Numbers Game: 2010 Budweiser Shootout at Daytona
21 – number of laps Kevin Harvick won in route to his victory in the Budweiser Shootout.
21 – number of laps Kevin Harvick won in route to his victory in the Budweiser Shootout.
Kevin Harvick took the lead on the final restart in one of the most bizarre green-white-checkered finishes since… Harvick won the Daytona 500 in 2007.
Jeff Burton, Kevin Harvick and Clint Bowyer have put together better runs, culminating with all three finishing in the top 11 at Homestead on Sunday.
Kevin Harvick took the checkered flag 0.949 seconds ahead of Matt Crafton to win the Ford 200 Friday night (Nov. 20) at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Kevin Harvick took the checkered flag under caution ahead of Kyle Busch to win the Lucas Oil 150 Friday night at Phoenix International Raceway.
Kevin Harvick, a title contender just a year ago, grabbed a fifth-place finish at Texas on a fuel gamble, coasting across the line.
DOVER, Del. – Saturday saw Richard Childress Racing’s Nationwide program resemble the juggernaut that Kevin Harvick took to the 2006 Series crown.
Like it or not, after just 380 miles the first race of the 2009 Sprint Cup season is officially in the books. Matt Kenseth was crowned the winner of just the fourth rain-shortened Daytona 500 in history, taking the lead one lap before the weather with a generous push from runner-up Kevin Harvick. But was that last-lap pass enough to leave Kenseth number one in the eyes of our staff this week? After all, Kyle Busch dominated the race, only to become an innocent victim of the day’s big wreck on lap 125. And where did AJ Allmendinger land after starting the year with a career-best third – driving for a team that doesn’t even know if it’ll exist two months from now? Find these answers, and more, by examining our first Top-15 Power Rankings poll of the year.
1 – lap led by Bud Shootout winner Kevin Harvick, the last one.
In the end, Matt Kenseth was able to hold off a hard-charging Kevin Harvick through a green-white-checkered finish at Atlanta to take the Nicorette 300, his 24th career Nationwide Series win.