Harvick Tops Bristol Field For Third Straight Truck Win

Kevin Harvick (2) and Kyle Busch (18) race side-by-side during the O'Reilly Auto 200 on Wednesday at Bristol Motor Speedway. Harvick would go on to record the win. Photo by John Harrelson/Getty Images

Kevin Harvick doesn’t make a ton of NASCAR Camping World Truck Series appearances. His competitors are probably glad.

Entered in a third straight truck race for the first time in 2011, Harvick notched his third straight victory with a convincing performance in Wednesday night’s O’Reilly Auto Parts 200 at Bristol Motor Speedway.

Harvick, riding the momentum of wins at Pocono (Aug. 7) and last weekend at Michigan, pulled away on a final restart with 10 laps left to score a relatively comfortable win.

Points leader Johnny Sauter surged past Todd Bodine on the late restart to take second and stretch his advantage over James Buescher to seven points.

Bodine finished third, while Buescher and Timothy Peters completed the top five.

While Harvick celebrated another win, his chief adversary—three-time defending Bristol race winner Kyle Busch—finished behind the wall with a torn-up truck.

And Busch wasn’t at all happy about the circumstances that led to his early departure.

Battling with Elliott Sadler in the top five on lap 99 of 200, Busch hit the wall hard with the right front when his Toyota appeared to cut up into Sadler.

Upset about the contact, Busch nursed his damaged truck slowly around the track and waited for Sadler to come back around before sending the Virginia native into a spin.

In postrace interviews, Busch took a verbal shot at Sadler, who was driving for Joe Denette Motorsports but more often competes for Kevin Harvick Inc.—the organization co-owned by Busch’s chief rival for the truck series’ owners’ title.

“Where does his paycheck come from?” Busch asked rhetorically when asked about the contact from Sadler. “We were racing earlier tonight and I pulled a slide job on him and he ran into me three times after that. Then got clear of him for a while and on that restart there I was trying to slide him and get up to the top. The spotter said I was clear and I was clear at the time. Maybe I was too late. He wrecked us and I’m not going to put up with it.”

Standing in victory lane, Harvick scoffed at the notion that Sadler’s KHI affiliation had anything to do with the Busch scrum.

“That’s just Kyle (upset) because Kyle didn’t win,” Harvick said. “Elliott Sadler wasn’t even driving my truck tonight. You can’t fix a crybaby and he’s just a crybaby.”

Sadler, who started from the pole, led early and recovered to finish ninth, denied any ill-intentions toward Busch.

“I didn’t even have time to check up or anything,” Sadler said. “He just wrecked himself.

“I just wish he’d watch the tape and understand what happened before he came back and retaliated.”

The war of words aside, Harvick’s night couldn’t have gone much better.

After taking the lead from Jason White on a lap 98 restart, the team owner/driver never trailed again as he showed the way for the remaining 103 laps.

Harvick credited a fast stop by his crew under caution on lap 32 for getting him the track position to win. Harvick restarted sixth but was first among drivers who had pitted. He then needed fewer than 70 laps to reach the front.

“They had a smoking fast pit stop,” said Harvick, who gained four spots on pit road. “That was really the key moment in the race for us.”

Ron Hornaday’s disappointing season continued as the four-time champion spun off turn 2 and hit the inside wall on the entrance to turn 3 to bring out the race’s first caution on lap 10. Hornaday finished 24th.

Story by Jared Turner
Special to Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service

NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
Bristol Motor Speedway – Bristol, TN
O’Reilly Auto Parts 200 – Aug. 24, 2011

Fin Start No. Driver Points Car Laps Completed Status Earnings
1 6 2 Kevin Harvick 0 Chevrolet 200 Running $29,225
2 12 13 Johnny Sauter 42 Chevrolet 200 Running $26,075
3 9 5 Todd Bodine 41 Toyota 200 Running $20,225
4 5 31 James Buescher 40 Chevrolet 200 Running $16,775
5 8 17 Timothy Peters 39 Toyota 200 Running $13,825
6 10 22 Joey Coulter 38 Chevrolet 200 Running $12,250
7 29 6 Justin Lofton 37 Toyota 200 Running $12,100
8 2 8 Nelson Piquet Jr. 36 Chevrolet 200 Running $11,050
9 1 24 Elliott Sadler 0 Chevrolet 200 Running $10,950
10 11 29 Parker Kligerman 34 Dodge 200 Running $14,375
11 15 81 David Starr 33 Toyota 200 Running $10,900
12 30 60 Cole Whitt 32 Chevrolet 200 Running $10,750
13 27 19 David Mayhew 0 Chevrolet 200 Running $8,450
14 31 92 Clay Rogers 30 Chevrolet 200 Running $10,650
15 14 20 Johanna Long 29 Toyota 200 Running $11,900
16 20 23 Jason White 29 Chevrolet 199 Running $10,500
17 13 51 Josh Richards 27 Toyota 199 Running $8,195
18 35 32 Blake Feese 26 Chevrolet 199 Running $10,375
19 34 66 Ross Chastain 25 Chevrolet 199 Running $10,325
20 4 62 Brendan Gaughan 24 Toyota 198 Running $11,000
21 18 88 Matt Crafton 23 Chevrolet 198 Running $10,225
22 28 09 Bryan Silas 0 Ford 198 Running $7,950
23 17 3 Austin Dillon 21 Chevrolet 197 Running $10,175
24 3 33 Ron Hornaday Jr. 20 Chevrolet 197 Running $8,900
25 26 39 Ryan Sieg 19 Chevrolet 192 Ignition $9,000
26 33 9 Max Papis 18 Toyota 192 Running $7,800
27 21 73 Brian Johnson Jr. 17 Chevrolet 178 Running $8,125
28 24 70 Jeff Agnew 16 Chevrolet 170 Accident $7,750
29 22 4 Ricky Carmichael 15 Chevrolet 161 Running $7,700
30 7 18 Kyle Busch 0 Toyota 100 Accident $8,175
31 16 7 Miguel Paludo 13 Toyota 90 Engine $7,240
32 19 07 John King 12 Toyota 62 Wheel $7,175
33 25 01 Jake Crum 11 Chevrolet 61 Accident $7,150
34 23 87 Chris Jones 10 Chevrolet 54 Accident $7,125
35 32 93 Mike Garvey 9 Chevrolet 4 Brakes $7,100
36 36 65 Brent Raymer 8 Chevrolet 3 Electrical $7,064

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