Harvick dominated the later portions of the race after Kyle Busch, who led 256 laps, had a part failure and crashed. More photos inside in the TriCitiesSports.com photo gallery.
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Harvick made the biggest pass with 70 laps to go Sunday, sweeping by Denny Hamlin and holding on to take the rain-delayed NASCAR Sprint Cup race at the 0.533-mile track. “That’s stupid”, said Kyle Busch, who wrecked on lap 373 after leading 258 laps. “I’m really exhausted of losing races here with parts falling apart”, he said. But I think the biggest thing is it’s just short track racing.
“I told myself the last 10 laps we weren’t racing anybody, there wasn’t anybody around us”.
Fortunately, for Harvick, he avoided the mayhem for his second victory at Thunder Valley since the spring race in 2005 and his second win in 2016.
Stewart had a tough day in his final race at Bristol.
Harvick’s auto owner and fellow competitor, Tony Stewart, struggled in his final race at Bristol Motor Speedway, bringing home a thirtieth place finish.
“Thanks guys, awesome job”, Harvick said after checking out from the field over the last 51 laps.
As his victory celebration, Harvick did a synchronized burnout with his teammate, boss and friend Stewart on the front straightaway. “This is a hard place to win at. But to have the win now and just try to get that momentum before we get into the Chase and get things rolling is really what we needed”. Who Else Had a Good Day: Stenhouse Jr.
And that makes Harvick, crew chief Rodney Childers and the rest of the No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing team very unsafe this time of year. Now we’re looking at the next couple to go do more of the same thing. We started when forced.
Hamlin also found himself two laps down at one point after having to correct a loose tire and a season-high eighth pit road speeding penalty. He had raced his way back toward the front before being collected in two on-track incidents. Row motorsports Ford. Ford was also a long long runs.
Average Speed of Race Winner: 77.973 miles per hour. Rain at Pocono Raceway three weeks ago pushed that finish until Monday when rookie Chris Buescher won his first Sprint Cup title as continued bad weather shortened that race.
“Martinsville needs to call Bristol and say, ‘What do we need to do to make a second lane come in?’ because they did a great job here”, he said. “We are able to get to the bottom and make passes later in runs”.
The feel when he rolled off Saturday night did have the Bristol night race aura.
Aleshin will start from the pole for the first time in his IndyCar career. NASCAR officials planned to get going again at 1 p.m., but instead more rain washed over the track and kept the drivers in their motorhomes. Lets go home, Busch said.
“Performance hasn’t really been an issue”, he said. I’m really exhausted of losing races here with parts falling apart, so they’ll hear about it on Tuesday. “It’s something we have to address”. – Kurt Busch on the spin-out that caught up Brad Keselowski, ending both drivers’ chances of winning Sunday.
“By the time I saw anything I was making contact with them”, explained Keselowski.
“I’m racing like I’m in the playoffs right now, for sure”, Dillon said.
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“We kept working our way up towards the end and got to the top five, and nearly got one there at the end, but I love Bristol”.
