Kevin Harvick passed polesitter Dale Earnhardt Jr. on the next-to-last lap and pulled away to win Saturday night’s Degree V12 300 at Atlanta Motor Speedway, his second Nationwide win this season and the 34th of his career.
Kyle Busch, who also passed Earnhardt on Lap 194 of 195, ran second and padded his Nationwide Series points lead from 192 to 221 on second-place Carl Edwards, who completed the race despite fracturing two bones in his right foot playing Frisbee on Wednesday. Edwards finished seventh, one lap down. NASCAR
“Kyle was a little bit better on the short runs, but after eight or ten laps, this thing was just flat-out awesome,” said Harvick, who led 131 of 195 laps. “We cut it a little bit closer than I would have liked to at the end.”
Harvick recorded his second win of the season and the 34th of his Nationwide career. His win in March at Bristol marked the first time he won in the car he and his wife, DeLana, own.
“Harvick was gone,” Busch said. “What a non-race that was, but hopefully it was a show there at the end.”
“We just tried to save what we could, and we knew we could probably make it, so we just didn’t pit trying to take a chance,” Earnhardt Jr. said. MiamiHerald.com
FIN CAR DRIVER MAKE 1 33 Kevin Harvick Chevrolet 2 18 Kyle Busch Toyota 3 5 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Chevrolet 4 88 Brad Keselowski Chevrolet 5 29 Jeff Burton Chevrolet 6 20 Joey Logano Toyota 7 60 Carl Edwards Ford 8 16 Greg Biffle Ford 9 6 David Ragan Ford 10 1 Reed Sorenson Chevrolet 11 10 Kasey Kahne Toyota 12 198 Paul Menard Ford 13 32 Brian Vickers Toyota 14 15 Michael Annett * Toyota 15 42 David Gilliland Dodge 16 99 Trevor Bayne Toyota 17 12 Justin Allgaier * Dodge 18 40 Scott Wimmer Chevrolet 19 1 Mike Wallace Chevrolet 20 38 Jason Leffler Toyota 21 70 Shelby Howard Chevrolet 22 23 Robert Richardson Jr. Chevrolet 23 66 Steve Wallace Chevrolet 24 234 Tony Raines Dodge 25 61 Matt Carter Ford 26 24 Eric McClure Ford 27 28 Kenny Wallace Chevrolet 28 177 Peyton Sellers Chevrolet 29 7 Chase Austin Chevrolet 30 81 Bobby Hamilton Jr. Dodge 31 62 Brendan Gaughan * Chevrolet 32 11 Kelly Bires Toyota 33 26 Brian Keselowski Dodge 34 87 Mike Bliss Chevrolet 35 196 Michael McDowell * Dodge 36 150 Jeremy Clements Chevrolet 37 27 Jason Keller Ford 38 5 Casey Atwood Ford 39 47 Chase Miller Toyota 40 49 Mark Green Chevrolet 41 178 Kevin Lepage Dodge 42 90 Johnny Chapman Chevrolet 43 91 Dave Blaney Chevrolet
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