Kevin Harvick celebrates in Victory Lane after winning Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, CA. Photo by Jerry Markland/NASCAR via Getty Images
It’s about time to start reserving a spot on the NASCAR podium for Kevin Harvick.
With a dominating victory in Saturday’s Drive4Clots.com 300 NASCAR Xfinity Series race, Harvick won his second race of the season, his first at Auto Club Speedway and the 46th of his career, third-most all-time.
Incredibly, Harvick scored his 28th consecutive top 10 in the Xfinity Series, dating to 2013. With two victories and two seconds in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series this year to go with two wins and a third in the Xfinity Series, Harvick has recorded seven podium finishes in seven starts in both series combined.
“I’m just a lucky guy to be piloting really fast cars,” Harvick said in victory lane. “We’ve just got to keep riding the wave.”
It doesn’t seem to matter whether Harvick is driving his No. 4 Sprint Cup car for Stewart-Haas Racing or the No. 88 Chevrolet he drove to victory for JR Motorsports on Saturday. Once he got to the front from his sixth-place starting position (taking the lead for the first time after a restart on lap 38), he stayed there, leading 100 of the 150 laps and giving up the top spot only during cycles of green-flag pit stops.
JR Motorsports car owner Dale Earnhardt, Jr., who competes against Harvick at NASCAR’s highest level, hasn’t been surprised by Harvick’s dominance in both series this year.
“They’ve got something figured out,” Earnhardt said. “Kevin’s an amazing driver. He’s really focused, and his work outside the car helps him inside the car and helps his team… It don’t last forever, so you’ve got to enjoy it while it’s happening.
“Sooner or later, what they know will be common knowledge, and somebody will be in search of the next advantage — and find it. But they’ve got it right now.”
Harvick finished 3.317 seconds — roughly three football fields — ahead of runner-up Brendan Gaughan, who moved from eighth to second after the final restart of the race on lap 122.
There were three cautions in the race. Trailing Harvick by more than three seconds in the closing laps, Gaughan was praying for a fourth.
“I love the fact that I’m pissed off at being second,” Gaughan said. “I love my restarts. My restart got us there… Any time you finish second to Kevin Harvick, come on, but — I don’t care if we would have finished fifth — I would have loved a shot at it. I know we’re pretty good on restarts.
“I would have loved one shot at a restart, just to see if I still had something for him.”
But the caution never came, and Gaughan had to settle for second. Pole sitter Erik Jones ran third, followed by defending series champion Chase Elliott and Chris Buescher.
Ty Dillon finished 14th and retained the series lead by five points over Buescher, with Elliott 15 points back in third.
NASCAR Xfinity Series
Auto Club Speedway – Fontana, CA
Drive4clots.Com 300 – March 21, 2015
1. 6 88 Kevin Harvick(i) TaxSlayer.com Chevrolet 150 0 148.2 $75,407 Running 4 100
2. 8 62 Brendan Gaughan South Point Chevrolet 150 42 98.2 $63,581 Running
3. 1 20 Erik Jones(i) GameStop Toyota 150 0 120.7 $59,435 Running 2 4
4. 13 9 Chase Elliott NAPA Auto Parts Chevrolet 150 40 104.1 $43,852 Running
5. 14 60 Chris Buescher Fastenal Ford 150 39 97.4 $40,727 Running
6. 2 2 Brian Scott Vons/Reser’s Chevrolet 150 38 113.6 $35,287 Running
