Harvick loses the draft on the final green-white-checkered allowing the Bif to push his old teammate to the finish line at the Daytona 500. Congrats to Jamie, but damn, pull it together bro. You’re wife and dad are watching. A stupid pothole and a bad final pit stop are in my opinion the reason Harvick doesn’t win his second Daytona 500. Lame!
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — A bout with the flu and a lack of practice time didn’t seem to bother Kevin Harvick, who won Saturday night’s Budweiser Shootout at Daytona International Speedway for the second consecutive year.
In a green-white-checkered finish, Harvick took the lead on Lap 75 and earned the win when caution froze the field after a push from Jeff Gordon’s Chevrolet spun Greg Biffle’s Ford in Turn 3 and ignited a multi-car wreck that trashed the car of polesitter Carl Edwards, among others.
“I was sick on Thursday and didn’t even get to see a lap in the car, but this thing was a rocket, man,” said Harvick, the fourth back-to-back winner in Shootout history. – See The Video
DAYTONA BEACH — Defending, four-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson crashed and suffered some bruising today in opening practice for this weekend’s Rolex 24 At Daytona at Daytona International Speedway. Johnson crashed in the left-hand kink area of Daytona’s 3.56-mile road course driving the No. 99 Bob Stallings Chevrolet Riley Daytona Prototype. “A GT car was very wide to the left and JJ assumed the GT saw him and was making way for the faster car,” team owner Bob Stallings said. “As it turns out, the GT probably did not see JJ and closed off on him. “Jimmie had to lift and get on the brake and as soon as he pointed the nose of the car down, the car turned on him and he backed it into the wall pretty hard. All the damage is on the back end of the car.” – More