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Driving a No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet that has been the class of the field for most of the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season, Harvick won Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup's Ford EcoBoost 400 at the 1.5-mile intermediate track and claimed his first premier series championship after a three-lap drag race against underdog title contender Ryan Newman.
After the 13th caution slowed the field on lap 263, the result of debris dripping from the No. 32 Ford of Blake Koch, Harvick led the field to green on lap 265 of 267 with Newman beside him.
Newman stayed to the inside of Harvick's car through the first corner, but Harvick, on four fresh tires to Newman's two, cleared the No. 31 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet and pulled away to a half-second victory.
In his first season with SHR, Harvick won for the first time at Homestead and for the 28th time in his career.
With the highest finisher among the Championship four contenders assured of the title, Denny Hamlin came home seventh, and Joey Logano ran 16th after a disastrous late-race pit stop.
A native of Bakersfield, California, Harvick became just the second driver to win the championship by winning the season-ending race at HMS. Fittingly perhaps, the only other driver to accomplish the feat was teammate and co-team owner Tony Stewart.
Driving a No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet that has been the class of the field for most of the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season, Harvick won Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup's Ford EcoBoost 400 at the 1.5-mile intermediate track and claimed his first premier series championship after a three-lap drag race against underdog title contender Ryan Newman.
After the 13th caution slowed the field on lap 263, the result of debris dripping from the No. 32 Ford of Blake Koch, Harvick led the field to green on lap 265 of 267 with Newman beside him.
Newman stayed to the inside of Harvick's car through the first corner, but Harvick, on four fresh tires to Newman's two, cleared the No. 31 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet and pulled away to a half-second victory.
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| Kevin Harvick, driver of the No. 4 Chevrolet, leads Jeff Gordon, driver of the No.24 Chevrolet. (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR) |
In his first season with SHR, Harvick won for the first time at Homestead and for the 28th time in his career.
With the highest finisher among the Championship four contenders assured of the title, Denny Hamlin came home seventh, and Joey Logano ran 16th after a disastrous late-race pit stop.
A native of Bakersfield, California, Harvick became just the second driver to win the championship by winning the season-ending race at HMS. Fittingly perhaps, the only other driver to accomplish the feat was teammate and co-team owner Tony Stewart.