{"id":23117,"date":"2018-05-07T22:27:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T02:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/?p=23117"},"modified":"2018-05-07T20:28:16","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T00:28:16","slug":"harvick-rolls-to-aaa-400-drive-for-autism-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/2018\/05\/harvick-rolls-to-aaa-400-drive-for-autism-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvick rolls to “AAA 400 Drive for Autism” victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harvick rolls to “AAA 400 Drive for Autism” victory<\/strong><\/p>\n

Not even Mother Nature could slow down Kevin Harvick in this race.<\/p>\n

Harvick passed Clint Bowyer, his Stewart-Haas Racing teammate, shortly after a restart following a lengthy rain delay and proceeded to cruise to victory in the \u201cAAA 400 Drive for Autism\u201d Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Dover International Speedway on Sunday.
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The win was Harvick\u2019s fourth of the season, his second Dover victory, and the 41st of his stellar career.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just one of those weekends where the car was spot-on from the moment we got here,\u201d said Harvick, who swept all of the stage segments. <\/p>\n

The entire Stewart-Haas fleet had impressive showings, with Bowyer finishing second, Kurt Busch placing fifth and Aric Almirola coming home 11th.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re really proud of our group,\u201d said Tony Stewart, Stewart-Haas Racing\u2019s co-owner, and a three-time Dover winner. \u201cIt\u2019s just a bunch of people who have their eye on the prize. When you have four cars that are running as well as these four did today, it\u2019s a great achievement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harvick led 201 laps in all, including the final 62, and topped Bowyer by 7.450 seconds, with an average speed of 115.044 mph. Bowyer had held the lead for 12 laps following a 41:01 red-flag stoppage for rain before a slight bobble led to Harvick\u2019s final pass.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a huge momentum builder for our team,\u201d said Bowyer, who led 40 laps overall. \u201cYou knew [Harvick] was the one you would have to beat for the win. Sheer-speed wise, he was a beat better than us all day long.\u201d<\/p>\n

Daniel Suarez finished third, followed by Martin Truex Jr. and Busch in the 3:28:37 race.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Harvick] was in a different league,\u201d Suarez said. \u201cI feel like we are moving in the right direction. We just have to keep it up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among former Dover winners, Brad Keselowski led 108 laps and finished sixth, Jimmie Johnson placed ninth and Kyle Busch was 35th after suffering a drivetrain problem.<\/p>\n

Dover International Speedway hosts its next NASCAR tripleheader weekend Oct. 5-7, including the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race on Sunday, Oct. 7, the fourth race of the playoffs.<\/p>\n

Harvick will likely be a contender again in October, for both a Dover win and his second NASCAR championship. In the meantime, he now has a second Monster Trophy for his son Keelan.<\/p>\n

\u201cMiles is pretty popular with the kids,\u201d Harvick said. \u201cThe day I brought home my first one, he had the arm broken in half. In Victory Lane, I told him, don\u2019t break the arm of this one.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Harvick rolls to “AAA 400 Drive for Autism” victory Not even Mother Nature could slow down Kevin Harvick in this race. Harvick passed Clint Bowyer, his Stewart-Haas Racing teammate, shortly after a restart following a lengthy rain delay and proceeded to cruise to victory in the \u201cAAA 400 Drive for Autism\u201d Monster Energy NASCAR Cup […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nascar","category-touring-series-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23118,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23117\/revisions\/23118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}