martin truex, jr. kicked off the final cycle of pit stops with 54 laps to go. matt kenseth surrendered the lead to make his final pit stop with 53 laps to go and handed the lead to jimmie johnson. he pitted with 52 laps to go and handed the lead to ryan blaney. kevin harvick was tagged for removing equipment from his pit box – the fuel can got stuck in the fuel receptor and slid out of the pit box – and was forced to serve a stop and go penalty. he said after the race that he was "lucky to come out of it as good as we did with our team. we didn't have a great weekend, a lot of things falling on and off, and now we've got to go to talladega and have a good week. all in all, it could have been a lot worse, and everybody kept digging." martin truex jr. was tagged for an uncontrolled tire and was forced to serve a drive-through penalty. after the race, truex said that his team had a "tough day. we were in good shape before the penalty. we fought hard on the car all day got much better right when we got the penalty. we were fast at the end, but not enough time to get back up there." blaney made his stop with 47 laps to go and handed the lead to carl edwards. he pitted with 43 laps to go and handed the lead to paul menard. he pitted with 37 laps to go and the lead cycled back to matt kenseth.