Kevin Harvick won the Foxwoods Resort Casino 301 from
New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Sunday afternoon.
Harvick used pit strategy late in the race to pick up
his first win of the season. When a
caution came out with 30 laps to go, Harvick stayed out while most of the field
behind him pitted. After retaining the
lead on the restart, Harvick had to hold off Denny Hamlin, who was coming with
two fresher tires.
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Harvick said he didn’t think the call would turn out to be the winning move.
“I didn’t think we had the best chance to win staying
out, but Rodney and those guys made a great call,” Harvick said. “Stayed out there and ran a lot of good laps.”
Harvick was able to hold Hamlin off for most of the
final run, but the two made contact while racing around lapped traffic on the
final lap.
Harvick said he knew Hamlin would use the bumper on
the final lap.
“He tried to move me out of the way there and I knew
that was coming as close as he was,” Harvick said. “He dove to the outside of me and I just put
a wheel on him.”
Hamlin used his bumper to try and move Harvick on the
last lap, but he wasn’t able to complete the pass after the two made contact
coming out of the final corner.
Hamlin said he didn’t want to completely ruin Harvick’s
race by putting him in the wall.
“I wanted to just tap him there, but didn’t want to
completely screw him,” Hamlin said. “I
at least wanted to give him a fair shot.”
“He saw that I had a big run and just turned right…I
would do the same thing.”
Unofficial results:
1. Kevin Harvick
2. Denny Hamlin
3. Erik Jones
4. Ryan Blaney
5. Matt DiBenedetto
6. Martin Truex Jr.
7. Ryan Newman
8. Kyle Busch
9. Joey Logano
10. Brad Keselowski
11. Aric Almirola
12. William Byron
13. Paul Menard
14. Alex Bowman
15. Chris Buescher
16. Ty Dillon
17. Michael McDowell
18. Kurt Busch
19. Daniel Suarez
20. Clint Bowyer
21. Ryan Preece
22. Bubba Wallace
23. Corey LaJoie
24. Matt Tifft
25. Ross Chastain
26. Landon Cassill
27. Reed Sorenson
28. Andy Seuss
29. Chase Elliott
30. Jimmie Johnson
31. Quin Houff
32. Austin Dillon
33. Kyle Larson
34. David Ragan
35. Austin Theriault
36. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
37. Daniel Hemric
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