall and bringing out the fourth caution period of the evening.
Bowyer maintained his lead after the pitstops and was still leading as the field began lap 79 when suddenly the #07 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet slowed going through turn one. After losing nearly 20 places Bowyer diagnosed the problem as a faulty ignition box and was able to remedy the situation by switching to the back up box but not before he had lost a great deal of track position.
Bowyer's problems elevated Kurt Busch into the lead, which he resolutely clung to despite the close attentions of his younger brother Kyle, Jimmie Johnson, Matt Kenseth, JJ Yeley in the sole remaining Gibbs entry and Stremme who had recovered well from his earlier skirmishes.
The front six were able to pull a gap on the rest of the field as the reached passed the 100-lap mark and Busch managed to keep his slender lead through the first and only round of green flag pitstops between laps 105 and 110.
![Jamie McMurray [pic credit: Ford media/Autostock]](http://pix.crash.net/thumbs/283688.jpg)
