Harvick is Happy again

Kevin Harvick took the checkered flag for the first time since the Brickyard 500 in 2003.  Harvick practiced patience working his was from the back of the pack in the wreck filled race with the help of Richard Childress.  Childress was up on the pit box for the first time since Harvick's 2001 season because of Berrier's suspension, and it seemed to help.  Maybe Childress should sit up on the pit box more often.

Rusty seemed to have had the car to beat at first.  He led the most laps, but had a tire go down on lap 195, putting him two laps down.  He fought back and got one of those laps back and looked like he could possibly get the other one back when Bobby Hamilton Jr. caused that big wreck and Rusty's car got damaged in it.  Rusty ended up finishing 2 laps down, but in 13th place and he maintained his 9th place position in the standings.

The other big wreck was when Jimmie Johnson hit Jeff Burton and sent him spinning and Kurt Busch ended up slamming practically head-on into Burton.  Both were OK, but Busch did seemed a bit woozy after the wreck.

We heard from most participants in the two big wrecks, Hamilton Jr., finally being big enough to admit it was his fault, first time I've heard him admit anything.  We also heard from Burton, who was visibly upset, but tempered himself and Kurt Busch, but we never heard from Johnson.  Looking around this morning at articles about the race, still nothing about or from Johnson, maybe we'll get an update later today from him?  Then again, maybe not.

Picture credit:  Autostock - picture taken from photo gallery on nascar.com http://www.nascar.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/2005/04/03/foodcity500_bristol/frameset_exclude.html