Harvick has now won five of the first 12 races of the season including two in a row after he dominated at Dover last week.

This one didn’t come so easy though as he trailed Ryan Blaney and Kyle Larson for much of the race. Even after the race was cleared out by a massive wreck late he was behind Martin Truex Jr. for the lead in the final 14 laps.

But he closed it out with a fast final lap and achieved a pass on the final lap in a win for the first time in Kansas history. It’s kind of amazing considering he was very unhappy with the car for much of the race.

“I still wasn’t really happy with it,” Harvick told FS1 after the race. “I think we can make it a lot better when we come back, but it came down to restarts there at the end and finally got Busch Light into victory lane.”

Blaney won the first stage while Larson won the second, but the two drivers collided with less than 25 laps to go which cost both of them a chance at their first victories of the season. There were zero cautions through the first 237 laps of the race and then there were three in the span of about five minutes.

Seven cars were taken out in a crash almost immediately after the Larson/Blaney incident. William Byron went hard into the wall, but got out of his car on his own power.

NASCAR results KC Masterpiece 400

  1. Kevin Harvick2. Martin Truex Jr.3. Joey Logano4. Kyle Larson5. Denny Hamlin6. Paul Menard7. Erik Jones8. Kurt Busch9. Aric Almirola10. Kyle Busch11. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.12. Chase Elliott13. David Ragan14. Brad Keselowski15. Clint Bowyer16. AJ Allmendinger17. Austin Dillon18. Alex Bowman19. Jimmie Johnson20. Michael McDowell21. Kasey Kahne22. Matt DiBenedetto23. Darrell Wallace Jr.24. Corey Lajoie25. Landon Cassill26. Ross Chastain27. Reed Sorenson28. Daniel Suarez29. Gray Gaulding30. Ryan Newman31. Jamie McMurray32. Timmy Hill33. William Byron34. Chris Buescher35. BJ McLeod36. Matt Kenseth37. Ryan Blaney38. Ty Dillon

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