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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The last time he qualified first, at New Hampshire in 2006, he also won the race.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n
Unofficial Results…<\/p>\n
1 Joe Gibbs RacingMatt Kenseth 20 2183 Leader 30 7 8 16 3 0<\/p>\n
2 Hendrick MotorsportsJimmie Johnson 48 2180 -3 30 5 12 19 1 0<\/p>\n
3 Richard Childress RacingKevin Harvick 29 2158 -25 30 3 8 16 2 1<\/p>\n
4 Hendrick MotorsportsJeff Gordon 24 2151 -32 30 0 7 15 5 1<\/p>\n
5 Joe Gibbs RacingKyle Busch 18 2148 -35 30 4 14 18 4 -2<\/p>\n
6 Roush Fenway RacingGreg Biffle 16 2139 -44 30 1 4 12 0 0<\/p>\n
7 Furniture Row RacingKurt Busch 78 2136 -47 30 0 10 15 2 2<\/p>\n
8 Hendrick MotorsportsDale Earnhardt Jr 88 2129 -54 30 0 6 17 3 2<\/p>\n
9 Michael Waltrip RacingClint Bowyer 15 2128 -55 30 0 8 15 2 -1<\/p>\n
10 Penske RacingJoey Logano 22 2124 -59 30 1 10 16 3 2<\/p>\n
11 Roush Fenway RacingCarl Edwards 99 2123 -60 30 2 9 15 1 0<\/p>\n
12 Stewart-Haas RacingRyan Newman 39 2110 -73 30 1 6 14 5 -5<\/p>\n
13 Hendrick MotorsportsKasey Kahne 5 2100 -83 30 2 8 11 3 0<\/p>\n
14 Earnhardt Ganassi RacingJamie McMurray 1 847 -1336 30 0 3 7 0 0<\/p>\n
15 Penske RacingBrad Keselowski 2 827 -1356 30 0 7 12 2 0<\/p>\n
16 Michael Waltrip RacingMartin Truex Jr 56 806 -1377 30 1 6 12 3 0<\/p>\n
17 Richard Childress RacingPaul Menard 27 805 -1378 30 0 2 8 1 0<\/p>\n
18 Richard Petty MotorsportsAric Almirola 43 775 -1408 30 0 1 6 4 0<\/p>\n
19 Richard Childress RacingJeff Burton 31 757 -1426 30 0 2 6 2 1<\/p>\n
20 Richard Petty MotorsportsMarcos Ambrose 9 756 -1427 30 0 0 6 2 1<\/p>\n
21 Roush Fenway RacingRicky Stenhouse Jr 17 741 -1442 30 0 0 2 0 -2<\/p>\n
22 Earnhardt Ganassi RacingJuan Pablo Montoya 42 740 -1443 30 0 4 7 0 0<\/p>\n
23 Germain RacingCasey Mears 13 621 -1562 30 0 0 1 2 0<\/p>\n
24 Stewart-Haas RacingTony Stewart 594 -1589 21 1 5 8 0<\/p>\n
25 Joe Gibbs RacingDenny Hamlin 11 573 -1610 26 0 3 4 7 0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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