Kevin Harvick and his team came to the track almost automatically two years ago, with a total of nine wins in 2020. Then, a 65-game streak halted winning for almost two full years — until today, when 46 1-year-olds from Bakersfield, Calif., used a timely postgame warning to take him from the brink of playoff elimination to another A chance to compete for the championship.
After a late game warning during a round of green flag pitstops put him in the lead, Harvick drove away in the final green flag race to win the FireKeepers Casino 400 in Michigan by four seconds. The win was his first of the 2022 season and ended a 65-game winless streak.
Harvick’s win was the 59th of his Cup career — but more importantly, it left him with three remaining after entering the playoffs as the first car below the cutoff on Sunday. game.
FireKeepers Casino 400 Unofficial Results
- #4 – Kevin Harvick
- #23 – Baba Wallace
- #11 – Danny Hamlin
- #22 – Joey Logano
- #12 – Ryan Blaney
- #19 – Martin Truex Jr.
- #5 – Kyle Larson
- #43 – Eric Jones
- #48 – Alex Bowman
- #45 – Tagged Gibbs
