Kevin Harvick is no doubt a fan of NASCAR’s Western Swing. The Bakersfield California native continued his dominance at Phoenix International Raceway winning Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Campingworld.com 500 in dominating fashion. Harvick started from the pole and led 225 of the 312 laps in route to his seventh win and his fourth in the last five races at Phoenix.
“The restarts were just really slippery and I learned that in the race yesterday,” Harvick said. “You had to really maintain your entrance speed and really slide the thing through the center of the corner to try to help keep it pointed up off. This is a really special place of all these West Coast race for us to win.”
Jamie McMurray was second, a career best at Phoenix, Ryan Newman third, and Kasey Kahne fourth. Kurt Busch in his first race back after being suspended staged an impressive performance running second in the closing laps. He pitted on the last pit stop and rallied back from 10th to finish fifth. MORE>>>
Greg is the author of "The Nuts and Bolts of NASCAR: The Definitive Viewers' Guide to Big-Time Stock Car Auto Racing" and has been published in major publications across the country including the Los Angeles Times, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He was also a contributor to Chicken Soup for the NASCAR Soul, published in 2010, and the Christmas edition in 2016. He wrote as the NASCAR, Formula 1, Auto Reviews and National Veterans Affairs Examiner for Examiner.com and has appeared on Fox News. He holds a BS degree in communications, a Masters degree in psychology and is currently a PhD candidate majoring in psychology. He is currently the weekend Motorsports Editor for Autoweek.
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