Harvick, your Sprint Cup Series regular, started to the post in addition to played ahead to get 248 involving a pair of laps, which fixed a line track record on most laps encouraged in a very race. He held off his / her Richard Childress Racing teammate, Ty Dillon, immediately after a pair of late-race restarts after which conquer Dillon towards finish tier through simply just beneath one second for their 14th vocation truck win.
"These guys managed a great job arranging regarding this specific race," Harvick said. "The pickup has been beneficial proper out of that trailer. What other than them are you able to say?"
Harvick claimed his / her 3 rd truck gain with Martinsville, which will placed him or her in a very tie with Dennis Setzer in addition to Mike Skinner for some wins at this ancient racetrack.
Earlier from the day, Harvick positioned minute in being qualified for Sunday's 500-lap Sprint Cup race with Martinsville. He can make their 400th vocation commence within NASCAR's premier series.
Dillon, a out of law school with commercial transport the following year, has been a common various other airport taxi driver to guide laps in such a race, going staring at the monitor with the final along with sixth lap.
"It was an awesome day, and I'm and so excited to obtain this season going," he said. "I think we've got a shining team."
Dillon exchanged his or her elder brother, Austin, in RCR's No. 3 truck right after Austin gained that series tournament in 2011. He is actually a rookie in the Nationwide Series.
James Buescher done third, although Justin Lofton and Timothy Peters, some sort of Virginia native, spherical out the top-five.
Nelson Piquet Jr., Ross Chastain, Jason Leffler, John King, exactly who picked up past month's season-opener at Daytona International Speedway, along with Jason White done sixth through 10th, respectively.
Jeb Burton, the particular 19-year-old son involving 2002 Daytona 500 winner Ward Burton, accomplished 13th inside his sequence debut. Burton has been needed for any sort of accident about lap 235, which in turn obligated your seventh along with ultimate caution. It furthermore build a six-lap shootout towards finish.
With two races at this point completed, King continues to be on top of the actual point standings, when your dog retains simply your one-point benefits through Peters, who's going to be his teammate at Red Horse Racing, along with Lofton. Ty Dillon is just four guns lurking behind King.
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