Harvick Keeps Title Hopes Alive

Posted on October 5, 2015 by KBOE Administrator

2014 Sprint Cup Series champion Kevin Harvick did what was needed to keep his 2015 title hopes alive on Sunday, win at Dover International Speedway. Harvick, whose Number-4 Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet was dominant throughout the day, darted away from the field on the final restart to notch his third victory of the season. It lands Harvick in the Contender Round of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, which is made up of the twelve survivors from the original Chase Grid that opened the post-season two weeks ago at Chicagoland Speedway.

Harvick entered the Chase as the Number-5 seed but a pair of sub-far finishes in the first two races of the post-season left him among the bottom four in the standings and facing elimination entering Sunday’s race. He led all but forty-five of the four hundred laps, beating runner-up Kyle Busch to the finish by two-point-six seconds. With Harvick leading comfortably in the closing laps, the only drama that remained was a duel between Dale Earnhardt Junior and Jamie McMurray for the twelfth – and final – spot in the Contender Round.

Earnhardt finished third, one position ahead of McMurray. They wound up with the same number of points, but Earnhardt gets the berth in the next round after winning the tie-breaker – which is their best finishing position in the opening round of the Chase. That came down to Sunday’s race, with “Junior” edging McMurray by that one position … Six-time champion Jimmie Johnson is among the four drivers eliminated from title contention. He finished forty-first on Sunday, sidelined by a broken rear axle seal.

Harvick’s Consistency Paving His Way Through Title Defense

Posted on August 26, 2015 by KBOE Administrator

Kevin Harvick’s remarkably consistent year continues as the 2014 Sprint Cup Series champion rolls on in defense of his crown, entering the final three months of the season. With his tenth runner-up finish of the year, last weekend at Bristol, Harvick became the first driver with double-digit second-place finishes in a single season since Bobby Allison in 1972 … Harvick has twenty-one top tens this year in his twenty-four starts, including victories at Las Vegas and Phoenix International Raceway.

Joey Logano is second with eighteen top-ten finishes … With just two races remaining in the regular season, Harvick is actually ahead of his championship pace of a year ago. At this point in 2014, he was seventh in the standings – 124 points behind leader Jeff Gordon on his way to earning the Number-6 seed on The Chase Grid … Next stop on the Sprint Cup schedule is the September 6th Bojangles’ Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway. Harvick is the defending winner.

Harvick’s ‘4’ Team Among Five Penalized By NASCAR

Posted on June 4, 2015 by KBOE Administrator

Five NASCAR teams, including Kevin Harvick’s Number-4 Stewart-Haas Racing entry, received penalties on Wednesday for rule violations coming out of last weekend’s events at Dover International Speedway.

Harvick’s team has now received written warnings on two consecutive weekends. In Charlotte, it had to go through pre-race inspection more than three times and in Dover, the car’s exhaust pipe did not conform to specifications. As a result, Harvick will receive the last choice of a pit stall for this weekend’s race at Pocono.

After wrecking in their respective races at Dover, Camping World Truck Series competitor Jennifer Jo Cobb and Roush Fenway Racing Sprint Cup driver Trevor Bayne were penalized for walking onto the track before being attended to by the safety crew. Cobb was fined five thousand dollars and Bayne twenty thousand dollars. They’re both on probation through December 31st.

In the X-FINITY Series, Austin Dillon’s Number-33 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet was found to be too low during post-race inspection. Crew chief Nick Harrison was fined seventy-five hundred dollars and placed on probation through December 31st. Childress was docked ten championship owner points. Dillon finished fourth in the Buckle Up 200.

Also in the X-FINITY Series, an improperly attached weight fell out of Peyton Sellers’ Number-97 Obaika Racing Chevrolet during practice last Friday at Dover. Crew chief John Monsam has been fined fifteen thousand dollars. Both he and car chief David Jones drew a one-race suspension and are on probation through December 31st. Sellers, who finished twenty-fifth in the race, was docked fifteen championship points … as was car owner Victor Obaika.

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