Kevin Harvick put on a dominating performance, but had to hold off a hard-charging Brad Keselowski in the final laps to win Friday’s Virginia 529 College Savings 250 Nationwide Series race at Richmond International Raceway.
Trevor Bayne finished a career-best third, while Ricky Stenhouse and Reed Sorenson rounded out the top-five.
The victory was Harvick’s third of the season and 37th of his career, third all time in the series. The owner/driver of Kevin Harvick Inc. led 170 of the 250 laps and was elated with the progress his No. 33 team had made with the new car.
“This is the future of our company, so we put a lot of effort into this program, knowing that all the other cars were going to go away, and knowing that we had to be good with this car,” said Harvick, who gets his new chassis from Richard Childress Racing and his power from Earnhardt-Childress engines.
The series points leader went two laps down after a pit road problem before the midpoint of the 250-lap event at Richmond International Raceway. But he was back up to third when a caution flag came out with 46 laps to go. He was still third after the leaders all pitted, but spent the last 10 laps within a few car lengths of the leader.
“We just weren’t good enough to beat Kevin legit tonight,” he said.
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NASCAR Nationwide Series: Virginia 529 College Savings 250 at Richmond - Race Results
RANK DRIVER POINTS BEHIND 1 Brad Keselowski 4302 Leader 2 Carl Edwards 3929 -373 3 Kyle Busch 3719 -583 4 Justin Allgaier 3512 -790 5 Paul Menard 3451 -851 6 Kevin Harvick 3268 -1034 7 Trevor Bayne 3111 -1191 8 Steve Wallace 3030 -1272 9 Jason Leffler 2987 -1315 10 Brendan Gaughan 2896 -1406 11 Joey Logano 2872 -1430 12 Michael Annett 2846 -1456 13 Brian Scott* 2677 -1625 14 Reed Sorenson 2667 -1635 15 Tony Raines 2645 -1657 16 Mike Bliss 2555 -1747 17 Kenny Wallace 2438 -1864 18 Mike Wallace 2420 -1882 19 Ricky Stenhouse Jr.* 2405 -1897 20 Joe Nemechek 2262 -2040 21 Michael McDowell 2208 -2094 22 Jason Keller 2010 -2292 23 Eric McClure 1933 -2369 24 Colin Braun* 1928 -2374 25 Josh Wise 1731 -2571 26 Shelby Howard 1597 -2705 27 Robert Richardson Jr. 1478 -2824 28 Mark Green 1455 -2847 29 Willie Allen 1405 -2897 30 Morgan Shepherd 1397 -2905 31 Greg Biffle 1368 -2934 32 Scott Lagasse Jr. 1328 -2974 33 Brian Keselowski 1300 -3002 34 Clint Bowyer 1273 -3029 35 Jamie McMurray 1234 -3068 36 Tayler Malsam 1045 -3257 37 Ryan Newman 970 -3332 38 Jeremy Clements 907 -3395 39 James Buescher* 903 -3399 40 Parker Kligerman 871 -3431
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