A late tire gamble paid off for Kevin Harvick, helping him win the Carfax 400 at Michigan International Speedway. The win locked him into this year’s Chase.
Kyle Busch capitalized on a mistake by Brad Keselowski and drove away from Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Joey Logano on a green-white-checkered finish to win the Dollar General 300 at Chicagoland Speedway. The win is Busch’s seventh Nationwide Series victory of the season.
Kevin Harvick, polesitter for the Coke Zero 400 due to qualifying being rained out, won the wreck-filled restrictor plate race at Daytona International Speedway. On a green-white-checkered finish, Harvick drove by teammate Clint Bowyer for the lead, then held off Jeff Gordon and Kasey Kahne to win.
In a tribute to his legendary father, Dale Earnhardt Jr drove his No. 3 Wrangler Chevy to Victory Lane in the NASCAR Nationwide Series Subway JalapeƱo 250 at Daytona International Speedway. Earnhardt led the final 30 laps of the race.
Kyle Busch easily drove away from Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Joey Logano on the final restart to win the New England 200 Nationwide Series race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
Jimmie Johnson earned his first career Sprint Cup road course win in the Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Infineon Raceway after Marcos Ambrose made a mistake under caution in the closing laps, handing Johnson the lead.
Joey Logano made history by winning his third straight race from the pole, winning the Nationwide Series’ Meijer 300 at Kentucky Speedway. Logano held off Carl Edwards to become the only driver to win three consecutive races after winning the pole during qualifying.
Denny Hamlin won a rain-delayed Gillette Fusion ProGlide 500 at Pocono Raceway when the caution flew for an eight-car pileup occured on the Long Pond straightaway during a green-white-checkered finish. The win is Hamlin’s fourth of the year, the most in the series.
Since 2007, when NASCAR moved to the current Chase format ), only one driver — on average — in the Chase after the 13th race of the season has fallen out by the time the Chase has started. Who will go, and who will be in this year?
Kurt Busch overcame hitting the wall not once, but twice to win an action-packed All Star race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Busch charged to the front at the beginning of the final segment. Then, he survived two late-race cautions and held off Martin Truex Jr to earn his first All Star victory.