Harvick struggled for observe place all through the race, and obtained caught up in a restart melee late within the occasion.
Nevertheless, the Lap 281 wreck wasn’t the top of his day. He stored the automobile pointed straight and NASCAR allowed him to restart contained in the top-five. After the race leaders collided on the next restart, he all of the sudden discovered himself on the entrance row in his broken No. 4 machine.
“We obtained towards the top and missed all of the wrecks,” mentioned Harvick post-race. “Properly, we got here out the opposite aspect of the wrecks. We had been within the wrecks, however simply didn’t have any injury to the wheels and tires, simply structural injury.”
Though he could not mount a problem towards William Byron for the win, he managed to deliver his broken automobile house within the runner-up place. It was Harvick’s finest results of the 2023 season.
“We had automobile all day,” added Harvick. “We simply might by no means rise up towards the entrance. Our Sunny Delight Ford Mustang struggled in site visitors as we speak, however we had been actually good on the second half of the run and simply struggled at the start of the run. We had good observe place after which had a foul pit cease underneath inexperienced, however had every little thing work out on the finish. I didn’t have something for WIlliam. The entrance is tore up fairly good, however they did an amazing job and simply type of stored ourselves within the sport and also you by no means know what’s gonna occur.”