Kevin Harvick won the AAA Texas 500 from Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday afternoon.
Harvick was dominant all day, and won both stages while leading 177 laps on his way to victory lane. After chasing down Ryan Blaney late in the race, Harvick held him off on the final restart for overtime to continue his dominance in Texas.
Harvick said his team has continued to perform well at TMS.
“This place has been really good to me; glad I got to win,” Harvick said. “For whatever reason, since they repaved this place, this place has kind of fit everything that we do.”
Blaney beat Harvick on a late restart to take the lead, but Harvick was able to get back to the lead before the final caution.
After watching the way Blaney got around Turns 1 and 2, Harvick said he used the younger driver’s handling against him.
“If [Blaney] wasn’t able to arc it into the corner, he couldn’t finish the corner,” Harvick said. “He had a hard time staying in the throttle. I just knew I needed to get down into the corner with him.”
Blaney said he tried to beat Harvick down into the corner, but that his car was so much better at the end.
“That was really the only shot we had to beat him,” Blaney said. “We got by him one restart, and I just couldn’t hold him off; he was just really good.”
“Just needed to be mistake-free and then some, and we just couldn’t be that.”
Unofficial results:
- Kevin Harvick
- Ryan Blaney
- Joey Logano
- Erik Jones
- Kyle Larson
- Chase Elliott
- Kurt Busch
- Aric Almirola
- Martin Truex Jr.
- Austin Dillon
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- Brad Keselowski
- Paul Menard
- Alex Bowman
- Jimmie Johnson
- William Byron
- Kyle Busch
- Ryan Newman
- Jamie McMurray
- AJ Allmendinger
- Trevor Bayne
- Ty Dillon
- Chris Buescher
- David Ragan
- Darrell Wallace Jr.
- Clint Bowyer
- Regan Smith
- Daniel Suarez
- Michael McDowell
- Denny Hamlin
- Parker Kligerman
- Ross Chastain
- Reed Sorenson
- Kyle Weatherman
- Landon Cassill
- JJ Yeley
- Joey Gase
- Matt DiBenedetto
- David Starr
- Corey LaJoie
