Harvick Wins

It's offical now, Harvick a Truck Series winner.

http://www.racingone.com/article.asp?artnum=15740
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Harvick Finally Truck Winner
Posted Friday, November 8, 2002


Harvick has 75 career NCT Series starts.

Pete Pistone
Executive Editor

AVONDALE, Az. - Kevin Harvick is no longer a Craftsman Truck Series bridesmaid. After 75 career starts and five runnerup finishes, Harvick finally made it into victory lane Friday afternoon as he held off Ted Musgrave by .0022-seconds to win the Chevy Silverado 150 at Phoenix International Raceway.

Harvick had to overcome a green-white-checker restart when a three truck crash involving Jason Leffler, Brian Rose and Jon Wood brought out the caution with only two laps to go. Since the series doesn't finish races under yellow, Harvick was forced to hold off Musgrave to claim his first NCT win.

"This is really cool to finally be able to win a truck series race," said Harvick who now has wins in all of NASCAR's top three divisions, Winston Cup, Busch Grand National and Craftsman Truck. "We wanted to win one of these for so long and to do it here at Phoenix is just incredible."

Rick Crawford finished third to take a giant bite out of series point leader Mike Bliss' advantage with only next Friday's Ford 200 at Homestead-Miami Speedway remaining on the schedule. With Bliss suffering from a sour engine all day, Crawford now trails by only 32 points heading into the season finale.

"If I didn't think I could win the championship I wouldn't even go down to Homestead," said Crawford who started the race from the pole. "This truck was awesome today, the Ernie Elliott engine was fantastic and we feel real good about our chances going to Homestead."

Travis Kvapil and Terry Cook rounded out the Top 5.

The Craftsman Truck Series season closing Ford 200 will take the green flag at 3:30 p.m. (ET) next Friday afternoon.
 
Good job Harvick. I wonder how he will do in the next 2 races this weekend.
 
Wish I would have gotten to see it today. Any one know how Lester did after starting 2nd?
 
So he finally got to PARK his truck in victory lane
 
Originally posted by rpmallen
Wish I would have gotten to see it today. Any one know how Lester did after starting 2nd?

Lester finished 15th, 1 lap down.
 
Originally posted by pettyfan4life
Are then going to replay it or not?

ESPN has two replays scheduled as of now, though they tend to change these without warning. The times are little tough depending on your schedule

Nov 12 @ 3:00 am on ESPN

Nov 13 @ 4:00 am on ESPN2
 
I'm not a Harvick fan, but he was way overdue for a Craftsman Truck win. He has came close many times now falling just inches away from the win last year at Richmond and I'm actually glad to see him finally win one.
 
Good win by Harvick over the hard-charging Musgrave. Fun finish.
 
awesome for harvick, maybe he will carry that boost into today
 
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