7. 11 42 Kyle Larson(i) ENEOS Chevrolet 150 0 98.4 $25,716 Running
8. 4 22 Brad Keselowski(i) Discount Tire Ford 150 0 112.5 $25,582 Running 1 1
9. 5 7 Regan Smith Suave Men Chevrolet 150 36 1 99.4 $30,589 Running 1 4
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11. 12 16 Ryan Reed Lilly/American Diabetes Association Ford 150 33 80.6 $29,725 Running
12. 17 6 Darrell Wallace Jr. # Roush Performance Products Ford 150 33 1 100.3 $30,473 Running 2 3
13. 9 18 Daniel Suarez # ARRIS Toyota 150 31 81.1 $29,446 Running
14. 16 3 Ty Dillon WESCO Chevrolet 150 30 82.7 $29,135 Running
15. 25 44 David Starr Zachry Toyota 150 30 1 70.7 $29,398 Running 1 2
16. 22 14 Cale Conley # IAVA Toyota 150 28 67.9 $28,888 Running
17. 28 4 Ross Chastain # Shakey’s Pizza Parlor Chevrolet 150 27 68.4 $28,876 Running
18. 3 54 Denny Hamlin(i) Monster Energy Toyota 149 0 104.5 $23,290 Running 2 33
19. 21 8 Blake Koch AQUAhydrate Toyota 149 25 57.2 $28,429 Running
20. 18 39 Ryan Sieg Vuzix Chevrolet 149 24 71.5 $28,818 Running
21. 24 01 Landon Cassill Bubba Burger Chevrolet 149 23 65.0 $28,208 Running
22. 23 28 JJ Yeley Texas 28 Spirits Stage Toyota 149 22 60.8 $28,041 Running
23. 20 25 John Wes Townley(i) Zaxby’s Chevrolet 148 0 55.4 $27,955 Running
24. 29 51 Jeremy Clements RepairableVehicles.com Chevrolet 148 20 52.2 $27,794 Running
25. 32 0 Harrison Rhodes # G&K Services Chevrolet 147 19 46.3 $27,807 Running
26. 30 19 Mike Bliss TriStar Motorsports Toyota 146 18 52.0 $27,547 Running
27. 31 90 Mario Gosselin Chevrolet 146 17 45.1 $27,411 Running
28. 27 55 Jeffrey Earnhardt Viva Auto Group Chevrolet 146 17 1 63.4 $27,289 Running 1 3
29. 36 97 Peyton Sellers Obaika Racing Chevrolet 145 15 39.2 $27,114 Running
30. 35 52 Joey Gase elicitherbalchew.com/DB Sales Chevrolet 144 14 37.4 $27,302 Running
31. 40 70 Derrike Cope Charlie’s Soap/SWAE Watches Chevrolet 143 13 35.3 $20,871 Running
32. 34 15 Stanton Barrett 4caring.org/Bubba Burger Chevrolet 142 12 38.6 $20,761 Running
33. 39 13 Derek White Braille Battery Grafoid Toyota 140 11 29.9 $26,645 Running
34. 26 24 Eric McClure DoubleTree by Hilton/Hefty Toyota 114 10 41.4 $26,533 Electrical
35. 37 74 Mike Harmon The Weitz Company Dodge 108 9 30.3 $26,411 Engine
36. 19 43 Dakoda Armstrong WinField Ford 76 8 37.5 $24,186 Suspension
37. 15 98 Sam Hornish Jr.(i) Biagi Bros. Ford 47 0 65.6 $17,186 Engine
38. 7 33 Austin Dillon(i) Ruud Chevrolet 42 0 68.3 $16,361 Engine
39. 38 40 Carl Long Braille Battery Grafoid Dodge 18 5 29.2 $15,186 Suspension
40. 33 10 Jeff Green TriStar Motorsports Toyota 2 4 28.6 $14,186 Brakes
Time of Race: 02 Hrs, 01 Mins, 51 Secs. Average Speed: 147.723 MPH Margin of Victory: 3.317 Seconds
Caution Flags: 3 for 12 laps: Laps: 34-37 (Debris [44]); 48-51 (Fluid on track [25]); 118-121 (Debris [8]).
Lead Changes: 13 among 8 drivers: E. Jones(i) 1-3; D. Hamlin(i) 4-33; B. Keselowski(i) 34; D. Hamlin(i) 35-37; K. Harvick(i) 38-51; E. Jones(i) 52; K. Harvick(i) 53; D. Wallace Jr. # 54; K. Harvick(i) 55-75; D. Wallace Jr. # 76-77; R. Smith 78-81; D. Starr 82-83; J. Earnhardt 84-86; K. Harvick(i) 87-150.
Top 10 Driver Points: (1) T. Dillon 187;(2) C. Buescher 182;(3) C. Elliott 172;(4) R. Reed 168;(5) D. Wallace Jr. # 165;(6) B. Gaughan 164;(7) R. Smith 157;(8) E. Sadler 148;(9) D. Starr 136;(10) B. Scott 134.
(i) Ineligible for driver points in this series
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