KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP Oct 6, 2013) — Kevin Harvick won a wreck-filled race at Kansas Speedway on Sunday, keeping out of trouble all afternoon and making a big move in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.
Harvick pulled away from Kurt Busch and Jeff Gordon on a restart with 19 laps to go for his third win of the year. It came after Harvick sat on the pole for the first time in 254 races.
The last time he qualified first, at New Hampshire in 2006, he also won the race.
Harvick was chased across the line by Busch and Gordon. Joey Logano finished fourth, Carl Edwards was fifth, and Jimmie Johnson finished sixth despite a slight hiccup with his engine on the final lap that cost him one spot on the track.
Matt Kenseth held onto his lead in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship with an 11th-place finish. Johnson narrowed the gap to just three points, while Harvick moved into third place, just 25 points out of first with six races left in the season.
There were 15 cautions in the race, breaking the record of 14 for a Sprint Cup race at Kansas Speedway. The first came when the race wasn’t even a lap old and Danica Patrick slammed into the wall, and most of them occurred when cars got loose coming out of Turn 2
Unofficial Results…
1 Joe Gibbs RacingMatt Kenseth 20 2183 Leader 30 7 8 16 3 0
2 Hendrick MotorsportsJimmie Johnson 48 2180 -3 30 5 12 19 1 0
3 Richard Childress RacingKevin Harvick 29 2158 -25 30 3 8 16 2 1
4 Hendrick MotorsportsJeff Gordon 24 2151 -32 30 0 7 15 5 1
5 Joe Gibbs RacingKyle Busch 18 2148 -35 30 4 14 18 4 -2
6 Roush Fenway RacingGreg Biffle 16 2139 -44 30 1 4 12 0 0
7 Furniture Row RacingKurt Busch 78 2136 -47 30 0 10 15 2 2
8 Hendrick MotorsportsDale Earnhardt Jr 88 2129 -54 30 0 6 17 3 2
9 Michael Waltrip RacingClint Bowyer 15 2128 -55 30 0 8 15 2 -1
10 Penske RacingJoey Logano 22 2124 -59 30 1 10 16 3 2
11 Roush Fenway RacingCarl Edwards 99 2123 -60 30 2 9 15 1 0
12 Stewart-Haas RacingRyan Newman 39 2110 -73 30 1 6 14 5 -5
13 Hendrick MotorsportsKasey Kahne 5 2100 -83 30 2 8 11 3 0
14 Earnhardt Ganassi RacingJamie McMurray 1 847 -1336 30 0 3 7 0 0
15 Penske RacingBrad Keselowski 2 827 -1356 30 0 7 12 2 0
16 Michael Waltrip RacingMartin Truex Jr 56 806 -1377 30 1 6 12 3 0
17 Richard Childress RacingPaul Menard 27 805 -1378 30 0 2 8 1 0
18 Richard Petty MotorsportsAric Almirola 43 775 -1408 30 0 1 6 4 0
19 Richard Childress RacingJeff Burton 31 757 -1426 30 0 2 6 2 1
20 Richard Petty MotorsportsMarcos Ambrose 9 756 -1427 30 0 0 6 2 1
21 Roush Fenway RacingRicky Stenhouse Jr 17 741 -1442 30 0 0 2 0 -2
22 Earnhardt Ganassi RacingJuan Pablo Montoya 42 740 -1443 30 0 4 7 0 0
23 Germain RacingCasey Mears 13 621 -1562 30 0 0 1 2 0
24 Stewart-Haas RacingTony Stewart 594 -1589 21 1 5 8 0
25 Joe Gibbs RacingDenny Hamlin 11 573 -1610 26 0 3 4 7 0
