In a race rife with pit strategy, a combination of happenings on pit road and the racetrack ended up swinging the race in Harvick's favor.
Harvick's win is the 59th of his Cup Series career - but more importantly, it puts him on the playoff grid with three races remaining after he entered Sunday as the first car below the playoff cutoff line. The win was his first of the 2022 season and ended a 65-race winless streak. took advantage of a timely late-race caution to bring him from the brink of playoff elimination to another chance to race for a championship.Īfter a late-race caution during a round of green flag pit stops gave him the lead, Harvick drove away over the final green flag run to win the FireKeepers Casino 400 at Michigan by four seconds. Then, the winning stopped for 65 straight races and almost two full years - until today, when the 46-year-old from Bakersfield, Calif. Two years ago, Kevin Harvick was practically automatic when he and his team came to the racetrack, winning a total of nine times in 2020.
