Win number 89 H Team brought are guy Home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Win number 89 H Team brought are guy Home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The top 10
Jeff Gordon
Kevin Harvick
Kasey Kahne
Joey Logano
Dale Jr
Carl Edwards
Danica Patrick
Aric Amirola
Jimmie Johnson
Matt Kenseth
Jeff won the very 1st race at this track & now he wins the very 1st night race at this track. WOOOOOOOHOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
Kevin says that he ran out of gas coming down pit road on he last pit stop, that was why Jeff was able to get ahead of him.
Jeff remains the point s leader as well as clinching a spot in the chase with this win.
Next week another 1 1/2 mile track sounds like back to back!!!!!!
Jeff is the 9th different winner in 11 races.
Kevin lost because Jeff's the MANQuote:
Originally Posted by the H team
Danica did very well tonight, was in the top 10 most of the night. She was in 3rd at 1 point, but finished 7th, her best career finish.
you bet, now that #1 is finally done, the next wins should be easier.Quote:
Originally Posted by ROMEO
Next week, it another Saturday night race at Charlotte Motor Speedway for the Nascar/Sprint All Star Race, starting at 9pm.
See you next week.
:wave:
Driver celebrates 20th anniversary of first Cup win with trip to Victory Lane
RELATED: Full race results | Series standings
KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- Jeff Gordon held off Kevin Harvick over the final laps and went on to win the 5-Hour Energy 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway on Saturday night.
The victory was the first of the year for the four-time champion and his third at Kansas Speedway.
The win was his first since Martinsville last fall, and it earned him a place in the record book as the first winner of a night race at the track.
Harvick finished second after leading the most laps in the race.
Kasey Kahne, Gordon's teammate at Hendrick Motorsports, finished third while Joey Logano was fourth. In fifth was a third Hendrick driver, Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Rounding out the top 10 were Carl Edwards, Danica Patrick, Aric Almirola, Jimmie Johnson and Matt Kenseth.
Patrick had by far her most impressive effort on a non-restrictor plate track. She started ninth, hung tough for the first half of the race and then began moving forward. On Lap 162, she blew past both Tony Stewart and Earnhardt and moved to third place.
A slow pit stop during a caution that occurred on Lap 177 knocked her back to seventh but she hung tough again to earn her career best Sprint Cup Series finish.
Harvick broke clean from his pole position on the start and began to move out. By Lap 15 of the 267-lap event, he had a two-plus second lead. Behind him, the field was well spread out. By Lap 33, the lead was three seconds.
He would lead 89 laps in dominating fashion during the first half of the race.
However, the night went bad for Harvick when a spin by Marcos Ambrose on Lap 110 produced a caution. Harvick had pitted as the leader six laps earlier while most of the rest of the field did not. That put him a lap off the pace. He did get the free pass, but when the race went green, he was outside of the top 15.
Harvick was not done, however. He slowly worked his way back forward and on a restart on Lap 195, climbed to third place. On a restart on Lap 207, he restarted second, below leader Joey Logano, and moved back to the lead between Turns 3 and 4.
He lost the lead to Gordon during green pit stops 40 laps from the race's end and couldn't get back to the lead.
Hopes for a victory by a hometown hero took a shot on Lap 47 when Kansas native Clint Bowyer of Michael Waltrip Racing snapped around on the backstretch. He kept his Toyota off the wall and clean. He dropped a lap off the pace, however.
Running in the top three, the possibility of a win at what he considers his home track went up in smoke for Springfield, Missouri's Jamie McMurray after his car blew a tire, broke an oil line and burst into flames early in the race.
The start of the race was pushed just over 30 minutes by lightning. It was not until after the cars had moved out onto the track for the parade laps that rain began to fall. But that was very light, quickly evaporated on the warm asphalt and the race was started after a 35-minute delay.
Was a great race...
Too bad Harvick got snookered on pitting then the caution coming out...
Oh well, that's racing
Another win for Team Chevy!!!
All-Star race is split up over Friday and Saturday this year...The Sprint Showdown is on Friday Night and the All-Star race on Saturday Night. Looks like Humpy finally figured out he can make more money by stretching it out over two nights.
See you next weekend Race Fans :-)